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The Sonic Bloom

Aug 25, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

veering toward punk, folk, country, funk and post-punk and don't forget glam!

yo!

r.i.p. dolly.

5:01 PM		Satan's Pilgrims Buggin' Out Satan's Pilgrims Siniestro Sp Records 2017
5:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:07 PM		Axis: Sova Blow Up Axis: Sova N Flowerage GOD? Records/ Drag City 2026 Chicago post-punk trio Axis: Sova announced their upcoming new album, Flowerage, set for release on October 23, 2026, via GOD? Records / Drag City, alongside the lead single "Blow Up."
5:08 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004 From 1971.
5:12 PM		Algebra Mothers Modern Noise Algebra Mothers Strawberry Cheesecake - Single Third Man Records 2019 Founded in 1979. Punk / New Wave band from Detroit, Michigan, USA.
5:15 PM		Twisted Teens Top Of The World Hwy No. 2 Twisted Teens N Florida Water Blues Going Underground 2026 https://pitchfork.com/story/twisted-teens-announce-new-album-florida-water-blues/ From New Orleans! And they rock!
5:18 PM		Able Tasmans What Was That Thing? Able Tasmans A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down Flying Nun Records 1986
5:20 PM		Sneaky Feelings Throwing Stones Sneaky Feelings Send You Flying Nun Records 1982 Founded in 1980 at the University of Otago by main songwriters and guitarists Matthew Bannister and David Pine, alongside drummer Martin Durrant and bassist Kat Tyrie.
5:24 PM		White Fence A Pearl Is Not a Diamond White Fence Is Growing Faith Woodsist 2011 Written by Tim Presley. https://sun-13.com/2026/04/27/white-fence-interview-hearing-certain-music-at-a-certain-age-galvanised-me-in-a-profound-way/
5:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:35 PM		White Gourd Be Moved By the Moon White Gourd N (To Walk in) Justice (Calls for) Strength 2026 https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/to-walk-in-justice-calls-for-strength
5:36 PM		Mekons Sad and Sad and Sad (Version) Mekons N Horrorble (Mekons vs Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) Fire Records 2026
5:40 PM		Garden Variety Stickler Garden Variety N Stickler - EP Numero Group 2026 https://gardenvarietypunk.bandcamp.com/
5:44 PM		Dur Dur Band Adigaa I dhalanrogey (You've Changed Me) Dur-Dur Band N Dur-Dur Volume 3 & 4 1988-1989 (Analog Africa No.46) 2026 The Dur-Dur Band was a musical group from Mogadishu, Somalia. The band was formed in the 1980s.
5:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:55 PM		Mink Stole What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry Do Re Mink Mink Stole 2013 HBD, Mink Stole!
5:59 PM		R.E.M. Gardening At Night R.E.M. Chronic Town - EP CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1982 44th anniversary!
6:01 PM		Saccharine Trust The Worm's Quest Saccharine Trust Worldbroken SST Records 1984 Written by Joaquin Brewer, Joe Baiza, Mike Watt, Tony Cicero. From wikipedia: "Saccharine Trust is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1980 by singer Jack Brewer and guitarist Joe Baiza. The band would frequently perform with SST labelmates Minutemen and Black Flag. However, Baiza described Saccharine Trust as the 'black sheep' of the SST roster."
6:03 PM		Angry Samoans Lights Out Angry Samoans Back from Samoa Nickel and Dime / Triple X Records 1982
6:05 PM		The Avengers Paint It Black The Avengers Avengers Devoted Ruins 1982 From SF! Formed in 1977.
6:09 PM		The Dils Sound Of The Rain Dils Dils Dils Dionysus Records / Bacchus Archives / Orange Sky / Hell Yeah 2001 https://www.furious.com/perfect/tonykinman.html Formed by the Kinman bros. in the 70s in Carsbad, San Diego.
6:12 PM		Wire Feeling Called Love (2006 Remastered Version) Wire Pink Flag pinkflag 1977
6:13 PM		Pere Ubu Cloud 149 Pere Ubu Terminal Tower Call Of The Void 1984
6:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:23 PM		Roxy Music Amazona Roxy Music Stranded EG Records 1973
6:28 PM		Mott the Hoople Threads of Iron Mott the Hoople Mad Shadows Rhino Atlantic 1970
6:33 PM		Mick Ronson Love Me Tender Mick Ronson Slaughter On 10th Avenue Lemon Recordings 1974
6:37 PM		Analog Dream Dystopian Analog Dream N The Shape of Us - Single Soundvsystem Records 2026 Analog Dream is a five-piece indie-rock and shoegaze band based in San Francisco.
6:41 PM		The Smashing Times Tuesday, Coming Into Time The Smashing Times This Sporting Life Perennial / K Records 2023 From Baltimore. https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com/album/bloom
6:45 PM		Alice Cooper Desperado Alice Cooper Killer Rhino 1971 Alice Cooper said this was about Jim Morrison, his friend who had died during the making of this album.
6:48 PM		Rufus Thomas Walkin' the Dog Rufus Thomas Walkin' The Dog Gusto Records 1963
6:50 PM		Roy Brown Saturday Night Roy Brown The Complete Imperial Recordings of Roy Brown Capitol Records 1958
6:52 PM		Aerosmith You See Me Crying Aerosmith Toys In The Attic Aerosmith P&D - Sony 1975
6:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:05 PM		ZZ Top Move Me On Down the Line ZZ Top Tres Hombres BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 1973 RIP Frank Beard.
7:07 PM		ZZ Top Heard It On the X ZZ Top Fandango! BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 1975
7:09 PM		ZZ Top La Grange ZZ Top Tres Hombres BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 1973
7:13 PM		James Gang Funk #49 James Gang Rides Again Geffen 1970
7:17 PM		Johnny Marr Ophelia Johnny Marr N The Age Of Everything BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2026
7:21 PM		Downtown Boys The City Begins Downtown Boys N Public Luxury Sub Pop Records 2026 From Providence.
7:24 PM		Liza Minnelli You're So Vain Liza Minnelli The Singer (Expanded Edition) Legacy Recordings 1972
7:27 PM		Wild Dog Rodeo Charging the Lighthouse Wild Dog Rodeo N Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 V/A Chapter Music 2007 https://wilddogrodeo.bandcamp.com/album/wild-dog-rodeo
7:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:37 PM		Arto Lindsay, Arnaldo Antunes & Davi Moraes Sem Você Red Hot + Lisbon: Onda Sonora The Red Hot Organization 1999
7:40 PM		The New Stan Getz Quartet One Note Samba (feat. Astrud Gilberto) [Live At Café Au Go-Go,1964] Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema Verve Reissues 2002
7:44 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:45 PM		Dolly Parton Why, Why, Why As Long as I Love Monument/Legacy 1970
7:46 PM		Dolly Parton Here You Come Again Dolly Parton Here You Come Again RCA/Legacy 1977 RIP Dolly Parton.
7:50 PM		Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers Islands In the Stream Dolly Parton Greatest Hits RCA/Legacy 1982
7:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:57 PM		Dolly Parton Jolene Dolly Parton Jolene (Bonus Track Version) RLG/Legacy 1974
7:59 PM		Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You Jolene (Bonus Track Version) RLG/Legacy 1974

