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The Sonic Bloom

Mar 17, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Happy St. Patrick's!

hi...

5:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:08 PM		Cheap Trick Southern Girls Cheap Trick In Color Epic/Legacy 1977
5:12 PM		Stiff Little Fingers Gotta Gettaway Stiff Little Fingers Nobody's Heroes Parlophone UK 1979
5:14 PM		The Stone Poneys Different Drum The Stone Poneys Evergreen, Vol. 2 Capitol Records 1967
5:18 PM		The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem The Irish Rover The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Irish Folk Songs and Airs Legacy International 1994
5:20 PM		U2 Mysterious Ways U2 Achtung Baby (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1991
5:25 PM		The Pogues The Ghost of a Smile The Pogues R Hell's Ditch (Expanded Edition) WM UK 1990 Going out to Rebecca!
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5:32 PM		Deep Purple Highway Star Deep Purple The Very Best of Deep Purple Rhino/Warner Records 1980
5:37 PM		Utopia Love In Action Utopia Oops! Wrong Planet Rhino 1977
5:41 PM		Vic Chesnutt Guilty By Association Vic Chesnutt Is the Actor Happy? New West Records 1995
5:44 PM		Ultimate Spinach Sincere Ultimate Spinach Ultimate Spinach III Iris Music Group 1968 From Boston!
5:48 PM		Wimple Winch Rumble On Mersey Square South Wimple Winch Chocolate Soup For Diabetics Volume 2 - UK Psych Classics - Remastered V/A The Orchard House 2014 Wimple Winch was an English psychedelic pop band that evolved from the group Just Four Men.
5:52 PM		Wombo S.T. Tilted Wombo N Danger in Fives Fire Talk 2025 Wombo was formed in 2016 by lead singer and bassist Sydney Chadwick and guitarist Cameron Lowe. Chadwick and Lowe had previously been members of a punk-pop band, The Debauchees. Once the band dissolved, Chadwick and Lowe recruited drummer Joel Taylor and made their live debut as Wombo in August 2016.
5:55 PM		Fog Lamp Death of Idealism Fog Lamp N Still Entangled Siltbreeze Records 2026 From Oakland!
5:58 PM		Los Iniciados La Marca de Anubis Los Iniciados Untitled - EP Minimal Wave 2006 The band was formed by Aviador Dro members Servando Carballar and Marta Cervera in 1980, the latter of which (known in the group as "Arco Iris" ("Rainbow") served as the group's leader to a certain extent. https://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Los_Iniciados
6:02 PM		The Men Buyer Beware The Men N Buyer Beware Fuzz Club 2025 From Brooklyn! https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/the-men?srsltid=AfmBOoomHMcqtszBo4nLYgLemU4h2bHyTv-Hy6L66aGB4RgJQuwfd9zM
6:04 PM		U2 The Electric Co. U2 Boy UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1980
6:08 PM		Liz Hogg One Thread Liz Hogg N Goodbye World Hello Something Aagoo Records 2025 From New York. https://lizhogg.bandcamp.com/album/goodbye-world-hello-something
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6:20 PM		Gorillaz The Moon Cave (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, David Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought) N The Mountain Kong 2026
6:23 PM		The Who Overture/It's a Boy The Who Tommy UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1969
6:28 PM		Urinals Last Days of Man On Earth Urinals Negative Capability...Check It Out! Happy Squid 1997
6:31 PM		Mari Cruz Soriano y Los Que Afinan Su Piano El Vaticano va a arder Mari Cruz Soriano N El Vaticano va a arder
6:33 PM		The Users Sick of You The Users Kicks in Style - Classic Uk Punk 1976-1979 (Digital Booklet Version) MondoTunes 2013 In 1977, Cambridge record dealer Lee Wood founded Raw Records, and quickly recorded The Users in March of the year, releasing the single "Sick of You" / "(I'm) In Love With Today" on May 5, 1977.
6:36 PM		Cosey Mueller Contraddict Cosey Mueller N Embodiment of Denial 2026
6:40 PM		The Verlaines Makes No Difference (Live) The Verlaines Live at the Windsor Castle, Auckland, May 1986 Schoolkids Records 2022 https://www.flyingnun.co.nz/collections/the-verlaines?srsltid=AfmBOoqVJclscC-nK61BojWG-K36QwIk-UH_SHWNoaPKzvq46sbmHwc7
6:44 PM		Steve Earle Copperhead Road (Live) Steve Earle Live At the BBC MCA Nashville 2009 Recorded live at the Town and Country Club, London, Nov. 29, 1988.
6:49 PM		Vivien Goldman Launderette Vivien Goldman Disco Not Disco Strut 2008
6:52 PM		The Apple Buffalo Billycan The Apple Chocolate Soup for Diabetics, Vol. 2 V/A Particles 1981 Apple were a British psychedelic rock band. The band was founded in Cardiff in 1968 by Rob Ingram on guitar and Jeff Harrad on bass.
6:55 PM		The Sundays Life & Soul The Sundays Blind DGC 1992
6:57 PM		Love and Rockets No Words No More Love and Rockets Love and Rockets Beggars Banquet 1989
7:01 PM		Sharp Pins Fall in Love Again Sharp Pins N Balloon Balloon Balloon Perennial / K Records 2025
7:03 PM		cootie catcher Straight drop cootie catcher N Something We All Got Carpark Records 2026 https://cootiecatcher69.bandcamp.com/
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7:11 PM		The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem The Foggy Dew The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem The Best of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Tradition Records 1967
7:14 PM		Ben Vaughn El Rambler Dorado Ben Vaughn Mood Swings ('90-'85 & More)
7:19 PM		The Hives A Get Together to Tear It Apart R Veni Vidi Vicious Sire/Burning Heart/Epitaph 2000 Going out to Dave!
7:20 PM		Randall Kennedy Smith’s Room Randall Kennedy Alternative Funk - Vol. 1 V/A Platform 23 2020 https://platform-23.bandcamp.com/track/randall-kennedy-smiths-room
7:23 PM		Ministry I'll Do Anything For You (Squirrely Version) Ministry N The Squirrely Years Revisited Cleopatra Records 2025
7:28 PM		Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Well of Misery (2009 Remaster) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds From Her to Eternity (2009 - Remaster) Mute, a BMG Company 2009
7:33 PM		Neil Young The Loner Neil Young Decade Reprise 1977
7:37 PM		Jim + Digbee Doobie 2 Jim + Digbee N Hidden Hits: Best of Basement/Sand 16 Scribble Tapes 2025
7:40 PM		Uranium Club Viewers Like You Uranium Club Infants Under the Bulb Anti Fade Records 2024 From Minneapolis.
7:45 PM		A.C. Newman I'm Not Talking A.C. Newman Shut Down the Streets Matador 2012
7:49 PM		Angry Angles Crowds Angry Angles Angry Angles Goner 2016 https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1179-the-untold-story-of-angry-angles-jay-reatards-great-lost-band/
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7:56 PM		Falco Der Kommissar Falco Einzelhaft Ariola 1981
7:59 PM		Fairport Convention The Ballad of Easy Rider Fairport Convention Liege and Lief (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1969

