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The Sonic Bloom

Jun 2, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

yo!!

Tuesday, summer schedule!

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan V/A 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
5:08 PM		Times New Viking Ever Falling in Love Times New Viking DANCER EQUIRED YOSHIMOTO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT CO.,LTD. 2011
5:11 PM		Descendents Marriage Descendents Milo Goes to College SST Records 1982
5:12 PM		Joanna Gruesome Last Year Joanna Gruesome Peanut Butter Slumberland Records 2015 Joanna Gruesome were a five-piece noise pop band from Cardiff, Wales. The name of the group is a reference to musician Joanna Newsom.
5:15 PM		PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love (Demo) PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love - Demos UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1995
5:17 PM		Sharp Pins Circle All the Dots Sharp Pins N Radio DDR Perennial / K Records 2025
5:19 PM		Jimmy Jørgensen Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime Jimmy Jorgensen A Face In The Crowd Sundance Music 2011 "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" is a 1980 single written by James Warren and first performed by British pop band the Korgis, with Warren as the lead singer. Danish singer, born 11 July 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
5:26 PM		Alela Diane Wildegeeses Michael Hurley N Field Recordings from Michael Hurley's Memorial 2025
5:28 PM		Ed Askew Gray Air - O - Plane (feat. Sharon Van Etten) Ed Askew N The Final Painting Drag City 2026 https://www.brooklynvegan.com/5-new-songs-out-today-23/ Edward Crane Askew was an American painter and singer-songwriter who first recorded in 1968 and lived in New York City.
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5:32 PM		Ed Askew Fancy That Ed Askew Ask the Unicorn Tin Angel Records 1967
5:43 PM		BCMC Kaleidosmoke BCMC N Stash Drag City 2026 BCMC is a Chicago-based psychedelic, raga-drone duo formed by musicians Cooper Crain (of CAVE and Bitchin Bajas) and Bill MacKay. Their sound blends deep space, folk, blues, and Krautrock using guitars and keyboards.
5:50 PM		Cut Worms Dream Cut Worms N Transmitter Jagjaguwar 2026 Cut Worms is the music project of Cleveland-born Brooklyn-based songwriter Max Clarke. Initially studying at Columbia College in Chicago to be an illustrator, Clarke began recording demos on a digital 8-track before eventually moving to New York and signing on to Jagjaguwar.
5:53 PM		Bitchin Bajas Reno Bitchin Bajas N Inland See Drag City 2025
5:58 PM		Cheap Trick Such a Good Girl Cheap Trick Found All The Parts - EP Epic/Legacy 1980
6:00 PM		Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer Stureby House Piano N Recordings from the Åland Islands (IA11 Edition) International Anthem 2025
6:05 PM		Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Ratcliffe Highway (2017 Remaster) Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Shame for the Angels E.P Easy Action / Troubadour 2017
6:09 PM		Horse Lords Brain of the Firm (feat. Nina Guo, Evelyn Saylor, Madison Greenstone & Weston Olencki) Horse Lords N Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! RVNG Intl. 2026
6:13 PM		Black Sabbath A Bit of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Rhino/Warner Records 1970
6:28 PM		Oren Ambarchi & crys cole Sparkling or Silent N Sparkling or Silent - EP Portraits GRM 2026 https://cryscole.bandcamp.com Oren Ambarchi is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion.
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6:55 PM		The Rolling Stones 2000 Light Years from Home The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 1967
6:58 PM		I Speak Machine Guts of Love (feat. Gary Numan) I Speak Machine N Guts of Love (feat. Gary Numan) - Single I Speak Machine Records 2025
7:02 PM		T. Rex Chariot Choogle T. Rex The Slider T-Rex Catalog (Spirit Music) 1972
7:05 PM		Move Casa Domani MOVE Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 1 Sacred Bones Records 2014
7:08 PM		Visage Fade To Grey (12" Version) Visage Fade To Grey: The Singles Collection (Deluxe Edition) Universal Records 1983
7:11 PM		Cola Skywriter's Sigh Cola N Cost Of Living Adjustment Fire Talk 2026 Cola is a post-punk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
7:15 PM		Grant Phabao Andub Grant Phabao Compilation Pro-Zak Trax, Vol. 1 (1994-1999) Pro-Zak 2000
7:21 PM		Codeine D Codeine Frigid Stars Sub Pop 1990
7:25 PM		Blu Anxxiety Baptized in Space Blu Anxxiety Baptized in Space - Single 1178751 Records DK 2019
7:31 PM		ACTORS Hit to the Head ACTORS It Will Come to You Artoffact Records 2018
7:34 PM		Mars 3E Mars Furious Pig Anarchy Music 2011 NYC-based noise rock band founded in 1975.
7:35 PM		Home Blitz The Tide Home Blitz Foremost & Fair Richie Records // TestosterTunes 2015
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7:43 PM		The Zimmermen Shelter from the Storm The Zimmermen The Dungeon Tapes The Zimmermen 1996
7:48 PM		Water From Your Eyes When You're Around Water From Your Eyes Structure Wharf Cat Records 2021 Water from Your Eyes are an American experimental rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 2016, later relocating to Brooklyn, New York.
7:51 PM		Friendship Tree of Heaven Friendship N Caveman Wakes Up Merge Records 2025
7:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:59 PM		Neil Young Revolution Blues Neil Young On the Beach Reprise 1974

Chat is archived.

