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The Sonic Bloom

Mar 3, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Tuesday!

Hellooooo...

5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:03 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:07 PM		Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass Future Babies Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass N Future Babies 2026 http://www.j-pop.com/2015/guests/akabane/
5:11 PM		The Beach Boys Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock) The Beach Boys Smile Sessions Capitol Records 1967 Original music for 1967.
5:15 PM		Lupo Citta Red & Yellow Lupo Citta N Inverno 12XU 2026 https://lupocitta12xu.bandcamp.com/album/lupo-citt
5:20 PM		Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie EXTENDED floating Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie N Live at Moldejazz 2026 https://amaliedahl.com/amalie-dahls-dafnie/ From Norway.
5:29 PM		Blitzen Trapper Destroyer of the Void Blitzen Trapper Destroyer of the Void (Bonus Track Version) Sub Pop Records 2010 Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental country/folk/rock band associated with Sub Pop Records, Vagrant Records, Lojinx, and Yep Roc.
5:34 PM		Tullycraft Turnstiles Tullycraft N Shoot the Point HHBTM Records 2025 From Brooklyn Vegan: Tullycraft are Seattle cuddlecore legends, now in their 30th year of making hyperactive, winsome, and very twee punky indiepop. They may be a little too twee and winsome for some, and on Shoot the Point—their seventh album and first in six years—they continue to peg those meters. But they are never less than fun, and when records come this infrequently, their patented style still feels fresh. It’s a Tullycraft album through and through: sing-along choruses, trade-off boy/girl vocals, and a fondness for songs about bands and music obsessives. Shoot the Point is full of them, including “Jeanie’s Up Again and Blaring Faith by The Cure,” “Street Hassle Plays on Repeat,” and “Modern Lovers.” May Tullycraft never retire their cardigans.
5:38 PM		Savaan Heads Savaan N PURE 2026 From Paris. https://maisonkitsune.com/mk/music/artists/saavan-...
5:42 PM		Lupo Citta Nap At Dawn Lupo Citta Inverno 2026
5:44 PM		Louis Jordan Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Louis Jordan No Moe! The Greatest Hits Verve 1992
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5:52 PM		Elecktroids Japanese Electronics Elecktroids Elektroworld Warp Records 1995
5:59 PM		Aquarian Age Es regnet Zitronen (Extended) Es regnet Zitronen (Extended) - Single Aquarian Age 2010
6:05 PM		Guided By Voices Cut-Out Witch Guided By Voices Under the Bushes Under the Stars Matador 1996
6:08 PM		Redd Kross Play My Song Neurotica Merge Records 1987
6:11 PM		Titus Andronicus Give Me Grief Titus Andronicus The Will to Live Merge Records 2022
6:15 PM		Geologist Not Trad Geologist N Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? Drag City 2026
6:21 PM		The Flying Lizards Money The Flying Lizards The Flying Lizards Caroline Records 1978
6:23 PM		45 Grave 45 Grave 45 Grave Sleep In Safety Ryko/Rhino 1983
6:27 PM		Dead Kennedys Back In The USSR (Live) Dead Kennedys Live At The Deaf Club (live) GoldState Music 2004 The Deaf Club was a notable music venue located on Valencia Street in the Mission District of San Francisco, which remained open for an 18-month period in the late 1970s.
6:29 PM		Dave Edmunds Need a Shot of Rhythm & Blues (Alterntive Version) 74 Soundtrack Sessions - EP Another Planet Music 2020
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6:35 PM		Maxx Mann Stolen Moments Maxx Mann Lost & Found Vol. 1 Dark Entries https://maxxmann.bandcamp.com/album/maxx-mann
6:39 PM		Adrian Quesada Esclavo Y Amo (feat. Natalia Clavier) Adrian Quesada Boleros Psicodélicos ATO 2022
6:43 PM		Whisper Hiss Harsh Lights Whisper Hiss Shake Me Awake Whisper HIss 2023 From Portland, Oregon!
6:47 PM		Andromeda Day of the Change Andromeda 2000 Light Years From Home (UK Rock Trips Out 1967-1970) V/A Mojo 2017
6:51 PM		Lifeguard Fifty Seven Lifeguard Crowd Can Talk - EP Matador 2022
6:56 PM		The Feelies Sweet Jane Lou Reed Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground Bar/None Records 2023
7:00 PM		Chandra Stranger Chandra Transportation Cantor Records 1980 Chandra Oppenheim was a 12-year-old New York-based, post-punk singer who released the acclaimed Transportation EP in 1980.
7:04 PM		Bells of Kyoto Asho II Bells of Kyoto Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980 - 1990 V/A Strut 2023 Bells of Kyoto is a 1984 German-Australian-British jazz-funk fusion ensemble known for their self-titled album and track "Swiss Air".
7:10 PM		Mittageisen Anfang Mittageisen Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980 - 1990 V/A Strut 2023 mittageisen is a Swiss dark wave band of the early 1980s.
7:13 PM		King Blood Hidden Side of the Moon King Blood N Eye I Aye Ivy Petty Bunco 2025
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7:21 PM		Le Butcherettes Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) Le Butcherettes Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) - Single Rise Records 2019
7:23 PM		Marine Girls He Got the Girl Marine Girls Lazy Ways / Beach Paty Cherry Red Records 1983
7:25 PM		Orange Juice Simply Thrilled Honey Orange Juice Coals to Newcastle Analogue Enhanced Digital Limited 2010 Released originally in November 1980.
7:28 PM		Orange Goblin Sons of Salem Orange Goblin The Wolf Bites Back Candlelight 2018
7:30 PM		Oppenheimer Analysis Radiance Oppenheimer Analysis New Mexico Minimal Wave 2010 https://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/oppenheimer-analysis Oppenheimer Analysis (OA) is Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd. They first met at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton, England. They quickly became good friends, sharing an interest in the work of David Bowie, electronic music and early synthesizer bands such as the Human League and Soft Cell. They also shared a love of old science fiction movies, 1950s graphics and comic book imagery and a fascination with post-World War II propaganda, the politics and aesthetics of the Cold War, and the social impact of the atomic bomb.
7:36 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:38 PM		Radio Birdman T.V. Eye Radio Birdman Radios Appear (Black Deluxe) Citadel Records 1976
7:42 PM		Sagittaire Desert Shore Sagittaire Lovely Music Drury Lane 2020 From L.A.! https://sagittaire.bandcamp.com
7:47 PM		(the) Melvins A History of Bad Men The Melvins (A) Senile Animal Ipecac Recordings 2006
7:54 PM		The Jam In the Crowd The Jam All Mod Cons (Remastered) Polydor Records 1978

