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The Sonic Bloom

Apr 14, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Drive Show #1!

hey there! how's about pledge.wprb.com??

5:00 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:08 PM		JFA Tentpeg JFA Untitled Placebo Records 1984
5:11 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:13 PM		Robert Johnson Sweet Home Chicago Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 2 Columbia/Legacy 1970
5:14 PM		Melvins Joan of Arc Melvins Houdini Atlantic Records 1993
5:19 PM		Thomas Lauderdale & Satan's Pilgrims Rhapsody in Blue (feat. Pink Martini) Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims (feat. Pink Martini) Heinz Records 2023
5:23 PM		The Creation Making Time The Creation Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes Demon 1999
5:31 PM		The Fleshtones I've Gotta Change My Life The Fleshtones Roman Gods I.R.S. Records 1982
5:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:37 PM		George Jones White Lightning (Single Version) George Jones Best Of CMCapNash (N91) 2013
5:43 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:44 PM		Alan Vega Every 1's a Winner Alan Vega Saturn Strip V/A Rhino/Elektra 1983
5:48 PM		Magazine Rhythm of Cruelty (2007 Remaster) Magazine Secondhand Daylight Virgin Catalogue 1978
5:57 PM		Adam Strangler Astronomy Adam Strangler Ideas of Order Duprince 2016
6:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:02 PM		Serge Gainsbourg Ah Melody Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson Universal Music Division Mercury Records 1971
6:02 PM		Josh White St. James Infirmary Josh White Josh At Midnight Rhino/Elektra 1955
6:06 PM		The Soft Boys Do the Chisel The Soft Boys A Can of Bees Yep Roc Records 1978
6:09 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire (1993) Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire Merge Records 2023
6:13 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:26 PM		Andy Williams Moon River (From "Breakfast at Tiffany's") Andy Williams Moon River: The Very Best Of Andy Williams Columbia/Legacy 2009
6:30 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Home (1992) Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire Merge Records 2023
6:31 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel April 8th Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island Fire Records 1996
6:32 PM		Robert Johnson Phonograph Blues (Alternate Take) The Complete Recordings Columbia/Legacy 1989
6:41 PM		Radwan Ghazi Mounmeh and Frederic Oberian A Silence With No Ceiling Radwan Ghazi Mounmeh and Frederic Oberian N Eternal Life With No End Factor Canada 2026
6:47 PM		The Men If You Leave... The Men N Leave Home Sacred Bones Records 2011
7:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:03 PM		Andrew Chalfen Watertown Bus Andrew Chalfen N Unrelliable Narrator s/r 2026
7:07 PM		Wendy Eisenberg Take A Number Wendy Eisenberg N Wendy Eisenberg Joyful Noise Recordings 2026
7:08 PM		The Dissidents History Repeats A Better World 2025
7:10 PM		Suitor Model Actress Suitor N Saw You Out with the Weeds Feel It Records 2026
7:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:15 PM		3MB feat, Juan Atkins Die Kommischen Kuriere N Tresor 186 True Spirit V/A 2026
7:18 PM		al/paca Beat Club Al Paca Make It Better
7:33 PM		Aboriginal Voices Le Jour L’ennui Aboriginal Voices Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980 - 1990 V/A Strut 2023
7:37 PM		waterbaby Sink waterbaby N Memory Be a Blade Sub Pop Records 2026
7:39 PM		Hapax Truth or Lie Hapax Monade Swissdarknights 2019
7:43 PM		Blake Baxter & Eddie Fowlkes Wisdom (The Moody 2 MB Mix) N Wisdom - Single V/A CLOCKWORK Records 2010
7:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:56 PM		Tangerine Dream Force Majeure Tangerine Dream Force Majeure UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2019

Chat is archived.

hey

Hotter than a docker's armpit on the Barge? I'm upping my recurring pledge by $5 to buy you guyz some airconditioners!!

hi! sweet, teresa!

I believe a shot across the bow is what got Jodie Foster's Army in trouble in the first place.

hey Jon!

haha

Hey y'all! Waiting for this show...

Thanks for the "ADD 5" Teresa! You rule!

How about a big round of pledges from first-time donors to get this show started on the GOOD FOOT.

This is fuzzy and I love it

PLEDGE FOR THE FUZZ!

great vibe 🎵

I pledged on the Wilbo dance party but I’m here for the fuzz

hey Zach! Riley! rob!

howdy bike r!

let's go!

Fuzz into Gershwin. Only on WPRB

oh yeah!!

Hi Esoterica, Mike, and everyone!

pledging is hotter than a dockers armpit

@E -- will catch up to you in July, my friend! <3 Hello Bloomers, Friends, Countryfolk, Feller Pledgers! Hello Mike!

That set (DI, JFA, etc.) that Mike just mentioned was amazing!!!

