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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The Sonic Bloom

Jun 9, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

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The Sonic Bloom
5:01 PM
Michiyo Yagi - Rouge
Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi
Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
5:02 PM
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5:06 PM
Lalo Schifrin - Main Title
Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin
Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:10 PM
Dexter Romweber's Infernal Racket - Romeo Is Bleeding
Dexter Romweber's Infernal Racket Romeo Is Bleeding Dexter Romweber's Infernal Racket
New Coat of Paint - Songs of Tom Waits Manifesto Records 1999
5:12 PM
Game Theory - 24
Game Theory 24 Game Theory
Real Nighttime Omnivore Recordings 1984
5:15 PM
Game Theory - Erica's Word
Game Theory Erica's Word Game Theory
The Big Shot Chronicles Omnivore Recordings 1985
5:19 PM
Les Louanges - Ne me quitte pas des yeux
Les Louanges Ne me quitte pas des yeux Les Louanges N
Alouette! Bonsound 2026
5:24 PM
St. Vincent - Candy Darling
St. Vincent Candy Darling St. Vincent
Daddy's Home Loma Vista Recordings 2021
5:27 PM
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5:33 PM
Vorhex Angel - Okie’s Song Pt. 2
Vorhex Angel Okie’s Song Pt. 2 Vorhex Angel N
Drain Soul Selects 2026
5:43 PM
Flower Girl - House of Shalimar
Flower Girl House of Shalimar Flower Girl N
Lux Flower Girl 2026
5:44 PM
Wipers - The Circle
Wipers The Circle Wipers
The Circle Rhino Ryko Records 1987
5:48 PM
Wipers - Romeo
Wipers Romeo Wipers
Outtakes (1979-1983) Zenorecords 2002
5:51 PM
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5:56 PM
Dark Surfers - Fading
Dark Surfers Fading Dark Surfers N
Falling Star - Single 5709685 Records DK 2026
5:59 PM
Dark Surfers - Falling Star
Dark Surfers Falling Star Dark Surfers N
Falling Star - Single 5709685 Records DK 2026
6:10 PM
The Endtables - Process of Elimination
The Endtables Process of Elimination The Endtables
The Endtables Drag City Records 2010
6:17 PM
The Lookouts - Outside
The Lookouts Outside The Lookouts
Spy Rock Road (And Other Stories) Don Giovanni Records 2015
6:19 PM
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6:20 PM
A. Savage - I Can't Shake the Stranger Out of You
A. Savage I Can't Shake the Stranger Out of You A. Savage N
The Loft Sessions - EP Rough Trade 2024
6:24 PM
Absolute Body Control - Is There an Exit?
Absolute Body Control Is There an Exit? Absolute Body Control
Lost / Found recordJet 2013
https://absolutebodycontrol.bandcamp.com/
6:28 PM
Sweepers - Broom to Dream
Sweepers Broom to Dream Sweepers N
Sweepers Abandon Everything Records 2025
From Philly!
6:30 PM
Basement - Oversized
Basement Oversized Basement
Promise Everything (Deluxe) Fueled By Ramen/Run For Cover 2017
6:32 PM
Automatic - Strange Conversations
Automatic Strange Conversations Automatic
Signal Stones Throw Records 2019
6:35 PM
Specimen - Indestructable (AKA Indestructible)
Specimen Indestructable (AKA Indestructible) Specimen
Indestructable - Single Posh Boy Music 1985
Specimen are a British band founded in the 1980s.
6:40 PM
The Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
The Magnetic Fields The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs Merge Records 1999
6:42 PM
Rosa Yemen - Larousse Baron Bic
Rosa Yemen Larousse Baron Bic Rosa Yemen
Rosa Yemen Celluloid 1977
6:44 PM
Terry Allen - Cortez Sail
Terry Allen Cortez Sail Terry Allen
Juarez Paradise of Bachelors 1975
From Lubbock - also a visual artist. His career spans may years.