Chat is archived.

hi!

lets get this party started! 🎵

ph yeah!

oh yeah

hi riley!

hey hey hey!

hearing some of my fav irish bands today

some will be coming intermittently

linda singing a mike nesmith song

yup

Hey! Happy Sr. Pat's Day!

Hey Inspector! Thanks! To you, too!

Different Drum is a song I may not have since my mom drove us around in her Rambler.

she had a pretty good backup band in these days

aw that is great, John

Loving this - thanks Esoterica!!

@John Coffey Hey my mom had a rambler station wagon too.

amc ramblers we all had one

hey Mr. Mont! we did, too.

I remember having to bring jugs of water for when we went to the shore, because it would overheat

The live version of this rips

the irish rover, commie, yes, it does.

Clancy Brothers that is

yes

and hi!

i saw tommy makem live in manhattan beach of all places

my parents took me when i was a teen

Going to party at Al's Airport Inn it's the Max's Kansas City of Mecer County

love that place

man U2 at JFK stadium brings back memories

was there last week haha

what a great place JFK was

saw the dead there in 1992?

or 1993

saw the dead and dylan there in think it was 87

jerry was still alive

hopefully we can hear some Thin Lizzy too

yes indeedy

highway star love it

tihis is a drive 100 mph song, good thing im not driving

lol yes you and me both

Different drum... If you ever heard the original Stone poneys acoustic version of it- there's a live version of it online, you realize how much a good producer can add to a song.

