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The Sonic Bloom

Mar 10, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

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5:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Scorpio's View Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:07 PM		The Cure Close to Me The Cure The Head On the Door Rhino/Elektra 1985
5:10 PM		R.E.M. Radio Free Europe R.E.M. Murmur CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1983
5:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:16 PM		Rational Cut She Walks Alone Rational Cut 7" She Walks Alone 2025 Engineered by Jonny Bell at Jazzcats Studio in Long Beach.
5:17 PM		Yoko Ono Move On Fast Yoko Ono Approximately Infinite Universe Secretly Canadian / Chimera Music 1973
5:21 PM		INXS Don't Change INXS Shabooh Shoobah Rhino Atlantic 1982
5:27 PM		Sir Douglas Quintet Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day Sir Douglas Quintet The Complete Mercury Masters Island Def Jam 2005 Augie Meyers, a true Texas Legend passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, March 7th at 85 with his wife Sara at his side. Texas Tornados, Sir Douglas Quintet and played a mean organ. RIP
5:29 PM		Sir Douglas Quintet I'm Glad For Your Sake (But I'm Sorry For Mine) Sir Douglas Quintet Honkey Blues Mercury Records 1968 Augie Meyers, rip
5:33 PM		Rocketship I Love You Like the Way That I Used to Do Rocketship N A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness Nonstop Co-op 1995 New to the barge! But from the 90s.
5:37 PM		Viv Albertine The Madness of Clouds Viv Albertine The Vermilion Border The Cadiz Recording Co. 2012
5:43 PM		John Lee Hooker Baby Lee John Lee Hooker I'm in the Mood Upfront 1968
5:46 PM		Haircut 100 Love Plus One Pelican West Plus RCA Camden 1982
5:50 PM		Viparat Piengsuwan Smile (Remastered) Viparat Piengsuwan Love Passion - Single PEEBLES 2015
5:52 PM		Walter Egan Magnet and Steel Walter Egan Not Shy Legacy Recordings 1977
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6:05 PM		ABC The Look of Love, Pt. 1 ABC The Lexicon of Love EMI 1982
6:08 PM		Howlin Wolf Killing Floor Howlin' Wolf R The Definitive Collection Geffen 2007 Going out to GC! This was recorded in Chicago in August 1964 and released as a 45 rpm single on Chess Records (Chess 1923) in 1964. Written and performed by Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett).
6:10 PM		Ween Joppa Road Chocolate & Cheese Rhino/Elektra 1994
6:13 PM		The Weirdos Happy People The Weirdos Destroy All Music Bomp! Records 2007
6:15 PM		Woody Guthrie Grand Coulee Dam Woody Guthrie The Asch Recordings, Vols. 1-4 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1999 Woody Guthrie wrote and recorded the folk song " Grand Coulee Dam" in 1941 as part of a series of songs commissioned to promote federal hydroelectric projects on the Columbia River. Set to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball," the song celebrates the dam's construction, power generation, and impact on the region.
6:18 PM		Zior Entrance of the Devil Zior Before My Eyes Go Blind: The Complete Recordings Grapefruit 2019 From 1973.
6:20 PM		Neil Sedaka Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Neil Sedaka The Very Best of Neil Sedaka RCA Records Label 2001 From 1962. rip Neil Sedaka.
6:20 PM		Zolar X Mirrors Zolar X Timeless Alternative Tentacles 2004 "Mirrors" is a song by the Los Angeles space-age glam rock band Zolar X, featured on their 1982 album Timeless and later reissues. The track, which explores themes of self-reflection and sci-fi fantasy, was also released as a rare 7" demo (limited to 10 copies). It appears on the 2004 Timeless (Alternative Tentacles) reissue.
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6:32 PM		The Lively Ones Caterpillar Crawl The Lively Ones Surf Rider Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1962
6:35 PM		T.S.O.L. Nothin' for You T.S.O.L. Revenge Ryko/Rhino 1985
6:37 PM		Roky Erickson Burn the Flames Roky Erickson Don't Slander Me Light In The Attic 1985
6:43 PM		The Stranglers Choosey Susie (1996 Remastered Version) The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus Parlophone UK 1977
6:47 PM		Faust Giggy Smile Faust Faust IV (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Catalogue 1973
6:54 PM		Psychic TV The Orchids Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet Sony Music UK 1983
6:57 PM		Sam Shalabi, Mike Gangloff, Liam Grant Side A N Mont-Real (Split) Carbon 2025
7:13 PM		Pete Shelley Qu'est - Ce Que C'est Que Ça Pete Shelley Homosapien Domino Recording Co 1980
7:16 PM		Aleka's Attic Where I'd Gone Aleka's Attic Time Gone - Single LaunchLeft 2019 Composed by River Phoenix - this was his band with his sister, Rain.
7:20 PM		Neil Young Love and War Neil Young Le Noise (Deluxe Version) Reprise 2010
7:25 PM		MF DOOM Arrow Root MF DOOM Metal Fingers Presents: Special Herbs, Vol. 1 & 2 Metalface Records 2002
7:29 PM		Todd Rundgren Believe in Me Todd Rundgren Runt Rhino 1970
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7:35 PM		Brian Eno By This River Brian Eno Before and After Science - Ten Pictures EMI Marketing 1977
7:38 PM		The Kinks Sleepwalker The Kinks Sleepwalker Sanctuary Records 1977
7:42 PM		PJ Harvey It's You PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2004
7:46 PM		King Hannah John Prine on the Radio King Hannah Big Swimmer City Slang 2024 https://www.kinghannah.com/ King Hannah is an English duo from Liverpool consisting of Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle. The duo have released two full-length albums. Their first album, I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me, was released in 2022 via City Slang.
7:51 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:52 PM		Lala Lala Arrow Lala Lala N Heaven 2 Sub Pop Records 2026
7:56 PM		The Ophelias Open Sky The Ophelias N Spring Grove Get Better Records 2025
7:58 PM		Japanese Motors Interlude Japanese Motors Japanese Motors Vice Music 2007

