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The Sonic Bloom

Feb 10, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Playing punk, country, jazz and funk!

Ben Vaughn!

hey, listen in and chat at wprb.com/chat

5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:04 PM		Rodney Crowell Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Rodney Crowell Ain't Living Long Like This Rhino/Warner Records 1978
5:07 PM		Charlie Feathers Fraulein Charlie Feathers Charlie Feathers Nonesuch 1991
5:11 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:14 PM		Alan Vega, Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn Come on Lord Alan Vega, Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn Cubist Blues Light in the Attic 1996
5:20 PM		Ben Vaughn Part 1 Ben Vaughn Part 1 2026 2026
5:33 PM		Deer Tick Too Sensitive for This World Deer Tick Mayonnaise Partisan Records 2019
5:37 PM		Ben Vaughn Part 2 Ben Vaughn Part 2 2026
5:50 PM		Ben Vaughn Levitation Ben Vaughn Rambler 65 Rhino 1997
5:55 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:57 PM		Ben Vaughn Part 3 Ben Vaughn Part 3 2026 2026
6:02 PM		The Ben Vaughn Quintet If You Live The Ben Vaughn Quintet Pièce de Résistance Many Moods Records 2016 Song by Mose Allison.
6:07 PM		The Looking Glass Take the Time The Looking Glass Brown Acid - The Fifteenth Trip V/A RidingEasy Records 2022 From 1969. Looking Glass (not to be confused with the 70s soft-rock one-hit-wonders of “Brandy [You’re a Fine Girl]” fame.) But, as one might expect of a band this ahead of their time, the Looking Glass were soon to disappear down the rabbit hole.
6:11 PM		This Heat Health and Efficiency This Heat Health and Efficiency - Single This Heat 1980 This Heat were an experimental post-punk band formed by Charles Hayward (formerly of Gong and Quiet Sun), Charles Bullen and Gareth Wiliams in 1976. With their roots in progressive music This Heat quickly developed into an experimental band using tape loops and avant-garde production techniques.
6:17 PM		Ben Vaughn Enfermo Ben Vaughn Instrumental Stylings Bar/None Records 1994
6:21 PM		Brian Eno Driving Me Backwards (Live At The Rainbow Theatre / 1974) Brian Eno June 1, 1974 (Live At The Rainbow Theatre / 1974) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1974
6:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:33 PM		Max Run Run Max Brown Acid - The Thirteenth Trip V/A RidingEasy Records 2021 From 1970.
6:36 PM		Suicide Ghost Rider (2019 Remaster) Suicide Suicide (2019 Remaster) Mute, a BMG Company 1977
6:38 PM		The Monorchid X Marks the Spot: Something Dull Happened Here The Monorchid Who Put Out the Fire? Touch and Go Records 1998 With their precise, antiseptic vocals, throbbing bombastic bass, guitars akin to an alter-kilter duel between Eddie Cochran and Robert Fripp and cartographic lock-and-groove percussion, The Monorchid charged ahead with Who Put Out the Fire?, their first and, sadly, last release on Touch and Go Records. Weeks after the five members of The Monorchid finished tracking their Touch and Go debut, they decided to call it quits. The Monorchid originated when Chris Thomson and Chris Hamley of D.C.'s Circus Lupus joined forces with bassist Andy Coronado, guitarist Andy Cone and drummer Tom Allnutt. Their move to Touch and Go came after a short stint on D.C.'s Dischord which yielded their first full-length record in early 1997, Let Them Eat.
6:41 PM		Electric Callas So Chic Electric Callas So Chic - EP Parlophone (France) 1978 New Wave / Punk band from Lyon (France) formed in 1976.
6:44 PM		Connie Converse House Connie Converse House - Single 2009 https://www.artsongaugmented.org/connie-converse
6:47 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Oh Comely Neutral Milk Hotel Live at Jittery Joe's 2001 I actually played this from my vinyl for this box set: https://www.mergerecords.com/product/the_collected...
6:54 PM		Chelsea Many Rivers Chelsea Chelsea STRIKE FORCE ENTERTAINMENT 1979 Chelsea are an English punk rock band which formed in 1976. Three of the four original band members went on to found Generation X. More than two decades after its release, the band's debut single, "Right to Work", was included in the Mojo list of the best punk rock singles of all time.
6:59 PM		Xmal Deutschland Incubus Succubus II Xmal Deutschland Tocsin 4AD 1984 From Hamburg, founded in 1980.
7:04 PM		Prince Buster Roland Plays the Prince (feat. Roland Alphonso) Roland Alphonso Fly Flying Ska V/A Blue Beat 1964
7:07 PM		Skeletal Family She Cries Alone Skeletal Family Best Of... Anagram Records 1983 From West Yorkshire, founded in 1982.
7:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:16 PM		Elli & Jacno T'oublier Elli & Jacno Tout va sauter Catalog 1981 Jacno of Stinky Toys!
7:21 PM		Frank Sinatra Ring-A-Ding-Ding Frank Sinatra Ring-A-Ding-Ding! (50th Anniversary Edition) FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE 1961
7:23 PM		Wardell Gray One O'Clock Jump (Live) Way out Wardell (Live) Ace Records 1955
7:36 PM		Arthur Russell Not Checking Up Arthur Russell Picture of Bunny Rabbit Audika Records 2023
7:39 PM		Taxi Girl Cherchez le garçon Taxi Girl Chercher Le Garçon Parlophone (France) 1980 Taxi Girl were a French new wave band, adopting the New Romantic aesthetics of the time, such as clashing red and black clothing, synthesizer-led songs, and taking influence from mythology and literature. The group existed between 1978 and 1986, producing 5 mini-albums, and one full-length album, Seppuku.
7:43 PM		Moderne Judo-O-Dojo Moderne Moderne / L'Espionne Aimait la Musique Minimal Wave 1979 Moderne was a pioneering French minimal synth-pop band active from 1979 to 1981, known for their electronic, Kraftwerk-influenced sound. Founded in Tours by Gérard Lévy and Thierry Teyssou, they released two LPs, including L'Espionne Aimait La Musique (1981).
7:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:50 PM		Zero Boys Amphetamine Addiction Zero Boys Vicious Circle Secretly Canadian 1981
7:51 PM		The Ex Monday Song The Ex N If Your Mirror Breaks Ex Records 2025
7:57 PM		T.S.O.L. Wash Away T.S.O.L. Beneath the Shadows Nitro Records (Concord) 1981 Founded in 1978 in Huntington Beach, CA.

