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The Sonic Bloom

May 19, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

HOT Tuesday.

howdy!

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
5:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:04 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:08 PM		Love August Love Four Sail Rhino/Elektra 1969
5:13 PM		Sick Bees Saint Helen's Sick Bees My Pleasure Up Records 2000 https://threeimaginarygirls.com/imaginaryboysickbees-asp/
5:15 PM		Sick Bees People Are Nots of Wood Sick Bees My Pleasure Up Records 2000
5:18 PM		Ata Kak Obaa Sima Ata Kak Obaa Sima Awesome Tapes From Africa 1993 https://atakak.bandcamp.com/album/batakari
5:23 PM		Hannah Frances Nested in Tangles Hannah Frances N Nested in Tangles (Deluxe) Fire Talk 2026 https://hannahfrancesmusic.com
5:29 PM		John Lennon Mother John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1970
5:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:39 PM		John Lennon Hold On John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band EMI Catalogue 1970
5:40 PM		Psyche Dance After Curfew Psyche N Dance After Curfew - Single Psyche Enterprises 2025 Psyche are a Canadian dark synth-pop band, now based in Germany. They are centered on singer Darrin Huss, who has been the only constant member, with various line-ups including his brother Stephen Huss.
5:45 PM		Psyche & Neuropa Mad World Psyche & Neuropa Numbers Covered II (Extended) eMERGENCY heARTS 2021
5:50 PM		Gang of Four It's Her Factory Gang of Four Yellow - EP Matador 1979
5:52 PM		Belgrado Jeszcze Raz Belgrado Siglo XXI La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2015 From Barcelona!
5:56 PM		The Bellicose Minds A Likely Outcome The Bellicose Minds The Creature Sabotage Records 2016 The Bellicose Minds are Nick Bellicose, Aj Bellicose, Mira Bellicose we come from Portland Oregon where we began playing dark post punk music in the Fall/Winter of 2008/2009. We use big amps and electric drums to create music inspired by rain and clouds (from their website).
6:01 PM		Reso Spectres Reso Spectre - EP Reso Music 2019 From Bristol, U.K. https://reso.bandcamp.com
6:05 PM		Street Eaters Expensive Dog (Total Control) Street Eaters N Expensive Dog (Total Control) - Single Street Eaters 2024 https://streeteaters.bandcamp.com/album/opaque
6:13 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:13 PM		Acetone Rumble (Live) Acetone N I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand - Live at The Knitting Factory, NYC: May 31, 1998 New West Records, LLC 2026 Acetone were an American alternative rock band formed in 1992 in Los Angeles from the three core members of the group Spinout, formed in 1987. The group consisted of Mark Lightcap on guitar, Richie Lee on bass and Steve Hadley on drums. It disbanded after Lee's suicide on July 23, 2001, aged 34.
6:15 PM		Acetone Come On Acetone Cindy Virgin Catalog 1993
6:21 PM		Sonic Youth The Diamond Sea Sonic Youth Washing Machine Geffen 1995
6:42 PM		Sean Solomon Remember Sean Solomon N The World Is Not Good Enough Anti/Epitaph 2026 From L.A. https://www.anti.com/artists/sean-solomon/
6:44 PM		Teenage Bed Décembre Teenage Bed N Pause Printemps Howlin' Banana 2026 From France. https://teenagebed.bandcamp.com
6:47 PM		Merwulf The Mountain Lion Merwulf N The Mountain Lion - Single Moodkiller Records 2026 From Portland, Oregon. https://www.merwulf.com
6:51 PM		Merwulf Strike Gold Merwulf N Strike Gold - Single Moodkiller Records 2026
6:53 PM		Liquid Liquid New Walk Liquid Liquid Liquid Liquid - EP Liquid Liquid 1981
6:55 PM		Liquid Liquid Scraper Optimo - EP Liquid Liquid 1983 Liquid Liquid is an American dance-punk group, originally active from 1980 to 1983. From NYC. They did a backing track for Melle Mel's "Whit e Lines".
6:59 PM		The Minute Men I Like It The Minute Men Engineers Can Dance Too Smokin' 1989
7:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:07 PM		Theoretical Girls Nato Theoretical Girls Theoretical Girls (1978-1981) Acute 2002
7:08 PM		Mars 11,000 Volts Mars Furious Pig Anarchy Music 2011 Mars, originally formed as China in 1975, was one of the first no wave bands. Originally starting off as a straight forward Velvet Underground-inspired “homespun NY ‘pop’” (Quote from Mark Cunningham’s liner notes to Mars Rehearsal Tapes), they began to experiment with dissonance in 1977.
7:12 PM		The Laughing Chimes A Promise To Keep The Laughing Chimes N Whispers In The Speech Machine Slumberland Records LLC 2025 The Laughing Chimes is a musical project formed by teenage brothers Evan (vocals, guitar) and Quinn Seurkamp (drums) based out of southeast Ohio and also includes bassist Avery Bookman and lead guitarist Matthew Putnam.
7:15 PM		The Telephone Numbers Telephone Numbers Theme The Telephone Numbers N Scarecrow II Slumberland Records LLC 2025 From San Francisco! https://thetelephonenumbers.bandcamp.com
7:19 PM		mclusky i know computer Mclusky N i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley - EP Ipecac Recordings 2026 Mclusky, originally known as Best, are a British post-hardcore band formed in Cardiff in 1996.
7:20 PM		The Spatulas Flowers The Spatulas N Flowers - Single Post Present Medium 2026 https://mirandaspatula.bandcamp.com
7:23 PM		The Spatulas In Threes The Spatulas N A Blue Dot Post Present Medium 2026
7:26 PM		Jeanines Coaxed A Storm Jeanines N How Long Can It Last Slumberland Records LLC 2025 https://jeanines.bandcamp.com/album/how-long-can-it-last
7:28 PM		Ex-Vöid Down The Drain Ex-Vöid N Down The Drain - Single Tapete Records 2025 Ex-Void, often stylised as Ex-Vöid, was a London-based indie rock band formed by songwriters Lan McArdle and Owen Williams in 2018.
7:32 PM		Joanna Gruesome Wussy Void Joanna Gruesome Weird Sister Fortuna POP! 2013
7:39 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:40 PM		Jeanines Till I See Your Star Tonight Jeanines N Till I See Your Star Tonight - Single 4351416 Records DK 2025
7:41 PM		Street Eaters Waiting Street Eaters N Waiting - Single Street Eaters 2026
7:43 PM		Psyche Unveiling the Secret Psyche Unveiling the Secret Artoffact Records 1993
7:50 PM		Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons Fantastic Screams to God 2022 From Stockholm! https://kitchenandtheplasticspoons.bandcamp.com/album/screams-to-god
7:53 PM		Romy The Sea Romy Mid Air Young 2023
7:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:58 PM		Los Orientales de Paramonga Siempre Contagiando Los Orientales de Paramonga N Los Orientales de Paramonga 1972-1976 (Analog Africa No.45) Analog Africa 2026