6:50 PM
Television Personalities - This Angry Silence
Television Personalities This Angry Silence Television Personalities
And Don't the Kids Just Love It Fire Records 1979
6:53 PM
The Soft Boys - Kingdom of Love
The Soft Boys Kingdom of Love The Soft Boys
Underwater Moonlight Yep Roc Records 1979
6:57 PM
Liz Phair - Polyester Bride
Liz Phair Polyester Bride Liz Phair
Whitechocolatespaceegg Capitol Records 1998
7:00 PM
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7:07 PM
The Who - The Seeker
The Who The Seeker
Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy Polydor Records 1970
7:10 PM
Game Theory - Make Any Vows
Game Theory Make Any Vows Game Theory
The Big Shot Chronicles Omnivore Recordings 1985
7:12 PM
Widowspeak - If You Change
Widowspeak If You Change Widowspeak N
Roses Captured Tracks 2026
Widowspeak is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The band consists of guitarist and vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas.
7:17 PM
The Hobknobs - Dictionary
The Hobknobs Dictionary The Hobknobs N
Helmets Off THK Records 2026
https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com/track/dictionary
7:20 PM
Pink Anderson - Boll Weevil
Pink Anderson Boll Weevil Pink Anderson N
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1956
Reissue 2025.
7:23 PM
Vera Hall - Black Woman
Vera Hall Black Woman Vera Hall N
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1956
Adell Hall Ward, better known as Vera Hall, was an American folk singer, born in Livingston, Alabama. Best known for her 1937 song "Trouble So Hard", she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.
7:25 PM
Farius & Rolo Green - Neon Landing
Farius & Rolo Green Neon Landing
From the Start Enhanced Progressive 2020
7:28 PM
Lip Cream - No Rules
Lip Cream No Rules Lip Cream
Kill Ugly Pop Relapse Records 1986
7:33 PM
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7:33 PM
Liquid Liquid - Bellhead
Liquid Liquid Bellhead Liquid Liquid
Liquid Liquid - EP Liquid Liquid 1981
From 1981.
7:35 PM
Teenage Bed - Trompe L'œil
Teenage Bed Trompe L'œil Teenage Bed N
Pause Printemps Howlin' Banana 2026
https://teenagebed.bandcamp.com/
7:38 PM
Sean Solomon - Overdose
Sean Solomon Overdose Sean Solomon N
The World Is Not Good Enough Anti/Epitaph 2026
7:41 PM
Merwulf - Strike Gold
Merwulf Strike Gold Merwulf N
Strike Gold - Single Moodkiller Records 2026
From Portland, Oregon! https://www.merwulf.com/#about
7:44 PM
Skip Spence - Little Hands
Skip Spence Little Hands Alexander "Skip" Spence
Oar (Deluxe Edition) Columbia/Legacy 1969
7:48 PM
Alex Harvey - Hare Krishna / Willie the Pimp
Alex Harvey Hare Krishna / Willie the Pimp Alex Harvey
The Last of the Teenage Idols UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2016
7:50 PM
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7:54 PM
Alex Welsh - New Orleans Masquerade
Alex Welsh New Orleans Masquerade Alex Welsh
Vintage Alex Welsh Lake Records 2005
7:58 PM
Arlo Parks - Softly
Arlo Parks Softly Arlo Parks
Softly - Single Transgressive 2022
Chat is archived.
Esoterica (host) 5:07:33 PM
hi!
David Shortell 5:07:59 PM
Hi. Thanks for informing me of this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZM-GqEuq36/
michael gudgeon 5:08:27 PM
yeeeeeeeeee sup dj esoterica!
Esoterica (host) 5:08:49 PM
Hi David! Thx for posting here!!
Esoterica (host) 5:08:59 PM
hi, michael!
Mr. Mont 5:09:37 PM
I just popped on the livestream and heard the blue strains of a certain Dirty Harry theme. Nice timing!!
Esoterica (host) 5:10:29 PM
Mr. Mont!
andrew catastrophic boba 5:11:03 PM
hello esoterica and everybody
Rob from Maryland 🦀 5:11:05 PM
Howdy Esoterica and everyone!