Chat is archived.

hey!

Hey Ho

Hey Ho, Carlos!

Mi Amigo. Si.

So nice. Emmylou!

hey there, Amy!

Sweet! Honky-tonk, Rockabilly, twang - is where it'll always be.

I have been clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

I don’t go to the barber shop as often as I used to, but every time I leave I quote Ben V…oh oh wrong haircut!

hey Richard, cool!

haha Carlos, cool

Looking forward to Ben Vaughn interview. He's an encyclopedia of rock and roll! I hope he brought up his punk days with Sick Kids and later on with Pink Slip Daddy.

oh I love that history, John, but alas, we didn't discuss that. But hopefully, you like what we chat about:)

Last time I saw the BV combo it was at a street fair in Kensington…does he still have many moods?

I think he still has that show, yes

Yes, he still has the Many Moods show. It's literally the ONLY reason to listen to that station. Though I mainly listen on podcasts.

hey G Jax!

yeah I knew he was still on there. :) I have bene digging podcasts too, paranormal mostly lol

*been

@G Jax..agreed on not many reasons to listen to that station in Philly..still late Saturday afternoon?

5 p.m. Saturdays right?

I haven't intend in awhile

Yes. Same time as always been

*listened

I liked that he produced many of the Los Straightjackets albums

I can never remember if it's at five or six though. It's Saturday I don't look at time.

you and me both haha

that's my mini vacay haha

Jerry Blavat used to be on around the same time and I couldn't remember it was right before or right after the many moods, but it was cool to hear both of them back to back.

Summer boat drink ritual, listen to Many Moods of BF on a boombox! I'm fortunate that the other FM station broadcast 5 miles from my marina in Worten MD.

Speaking of elevator stories, Waddy Wachtel has an amusing one about being on an elevator at the same time as Gene Hackman.

oh I will look that up, G Jax one gene hackman, rip

Waddy Wachtel had been in the band on the Poseidon adventure. And he's kind of like hi Mr. Hackman, you might not remember me…

ha! G Jax

to which gene replied?

I have zero guilty pleasures. Yeah I like ABBA. I like the carpenters so what Barry Manilow crank up Copacabana man

love it!! me, too Mississippi queen, skate away by dire straights, against the wind bob seger, even Leo sayer

yeah, Leo is there. I think I can dance. I think I can dance. That's some good shit right there. Nothing to feel guilty about. Bring on the air supply.

love air supply. my friend maureen and used to listen to AS on sleepovers. it is great to lull you to sleep

No ads on Ben's Many Moods podcast either.

which is awesome

He recorded rambler entirely in his car. In the driveway of the town I currently reside.

Anytime I see Rhino , I think of wildman Fischer, my name is Larry

I am spacing, carlos, remind me of the reference.

Rhino records..one of their first singles, courtesy of Dr DEMENTO

oh yeah! blast from the past, Carlos!

Howdeeeeeeeeee

hey jimbooooo!

hope you guys liked the convo!

I just caught the end :(

I will upload on mixcloud

fyi

Dead milkmen receded a few shows in pittsburgh and Cleveland area..finished their set with Brandy.

Recently

ha! that is great, Carlos.

This is Chelsea??!! Wow

hey rob! yeah!

wild, right?

Hi Esoterica! It is wild. I know the original (?) and the Linda Ronstadt cover, it's great to hear this one

yeah I just discovered this version last week:)

We're glad you did!

thanks!:)

Missed the NM Hotel song but must admit I'm a way bigger fan of Julian and Music Tapes. Only commenting this for the pic of him holding the Victrola! I love his vintage soundscapes.

oh cool, John, Idk Julian and music tapes, I will check tout, thx for thaht

The dude that plays the saw on NMH. Definatly check out Music Tapes, you may love it or hate it.

nice I found this https://themusictapes.bandcamp.com/

lots to check out, thx

Zero Boys...Robins Eggs, Yellow Jackets and I think Black Beauties. What other ones did I miss? Cramming for exams in 1981.

ha!

how about good ol No-Doz haha

I fee a stomach ache coming on

feel

Ty Esoterica for tonight's show!

Ty, Rob!:)

It's just 16oz Starbucks now, see ya in chat next week.

Thanks for coming by , all. See you next week!

ha! John you are right

see ya