Chat is archived.

good evening and good music 🎵

good evening, riley

thx!

Best video of all time. Well one of them anyway..

oh yeah, G Jax, hi!

must watch again

early R.E.M. nice

Of course, I'm a guy who needs to be on heavy drugs just to get a MRI. Still love that Cure vid though

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

he richard:)

hey!

one of the benefits of being old i guess is i saw R.E.M in 87 with 10,000 Maniacs

i saw them on that tour, too

rem was so good

the only Yoko i ever hear is on here ty !

sweet! she is great

you're welcome

wow best INXS song ever imo

Yeah, this is the best INXS song. Fact.

agree riley and G Jax

Whatever you do, Bobby, don't hit those trash cans!!!

ha!

that line is from Doug Sahm s in more American graffiti

an underrated film by the way

rocketship is so good

hullo!

I've never heard rocketship and I'm already hooked

andrew so good

hullo!

love ellens voice

that is right he is in amwerican grafitti GJax!

bad typos!

I love American Grafitti! Lucas!

More American Graffitt. The overlooked sequel

Weren't no hippies in the first American graffiti

yes haha

i am down

perfect playlist to watch the sunset 🌇

Terry the toad ends up in Viet Nam with the leader of The Pharaohs.

Heck yeah more blues man! Howlin wolf would be far out

yeah or muddy

haircut 100 wow

howdy GC! Love the blues

old new wave

G Jax write the script!

Ha Haircut 100. HATED this then. Mainly probably because I hated haircuts in general. Period.

I love it now though. It's a good song.

heres a band should have made more albums

agree

Beautiful Tuesday with all these selections, @Esoterica

hey hey hey its a beautiful day

stevie on backup

maybe lindsay too

oh sweet

hey rob, thanks!

stevies backup gem days

oh yeah for sure

wiki says Stevie and Lindsey are both backup singers

this song, ebony eyes by bob welch and gold by john stewart all hits with stevie on backup

the buckingham nicks days

Esoterica, you have shaved decades off my current age, again :-D

bringing back cloudy memories

Dug that Viparat Piengsuwan tune. What is that old Bollywood or something?

The early Flleetwood Mac was way earlier than Bob Welch

Love the Bob Welch era though.

the first version was Peter Green a great blues guitarist

welch was version 3 of fleetwood mac

Yeah early Fleetwood Mac was with Peter Green. The best version.

Albatross one

of my favorite instrumentals of all time

yeah oh well and green manalishi great tunes

Great stuff

That song is such a "heard-it-first-at-my-orthodontist-appointment" song! And only now do I detect a toy piano in the instrumental mix! Did Walter Egan ever have any other hits to his name?

then when green left they had another great guitarist named danny kirwin

Shit Augie died.

no egan was one and done

@RileyMartin -- As I suspected!

the look

saw this band in glenside during this tour

One time I heard The Darkness "I Believe in A Thing Called Love" in the waiting room at the doctors appointment. Everybody was giving strange looks to each other.

hi teresa!

Hello E!!! <3 Great selections as always!!! <3

ha! i talked my parents into buying me this 45 when i was a kid!

this album was huge

aw thank you, t!

true riley

shoot that poison arrow was fire

Two hit wonder here.

when smokey sings was a hit too

3 hits lol

they were a solid pair of hits though

Heck yeah!!!!!!

going out yo you GC!

