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The Sonic Bloom

Sep 15, 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.

Hi!

2nd show of the season.

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:06 PM		Oog Bogo I Want You Around Oog Bogo Video Life / I Want You Around - Single Slouch Records 2026 The project started in 2020 as a solo, lo-fi home recording experiment by Kevin Boog https://bigtakeover.com/recordings/oog-bogo-video-life-b-w-i-want-you-around-slouch-records
5:09 PM		swing slow, Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi I'm Leaving It All Up to You Swing Slow medium 1996 From 1957, originally. Written by Terry Dewey and Don 'Sugarcane" Lewis.
5:12 PM		Robyn Hitchcock I Want to Tell You About What I Want Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Hitchcock TINY GHOST RECORDS 2017
5:15 PM		Alice Cooper Hello Hooray Alice Cooper Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits Rhino/Warner Records 1974
5:19 PM		Working Men's Club John Cooper Clarke Working Men's Club Working Men's Club Heavenly Recordings 2020 A band from West Yorkshire.
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5:31 PM		Love 7 & 7 Is (Live) Love Back On the Scene Charly Records 2006
5:33 PM		Roxy Music Do the Strand Roxy Music The Best of Roxy Music EG Records 2001
5:36 PM		Theatre of Hate The Hop Theatre of Hate Ten Years After Easterstone 1998 Founded in 1980 in London by Kirk Brandon.
5:39 PM		PORTABLE ROCK Golempolka Portable Rock Beginnings+5 SOLID RECORDS 2011 From Japan, founded in 1980.
5:43 PM		Flat Worms Into the Iris Flat Worms Into the Iris - EP GOD? 2019 From L.A.
5:46 PM		Wax Jaw Quickdrawing My Demons Wax Jaw N It Takes Guts! Born Losers Records 2025 From Philly! https://wax-jaw.bandcamp.com
5:52 PM		Iceage Catch It Iceage Beyondless Escho 2018 Band from Copenhagen, formed in 2008.
5:58 PM		BOYS LIFE Without Doubt BOYS LIFE Boys Life Numero Group 1995 Post-hardcore form Kansas City from the 90s.
6:00 PM		Psychic Ills Mind Daze Psychic Ills Hazed Dream Sacred Bones Records 2011 From New York, formed in 2003.
6:04 PM		Satan's Pilgrims Pilgrims Workout Satan's Pilgrims Frankenstomp: Singles, Rarities & More 1993-2014 Sp Records 2015
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6:12 PM		Harry Dean Stanton Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Omnivore Recordings 2014
6:14 PM		Garfield Akers Dough Roller Blues Garfield Akers The Best There Ever Was: The Legendary Early Blues Performers V/A Yazoo 2005
6:17 PM		Public Image Ltd. The Do That Public Image Ltd. End of World PiL Official 2023
6:20 PM		Big Boys Lesson Big Boys Lullabies Help the Brain Grow Touch and Go Records 1983
6:20 PM		Newtown Neurotics Newtown People Newtown Neurotics Beggars Can Be Choosers Razor Records 1982
6:24 PM		Government Issue Strange Wine Government Issue N Crash Dr. Strange Records 2025 From D.C.!
6:27 PM		Ty Segall Running to Nowhere Ty Segall N Chrome Drag City 2026 Dude from Laguna Beach, a talented dude.
6:30 PM		Night Beats Behind the Green Door Night Beats N Behind the Green Door - Single Suicide Squeeze Records 2025 Night Beats are an American psychedelic/garage rock band, formed in 2009 in Seattle.
6:35 PM		The Partisans No U Turns The Partisans The Partisans Captain OI! 1983 The Partisans are a Welsh punk rock band formed in Bridgend, South Wales, in early 1978.
6:37 PM		Chron Gen Mindless Few Chron Gen Chronic Generation Razor Records 1981 Chron Gen (short for Chronic Generation) are a British punk band, formed in January 1978 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England.
6:40 PM		Punishment of Luxury Golden Corsets Punishment of Luxury 7 - EP Lemon 1983 ormed in Newcastle, England, in December 1976 by Brian Bond and Neville Luxury.
6:43 PM		Magazine My Mind Ain't So Open Magazine Real Life Virgin Catalogue 1978
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6:52 PM		Zounds Can't Cheat Karma Zounds The Curse of Zounds! Broken Rekkids 1980 Zounds were an English anarcho punk/post-punk band from Reading, Berkshire, formed in 1977.
6:54 PM		Tuxedomoon Incubus (Blue Suit) Tuxedomoon Desire / No Tears Crammed Discs 1980 Founded in the late 70s, Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco.
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7:01 PM		The Brilliant Corners She's Got Fever The Brilliant Corners Heart on Your Sleeve: A Decade in Pop 1983 - 1993 V/A Cherry Red Records 2013 Written by Larry Eric Williams.
7:02 PM		Rose McDowall Tibet Cut With the Cake Knife Sacred Bones Records 2015 Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician who formed Strawberry Switchblade with Jill Bryson in 1981.
7:05 PM		Jim Reeves Adiós Amigo Jim Reeves The Essential Jim Reeves RCA Records Label Nashville 1994
7:08 PM		Freckle I Don't Know What I Need Freckle N Freckle GOD? 2025 Written by Corey Madden and Ty Segall.
7:11 PM		Hooveriii Where Do We Go? Hooveriii N Where Do We Go? - Single The Reverberation Appreciation Society 2026 From L.A.!
7:12 PM		Television Personalities This Angry Silence Television Personalities And Don't the Kids Just Love It Fire Records 1979
7:15 PM		The Electric Confectionaires Silver Silver Moon The Electric Confectionaires Sweet Tooth SONY BMG Catalog 2007 From Auckland. Nice brand of weirdness.
7:19 PM		Die Spitz Punishers Die Spitz N Something To Consume Third Man Records 2025 From Austin.
7:22 PM		The Bug Club Jealous Boy The Bug Club N Very Human Features Sub Pop Records 2025 The Bug Club is a Welsh indie rock band from Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Great Britain. Formed in 2016.
7:25 PM		The Chills I Love My Leather Jacket The Chills Kaleidoscope World (Expanded Edition) Fire Records 1985 The Chills are a New Zealand indie rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1980.
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7:33 PM		The Clean Stars The Clean Getaway (Deluxe 2016 Remaster) Merge Records 2001
7:38 PM		The Wedding Present Meet Cute The Wedding Present Valentina Scopitones 2012
7:42 PM		Blur Coffee & TV Blur 13 (Special Edition) Parlophone UK 1999
7:47 PM		Polvo Tilebreaker Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles Merge Records 1993 From Chapel Hill, NC formed in 1990.
7:51 PM		Cola Albatross Cola The Gloss Fire Talk 2024 Cola is a post-punk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
7:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:56 PM		The ER Band All Around the Street Corners L N All Around the Street Corners Petty Bunco 2026