Chat is archived.

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

Hi Esoterica and Richard (and future chatters)

Hi Richard! And I thank you:)

Hi Rob!

You are straight up Maryland. What can this mean?

check it out: http://www.j-pop.com/2015/guests/akabane/

oh hi there!

howdy Andrew:)

Hi Eso, Rob and Richard. I wentdown a big Smile "rabbit hole" when Brian Wilson passed away, then went further and ripped a bunch of the lesser known Lp's off Youtube. Made for great listening on my sailboat.

aw sweet, john

and hi!

And Dennis Wilson and his sailboat is another sordid tale I think about when I'm chilling on the mooring with a few sunset beers.

wow

Good evening..glad to be home and listening

howdy Carlos!

This song always makes me think of the wedding singer

ha!

I reset his from a album I had..punked out Mona Lisa for the cover..We do them our way..punks doing cover songs!!

hey tyler

Remember

love punk cover songs

Once I was seeing Ghostface killah and at the end everybody passed things up to the stage to get autographed. I only had a DVD copy of the wedding singer in my pocket.So I passed it up and am now proud owner of a d v d copy of the wedding singer , signed by Ghostface killah

omg that is cool

@tyler

Really enjoying your show tonight. Thank you as always

thx!!

appreciate it

Had this one too!!

cool!!:)

Not many recordings of the DK as a five piece band

yeah you are right

produced by east bay ray

Hi Jon, have you been able to sail on your boat yet?