@Riley Martin -- "pledging is hotter than a docker's armpit" is THE BEST listener testimonial EVER!!

i was inspired by Mike's poetry

Pledge WPRB. It'll change your life.

Allow me to direct all Dockers to track A5 on this record: https://www.discogs.com/release/3846497-Budgie-Squawk

this fits the skateboarding and robbing a liquor store vibe

Budgie is good old stuff

Yeah Amy!

is this the same somg the big bopper did?

Hurray for Amy!!! Also -- that's definitely a transition for the record books, Esoterica!

Hi Mike and Esoterica! What's the easiest way to increase my recurring membership?

Would it be pledge.wprb.com?

https://pledge.wprb.com/recurringupdater

you need your order number which is in your monthly billing email

@Mike, so like my teenage years!

wprb kept us out of jail

Yeah that sounds familiar. Step 1, get a car, step 2, realize new jersey has only one (good) radio station.

I didn't have WPRB, but I wish I did! Pledge!

John Coffey I was wondering the same thing. Thanks Zach!

while mmr and ysp played the hit garbage WPRB played what was good

Great story, Mike! Great show, Esoterica! Give these two all your money!!! 💰Pledge pledge pledge! 🙌📻🔥

hey Debbie!

Thanks @Zach, I wish it was a bit easier than tracking down an order number. Easier to make a one time donation.

hey John!

i clicked a link in the billing email and it prefilled it for me, which was nice

Magazine was so good with Howard Devoto

worth it for the post cards. Readie Rigtheous was professing the benefits of long-form snail mail earlier

@Zach -- Thank you! Such good information. I copied it from the billing email but the prefill option sounds better, much more direct!

Growing up just outside Atlantic City, we experimented a LOT...that is, with the best areas to pick up the WPRB signal.

i miss the old AC with the racetrack and Brigntine Castle

@Amy -- Another great listener testimonial! Brilliant!

Gonna need rope. Hemp seeds. Just sayin'...

@Teresa No problem! Listeners supporting listeners haha

No way! Fame is in my hood. Their food is so delicious.

heyyooo

hey Andrew!

Debby I love it there

happy 10 year wprbversary!

thanks!!

I never ate in there yet. But I get there avocado toast delivered often, ha!

yum

robyn h is playing at white eagle in june with a full band!

what!?

gotta get tix

june 13th

I never heard that Melvins song. Last Wednesday the Princeton cinema showed “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928) with live score on piano, violin and cello.

At 7 today, they’re showing this Woody Guthrie biopic: https://princetongardentheatre.org/films/bound-for-glory

do the hustle!

yes!

SCTV was my introduction to Fee Waybill. Then his 1980s appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman" (not performing or plugging anything, just talking).

Nelson Muntz loves this song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iF6GvH-auow

"I didn't think he was gonna do Moon River, and then BAM, second encore!"

I love the pure joy on Nelsons face in that episode

C'mon folks, don't be sleepy! Step up and PLEDGE!

I gotta stop working…can’t believe missed Satan’s pilgrims on the radio

Alas, we play the cards we're dealt in life.

Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues

hey Marcus - oh yeah

Hello Esoterica!

hi!

7 pm ..time for the concert calendar

Woot! Thx, Carlos

@ mike 6:27. Nice Simpsons reference.... Lol!

You are welcome..now go chase my company down for the matching gift

holy shit it's mike lubingo

AND thee rockin dj esoterica

@ David 626. oh wait you found it.... Niiiiiiiccce

hey space! Lucy!

Well I wouldn't call this rock, but everyone knows there's only 3 genres, which are Jazz/Classical, Rock, and Weingart

right Lucy ha

I love the way the "robots" who do the vocals for al/paca have Italian accents; ex., "take me to the 'ceety' .."

lol t yes

Carlos wants a concert calendar. Here are my plans for the week— Wednesday: Meow Meow, Deflators, Your Best Nightmare @The Meatlocker (8 Park Street, Montclair, NJ). Thursday: School Drugs, Peace Talk, Quiz, The Brolic @Cinco de Mayo (206 French Street, New Brunswick, NJ). Friday: Nervous Triggers, Bamberdöst, Spiky Tops, Tar @Wild Air Beerworks (801 2nd Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ).

Saturday: Stressed Out, Fat Bangs, The Bliss Menagerie @House of Trash (660 Mantoloking Road, Brick Township, NJ). Sunday: Eric Raven, Defy You, Duel, Wretched Rite, Neolithic @coLAB Arts (9 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, NJ).

@ Esoterica (host) I'm lurking while working (as is my wont ...) and really enjoying (as is my characteristic Sonic Bloom experience) :-D

hellloooo

thx Richard!

thx fro the calendar, David!

for

Muchas gracias David…I will e in the Brunswick area on Saturday night..will make a suggestion

4/23. Should be a holiday ..50 year birthday coming up

bye all!

happy bday!