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The Sonic Bloom

Jun 30, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Loads of fun with postpunk, punk, synthwave, country, showtunes, pop, powerpop and more!

Dude, where's my car key?

Howdy...

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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5:04 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:10 PM		Tsunami Slugger Tsunami Deep End Numero Group 1991
5:15 PM		Vashti Bunyan Jellyfish Vashti Bunyan Heartleap DiCristina Stair Builders 2014
5:18 PM		Youth & Jah Wobble Breaking Shells (feat. Hollie Cook) [Youth Meets Jah Wobble] Youth & Jah Wobble Acid Punk Dub Apocalypse (Youth Meets Jah Wobble) Youth Sounds / Cadiz 2020
5:23 PM		Will Butler Anna Will Butler Policy (Deluxe Version) Merge Records 2015 Will Butler is an Academy Award-nominated musician, composer, and former core member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
5:28 PM		Manos Hadjidakis Main Title: Never On Sunday Manos Hadjidakis Never On Sunday MGM Music 2008 From the 1961 Jules Dassin film, starring Melina Mercouri.
5:31 PM		Ferrante & Teicher A Man and a Woman Ferrante & Teicher All Time Great Movie Themes Parlophone Catalogue 1992 The main title from the 1966 Claude Lelouch film starring Anouk Aimee.
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5:38 PM		Tony Molina Meet The Author Tony Molina On This Day Slumberland Records, Speakeasy Studios SF, Olde Fade 2025
5:42 PM		Spleen United Pure Emotions Spleen United N Pure Emotions - Single Spleen United 2025
5:45 PM		Dälek Three Rocks Blessed Dälek Negro Necro Nekros Ipecac Recordings 2024
5:52 PM		SOAK death valley fridge magnet SOAK N death valley fridge magnet - Single 2026 Soak is from Derry, Northern Ireland. They were born in 1997.
5:57 PM		Marika Hackman Skin (feat. Laura Marling) Marika Hackman N Skin (feat. Laura Marling) - Single Chrysalis Records 2025
6:01 PM		Reg Owen I'll Follow My Secret Heart (from "Conversation Piece") Dream-Time Waltzes RCA 1962
6:03 PM		The Rabbits Bye Bye The Rabbits The Rabbits Mesh-Key Records 2022 Japanese band led by Shoichi Miyazawa.
6:09 PM		Not Only Bones I'm An Empty Dream's Keeper Not Only Bones Not Only Bones - cassette (1984) 2012 With its third release, Geheimnis Records is getting into the deep waters of the alternative sound of the Greek 80’s underground. Not Only Bones (the name is taken from the last paragraph of Nikos Kazanztakis’, “Askitiki”) consisted of two persons : Iannis Raikos (music & vocals) and Philippe Mignon (lyrics and background ambiance). They self-released two cassette tapes back in 1984 and 1986, which were far ahead of their time, having a unique sound, mixing contemporary dark synth sounds with avant garde and ambient elements.
6:12 PM		Deca First Frequency Deca Danza Meccanica Italian Synth Wave 1981-1987, Vol. 2 V/A Mannequin 2012 Deca is the musical "alchemist" (as he is known in Italy) Federico De Caroli. He has gradually moved from the spacey and melodic style reminiscent of Jarre and Tangerine Dream that dominated his early works to a more experimental sound, involving elements of industrial, noise, "musique concrete" and even Dark Ambient.
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6:22 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Holland, 1945 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Domino Records 1998
6:25 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Communist Daughter Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Domino Records 1998
6:28 PM		Endless Boogie Bad Call Endless Boogie Admonitions No Quarter 2021