Hi DJ Esoterica - I would appreciate your awesome opinion on a song I created. I distributed to distrokid. - here is the link to the song on Spotify if you have the time to review and give feedback. Would greatly appreciate this! Song is called Sunset Chase - Junkomoto is the band name https://open.spotify.com/track/2YW6acJvCL2Mz09ZJNggyw?si=5rCKvbUUR-2va5FxaBsG-g

Didn't think anybody else would remember when smoky sings. I just don't remember a video for it, but I remember the song very well.

This is great thanks so much

lol the radio played it alot back then

"Shoot That Poison Arrow" has that great call/response exchange -- 'Who broke my heart?'/ 'You did! You Did'/'You think you're smart'/'Soooo stupid!' Lyric GOLD!

Sure thing, happy to:) GC!

love tat call and response, T

that

You rock!!! Alwaysisten I'm and pavlov to the dirty harry theme? You = Best!!!

Love this song!!!

Hey BangBang Steel, I will check it out, thanks

if you ever find the song Gold by John Stewart maybe you can play that,,,,more stevie background vocals

aw thanks, BangBang

I thought you loved me, but it seems you don't care..

Arlo's daddy

Oh my Eso, now I have to search and see if I still have that Weirdos Lp still! Way to shake up my. 1979? memory.

take a look, john:)

Yeah!!!!

I remember an interview with Arlo and they asked if you could say anything to your dad now what would you say in his answer? "stay dead you're more popular now than you ever were alive" or words to that effect.

ha, thaht is kooky, G Jax

thath

arlo was one of a kind

It's funny when you can say it like Arlo does.

that! i hate typos. i type too fast on this chat

haha

How do i actually submit music to the station? I would love to send a CD. In a box padded with green plastic army men and a coin from somewhere foreign ha'kaauia

Sweet! Attn. Music Department: Mailing Address: WPRB PO Box 388 Princeton, NJ 08542

I will send I c/o you!!!

awesome:)

The Spits, Snõõper and Dusters are playing at House of Independents now, but a ticket is apparently close to $40. I don’t know whether I should go or continue listening to this program.

oh sweet, david i would go if i could:) where is bhouse of indepdendtes

forgive typos, i am a wreck haha

572 Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park.

cool

Its time is listed as 6:00. I might miss some of it.

stranglers 🔥

oh yes!

Yeah!!!!

Is the system dead?

This is rippin!!!

oh yeah

It's so nice I get to interact! I'm always driving to work when you have the airwaves - I took the dang day off!!! Growl!!!! https://open.spotify.com/track/1KXBUZDAR59tK5kLhGVQdG?si=sXZFdLc0SgKX0b0l-b-waA (last one). You getting me stoked!!

nicce!

I'm done! Going off to dance around now!!! Whirling Disturbishes!!!

Buenas noches

ha1 good on ya

hey carlos1

First after work bike ride of year…

how great is ththa? are you listening while you are biking?

wait prob not lol

you need your wits about ya, no typing

Nooooo..road bike. Listening for traffic

yup

silly questin

@ Esoterica (host) Fab show, as always. This Sam Shalabi, Mike Gangloff, Liam Grant album track is hypnotizing in the best way.

i agree, richard! thought i lost some folks haha prob to dinner.

This was my supper entertainment! :-D

just lost in a haze of 🎵

great

I’m here thru my quick meal…outdoor dining!!

nice! a river phoenix composition up next.

great playlist tonight🎵

thanks, riley

@Esoterica, I just purchased that Rocketship album. I've heard songs from it during the past few weeks and tonight was the night I had to obtain it

sweet, rob:) i agree it is great

I'm not sure why I never got it when it was first released

great buy

@Riley, do you have it?

yes her voice is the best, very soothing

I need soothing voices rn (we all do!)

I went to see Aleka's Attic at Maxwell's in 1988. They played and left before I arrived, but I'm glad I stuck around for the headliner Untamed Youth. They immediately became my favorite band.

upper darbys own todd rundgren

yup delco!

classic kinks

love it

For about 2 seconds I thought this was the Steve Miller Band song

I plan to see Deke Dickerson at the Parkside next week. I'll ask him what he remembers about River Phoenix's set.

i can see that, carlos

cool

Then Deke's getting Untamed Youth back together in July for this: https://sjock.com/line-up-2026

This has been and continues to be a great show, @Esoterica

@David ..Deke playing with Straitjackets in Philly burb in a few days

agree great job with this show

thanks rob and riley:)

I might go, Carlos. https://tixr.com/groups/ardmoremusichall/events/los-straitjackets-deke-dickerson-rockin-dance-party-159629

Love the straitjackets and seeing them with a singer

Thanks, everyone! And me, too Carlos.