Chat is archived.

hey

Bongo's! Still solid to this day.

Hey Eso!

Rofflelectic!

oh yeah agree re: the bongos

Magic instant, just add hippy. :)

oh yeah

and a beret

Love a beret!

me, too! I wear them

I have them... :)

We need berets in the online store for sure!

hi eso & roffle!

It is autumn now, that has happened. Hey Andrew!

hi Andrew!

Slow and gentle, sentimental

oh yes ha

and thx Eso and hi everyone!

hi rob!

Slow and gentle? No. Friendly, but never that! lol!

That's the cigarettes talking... lol

lol

Hello!

Hello, Inspector!

Good evening, everyone!

Hey folks!!! Mice are done; back to drawing cats

well alright! Hi, Randy

Hi @DJ Esoterica what was the feminist bookstore you mentioned during the back announce right after mentioning the flat worms band song Into the Iris? Thanks..

Wild Irisi I think it was form Claremont CA

Wild Iris

Sure that's not in Portlandia?

but I only see one by that name in Gainesville.

My MIL would alway mix up ppls ndmes - she called Harry Dean Stanton "Harry James Dean"

women for women only?

aww that is cute, randy

my lil would say things like bruce spring street, an honest mispronunciation haha

Women look after each other! I love a mom thing!

or Hershey Hawkins haha

I always thought it was cute

Hi Eso! Every time I hear the name Satan's Pilgrims, I just think of Satan's Helpers, the motorcycle club from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

oh right haha, Amy lee

hi!

Big Wee adventures! lol

oh yeah

Every. Time.

So smart and yet... I would ride with them! lol!

yes

Gov't Issue! yessssssss

hey mats!

more punk on the way

5 words of beauty, dj!

okely dokely

the classic punk beat from GI!

for sure

That's the wine list Mats! Gov issued wine lists are not on my bingo card.

May I see the wine list, please? @Roff

Ty Segal! Fuzzmaster 5000

If you have the clearance, we gots the wine list!

Ty and I were educated at the same high school LOL, but many years apart.

Roff I miss wine! I got one of them punk livers, fukn thing is busted

I love my punk liver Mats! I mosh pit the fuck out of it when I can!

Roff haaaaaa!

in laguna, mats?

@mats "Ty and I were educated at the same high school LOL, but many years apart." so were Lizbot & I - she was educated; I was just "there"

ha randy

Being the witness is improtant Randy!

I was "witness'd" mostly - Didja see/hear what randy did THIS TIME?

Esosterica, yep! Laguna Bch High School! Also Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters went there, RIP. Taylor was the nicest guy.

First boy in our school to dye his hair orange & second with a pierced ear

Randy M haaaaaaaa!

Randy nice

aw thanks for letting me know, mats. that is cool.

sweet, randy!

It's what I have seen, not the shitheads in homeroom. I don't even remember them.

