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The Sonic Bloom
Jan 20, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Music
With Esoterica
Join me for punk, post-punk, synth, folk as well as film and broadway tunes!
Best of 2025 Part 3!
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| 5:01 PM |
| Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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| 5:02 PM |
| Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004 From 1971, originally.
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| 5:09 PM |
| We Contain Multitudes Bathroom Drugs We Contain Multitudes N Minako Expert Work Records 2025 Out of New York.
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| 5:13 PM |
| Powerplant Heat Powerplant N Heat - EP Arcane Dynamics 2025 London-based synth band that started as a one-man band by Theo from Ukraine.
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| 5:16 PM |
| Vile Bees Hot Probs Vile Bees N Joy Coughs Seismic Wave Entertainment 2025 From Milwaukee. https://vilebees.bandcamp.com
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| 5:20 PM |
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| 5:27 PM |
| Tyler Childers Nose On The Grindstone Tyler Childers N Snipe Hunter Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records 2025
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| 5:31 PM |
| Edith Frost What a Drag Edith Frost N In Space Drag City 2025 Frost's first album in twenty years. She was part of the 90s rock scene at Drag City.
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| 5:35 PM |
| Earth Tongue Dungeon Vision Earth Tongue N Dungeon Vision - Single In The Red 2025 Two piece from Wellington, New Zealand. Produced by Ty Segall and Earth Tongue. Vocals and Guitar by Gussie Larkin and Drums & Vocals by Ezra Simons.
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| 5:38 PM |
| Maraudeur EC Blah.Blah Maraudeur N Flaschenträger Feel It Records 2025 From Leipzig.
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| 5:40 PM |
| Fog Lamp Above The Fray Fog Lamp N Still Entangled Siltbreeze Records 2026 From the Bay Area. https://heatwavemag.com/2023/11/30/fog-lamps-humble-journey-exploring-lifes-realities-in-lets-not/ New new! So not from 2025, doesn't make the list of best of of last year. But maybe for best of 2026?
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| 5:45 PM |
| The Tubs One More Day The Tubs N Cotton Crown Trouble In Mind Records 2025 Welsh. band from Cardiff, now based in London. Vocalist gets compared to Richard Thompson.
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| 5:49 PM |
| Citric Dummies I Can't Relate Citric Dummies N Split With Turnstile Feel It Records 2025 From Minneapolis. https://first-avenue.com/performer/citric-dummies/
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| 5:51 PM |
| The Gobs Bad Day to Be a Beer The Gobs N Obsgay Uleray - EP 3412188 Records DK 2025 For Olympia, Washington.
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| 5:53 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
| Superheaven Humans For Toys Superheaven N Superheaven Blue Grape Music Inc. 2025 From Doylestown.
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| 6:03 PM |
| Autobahns Bad day Autobahns N Split 7" - Single Goodbye Boozy Records 2025 Leipzig's split with the Australian band, Elvis II.
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| 6:04 PM |
| Skull Cult Language Skull Cult N Can't You See What I Mean? - EP Under the Gun 2025 From Bloomington, Indiana. Such good stuff.
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| 6:06 PM |
| Las eras Incómodo Las eras N Incómodo - Single 3385030 Records DK 2025 From Buenos Aires!
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| 6:08 PM |
| Deeper Planet X Deeper N Casiopea - EP Rainbow Music 2025 Chicago quartet. 2018 was the year of the full-length debut.
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| 6:12 PM |
| Omni High Ceilings Omni N High Ceilings - Single Sub Pop Records 2025 From Atlanta. Frankie Broyles on guitar and keyboards was from Deerhunter.
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| 6:13 PM |
| Automelodi Tout arracher Automelodi N Cavallo - EP Automelodi 2025 From Montreal.
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| 6:19 PM |
| Nape Neck Wide Awake Nape Neck N The Shallowest End Dot Dash Sounds 2025 From Leeds!