Esoterica (host) 5:11:53 PM
Howdy andrew!
Esoterica (host) 5:11:56 PM
hi rob!
David Shortell 5:18:21 PM
The moral of this song: Never trust anyone named Erica!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 5:19:15 PM
These Game Theory songs are making me feel younger :-)
Esoterica (host) 5:19:43 PM
haha david, now you know that is not true!
Esoterica (host) 5:19:50 PM
me, too, rob!
David Shortell 5:24:13 PM
I recall the movie "Romeo is Bleeding" was a bit silly. Particularly the scene where Lena Olin tries to strangle Gary Oldman in a leglock.
Esoterica (host) 5:24:39 PM
haha that sounds like i should rent it
David Shortell 5:26:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYosrTMbpIo
Randy Marthins 5:30:15 PM
Candy came from out on the island
Carlos Ramone 5:33:12 PM
In the back room
Esoterica (host) 5:34:04 PM
yo, carlos!
Esoterica (host) 5:34:10 PM
hi, randy!
Esoterica (host) 5:34:13 PM
yup
David Shortell 5:35:21 PM
I just looked up the Velvet Underground song "Candy Says". I didn't know it was sung by Doug Yule!
Esoterica (host) 5:37:35 PM
wow!
Mr. Mont 5:47:59 PM
Was eating dinner and couldn't comment - but I can now: great show!
Esoterica (host) 5:48:30 PM
aw thanks, mr. mont!
jimbooooo 5:49:20 PM
Yay wipers twofer
Esoterica (host) 5:49:36 PM
hey jimboooo0
Esoterica (host) 5:49:41 PM
sorry typo!
Esoterica (host) 5:49:59 PM
yes my loves! - i love wipers
jimbooooo 5:50:39 PM
Yeoooo Eso 💥💥💥
Esoterica (host) 5:50:58 PM
woot!
Mr. Mont 5:52:21 PM
Nobody beats you guys for variety of shows and variety within shows. Always something interesting and a little outside my box. Love it!
Esoterica (host) 5:57:15 PM
thanks, appreciate you saying that, Mr. Mont.
Esoterica (host) 5:57:35 PM
it is why i am an avid wprb listener, too!
Esoterica (host) 5:58:21 PM
https://darksurfers.bandcamp.com/album/falling-star
Carlos Ramone 6:04:15 PM
Time has come today…Ramones version of course
David Shortell 6:07:05 PM
I know the the answer, but I can't use the tickets.
Carlos Ramone 6:07:24 PM
Pee Wee Herman ?
Randy Marthins 6:08:39 PM
I was thinking who actually HANDED the papers!!! Not, who were the plaintiff
Carlos Ramone 6:08:49 PM
Lenny..from Lenny and the sqigtones?
Amy Lee 6:09:12 PM
Oops. Took it back cause I can't go .
Esoterica (host) 6:09:13 PM
who had delivered divorced papers to the set of rosemary's baby in 1967
Randy Marthins 6:09:26 PM
"Was it .... SATAN??!!!"
Esoterica (host) 6:09:42 PM
ha
Esoterica (host) 6:10:00 PM
i didn't see you answered amy
Randy Marthins 6:10:37 PM
I just saw it on Svengoolie a few weeks ago, too; so I gonna recuse mysrlf
THE davephlegmball - David A. Read (Ralph Flemington) 6:11:44 PM
was he wearing brown?
Esoterica (host) 6:12:21 PM
somebody won!
Esoterica (host) 6:12:40 PM
congrats, michael y!
David Shortell 6:14:12 PM
Then after Mia finished filming, she went to Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi's Rishikesh ashram to hang for a bit with the Beatles, Donovan, Mike Love, etc.
THE davephlegmball - David A. Read (Ralph Flemington) 6:15:21 PM
was his prize brown? ;-) (play some Ween: pref. "Big Jilm")
David Shortell 6:17:19 PM
Then she stole André Previn from Dory Previn.
