Jon Solomon Wed Jan 4 with Jon Solomon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

I'm delighted to be back with you all tonight, chat. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Jon! Congrats on a wonderful marathon

Thank you for all you did to make it a success. Will discuss once my mic is live!

Happy New Year! Great to have you back :)

Greetings Jon, the marathon was a success

Thank you, Richard. Really appreciated you sending so many great new songs.

Heya TAndy! Thanks to you too!

I appreciated that Dan did a (great) Best of 2022 show today and there was so little crossover between his selections and mine.

Tub of queso. Trash can of chips.

Great marathon as always Jon! Tradition!

We are off and running!

Hey everyone!

Sebastian! Sir! Hello!

I had a request for you, actually. If you have audio of the first hour of the marathon the full recording I received is missing the first 5-10 minutes or so.

Could splice it together for sure.

Please don't be shy about your own 2022 favorites.

Right? Right?

Too many favorites for me to list from 2022

...yet there is still so much I haven't listened to yet!

Excited to be reminded what came out in 2022, I certainly can't remember!

yes. I recorded the whole marathon. I will send over a recording of the beginning so you have it complete!

DSM, going through a year of playlists was a trip. More than a few things I forgot slash could not believe came out in 2022.

happy that my obsessive recording of the whole thing will be paying off

It is appreciated.

Two fresh albums from last year that I can recommend to music lovers is Precipice by Dälek and Vat Gëlénva!!! by Trhä

The Dalek record I like everything I have heard from but I need to sit down with the whole thing.

I do love the approach to Noise their producer takes. Much different vibe than their older stuff pre-hiatus

Jon, emailing you a meme that sums up my 2022 music listening

Here's a wrinkle. This made Best of 2022 yet I didn't play it during a 2022 show because it came out so late in the year...

Like this a lot!!!

Is that the little Stereolab dood on the tape?

I'm a huge fan of Verity Susman's work with Electrelane and this seems to be headed in an equally compelling direction.

I was wondering that too, DSM

Yeah, this song was on a tape available at the show MEMORIALS opened for Stereolab in France.

Now it is "name your price" on their Bandcamp. Pick it up today and tell them you heard it on WPRB! Link in playlist...

nice!

I really liked Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis & Belladonna albums which is arguably a double album--- digitally it was 2 releases but I bought it as a double LP

This is so good.

oooooh, Jon. Will do!!!

I will give those / them a listen Sebastian.

Jon, i bought it after hearing a track on PRB, forgetting the DJ

Gotta keep the Desert Crusing delegation satisfied.

yeah this definitely bleeds over from the last show. it stinks like weed in here now

[but i'm not complaining]

The riffs, we must ride them.

I liked the Oren Ambarchi "Shebang" album, Chat Pile's "God's Country" and the reissue of Anthony Moore's "Flying Doesn't Help", but I'm starting to realize I mostly bought non 2022 stuff last year

Hello and happy new year Jon and everyone

good evening Rob!

Oh yeah this one wow ...

Happy Woosa Wednesday 2023!

This is some epic Ahab channel drift

DM, I have two of those on my list I believe.

Hi DSM! It's so much warmer than it was just 10-12 days ago

Hey Rob! Hey Ossy! Patrick is also present!

THIS IS EPIC!

I assume Ahab is missing this because she briefly ducked over to Valhalla to return something.

Got the same chalice from two different people for Christmas.

That was heavy... oops, not over

Might make the best of 2023 at this rate

Third of the way towards dopesmoker...

Now I can get out of the car and make dinner!

Be sure to drink out of the side of the chalice closest to you.

this Freddie Hubbard archival release is way good. who's the drummer on this?

Hubbard with George Cables on Fender Rhodes, Junior Cook on sax/ flute, Kent Brinkley on Bass and Michael Carvin on drums.

Wow

Rob, indeed! I was being active outside today in a thin fleece and even that was too much, was comfortably T-shirting in January!

We've been trying to go on a walk every afternoon around 4. I missed tonight's walk due to radio but apparently there were what looked like two glowing orbs floating over our lake.

thanks Jon. not gonna lying not familiar with anyone but Hubbard in that band, but they are tight!

This spring like weather great for shorts and socks, for the time being

Turns out it was not space creatures but actually a woman walking a pair of dogs with glowing collars on the far side of the water.

Hello Jon. Will your 2022 list be available somewhere in an actual list, for easy saving?

still probably space creatures

Hello, Kevin. I'll be posting each week's playlist on the site for this show plus on the WPRB playlist program.

keepingscoreathome.com is text-only. Collect each week!

This just keeps going and going and going!

