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The Sonic Bloom

May 26, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

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howdy...

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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		Dviance & Lauren Auder Cri N Cri - Single Promesses 2026 https://dv1ance.bandcamp.com Lauren Auder is a British-French singer-songwriter and record producer. Born in Watford and raised in the French town of Albi, she began her career producing for underground French and English rap artists.
5:11 PM		Lauren Auder praxis N Whole World As Vigil untitled (recs) 2026
5:15 PM		Izzy Camina & Angrybaby Seven Seas N Saline - EP Helix Records 2025 Isadora "Izzy" Camina is a British-American music producer.
5:18 PM		Scissor Fits Dorothy - Remastered N It Wasn't Nothing Listening-Post Music 2026 Formed in 1978, with a stripped-down, spiky DIY sound as their sonic template, the band recorded their legendary debut EP 'Taught? Tense? Angular? And Other British Rail Sandwiches' before they'd even played a live gig. https://scissorfits.bandcamp.com/album/it-wasnt-nothing
5:19 PM		The Gotobeds Starz The Gotobeds N Masterclass 12XU 2025 From Pittsburgh! https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com
5:22 PM		Jacob the Horse At Least It's Almost Over Jacob the Horse N At Least It's Almost Over Jacob the Horse 2026 https://jacobthehorse.bandcamp.com/album/at-least-its-almost-over
5:23 PM		Jacob the Horse Tympanis Jacob the Horse N At Least It's Almost Over Jacob the Horse 2026 From L.A.! https://jacobthehorse.bandcamp.com/album/at-least-its-almost-over
5:27 PM		Tirez Tirez Story Of The Year (Demo) N Story Of The Year (Demo) - Single 2026 Tirez Tirez was an American rock band led by composer/performer Mikel Rouse, the band's only constant member. The group was active from 1978 through 1988, and had a new wave/art rock sensibility that was strongly influenced by minimalism.
5:33 PM		Sweepers Rigged Roulette Sweepers N Sweepers Abandon Everything Records 2025 From Philly! https://sweepers-usa.bandcamp.com/album/sweepers
5:34 PM		Dua Saleh & Bon Iver Flood (feat. Bon Iver) N Of Earth & Wires Ghostly International 2026
5:37 PM		Tirez Tirez The Cough Tirez Tirez N Story Of The Year Numero Group 2025
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5:46 PM		Stevie Wonder Knocks Me Off My Feet Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life UNI/MOTOWN 1976
5:50 PM		Spencer Krug Get To Live Spencer Krug N Same Fangs Pronounced Kroog 2026
5:52 PM		Sunset Rubdown & Spencer Krug Us Ones in Between Sunset Rubdown & Spencer Krug Shut Up I Am Dreaming Pronounced Kroog 2006 Sunset Rubdown is a Canadian art rock music group from Montreal. The band began as a solo project for Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, who released his debut, Snake's Got a Leg, in early 2005. Spencer Krug is a Canadian musician. He is the singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the indie rock band Wolf Parade and has recorded solo under both his own name and the name Moonface.
5:56 PM		Genesis Owusu Paint It Black (triple j Like A Version) N Paint It Black (triple j Like A Version) - Single 2026
5:59 PM		Genesis Owusu BLESSED ARE THE MEEK Genesis Owusu N REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE OURNESS PTY LTD 2026
6:03 PM		Dua Saleh Firestorm Dua Saleh N Of Earth & Wires Ghostly International 2026 Dua Saleh is a Sudanese-American singer and actor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
6:06 PM		Son of Dribble Kasino Mess Son of Dribble N Poking a Hole in a Bag of Tears Son of Dribble 2025 Fro Columbus, Ohio!https://sonofdribble.bandcamp.com/album/poking-a-hole-in-a-bag-of-tears-2
6:10 PM		Twisted Teens White Hot Coal Twisted Teens N Blame The Clown Jazz Life 2026 From New Orleans! https://chainsmokingrecords.com/pages/twisted-teens