Hey - excited for the show! It has an edge today!

Mr. Mont! Thanks!!

it may get a little mellow, too

Does today's show have a theme?

hey mike! not at all:) but we can make one up

Literally had to jump in here to say thank u for that version of to bring u my love!!!

aww thanks Jas

do you pronounce your name like a y like jan sometimes is

German

!!!!! Perfect to be driving around to rn. Forgot about the demos thank u

you are welcome:)

Loving the dreamy garage psych feel!

"Fix your hearts, or die" - FBI Director Gordon Cole (Philadelphia Office)

me, too! just discovered this and the miss you bit (stones)

@ Mr. Mont

hi, randy!

yup I miss you ..

Hi, Dá Bəng Gôu

Ooh - Twin Peaks fan! I was just re-watching the campy darkness that is the original series and the movie.

oh yeah, so cool

but of course you were talking to randy;)

@esoterica I'm just spouting off to whoever's listening. That's the nature of the online world these days!

me, too! haha

great vibe tonight 🎵

thanks, riley

love Max Clarke, so trippy

yeah for sure

Hello beautiful afternoon!

oh yes, inspector! hi

Summer is finally arriving!

yes

the great Ric Nielson

Cheap Trick is one of those bands where you go "wait? What was that line? Oh my!"

ha!

Deliciously creepy pop songs

best rock star name ever their drummer Bun E Carlos

looked like an accountant

Half the songs on the early catalog are about stalkers LOL

they were HUGE in Asia

crazy

@riley - no, best name (especially for a drummer ) is Tré Cool

loved bun e carlos

haha randy

Edwin Wright III

i think Bun E is a real name tho

not to be confused with Edgar writght

or Edgar Winter

wright the diretor

theres a great musician you NEVER hear on the radio anymorer...Johnny Winter

@riley "looked like an accountant" that was the beauty of the In Color cover - Robin & Tom, looking great on the motorcycles on the front; Rick & Bun E on bikes on the bsck

Ric and Bun E looked like a plumber and accountant

ha riley

hello, rob!

Hello Esoterica and everyone

Hello Rob from Maryland!

good evening Rob

mellow ozzy

We should call him "Dr Rob" b/c Rob MD

the musical surgeon

ha yes

Nice! Another good one off that album is The Wizard.

i wore a hole in this album in the 70s

oh yeah riley

@riley "i wore a hole in this album in the 70s" didn't it already have one? LOL

i get out of work late, get in the car, and the first thing i hear is the first sabbath album on wprb? perfect. thanks eso

it had 2 after i played it a thousand times lol

yo, Andrew! that is great:)

by 1980 the thing looked like a bowling ball

ha randy

love the wizard, mr. mont

I just happen to be working on something featuring a Gibson SG

@esoterica Yeah - I figured out a guitar version and put it on ultimate guitar tab because there wasn't a good one there.

Just tuned in as the sabbath commenced. Fantastic!

Might be a Suzi Quatro bass SG, tho - I haven't decided

wow, randy

Leather Tuscadero lol

WPRB is always there for me; and I TRY to return the favor (credits in IG, membership)

sweet, randy

@Randy Marthins So true! Most music I pick up is because I heard it on WPRB. Always grateful. Got on the monthly donor bandwagon a few years ago.

This is the way

I was gonna head out on an errand but clearly I have to wait until this Oren Ambarchi & crys cole piece is over

nice, rob!'

thx

Mr. Mont, I am grateful too, I also pick up great music on wprb

This part of the song reminds of me of Fog Tropes by Ingram Marshall. Very haunting.

Nice!! Psychedelic Stones.

I'm a sucker for mellotron.

thank you

thanks!

Omg u are killing it!! That visage song 😮‍💨

sweet! glad you like it

Jas

🤙🏻

Ooh. I really like this. I've never heard of Grant Phaboa. Thanks DJ Esoterica! Another one to add to the list.

you are welcome, new to me as well!

codeine!

PSA - I hope all Jersey residents voted !!!

yes, I did!

tx for the reminder!

@jas - only recently came to learn to origin of 🤙 https://www.theinertia.com/surf/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-history-of-the-shaka/

As a surfer (& runner, who have adopted it) I use it often

And I'm back

wow, cool randy

I went to the polling place wearing my Green Day "Revolution Radio" tour shirt (my Clash "know your rights" 1982 tour shirt was in the laundry)

Yay Randy!

"Punk rock is like the Mafia. Once you're done, you're done. Punk rock is not clothing or music. Punk rock is an attitude." - Joe Strummer

a'right, randy

Just got in this last 1/2 hour, and quite tasty sets Eso. Short but sweet for me, and I'll take that any day.. :) @Randy, The ingredients arent always on the wrapper. lol

sweet, roffle! catch you saturday

Great show, Esoterica! Really enjoyed it.

thanks mr. mont!

See you!

bye!