Jon I really respect how you've archived nearly every single one of your shows and live sets at WPRB in the site. I even found Dr. Dog's performance in glorious .ram format

Thanks, TAndy. I have been "upgrading" the old live sessions after I rebroadcast them. There's a lot of stuff that needs a modern update but I'll get to it all eventually.

Shout out to WeWantSounds for this re-issue and so many other great ones like it (and unlike it) in 2022.

Jon! I am enjoying and looking forward to 3 shows of 2022. That Hammered Hulls cut was AWESOME. Have a great show!

WWS, Habibi Funk and Finders Keepers treated this night well year-round.

Kelly! The HH record is quite good but that one song is g.r.e.a.t.

Yeah, I was going to download an old performance off your site, then the day after you played it in HQ on the show!

Another one I found out about thanks to this show! The Freddie Hubbard live that is

"They go hard in the French paint on this one" is something I just said to my family while this was playing.

Ok... what is going on right now. I knew the Hammered Head thing reminded me of Fugazi, then I see that they're on Dischord (shocker) and now I'm seeing they have a 'MacKaye' in the band... I'm off to google up on this.

Thanks Jon! And I clicked the link you provided only to find your Full 2022 Xmas playlist!... and I thought I was done w/holiday music for the season :). Btw, this Freddie cut is killin'!

Alec MacKaye, Mary Timony, Chris Wilson and Mark Cisneros!

That's a who's who of what's what!

So Alec MacKaye is Ian MacKaye's bro.

Yep. He fronted Faith and Ignition.

At first I was like "If Minor Threat and The Fall had a baby" and then I was like "no... Fugazi!" But who cares, that song effing ROCKS.

I think my comparison was "Protomartyr with fewer adjunct professor tweed jacket elbow patches."

Both work nicely!

i was surprised how much Alec sounds like Ian on the HH record

I have not been able to listen to the whole Nina Nastasia record because of how sad the story behind it is.

I'll get there eventually.

I even checked the liner notes cuz i was convinced Ian at least did back up vocals on it

Happy New Year Jon and chat!! Hanukkah show and marathon both ruled.

Brian, there were two or three things on your Xmas playlist I didn't know I need to investigate!

Thanks so much.

Oh very cool. Curious which ones. I always mean to send along a few suggestions, but get busy. I will send over a few favs from 2022 in the next couple weeks.

I'll cross-reference when not on the radio.

the end revealed a super speed motorik beat

Weird Nightmare was a nice surprise in 2022. Wonder if anyone else feels the same way, but I dig it more than METZ.

Great job with the French there

Anxious like singer Amanda Palmer!

PINCH POINTS! One of my top releases for me as well as The Cool Greenhouse and Yard Act

Richard, all three on my list too (though I need to sit down with Cool Greenhouse in full ASAP).

Merci, Dan.

Brian, certainly not as abrasive as METZ.

Shout out to Pinch Points for their excellent image descriptions on social media. As someone who happens to be blind, they are excellent to read.

Anxious, when playing Pop Goes Perfection and I know the time is nigh

Hey Jon!

My favorite from 2022 is the Horsegirl "Versions of Modern Performance" and my wife's favorite is Dry Cleaning "Stumpwork"

Evenin' Jon! All in the chat!

That's great, Brian.

Rob, two real good records right there!

DSM, I could have gone outside in just a regular office-type long-sleeved shirt, but, I wore a t-shirt under said long-sleeved shirt.

Brian, what do they do with their text descriptions that makes them so great?

This one right up there w the Stayin Alive borrowing track you played last year or so. Love these things

I think that's on the Egyptian Disco comp, no?

Hurry Up "Dismal Nitch" is good too

had no idea Pedro the Lion was still an active thing

I missed this David Bazan/PTL release!

never thought about how PTL sounds kind of like Owen Ashworth

Would play it if I could, Rob!

The prior Pedro The Lion concept album about his childhood Arizona is perhaps my favorite record of his.

i thought the same thing, Pat. Definitely had a Casiotone/Advanced Base sound there

This next concept record about his childhood didn't bowl me over like that LP did but I like 2-3 songs on it a great deal.

I had never made that connection before but you're totally right.

Sorry, the prior PTL record was called Phoenix. Apparently he's doing five records about his youth?

do Sam and John usually get this techno sounding?