6:13 PM		Evil Twin All Dolled Up Evil Twin Extra Damned Extra Damned Productions 2023
6:15 PM		Chris Brokaw Over My Body Chris Brokaw N Ghost Ship 12XU 2025
6:19 PM		Tomoyuki Trio Between The River & Sea Tomoyuki Trio N High Oxygen Blood Feeding Tube 2026
6:23 PM		Sharp Pins Sycophant Sharp Pins N Radio DDR Perennial / K Records 2025 From Chicago! https://sharppins.bandcamp.com/track/sycophant-2
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6:32 PM		Steve Lacy N Side Steve Lacy Apollo XXI 3qtr 2019
6:35 PM		good flying birds Every Day is Another Good Flying Birds N Talulah's Tape Carpark Records 2025
6:38 PM		underscores The Peace underscores N U Mom+Pop Music 2026 American singer-songwriter and producer. Born in San Francisco, California.
6:41 PM		The Beatles In My Life Rubber Soul UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1965
6:44 PM		This Is Lorelei Holo Boy This Is Lorelei N Holo Boy Double Double Whammy 2025 Nate Amos, also known as This is Lorelei, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and the lead guitarist and producer of indie pop band Water from Your Eyes.
6:47 PM		Moonface Minotaur Forgiving Poseidon Moonface This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet Jagjaguwar 2018
6:53 PM		Carbon Decoy The Trip Carbon Decoy N Crush the Sun Carbon Decoy 2025 Carbon Decoy is a garage psych/acid rock/stoner rock from Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 2020 in Southern Michigan as the recording project of Jared Jordan (bass) and Casey Rowe (drums, vocals), the duo developed a live set and spent the first half of 2021 playing live shows around Michigan.
6:58 PM		The Tubs Wretched Lie The Tubs Dead Meat Trouble In Mind Records 2023 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-tubs-dead-meat/
7:02 PM		Jockstrap Greatest Hits Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B Rough Trade 2022
7:07 PM		Wednesday How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do Wednesday Twin Plagues Dead Oceans 2021
7:09 PM		Automatic Strange Conversations Automatic Signal Stones Throw Records 2019
7:13 PM		Viagra Boys Creatures Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz YEAR0001 2021 Viagra Boys is a Swedish post-punk band formed in Stockholm in 2015.
7:16 PM		My New Band Believe Opposite Teacher My New Band Believe N My New Band Believe Rough Trade 2026 Former Black Midi bassist Cameron Picton’s debut. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/my-new-band-believe-my-new-band-believe/
7:18 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:23 PM		MJ Lenderman You are Every Girl To Me MJ Lenderman Boat Songs Dear Life Records 2022
7:27 PM		Teddy and His Patches Suzy Creamcheese Teddy and His Peaches Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present the Dark Side: 28 Sixties Garage Punk and Psyche Monsters V/A BBE Music 1966
7:30 PM		Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band The Simple Joy Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band N New Threats From the Soul Tough Love Records 2025
7:37 PM		Ty Segall My Lady's On Fire Ty Segall Freedom's Goblin Drag City Records 2018
7:41 PM		Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry Old Jabo Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee N Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2003
7:43 PM		Big Bill Broonzy Mule-Ridin' Blues N Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2003
7:47 PM		K. C. Douglas Mercury Blues K. C. Douglas Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1956
7:49 PM		Small Faces Tin Soldier (2013 Remaster) Small Faces (Deluxe Edition) Charly Digital 1967
7:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:57 PM		David Del Rio Cuarto Parametro David Del Rio Cuarto Parametro - Single Minitree 2014