It only recently occurred to me that all the guys I surfed with had really cute sisters; and they still are

I do remember those with hair

Randy good point

🖤

Esoterica, these early punk songs may summon the great dj Jen! Nice finds.

Beautiful sisters! Our friends had that over us.

yes I can see it, mats. not intentional but love to be compared to Jen! yes, great dj:)

dj, just saw yer blurb on Ty S in the playlist. Lol! Good description.

yeah thanks, mats

I love learning about punk nooks & crannies from wprb.

you and me both, mats!

@Mats, same here. I learn about things I sorta should have known and it's fun to hear it.

People learn best when they have fun doing it.

DJ thanks for the Laguna Beach shoutout! We are very proud of Taylor and Ty. And Rich Kids on LSD and Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath visited LB when they were making Volume 4.)

That is the game Mats!

Laguna Beach? Which one? Many in CA...

cool facts, mats

Roff the one and only! Just a bit north of those surfing punky misceants in Fu Manchu in San Clemente.

@Mats, Nuke worthy! I took a picture of my son and a one legged seagull with the San Clemente power plant in the background.

Too funny to pass up

San Onofre

Lower Trestles not far

Of all the guys & girls I surfed with, I'm the only one I know of that was in band(s)

And NO ONE in Art school surfed

Though we had a pair of teachers who had a shore house

Autobiography of a Yogi guy? Cool!

"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. "

Winona had a big brown beaver!

Pismo is cool too. I lived in SLO and it was just down the road.

I would like to check out The Madonna Inn sometime up near SLO

I was riffing on Laguna Lake Park next to Madonna Inn earlier. The rooms are built into the hill. I have never stayed there, but I went past it a bazillion times.

it is classic kitschy.- would like to take a gander

Speaking of HS - D'Wife just sent me a link to a cookbook of diner food by Scott Patterson- LUKE on Gilmore girls; he was a couple years ahead of me, and I was a few years ahead of Lizbot

Hi Esoterica, been listing most of the show but it was Hooveriii that lured me into the chat!

And we KNOW diner food in Jersey!!!

oh cool, IConJohn.

Hi!

wow, love the deep dive trivia. my daughter has been watching Gilmore Girls...Randy

I can't escape that Paris is a murderer on "How to get away with murder"

#SPOILER

Scott Patterson was a STUD baseball player!!!

what??!! wow cool

Love this!

cool! They are playing Asbury the 19th - I think Sea Hear Now

Hoover 3!! Bert Hoover! His defunct band Mind Meld were super good. Fuzzy and catchy melodies.

yes, mats!

https://mindmeldusa.bandcamp.com/album/mind-meld super good album, pre-Hooveriii

I get the BEST discoveries on WPRB!!! I think I'll work up something with an explorer (or a scientist?) to submit for the next membership drive --- with or without a cat? LOL

love that idea!

thx, mats!

sounds great, randy

Randy LOL re Big Lebowski

@mats - I SWORE he mentioned San Onofre in there, but nope

Gilmore Girls was great for all the music, book & pop culture references. And getting to hear XTC often..

@Esoterica, The Chills & The Electric Confectionaires songs were top-notch!

aw thx!

true, Amy lee!

hey, my daughter's birthday was yesterday!

she turned 18

amazing! Andrew! and George Korean's bday was yesterday too!

*Korein

my girl's middle name is lily

@amy Lee - if you get Lauren Graham's memoir "talking as fast as I can" on audiobook and play it at 4x speed, you can go back in time

This guitar riff sounds like "union city blues"

sweet, randy, I like Lauren graham.

yeah I can see that , heart that I mean, randy

* hear

See/hear/🖤 - it's all the same

andrewgtb HB to yer daughter!

Randy haaaaaaaa!!

yes happy birthday to your daughter!

Yes, happy Bday to your daughter, AndrewGTB!

And happy birthday George K!

happy bdays all around!

yes, yes!

Mine's Halloween - in advance 😉

nice! HBD in advance

We have a cruise booked which leaves Ft Lauderdale 10/31 -- not sure what the "fancy dress" situation shall be

We won't be home but the house WILL be decorated !!!

fun!

Happy Advance BD Randy

halloween is my fave

Nibe show tonight, Thanks Eso!

awesome, that is what I aim for, roffle

thank you

@Randy - ha! That works for my "adhd/add" brain. Or (I'm guessing pre-80's) what every teacher described as 'too talkative' & 'can't stay in seat'.

That's the stuff! Be well!

Guess depending on the cruise line, that means pants.

Thanks Eso & the always delightful & informative chat.

Thanks for stopping by, Amy lee!

you all inform me of stuff all the time:)

Polvo means dust in spanish. Nice selection, dj!

hey thx, mats

not to be confused with pulga.

Haaaa

haha

Thanks dj for the show. Very fun. Nice positive energy and lovely chatfolk.

Thanks!

Great show, ty Eso!

Appreciate you all:)

ty!

thanks eso!!!

thanks, Andrew!

good night!