6:32 PM		Don Caballero Schuman Center '91 Don Caballero Five Pairs of Crazy Pants. Wear 'Em: Early Caballero Chunklet Industries 2014 Don Caballero was an American math rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although the band has had numerous lineup changes with co-founder Damon Che being the only constant member, the band's classic lineup consisted of Che, Ian Williams, Pat Morris, and Mike Banfield.
6:35 PM		The Dickies Walk Like an Egg The Dickies The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (Expanded Version) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1978 Dudes from the San Fernando Valley.
6:38 PM		Dicks All Night Fever Dicks Kill from the Heart / Hate the Police Superior Viaduct 2012 From 1980. Dicks were an American punk rock band from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980 and initially disbanded in 1986. After the first breakup, singer Gary Floyd formed the band Sister Double Happiness, with drummer Lynn Perko, then later fronted a project called Black Kali Ma.
6:40 PM		Dick Dale & His Del-Tones 426-Super Stock Dick Dale & His Del-Tones Checkered Flag Sundazed Music 1963
6:41 PM		Dead Kennedys At MY Job Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist GoldState Music 1985
6:45 PM		Crime of Passing Off My Shoulder Crime of Passing Crime of Passing Feel It Records 2022 From Cincinatti. https://crimeofpassing.bandcamp.com/album/crime-of-passing
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6:55 PM		Crime Crime Wave Crime San Francisco's Doomed Superior Viaduct 1991 Crime was an early American punk band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band was formed in 1976 by Johnny Strike, Frankie Fix, Ron "The Ripper" Greco, and Ricky Tractor.
6:56 PM		Screamers Anything Screamers Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977 - EP Superior Viaduct 2021
6:58 PM		Sharon Van Etten Life of His Own Sharon Van Etten Leonard / Life of His Own - Single Jagjaguwar 2012
7:03 PM		7Seconds Satyagraha/Walk Together Rock Together (Live) 7Seconds 7Seconds Live in Chile @Arena Recoleta 2018 From Reno, founded in 1980. https://paperstreetlivesets.bandcamp.com/album/7-seconds-live-in-chile-arena-recoleta
7:09 PM		Charles Bradley Where Do We Go From Here Charles Bradley Victim of Love (feat. Menahan Street Band) Daptone 2013
7:12 PM		Rotary Connection Silent Night (1) Rotary Connection Peace Geffen 1968
7:18 PM		Floating Sméagol Floating N La Di Da Floating 2026 From Philly.
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7:26 PM		Zero Boys Hightime Zero Boys Vicious Circle Secretly Canadian 1981 The Zero Boys are an American hardcore punk quartet from Indianapolis, Indiana fronted by Paul Mahern that debuted in 1980.
7:29 PM		Ry Cooder All Shook Up Ry Cooder Get Rhythm Warner Records 1987
7:32 PM		999 Inside Out 999 Live and Loud Anagram 1988 999 are an English punk rock band, formed in London in December 1976. From 1976 to 1985, their line-up consisted of Nick Cash, Guy Days, Jon Watson and Pablo LaBritain.
7:36 PM		Guy Carawan, The Montgomery Gospel Trio & The Nashville Quartet We Shall Overcome We Shall Overcome: Songs of Freedom Riders and Sit-Ins Folkways Records 1961
7:40 PM		La Sécurité Deny La Sécurité N Bingo! Mothland 2026 French-Canadian dance band.
7:43 PM		The Survival Disturbance The Survival N La Onda De the Survival Psicodelia Mexicana 1971 https://munsterrecords.bandcamp.com/track/disturbance
7:46 PM		The Survival Cannabis Lady The Survival La Onda De the Survival Psicodelia Mexicana 1971
7:48 PM		Weird Nightmare Headful of Rain Weird Nightmare N Hoopla Sub Pop Records 2026 Alex Edkins (METZ) solo project. an exuberant blast of fun-as-hell, melodic indie rock that mixes equal parts Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, and Edkins’ own METZ-ian snarl
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7:54 PM		Gloorp Whatsapp Gloorp N Gloorp Life Jolt Music 2026 From Philly!
7:58 PM		Purling Hiss Digh High Purling Hiss Dizzy Polizzy Drag City Records 2014