Chat is archived.

hey

surf song was rad

Come back to Asbury Park, Satan's Pilgrims! I missed the 2018 Surf Music Festival.

thanks, mats, that is satan's pilgrims out of portland. great stuff.

agree! david. i was there. they are buddies of mine

not that i am a name dropper, that sounded lame. haha

own dat shit dj! buddies good in this world

algebra mothers !

oh yeah!!

I had more a macaroni art mom

Remember Asbury Park's Algebra II? https://algebraii.bandcamp.com/

haha mats

Hello Esoterica! Twisted Teens!

yo! marcus

i don't david - must check out.

Red Rockers also started out as a New Orleans Punk band

Were you at Twisted Teens' Crossroads show, Eso? 'Twas super-packed. I was lucky to have seen them in a small room in New Brunswick.

no i wasn't bummed, david...

Marcus rad! NOHC!

i heard teir gonerfest shows were legendary

*their

Mats: tip a cup to Johnny Thunders who played his last riff in NO

interesting i didn't know that mats re: red rockers

oh yeah, marcus

good evening, everyone!

Howdy Esoterica and everyone! Two Flying Nun bands!

Yes, Rob! Howdy

By any chance is Tim related to the most famous Presley who ever lived? (I, of course, mean Reg Presley of the Troggs.)

I was about to the simulation has crashed

say

yup i got ya:)

i do not think, david but who knows

David haaaa!

RIP Dolly! My mom met her in NYC, said she was super nice.

awww

mats, like just on the street?

I looked up Garden Variety to see if they were from the "Garden State" they're from Long Island and I assume Garden City

yeah, Dolly was filming DC Cab with Mr T LOL

I love DC Cab!

yeah valley stream new york marcus

i sthat long island?

yesssssss

sweet, love it, mats

Valley Stream is Long Island

i have only been to amangansett twice and once to easthampton when i was little.