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| 6:22 PM |
| Hélène Barbier Kindness in a cup Hélène Barbier N Panorama Bonsound 2025
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| 6:26 PM |
| Catherine Leduc Les pentes glissantes m’échappent souvent Catherine Leduc N Les jours où il neige à tous les postes Catherine Leduc 2025 https://www.bravomusique.com/en/artists/catherine-leduc/
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| 6:30 PM |
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| 6:36 PM |
| Paris 1942 Animale Paris 1942 N Paris 1942 Superior Viaduct 2025 Archival material compiled by Richard Bishop from dozens of tapes into a double LP.
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| 6:52 PM |
| Wombo Cloud 36 Wombo N Danger in Fives Fire Talk 2025 From Louisville.
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| 6:55 PM |
| Illiterates Remember When Illiterates N Does Not Compute Sorry State Records 2025 Hardcore from Pittsburgh!
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| 6:56 PM |
| Joni Void Cloud Level (feat. YTAMO) Joni Void N Every Life Is A Light Constellation 2025 From Montreal.
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| 7:00 PM |
| Kinski Experimental Hugs Kinski N Stumbledown Terrace Comedy Minus One 2025 From Seattle.
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| 7:02 PM |
| Son of Dribble Lion in the Road Son of Dribble N Poking a Hole in a Bag of Tears Son of Dribble 2025
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| 7:05 PM |
| Swans Guardian Spirit Swans N Birthing Mute 2025 A truncated/edited version of this song. Powerful stuff.
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| 7:10 PM |
| The Ex The Evidence (LP Version) The Ex N If Your Mirror Breaks Ex Records 2025 From Amsterdam! Celebrating 45 years. https://theex.bandcamp.com/album/great-the-evidence
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| 7:13 PM |
| Blood Orange Countryside (feat. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi & Ian Isiah) Blood Orange N Essex Honey Domino Recording Co./RCA Records 2025
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| 7:16 PM |
| Model/Actriz Cinderella Model/Actriz N Cinderella - Single True Panther Records 2025 On tour with Peaches!
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| 7:21 PM |
| Jon Caspi & The First Gun My Shrinking Brain (feat. Peter Holsapple) Jon Caspi & The First Gun N Airport Plaza II - EP 2026 New song! Not from the Best of 2025 because it's 2026. But it's good! A compelling live artist and storyteller, Caspi, performs both with band and solo acoustic and has shared the stage with acts such as Bruce Springsteen, The Psychedelic Furs, The Gaslight Anthem, Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze), The Smithereens, ~X~, Dramarama, Willie Nile, Jeffrey Gaines, Jesse Malin, The Dickies, Adolescents, The Wallflowers, The Alarm, & many more.
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| 7:25 PM |
| Richard Dawson Gondola Richard Dawson N End of the Middle Weird World 2025 Folk prog musician from Newcastle upon Tyne.
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| 7:29 PM |
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| 7:36 PM |
| Prism Shores Weightless Prism Shores N Out From Underneath Meritorio Records 2025 From Montreal. https://prismshores.bandcamp.com/album/out-from-underneath
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| 7:38 PM |
| Hotline TNT The Scene Hotline TNT N Raspberry Moon Third Man Records 2025 https://tmrwmagazine.com/en/news/album-review-raspberry-moon-by-hotline-tnt
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| 7:41 PM |
| Olof Dreijer Blood Lily (Verraco Remix) Olof Dreijer N Iris - EP Dekmantel 2025
Olof Dreijer is a Swedish DJ, producer, and musicianwho plays with electronic music's boundaries. He's best known for forming the electronic duo The Knife with his sibling Karin Dreijer, known as Fever Ray. |
| 7:47 PM |
| Squid The Hearth and Circle Round Fire Squid N The Hearth and Circle Round Fire - Single Warp Records 2025
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| 7:52 PM |
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| 7:55 PM |
| Hyper Minds Nacho Hyper Minds N Nacho - Single Hyper Minds 2025
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| 7:58 PM |
| Gary Numan Please Push No More Gary Numan N Telekon (45th Anniversary Expanded Edition) Beggars Banquet 2025 45th anniversary edition!
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From Columbus, Ohio. 