Have the band sit down, get The wrecking Crew in, and add a harpsichord

when i saw Deep Purple at the spectrum Ritchie Blackmore played the solo of this song with a bottle on his finger and Jon Lords keyboards lit up

wow, sean, so true

and hi

wrecking crew amazing

so talented and such a jerk Blackmore

todd rundgren sweet

oh yeah!

saw the road to utopia tour at the tower...i spent a ton on shows in those days

whoa, great times no doubt riley

many a cloudy night lol

shame all those great places are gone now

chestnut cabaret, too!

the kyber pass, the TLA, MannMusic Center

but they are still there right?

not sure i moved out of philly a few years ago

whaddap friends. I love catching shows at TLA and the Mann

yo, pengy!

just saw soft cell, modern englsh and simple minds at the mann last summer, great!

i like the tls, seen lots thehre

TLA

i remember going to the mann when ii was called robin hood dell east

oh wow

Mann had great outdoor shows unless it rained

These days I'm catching shows at Johnny Brenda's or KFN. But dang, I have a sudden urge to walk South Street now...

yeah those are great places, too

south street circa 1985 when jc dobbs was still kicking

Hi everyone

howdy rob!

@Esoterica, it is currently above 90 in Pomona & Claremont.

whoa!

are you there, rob?

its 32 here

had damn snow overnight

No, though I almost wish I was after yesterday's 15 degree temperature drop in 5 to 10 minutes. I was looking at the National Weather Service map of SoCal temperatures

@Riley, bummer for you. We didn't get any snow inside the beltway, fortunately

i was in J TRee last wek and it was lovely 70s

week

springs coming...supposed to be 70 saturday

sweet

@Esoterica, nice! It looks like it's in the mid to high 80s around J Tree right now

that still would be fine with me:)

Yeah, me too!

weird it feels like spring today though cold. it is def coming;)

A week ago in DC the highs reached the 80s for two or three days. 18 hours after Wednesday's neighborhood high of 85+ degrees, it was snowing!

I thought you might be amused by the Pomona/Claremont temps, since you went to college there

of course, rob! thx!

old U2 nice

one of y fave albums

one of their best no doubt

so true and their first

ooh tommy

aw thanks robert!

rambler power!

rambler power 4 ever!

ben vaughn has one as well

my buddy had the muscle car version of the rambler, the AMC American

such a shame Daltrey lost his voice

i saw the who's first farewell tour at jfk with the clash

so cool

never saw them live

they had 8 farewell tours since

shame no keith moon by then tho

yeah

another short lived great band The Users

yeah

Always nice to hear Steve Earle

hi amy :) agree with you there

Yeah - it's pretty bad out inthe valley - close to 100 today

hey francis whoa that is hot but it's in my blood

hi eso!

howdy! the other andrew

copperhead road, v great pic

thx robert, love that song

Adding cootie catcher to my Bandcamp follows. And thanks for WPRB Dj's for getting me to go there more often!

saw the Hives in Philly last night. Still gotta buzz. Play some?

sure, dave!

no-brainer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbeX5FKT_WE

a Philly (area) artist, BV!

yup, robert

The Fillmore. Such a great live band. On the DEVO level.

oh sweet, must see them next time

another great show @Esoterica thanks again

aw thx, riley:)

not saying for now, but at some point down the road, or in case ramblers ever start rambling again . . . Ewan MacColl has a good rambler song, a protest. . . .

oh yeah for sure, robert

thank you

great old neil

yes for sure the best

Thanks so much for the show today! Been listening on and off as I've been driving around today :)

hey TAndy! you are so welcome:)

We enjoyed your show tonight, Esoterica, thank you!

thx for letting me know you liked it:)

Thanks for the great show Esoterica!

thx, amy!

appreciate you! forgot to give you a shout out!

see you next week!

see ya next week!

We haven't heard Der Kommissar in quite a while!

haha!

bye!