Dur Dur Band!

You never went to Diddy's White Party?

DC Cab, must dig that one up :)

Love this

Even back i the 90's people knew to leave Diddy's Hamptons White Party at midnight

yeah it is great, huh, tyler?

so awful, marcus

So grassy.

Brassy* lol

The Mekons' June 7 show at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse sold out more than a month before.

i believe it, david

Hag in a black leather jacket?! YOU?! More like Super-Fox in a black leather jacket!

ha! sold! I'll take it:) hi T!

Teresa: the "hag" is not a reference to to woman's appearance but a comment on her friend group (rhymes with hag)

Aside from "9 to 5", the only acting I know Dolly for was the infamous 1984 film "Rhinestone" with Sylvester Stallone.

you mean specifically in john waters' film?

oh yeah i forgot about that , david

Back from Samoa!

yup!

let's goooo

Haizman's brain is calling

Dennis Worden's comic strip adaptation of that Angry Samoans song can be read here: https://www.wfmu.org/Comics/samoa1.html

This show is fantastic

aw thanks? Moi?

oh cool, david!

haha just read it

The most radical reworkings of "Paint It Black" I've heard are on Eric Burdon & the Animals' "Winds of Change" album (1967) and Eric Burdon & War's "The Black-Man's Burdon" album (1970).

need to check those out, david. eric burdon is ike the dick shawn of rock n roll.

love his theatrics

The Dils rerecorded that as a country song when they became Rank and File.

ah the mighty Pere Ubu

Angry Samoans!! Sach Trust!

I saw a production of "Ubu Roi" somewhere on the Lower East Side in the 90's. It's hard to believe its Paris premiere caused a riot in 1896.

Angry Samoans comic huwhat!!

dj have ye seen the Redd Kross doco? them MacDonald brothers are just bizarre LOL

not yet!! mats, i want to. i think i bought a copy?

got the incense, peppermints

where is that dang thing.

ha, yessss

Haaaaaaaa!!

is hiding

love the mcdonald bros.

You can watch it here for free, Eso: https://tubitv.com/movies/100054644/born-innocent-the-redd-kross-story

sweet, thx

david

David linkin us up!!

for sure

I think it was Jerry that did a fantastic show covering for you one night. Corny New Wave hits but he had amazing stories about meeting the bands many of which were at his 3rd St Jazz legendary store in Philly. Still have many records that I bought in the basement there. And I do enjoy the third hour of Jerry's Friday show.

I love Amazona so much! I picture a couple at a fine dining establishment, having a romantic dinner, when suddenly, they realize their champagne toast was dosed.

IConJohn! Loved his store.

oh i agree, T!

i can picture it.

Mark Ronson's dad

no they aren't related

Whoops you are correct and I am not!

but his mom did in fact marry mick jones

all good:)

What!

yeah foreigner

i guess he let him use his studio a lot

I'm back, looks like I missed some good 70s songs

Last year in a New Brunswick parking lot, I saw a NYC Oi band called Smashing Time.

oh yeah veering toward glam, rob

as i do

were tey good, david?

they

I remember seeing a while back a little remembrance of Glen Campbell with both

Alice Cooper and Dolly

oh sweet, G Jax.

I just found a cool picture of Alice and Dolly together at the rock roll Hall of Fame. I shed a tear today. I never do that for celebs. Only two other times have I.

aw i get it she was golden

David rad! New Brownswick!

I had the honor of working at 3rd st in the 90s - it was post Jerry though.

nice, amy lee!

Man Aerosmith was the shit back then. I’m so burnt out on them I could never purposely listen to them, but boy when I happen upon them like just now I realize how great they really were

G Jax - I'm the same so it surprised me how many tears I've shed. I'm a big fan, but still...has never been a factor w/prev celeb deaths

yeah, I don’t get celebrity worship in general, I guess. But I don’t know some about Dolly connected with me. Hell, she connected with everybody I mean, could anybody? Would it even be possible to not like Dolly Parton. I don’t know. But yeah, sitting on my desk at work today. I was like wow man I’m getting all misty.

That Alice Cooper song reminds me of this similarly titled track by The Eagles: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fPrAYhFOAKc

doesn't gibbons' voice sound like bob seger here?

The best people ever are born June 11. Frank Beard. And Me!!!! ha ha I didn’t know he was born the same date as me. Fantastic drummer ZZ Top was just another great band and largely because the drumming was so damn good.

happy belated, G Jax!