Randy Marthins 6:17:25 PM
Frank also HATED that haircut
Randy Marthins 6:19:56 PM
I often get Robert Evans confused with Maurice Evans (Dr Zaius)
Esoterica (host) 6:21:43 PM
ha!
Esoterica (host) 6:22:03 PM
randy, now i know that ain't true.
Randy Marthins 6:26:14 PM
Well, Maurice WAS in rosemarys baby, so ... I'm allowed
Esoterica (host) 6:26:56 PM
true true!! but i don't recall him in there the actor
Esoterica (host) 6:27:14 PM
maurice evans - was he a part of the evans?
David Shortell 6:27:17 PM
Rosemary's neighbor who jumps to her death early in the movie was played by Victoria Vetri, the 1968 Playmate of the Year who was later sentenced to 9 years for shooting her husband.
michael gudgeon 6:28:10 PM
this track rips!!
Randy Marthins 6:28:20 PM
A good trivia would be "when rosemary calls the actor who guy replaced, who was the voice on the phone?"
Esoterica (host) 6:28:54 PM
i forget - what?
jimbooooo 6:29:50 PM
🧹🧹🧹💥💥💥
Esoterica (host) 6:29:58 PM
or maybe email me if you want to keep it secret
Esoterica (host) 6:30:06 PM
esotericawprb@gmail.com
Randy Marthins 6:31:00 PM
@ David - I learned on Svengoolie, when rosemary meets her in the laundry room, she says "you look like Angela Dorian; the actress" and she says "I get that a lot" --- Angela Dorian was her REAL name
Esoterica (host) 6:31:02 PM
agree, michael!
Esoterica (host) 6:31:20 PM
wow, more interesting historical facts, david.
Randy Marthins 6:32:07 PM
Nah, it's too good to NOT to share; it was Tony Curtis on the phone
Esoterica (host) 6:32:44 PM
oh wow
Esoterica (host) 6:33:11 PM
oh wow, randy about the girl in the laundy room
Randy Marthins 6:35:01 PM
I highly recommend Svengoolie on the weekly - MeTV, if you have access (#802 on my Xfinity)
Randy Marthins 6:35:25 PM
Syndicated out of Chicago
Esoterica (host) 6:36:49 PM
i know it but haven't watched - will do - wild looking person
Randy Marthins 6:39:51 PM
Gwengoolie https://www.instagram.com/pinuppalmer
Esoterica (host) 6:40:12 PM
thx, randy:)
David Shortell 6:44:42 PM
In character: https://www.metv.com/images/svengoolie_images/SS_Gwen_2025.png
Esoterica (host) 6:44:54 PM
thx david
Inspector Callahan 6:57:58 PM
Hey Chatters! Can't believe it's Tuesday again already!
Francis 6:58:16 PM
hello hello all
Esoterica (host) 6:59:18 PM
hi francis!
Esoterica (host) 6:59:25 PM
howdy, inspector!!
Esoterica (host) 6:59:31 PM
indeed it is:)
Esoterica (host) 6:59:51 PM
i'm here all summer!
Inspector Callahan 7:00:19 PM
Awesome! 😎
Esoterica (host) 7:00:33 PM
:)
Inspector Callahan 7:01:37 PM
Wish it was an "endless" summer!
Esoterica (host) 7:07:58 PM
aw thx
Esoterica (host) 7:08:11 PM
me, too! i love the summer
David Shortell 7:51:53 PM
This is more irreverent than the Fugs' 1967 version of "Hare Krishna".
Esoterica (host) 7:54:33 PM
ha david
Esoterica (host) 7:55:25 PM
thanks, everyone:)
Rob from Maryland 🦀 7:56:23 PM
Great show tonight, Esoterica! Until the next time
Esoterica (host) 7:57:53 PM
Thanks, Rob!!!
Esoterica (host) 7:57:59 PM
indeed:)
Esoterica (host) 8:00:22 PM
bye!