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The Sonic Bloom

Sep 8, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.

hey!

howdy

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
5:02 PM		Artificial Peace Artificial Peace Artificial Peace Flex Your Head Dischord Records 1982
5:04 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:08 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:12 PM		Viv Albertine The False Heart Viv Albertine The Vermilion Border The Cadiz Recording Co. 2012
5:18 PM		Half Japanese Beyond Compare Half Japanese N Adventure Fire Records 2025 rip david fair.
5:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:21 PM		Half Japanese My Concentration, Oh No Half Japanese Loud Fire Records 1981
5:22 PM		Half Japanese Roman Candles Half Japanese Charmed Life Fire Records 1987
5:25 PM		Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse On Mars To the Rescue N Spatial, No Problem. Domino Recording Co 2026 A unique and brilliant collaboration between the legendary dub/reggae pioneer and German electronic production duo Mouse on Mars (aka Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma). Lee "Scratch" Perry's last ever official album project before his passing in 2019. Recorded in 3 days at Mouse on Mars' Paraverse Studio in Berlin in 2019. Lee, Jan and Andi conducted a revolving cast of musicians and collaborators throughout the complex's different rooms and spaces.
5:30 PM		Alice Coltrane Stopover Bombay (feat. Pharoah Sanders) Journey in Satchidananda GRP 1971 Journey in Satchidananda is the fourth studio album by American jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, released in February 1971 on Impulse!
5:31 PM		Kontexte Dizziness N Dizziness - Single 2026 Kontexte is a four-piece indie rock, post-punk, and no wave band from Nantes, France, consisting of members Clara, Liza, Laure, and Laura. Their debut album, Hello World, is set for release on October 2, 2026.
5:34 PM		Hurl Four Feet to Infinity Hurl A Place Called Today My Pal God Records 1996 Forged in the North Hills of Pittsburgh in 1992 by Matt Jencik, Mat Daly and Dave “thrash” Brunger, Hurl was a pioneering emo/post-rock/math rock band.
5:38 PM		Michael Hurley I Stole the Right to Live Michael Hurley Ida Con Snock Gnomonsong 2009 Michael Hurley died last year. He was part of the Greenwich Village scene. He was also a cartoonist and a painter.
5:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:48 PM		Fruited Planes Out of Reach Fruited Planes N Dismal Nitch 2026 https://fruitedplanes.bandcamp.com/album/dismal-nitch These folks are great. From Rock'N'Roll band from Portland, Oregon. Seth Bender (Marzipan, Pernicious Knifs), Scott Derr (Monoshock, Terminal Wasteband, The Drags), Jason Willmon (Mouth Painter, Barry Walker Unit) and Michael Henrickson (Jackie-O Motherfucker, Evolutionary Jass Band, Eat Skull).
5:51 PM		THUS LOVE On The Floor THUS LOVE All Pleasure Captured Tracks 2024 https://thuslove.bandcamp.com/ Queer postpunk from Brattleboro, VT.
5:55 PM		The Body The Ebb and Flow of Tides in a Sea of Ash The Body N Master, We Perish (Expanded) Thrill Jockey 2026 https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/master-we-perish-expanded
5:58 PM		Minutemen Paranoid Chant The Minutemen Paranoid Time - EP SST Records 1980
5:59 PM		The Golden Dregs John (feat. Al Cologne) [Revisited] the GOLDEN DREGS N John (Revisited) [feat. Al Cologne] - Single Joy of Life International 2026
6:03 PM		Jack Jones Alfie Jack Jones The Impossible Dream Geffen 1966