Thank ya

i agree dolly connected with everyone - what an angel.

That’s dusty singing by the way that ain’t Billy. Billy singing background.

right! thanks for correcting me, G Jax.

didn't dusty sound a little like seger?

i love seger's voice

this is one tight band

I do hear it on that song. He does sound a little Seger like

my brother ronnie love to sing this - he cracks me up haha

dusty’s voice was way more in your face than Billy’s. Tush is the big one. I love beer, drinkers, and hell razors that’s cool because they both trade off versus.

oh yeah - they trade off on heard it on the x too

i love that vocal styling

cheap sunglasses btw never gets old to me i love it

even with all the ariplay

Heard it on the X even better.

Dolly was just a powerhouse. She did so much beyond music.Side note- One of my fav interviews w/her was when the library of congress celebrated the 100millionth free book for her imagination library.

unrelated to the frank beard homage ha

oh i need to watch that footage, amy lee.

tx for letting me know

Speaking of James Gang, "Zachariah" is showing at Anthology Film Archives tomorrow:

https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2026#showing-61794

thanks, david! is that it? dolly?

I know - sorry (post-stroke, takes me awhile to think about what I want to say/type, so, usu off-topic once I figure it out!)

Funk 49 it’s such a great kegger in the woods song

yeah and summer, too

yeah, let me be a teenager in the 70s again

where you would have a keg in the woods

we had "the trees" which were in sandy river beds in east county SD

no one could afford a keg

we were Cherry Hill Marlton in the Pines. Everywhere was woods back then.

nobody any money we just all chipped in

oh yeah

i’d like to be young again, but I hate to be a kid today. Know what I know. Classifies as a kid today I wouldn’t know what I I didn’t know. That was a lot of words to say not much wasn’t it

and he makes no sense cause I dictated it and it came out wrong. Oh well.

I’m not a Smiths expert so when I saw the new movie “The Stranger” in Princeton, I was shocked to hear their 1979 song about the Albert Camus novel during the end credits!

ha, david

no i got it G Jax

My guess is if any one group of people can follow what you're saying through dictation....it's this chat

yes:)

Reading about the film "Zachariah" now, I just discovered it was cowritten by the Firesign Theatre and the screenwriter of "Wonderwall"!

wow interesting

This Wild Dog Rodeo track is absolutely nuts! I mean that in the best way! I love this fuzzy, scuzzy, groovy tribal sound.

I prefer the version of "You're So Vain" recorded by ABC-TV's Odd Couple (Tony Randall and Jack Klugman).

yeah a little bow wow wow

ha now i have to rewatch that, david!

Right! I didn't think of that but that totally tracks!

@David -- I thought I'd seen every Odd Couple episode -- probably multiple times -- in syndication but I don't remember there being a version of 'You're So Vain'! I must gotta find that!!!! WOW!!

hi eso!

howdy andrew!

welcome

the odd couple theme music gets stuck in my head every once in a while

ha oh yeah

He's trying to convince himself that he's better off without her but not really succeeding

"talvez" which he keeps saying means "maybe"

you speak portuguese, cool!

15 years in Brazil

sweet!

rosasolisdream spent some time in Rio during college so we have a good time chatting in Portuguese

that is so cool

I'm back, in time for some Dolly!

yes!

love this song

dj have ye heard Olivelawn cover Heard it on the X?

no i haven't Mats

Good??

I don’t think it was on TV, Teresa. Just on LP! https://discogs.com/it/master/1208234

Tis a good cover

i will listen

Mia: ghetto superstar copied this

thanks much

THIS?

mya

Like many, I learned of Édouard Manet's “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe” via its photographic recreation on the jacket of Bow Wow Wow’s first LP. More recently, I saw a 3-D recreation at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton Township!

islands in the stream she covered?

@ marcus

she used the hook and changed the words

oh ok

Lil Bow Wow

now i get it

they call it "hijacking" the song

yeah

https://www.remindmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/what-happened-to-kenny-rogers-roasters-1420x798.jpg OH WE ROASTIN'

oh cool, thx

Great Dolly block, dj!

Here's the sculpture: https://newyorklifestylesmagazine.com/articles/2016/09/grounds.html

great show!

JOLENE

Aw thanks, Marcus.

Thanks, Mats!

Appreciate it

Agree, great show, ty Esoterica!

I learned a few things, too!

Thx, Rob and everyone!

from Angry Samoans to Dolly! thanks dj!

yes! ha

how i do

you are very welcome

have a great night

thanks for all the fun jams!

thanks!

bye for now