Chat is archived.

phew!

hello, tuesday

dude wheres my car key got me out loud after that storty

story*

Is it just my car radio or was your voice echoing?

happy Tuesday!

haha

Hi, Riley, michael and David!

A friend of mine once dropped her husband off someplace without realizing that HE had her keys; which was ok while the car was running but once she stopped & turned it off ... you can guess the rest

Tsunami :-)

clean on online one, i sometimes hear echo but its almost always i just have 2 players open

it was at first because i had a radio on i the barge tat was a kittle loud. that is why I said hold on. unless it kept on echoing after

And hi Esoterica and everyone!

excuse typos, david, you the sense of what i am saying i trust

hey, Rob!

hey dj esoterica !

Hi Esso, I'm a year into a car FOB after 50 years of using a key. I could never get a plan on where to put the FOB when driving and a big meltdown in Delaware where I couldn't find the FOB and decided to drive back to Philly. Emptied most of the car to discover FOB way under the seat. I finally solved all problems by using a lanyard to create a FOB necklace. Like a referee with a whistle. Dorkey but it works.

hey Rob did your wife notice the general vibes crazy high today in anticipation for the game ?

nice tech iconjohn!

Dorky but smart, IConJohn, other members of my famiy do the lanyard thing!

I am gonna do it!

Jah Wobble !

michael, yes, the dragonflies were really flying around and appeared happy. Her group was only in a town to eat or drink water. It's past 11 pm over there now so as much as she wanted to watch the game, she went to sleep. Hopefully France fans won't wake her up

hey mats!

yes!

hahaah nice rob

Sup yall

y0y0 tandy

howdy, TAndy!

Quite the 𝓭𝓮𝓶𝓾𝓻𝓮 jam alert 🚨🚨🚨 right here

Sipping something with a tiny umbrella in the glass on the Mediterranean just sounds like a great idea.

Hi Esoterica!

What color is the umbrella?

I thought I missed sharing this master peace I gotta save thus gem

I dunno. Not sure it matters TAndy. :)

It matters! Blue always indicates the best flavor

I want to watch so many movies again, but there is just so much out there.

France trying reeeeeal hard for a goal right now...

TAndy! I will use that as my future guideline! Thanks for the heads up.

The Princeton cinema showed Kurosawa's "High and Low" last fall, around the same time as Spike Lee's version.

My ex lived in Chico and went to college for free! California was so awesome!

Youth of Killing Joke also worked with Philly Industrial band Executive Slacks.

It's the light blue, Roff. Dark blue is always blueberry but light blue is that blue razz we all loved since we were kids

I wonder what Jah Wobble thinks of the current touring version of PiL.

I'm in TAndy! Lets put those on the bar someday.

interesting question, david

david did i sound echoy the last break??

Reverb is a radio dj's friend.

.. thank you for Manos Hadjidakis

thanks, roffleaphonic!

you are welcome! Dá Bəng Gôu

and hi!

You always sound good to me. No worries here.

thanks, roffleaphonic:)

Yes, your voice echo persisted!

Mention of Dirty Harry reminds me I saw “The Eiger Sanction" featured on the cover of the current issue of "Cinema Retro". I believe it was Clint Eastwood's stab at a spy film. I wish it got a 50th anniversary theatrical release last year.

huh, will have to check it out, david

@david - "The Princeton cinema showed Kurosawa's "High and Low" last fall, around the same time as Spike Lee's version." one of my favorite Kurosawa films is "Throne of Blood" his version of Macbeth

da blud

Kurosawa movies are boss all day long.

sweet, randy - but i missed it wahhh

totally roffle!

He did a movie where a woman walked into a lake and drowned herself for honor. Powerful stuff.

chees, roffle, heavy - which film was that?

I don't remember! But I watched it when I was a teenager and it kicked my ass.

wow

i can see why

death valley fridge magnet resonates

@roffle - "He did a movie where a woman walked into a lake and drowned herself for honor. Powerful stuff." interesting take on #spoiler --- the ending of "a star is born"

my refrigerator can sometimes look like a death magnet

@Randy, I don't remember that Streisand film if that's the one. I saw Funny Girl. :)

Martin Scorsese played Van Gogh in "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams”. He spoke English instead of Dutch though.

i never saw dreams

heis one fast talker scorsese

like Hamlet script but backwards

a happy ending

That sounds like a good one. On the list! Thanks Dave!

That's why I seldom rewatch movies these days. There is just so much out there from years ago. It's impossible to catch them all.

so true

i never saw the fisher king - god?

the fisher king is a god. So is a turtle.

i meant good??

Don't tell anybody, rabbits are gods too.

@Roffleaphonic I enjoy watching movies I haven't seen in decades for a couple reasons. I've usually forgotten most their plots, and also to view it as someone much older that the younger me.

Excellent stuff. But will I rewatch it? Just dunno, but it is a good idea.

ok i will. i did enjoy rewatching towering inferno the other night

@iConJohn, I think that is sound. As a older person, it sure checks the boxes differently.

Towering Inferno? OMG just sign me up for Irwin Allen!

killer rabbits cut.. phew drew blud

France 2 Sweden 0 at minute 54

haha roffleaphonic - i like high and low culture and all in between!

thx for the update rob

Thanks Rob MD, I overdosed on 3 games yesterday on my boat. All my favorites lost. Was really hoping for Germany France on Saturday. Don't let me down France.

Looks like France will make it

iConJohn, bummer about your favorites. I was quite surprised by Germany's loss. For the record, I am not watching any of these games. I check Google periodically while reading or doing stuff as I listen to WPRB

Death Valley fridge magnet! I have seen those for sale in a DV gas station, 125 degrees.