6:05 PM		Porridge Radio Circling Porridge Radio Every Bad (Expanded Edition) Secretly Canadian 2020 From Brighton, UK founded in 2015.
6:08 PM		Bruce Springsteen Meeting Across the River Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Columbia 1975
6:12 PM		Richard Dawson & Circle Cooksonia Henki Weird World 2021 Born in '81, such a great musician, from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
6:18 PM		Adrian Younge Number One Adrian Younge N Afro-Disco Makossa - EP Linear Labs 2026 L.A. producer, composer, arranger.
6:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:27 PM		Wussy Teenage Wasteland Wussy Attica Shake It Records 2014
6:31 PM		Prince Phillip Smart & Johnny Clarke Trying Man (feat. Augustus Pablo & King Tubby) N Dubplates & Raw Rhythms From King Tubbys Studio 73 - 76 (feat. Augustus Pablo & King Tubby) Reggae Library 2025
6:34 PM		Dave Edmunds Girls Talk Repeat When Necessary President Records 1978
6:37 PM		Viagra Boys Creatures Welfare Jazz YEAR0001 2021
6:41 PM		Ikebe Shakedown Not Another Drop Ikebe Shakedown Kings Left Behind Colemine Records 2019 https://ikebeshakedown.com/pages/about
6:45 PM		Jungle Fire Comencemos (Let's Start) Jungle Fire Tropicoso Nacional Records 2014 https://junglefiremusic.com/
6:48 PM		Orgone Lies and Games (feat. Terin Ector) Orgone Chimera 3 Palm Records 2024
6:51 PM		Liza Minnelli Rent Liza Minnelli Results Epic 1989 Written by Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe. Yes, The Pet Shop Boys!
6:59 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:01 PM		Ibex Clone Nothing Ever Changes Ibex Clone All Channels Clear Goner 2023
7:05 PM		Dead Moon Fire in the Western World (feat. Fred Cole, Toody Cole & Andrew Loomis) [Unreleased Live Track] Dead Moon Black September B/W Fire in the Western World (feat. Fred Cole, Toody Cole & Andrew Loomis) - Single Voodoo Doughnut Recordings 2015
7:08 PM		The Sleeveens My Pretend Boyfriend The Sleeveens N National Anthem Goner 2026 From Nashville! https://thesleeveens.bandcamp.com/
7:11 PM		Slippers Castaways Slippers N Slippers 08 Perennial / K Records 2026 From L.A.! https://slipperssss.bandcamp.com/
7:13 PM		Powerplant Dungen Powerplant People in the Sun Dreamland Syndicate 2019
7:16 PM		Mod Lang Fool In Love Mod Lang N Borrowed Time Just Add Water Records 2026 From Detroit. https://modlangdetroit.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-time
7:18 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:22 PM		Dale Crover Harvest Moon/The Bit Dale Crover N Get Yer Ba-Ba's Out - EP Joyful Noise Recordings 2026
7:31 PM		David Fair Sharky Parker's Market David Fair I'll Be Moe Thick Syrup Records 2009 rip david fair.
7:35 PM		Imperial Teen All Over You Imperial Teen N All Over You 2026 Imperial Teen is a San Francisco–based indie pop group made up of Roddy Bottum, primarily on guitar/vocals; Will Schwartz, primarily on guitar/vocals; Lynn Truell, primarily on drums and backing vocals; and Jone Stebbins, primarily on bass and backing vocals.
7:38 PM		Doug Gillard Parallel Stride Doug Gillard N Parallel Stride Dromedary Records 2026
7:41 PM		Moses Boyd Criticise (feat. Amber-Simone) Moses Boyd N Songs For Sinners 2026
7:46 PM		Scott The Hoople Original Mixed-Up Kid N Spain Capers - (2026 Version) 2026 https://scottthehoople.bandcamp.com/album/spain-capers-2026-version Scott Mccaughey from The Young Fresh Fellows lovingly collabs with Morgan Fisher of Mott the Hoople and covers MTH songs.
7:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:54 PM		Dead Famous People Barlow's House Lost Person's Area - EP Fire Records 1986
7:58 PM		Sleep Have Spacesuit Will Travel N Hempispheres 2026