I read a story that 2 guys named Ray auditioned for the band and since he was from the east bay the name stuck..I wonder what the other Ray was named

Ray J. Johnson, Jr.? (“You can call me Ray…”)

hey David, haha I remember that talk about an ear worm haha

The Ace Trucking Company’s Bill Saluga died three years ago this month. The last time I saw him was in a “Seinfeld” episode.

I will have to look him up

Correction: The Louis Jordan song heard earlier is “Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'”. “Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying” is a Gerry and the Pacemakers song.

Hi Esoterica. Is anyone else curious as to why the only thing Tyler B had in his pocket was the Wedding Singer dvd? Billy Idol prob gets it..

oh right ha, amy

aw got it, David, but it is the same song, no? sure sounded like it

Somebody alert Jon S

You are right it is a different song, David. but the cd says "crying" not crying.

not "cryin" (the Louis Jordan version

)

Popping in real quick to say that when I heard Aztec Cameras version of "Jump" I realized 'that sounds a lot like "Sweet Jane"'

oh wow, now I have to relisten.

hi randy!

So, a Feelies album came out 3 years ago that consisted entirely of VU covers? Or was that an anthology by various artists?

Hi! I'm 1/3 through my cat book now (almost) - only 13 more cats to draw!!!

sweet

no it is a feelies album all dedicated to VU

@david

From 1975, my favorite cat book: https://archive.org/details/cat0000klib

Kilban! great stuff

I missed the last 3 Sonic Blooms, but I see last week’s show played Gustaf. They open for Mitski Friday through Sunday at the Shed.

Gustaf is great

where is the shed?

545 W 30th Street.

@david - good call; I'm trying to not be TOO MUCH Kilban or Gorey or Searle ("Big Fat Cat Book") but we'll see, thanks!

Mitski also plays there tonight and tomorrow with Sex Week opening. (Thursday is Ian McKellen's one-man play "An Ark".)

omg I love Ian

os it sold out I wonder

*is

@esoterica - Was it you or Jen who did the Buzzcocks cover show?

Was this included?

Jen!

so good

Correction: "An Ark" has 4 actors! https://theshed.org/program/484-an-ark

@Randy…I still remember that Buzzcocks show..it was great

oh cool, david

Another look at last week’s playlist reminds me I’ve yet to see the 2020 documentary “Karen Dalton: In My Own Time”. I can’t stream it, but my library has the DVD. I’ll check it out as soon as I get back to NJ!

Loved the show tonight! Great music every time

hey Tyler! Thanks:)

hey David, i watched it it is good, sad story tho

oh thanks rob!!

Ty Eso, loved the show tonight!

may get in some Jam too

@carlos "I still remember that Buzzcocks show..it was great" I think she archives them to one of the 'Clouds (Sound- or Mix-) so it STILL IS great

oh sweet, I will check it out, randy

Great show & have a great week Esoterica & friends (oh we'll see each other on other chats, I'm sure LOL)

I see Ben Vaughn was a guest on the show 3 weeks ago. Did anybody here see Sickidz at Randy Now’s last weekend?

thx! randy appreciate you stopping by.

no I didn't get to see sickidz, David.

yup, I had ben vaughn on

Not Sickidz, but a few years ago D'Wife & I went to see The Peace Creeps at the old man cave in bordentown (she's a fan on The A's from WAY back) - tiny-est spot I've EVER seen a band, without a doubt (and I played pizza joints in NY State & MA)

Getting back to cat books, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard wrote this brilliant one in 1994: https://archive.org/details/poetryforcatsdef00bear

sweet, david

hey randy idk the peace creeps or the a's, prob bc I grew up in socal

thx everyone for stopping by the chat and keeping me company!:) see ya next week

Page one KILLED me!!! William CAT-los Williams?

ha!

@esoterica find "Woman's Got The Power" or "After Last Night" pure 1980s Philly Pop Punk

will do! maybe I will play it next week, thx randy

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