Chat is archived.

hey

hey ho, let's go

hey ho! rob

staying cool, I trust?

I'm trying to, it's trying too. The temps in my neighborhood have dropped to 93!

Hey Es! FIRE start with this jam, good lord! :D

Yo, Tandy!

Hi TAndy

Sup Rob!

glad you enjoyed a little bit of that love!

It's been a while since I heard this one too <3

sweet

I'm glad I didn't go out today like I originally planned! Just walking to the store and back wiped me out

I know!

I did play tennis but t was at 9:30.

A local weather station said it was 103 with a feels-like of 109 here in Trenton, the heat island effect is going crazy today

it is nuts

I'm still gonna wait before I put the A/C in my window. It keeps cool enough in here by virtue of being a basement unit, it'll be done tomorrow anyway.

you are brave

Ditto with the windshield sunshade lol

oh yeah

@TAndy, I spied a 100-degree temperature on a weather service temperature map, in Trenton, and the high there was 103. I bet it was the same place

Shout out to my boy Shigesato Itoi

hey Oscar, well alright then!

@Esoterica, I haven't heard "Mother" in eons, ty for playing it

sweet, glad you liked hearing it rob.

Reso!! What a blast from the past

ha!

yup

it is a blasting AC kind of song

Street Eaters nice!!

hey Riley!

yup

Good evening!

Mag 1.8 in Gladstone, Somerset County, NJ https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sysv/executive

thx, rob!

yw!

double tuesday

I guess you can say that:)

or is it two for tuesday lol

two tacos Tuesday?

🌮🌮

the great Thurston Moore

yup tho he doesn't seem that great in Kim gordon's memoir

i met him once in a record store in Doylestown...he was cool to me

nice

i wasn't married to him tho so who knows

right lol

Love this neverending Sonic Youth piece!

crazy, huh?

kinda meditative

for certain values of meditative

ah the diamond sea

right rob!

yo, Matt!

pretty nice, eh?

I have always dug that chune, Diamond Sea

Street Eaters! The great John Mink from Fleshies

oh yeah, matt!

Could have sworn the laughing chimes was Peter Murphy when it started

I know right?

hi kelly

that voice!

hi! totally

Been listening on my drive home—great set as usual. At one point, a song or two before Acetone, I thought Wow, Esoterrica is going Techno! Love the variety

hey now. really like the spatulas.

(Just one r intended)

howdy bike! thanks for the nice words

dale, me, too!

and hi...

the band name is a winner as well.

yeah for sure, dale and hi

Hi E, r u over the sixers fiasco, imoved on to the spurs and now im a cavs fans. Great show as always

aw thanks, yes, I am am over it wahhhh excuse me as I cry haha

hi gary!

another great show! ty!

thx Riley!

thanks, everyone!:)

see ya next week!

Ty Eso!

Ty Rob!