Chat is archived.

hi!

Hello Esoterica!

hi amy lee!

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hi mats!

lol just in time for the start (almost) of spooky season

thx mats

David Fair is gone?! Say it aint so.

yes, sad to say

i think he passed away aug 30

just reading about it. Brilliant dude.

oh yes

SCRATCH! Yesssssss

yup!

heyy there!

howdy! andrew

Did you see the Highland Park Outdoor Movie Theater's screening of "Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King" Saturday night?

no? arrrggghh

did you, david?

David S that sounds beyond rad

totally

i wish i'd known but i was in the pokies anyway. i miss stuff

that's gonna change dammit

I only saw it when it opened at the Film Forum in 1993. Then I ran east on Houston Street to see Half Japanese play at the original Knitting Factory.

sweet sounds like a time

Thus is great!

i think so too, thx, amy lee!

@Amy Lee & @Esoterica -- I love The Body too! Sooooo noisy!!! Also -- Hello to my fellow Bloomers near and far!

nice, glad you like

Minutemen!!

yo, for sure! Mats

Hi Esoterica! I see that I missed Artificial Peace. And Minutemen.

When I saw Shellshag recently, I spoke with the drummer Jennifer Shagawat about the documentary “Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits” that she produced. I was surprised that she never heard of the 2013 Joanna Hogg movie “Exhibition” that Viv Albertine starred in! Tom Hiddleston also acted in it (his 3rd film for Hogg), while riding high on his “Loki” stardom.

great cover image of that Minutemen

And hi Mats Teresa Amy David Andrew

David S are the Slits from New Orleans? I saw a doco about a punk OG in New Orleans but couldn't recall their name.

sup Rob

hey there, rob!

dang yes you missed both

got some more good stuff ahead tho!

the slits are from uk

Mats, no, the Slits were English

nice thanks

hi, Dá Bəng Gôu

RobMD ah thank you.

The singer of Porridge Radio reminds me of the singer of King Woman! Does anyone else hear that too?

I'm thinkn of New Orleans punkband The Sluts LOLOLOL

The Slits were an English group that toured with the Clash a couple of times. Viv's boyfriend was Mick from the Clash.

Hi Rob - any Lark Sparrow sightings?

hey T, idk king woman, admittedly - now i need to listen

sounds intriguing

This is a faaaavvvv Springsteen for me! Thx for playing!

it really tells a story

love it

with crackles, sorry

never apologize for crackles, dj! Love some rice krispies snap crackle pop!

Hi Amy, I did see the Lark Sparrow yesterday after I turned off Dan B's Laborwave show and drove over to its location. And I made it back in time for myshka's shoegaze show

Nobody's reported it today though, so maybe it's a one day wonder

ha great mats!

re: crackles

Now that copy of Born to Run has seen a lot of plays! Some serious surface noise.

My wife was singing along to the Springsteen song, so it might be one of her favorite Bruce songs

Rob nice!

it's def one of mine, rob

fave springsteen songs

I think Mike Lupica once referred to "love crackles" when he was playing vinyl?

I saw a reformed Slits at Maxwell's in 2008. Ari and Tessa were the only original members present. The new blood included Sex Pistol Paul Cook's daughter Holly.

I feel like every indie filmmaker, works their own version/interpretation of 'meeting' into their films at some point.

Nice, David! And Ari died a couple of years later :-( I never did them, sadly

Subconsciously or not

totally amy lee

even tv - sopranos

Did Springsteen sing about any particular river?

no but he talks about the city on the other side so i am thinking hudson??

idk

Cool Rob. I'm a lazy birder. No matter how rare or occasional a sighting may be, I don't make any special effort to see it.

ha rob re: love crackles

LOVE CRACKLES

haha yup

Gonna request some early Buzzoven on vinyl -- with extra crackles -- from Lupica

extra love crackles

Never heard that Wussy track before. Really great...

howdy david, thanks!

I agree

welcome. to the chat:)

Big ups !

You're good, Amy. Enjoy birds in a manner that works for you! One day you'll find your own rare bird

:) mats

big ups to you

That Wussy song was great!

And it's great to hear "Girls Talk" :-D

aw thanks - hope dave edmunds is ok - he just turned 82 though with a post in april. but he suffered a cardiac arrest in july 2025.

like the wussy song, too

Ikebe Shakedown!

yo!

Evening es

Think we share a collective core memory of listening intently to a record for the first time. The smell of vinyl taken out of the sleeve, placed on the turntable, needle ready to drop. Not realizing the world that's about to open up. It's hard to imagine without the crackle.

howdy, os!

i cannot agree more, amy lee.

well said Amy Lee

totally

Hi Eso, enjoying the show, reading the chat.

Sweet, IConJohn! Thanks

Howdy Es! Been enjoying the show, as it was my soundtrack from cutting the grass to going on a walk around the neighborhood with my old man.

Nice, TSndy

TAndy

Thx for another great show Eso!

thx amy lee!

thx everyone!

chris brokaw played with like 5 different artists at dromfest!

Thanks for this great show, Eso! Until the next time

even consonant did a reunion set

omg, andrew! yes i thought i saw posts - love him - had chris on my show

thx, rob!

Til Tuesday

i remember that interview!

oh, cool, andrew

he is so sweet

thank you dj, cool & eclectic sounds

thanks mats

bye for now:)

thanks esoo! my hands were full preparing dinner

i couldnt chat :(

you are very welcome - andrew, thx for coming by

bye, all