Chat is archived.

hey!

Hey hey back atcha!

howdy !

good evening!

how are you both??

and Riley! hi

good evening, everyone

Hiiiiiii I just got McDonald’s :p

nice

hey guelo

I can't type quickly

best 3 hours of the week 🎵🎵

aw thx riley

guelo! fave mickey d's order?

I do like a Big Mac once in a great while

i think i'm the only person in the world hates their fries

well, they have to be just made, hot well salted

if they are a little bit old, yuck

they taste like little pieces of carboard lol

i like BK fries

haha

PA punk with the Gotobeds

oh yeah!! I Like 'em

Chicken sandwich every time

had a big mac yesterday cmon!

alright, guelo!

hey Michael haha

very punk/new wave theme so far!! awesome!

oh yeah thanks!

shows been unreal so far es

awesome, thanks, TAndy

this late70s/early 80s stuff is the best

agree

my era, for sure

yeah us early 80s grads love this vibe

yup:)

Good afternoon

howdy carlos

Hello

Hello, rob!

how are ya?

Hello Esoterica!

Busy. How are you?

Not as busy, rob. Excited for summer.

hello Amy!

Hey folks

Hey Randy!

I should change my screen name to Randalorian LOL

haha

sure!

I'd just have to change it back, and ppl would get confused in the meantime LOL

yup that is true

I was so focused on having D'Kid visit from her new place in PA, and the Star Wars movie, that I missed International Towel Day "Don't Panic"

Miles Davis would be 100 y/o today - I saw him at the academy of music

wow love him

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/miles-davis/1991/academy-of-music-philadelphia-pa-3bcef828.html

My mom introduced me to Jazz as a kid

that is so cool

Miles, dizzy, Coltrane - but she loved the piano players

he did a scritti politti cover!

I think I first heard Take five WHEN I was five

that is great

He OPENED with a Scritti Politti - it wasn't buried in the setlist

I wasn't expecting this song (with a female singer) to be Sharp Pins. I only have their later-2025 album Balloon Balloon Balloon

so I will be checking out Radio DDR this evening

Still here…reading news while listening

sweet

Newspaper?? I haven’t a paper since my dog died and I have no need for a daily plastic bag

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside a dog, it's too dark to read - Groucho

oh right I am old, Carlos haha sorry

Circling back - we took D'Kid up to Montreal when she was not quite 2; Jazz Festival week

https://montrealjazzfest.com/en/program/artists

vvvv 2026 artists

sweet, randy

@esoterica yr not old!!! Yr around my age maybe? And I'm certainly NOT

Lionel Ritchie + EWF is intriguing!!!

I’m guessing I got both of you beat on the age thing

So?

yes sorry

or...good on ya! Carlos haha

Time is a pony ride - David byrne

no I am not old!

but you still have me beat, carlos, haha

hey dj esoterica!

What’re you trying to make me cry?

zach awww

hi Michael!

May as well play she’s leaving home! Two guaranteed Beatles tear jerkers

oh man, that one gets me, too, Zach:)

My wife and her dad danced to in my life at the wedding

so sweet

In my life always sounds like someone is on their way out; not exactly wedding material, but YMMV

hello there dj E

howdy, Andrew!

I'm super excited to see honey bees all over the unmowed areas of clover. If I can only find out where they return to ..

oh yeah, that is sweet image, amy

"If you're after gettin the honey, don't go killing all the bees" - Joe strummer

well, there ya go

I noticed on my run the other day that the honeysuckles are budding up & ready to bloom

I went on a hike yesterday where honeysuckle was in full bloom

I'm very anti-mow. Husband is to an extent. Our honeysuckle is blooming. I also noticed neighbor across the street spot-spraying w/Roundup. W.T.F.

oh no!

ay roundup, can you say something?

My backyard is quite "feral" - basically our own little meadow

At least I suppose it's good to know who not to ask about harvesting their dandelion.

right

Late in the game for tonight, but I think Suburban Lawns might have to show up sometime during the Summer?

First Honeysuckle I ever saw was in Jersey City because my older 5 year old neighbor had them in her yard, and she was quite proud. :)

aww roffle

and hi

Heya Eso!

@amy - Dandelion wine? GREAT book

Heya!

remind what book that is, randy

dandelion wine is a good song by Ron sexsmith, too

I met someone from a city area who told me about the first time they saw a chipmunk - they sa

chippies are cute

....said, 'that is the oddest markings & color on a rat I've ever seen'.

Elderberry wine is as good as the sum of it's parts.

ha, roffle

@esoterica "remind what book that is, randy" Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

oh yeah!! Bradbury - never read thatone

is it good??

Very - he was writing about creepy childhoods long before Stephen king wrote "IT"

Mulberry is ripe in certain areas now too.

randy, I will check I tout for sure

check it out

oh is it sweet, Amy?

Good girl! And "something wicked this was comes" "the Halloween tree" too

oh yeah

*this way

I have the halloween tree

somewhere

Bradbury & Vonnegut were "my guys" in middle school

I can't believe the young people do not read Vonnegut anymore or Hesse!!

I loved hesse

I recently acquired https://www.phaidon.com/en-us/products/kurt-vonnegut-drawings

sweet

I blame the parents

And the publishers who decided every book needs to be a frsnchise

*franchise

Vonnegut is less known now, but has the immortal stuff of the greats. So it goes...

Or maybe the blame falls on literary agents?

Editors are an eminence front.

Lovely show tonight, Esoterica, ty. Until the next time (two weeks it looks like)

Thanks Eso!

thx, rob!!

Thanks, Amy!

Thanks, everyone!

Missed Schifrin today. So it goes... Love that theme. Thanks Eso!

thanks, roffle!!