Fifa = organized crime and grifters, just like Trump who they gave that phony FIFA peace prize too give me a break.

Sorry to be a bummer but they could take these soccer games and their $8,000 tickets and shove them on

Supposed to say up not on this is why we cannot trust AI

I wonder how much that grinning dick that runs FIFA makes a year

My "ha" was for mats

But I really loved the neutral milk hotel!

Okay I'll go back to listening quietly now

well that is something i can comment on - glad to hear, sean

From the 33 1/3 book series: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-9780826416902

i just don't watch FIFA or any soccer.

but we are all entitled to our opinions

sweet, i hear those books are great, david

I read the ones on the Pink Floyd and VU debuts and "The Who Sell Out".

and...? good?

Well researched. "The Velvet Underground and Nico" one was written by the late Asbury Park musician Joe Harvard.

oh, cool

thx

I used to love watching World Cup matches, but about ten years ago I saw/realized that the Cup had become waaay too commercial. I don't think I've watched a match since 2014? I still follow fitfully via the Web, just to get the final score

I heard the Dickies were the first L.A. punk band to appear on television. It was a sitcom starring Don Rickles.

ha i love don rickles

Who wrote this DK's song? Klaus?

it says it was written in part by darren henley nwho is dh peligro

idk it gives full credit to all the DKS

I saw the Dicks twice: City Gardens in 1985, and Maxwell's in 2006.

cool, david

i can't beieve i never saw the

them

Don Rickles? Wasn't he that cinema owner in Dirty Work? Fine actor indeed.

he made being mean a comedic art

He was great television, but I would love to have heard him in a club.

club blud

I hear you Rob from Maryland! I watched my 7-year-old grandson run around a soccer field this past Saturday and it was better for me than watching any World cup game.

Don played Crapgame in "Kelly's Heroes".

Kelly's Heroes is one i want to watch again. Such a dilemma.

Jeff mangum produced an out of left field masterpiece with aeroplane over the sea. There are a couple songs on there that touch me to the deepest part of my being, kind of like certain Jonathan Richman or Brian Wilson tunes.

me, too, sean, i love that album.

I appreciate Neutral Milk Hotel but the band I really like is the obscure Music Tapes with NMH member Julian Koster.

I will definitely have to check out music tapes.

oh i will have to listen to that - i don;t think i have , iConJohn

Daniel Johnston is another left fielder in music that I love. Some of these neurodivergent guys produce stuff that touch the center of your soul

Just saw Robin Hitchcock in an electric band kick ass in Jersey City a week or two ago. There's a fellow that acts like he's neurodivergent but isn't really...

i love daniel johnston

i love robyn!

He was fantastic! Check out the set list, I was hoping for man with a light bulb head or uncorrected personality traits, maybe Winchester... But right after the instrumental that opened the show From trains it became obvious they were there to rock

Forgot how excellent a guitarist is, being mesmerized by his words and Melody. And balloon man has been a brainworm since the show

i will def check it out, thx sean

Did I just hear a Christmas song in June?

These guys and their Christmas

Caroling the day away...

Is this Maya Rudolph's mom Minnie Riperton singing?

If only this showed up on the porch!

yes david

yes, samy haha

sammy

Minnie Riperton was on the first SNL. She had vocal chords to burn.

yes she did

I bought a Sarah McLaughlin CD in Boseman, MT because is said on a tab note from the shop owners that she had vocal chords to burn. Too funny to not use again.

Sarah McLachlan?

the singer of arms of the angel?

Maybe bad spelling here. lol

All about the puppies

lol

not laughing at the puppies i am lol-ing at your lol-ing

I want you to cry music. lol

yes for sure

i recall they played that angel song over and over again when jfk, jr. and carolyn died

Wow! Not angels in my book, but mob rules always wins.

yes

Thanks much Esoterica. Love to hang when I catch you. Be well.

Thx! Rob:)

You, too!

Ty for today's show, Eso! Have a great week!

and bye everyone

There are no good byes here Rob. More of a see ya later thing. :)

Are Golden Apples more precious than Silver Apples? https://discogs.com/artist/15444

idk if more precious, but they are good

bye everyone, stay tuned...

see you in 2 weeks!

later everyone! I'm off to listen to & watch a video about thrush songs that a friend has made

sweet, rob!

See ya later... The world will wait just like it always does. :)

yup, bye:)