I don't think they've done a record before just the two of them.

never would've guessed who was behind this if i hadn't looked at the playlist

They’re very descriptive while still being succinct. A few examples: [IDs: 1. PP posing for a photo with their arms around each other in front of the view at New Year’s On The Hill. 4. Jord and Acacia smiling and holding up a PROCESS record from a fresh box. 6. Adam, Issy and Acacia smiling and hugging in the backseat of their tour van. 7. PP in front of the Music Vic Awards 2022 photo wall holding their award. 8. PP and their parents and Adam’s grandma posing for a group photo at Corner Hot

sounds like neither any tortoise nor any sea and cake i've heard but i'm digging it

Very nice, Brian. I've tried to be more conscious of using alternate text on the WPRB site when I add images.

"The album’s most expansive piece “A Yellow Robe” began as an improvised performance at Chicago’s Constellation in late 2021. Originally intended to be presented as purely improvisational, technical issues in the recording created an opportunity for the duo to step back to refine the sonics and employ finer details while retaining the narrative flow of the live performance. The resulting epic contains multitudes, from head-nodding throb to springy glitches and moments of euphoric bliss."

Thanks Jon, appreciate it

This boops nicely

I remember you playing this, and it seems like so long ago! Bleeps, bloops, and boops, certainly does bop!

I keep trying to type that it bloops and boops but it keeps saying it "goops" and it does not do that!

The recent Prekop solo records kinda remind me of this. Comma from 2020 is great and almost forgot he released The Sparrow in 2022 which I heard in full once this past year.

Love this

I remember this getting a nice reaction here when I played it prior and for good reason.

Always had a little love for this kind of progressive house, it's good music to chill to. Good vibes

From the fridge & freezer tonight: fried up some halved pre baked potatoes in the skillet w salt pepp rosemary. Ground pork/ chicken chili w beans n kale and other goodies in the nuke.

We had veggie burgers with all possible available condiments and a salad.

Still two New Year's Eve enchiladas up for grabs, perhaps my lunch tomorrow.

So glad we made big batches in Dec. Makes Jan a breeze

some homemade chilli leftovers from the freezer over basmati rice and cucumber slices on side

Nice. The hoagie talk during Desert Cruising certainly got me hungry.

Chili leftoverture always welcome

Sounds like solid dinners. Only 3:45 here. Tostadas in our future.

Same Jon. Craving the cured and pickled goods with crusty rolls now

Soba noodles, bok choy, tofu, red miso soup, soy sauce, chilli paste, a couple cold ones

I used some red chili mustard on mine.

So overdue for making a big enchi-sagna. Soon soon

is... this still Prekop?

Nicole made a whole baking dish full of them on NYE. Turned out great, have been enjoying one or two a dinner since.

The player is showing Hall & Oates.

Weird.

Solid meals for sure. Chili often tastes better the second time around I find.

I know why! Will text Mike now...

Funny I was listening to Hall Oates classic I can't go for that!

Yes, Patrick...double DOUBLE take!

This song keeps going in so many cool places

After 50 years, they're branching out

Hall & Oates & Prekop & McEntire.

Portobello "steak" au poivre with roasted broccoli and taters on the stove here..

Thanks for the soothing beeps, Jon!

@DSM, Slainte! 🍺

Playlist should be restored to normalcy momentarily.

Yep. There we go. Fixed!

GEE, I SURE HOPE EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR HALL & OATES IN 98 MINUTES OR SO.

Hall & Oates vs. Prekop & McEntire in a Falls Count Anywhere match!

Tag Team Champs belt is on the line.

Always in the mood for H&O, Mike.

all hall and quaker oats

I sure CAN go for that, hall quaker oats!

Quaker oats and imaginary cola

🍻 DTO!

lol Ossy

Dreams come true!

the other Philly hitmaker

alright - time to chill withKV - fits the rainy weather

Hall & Gävle Goats

Oats of the Hall Guardians Galaxy

Perhaps it is the circle I exist in but I did not hear people talking about this record as much as other KV LPs. Same for you?

Jimboo, that's a shirt waiting to happen (that will get taken down swiftly).

Decent reason to listen to records in full right here. Didn't connect deeply with this album overall but this song (track 12) got me good.

I trust you all saw THE GOAT DID NOT BURN.

Hall & Oates Method of Modern Love is floating around in my head.

I didn't see this KV release at all. Good song

So glad I’m doing Duolingo

Oh this is DELIGHTFUL

Mary! Hello! Thank you in advance for providing the future soundtrack to my dumb drive to north Jersey and back tomorrow.

Hello Jon! I hope you like Cobra, because it’s a whole hour+ on Cobra.

Is that movie as (non-Kurt) vile as I remember parts of it to be?

Can't wait!

Oh, it’s quite bad.

The film I mean.

Am I the disease or am I the cure? Help me out here!

Pretty sure *you’re* the disease. Really, all of us are. Cobra—and his state-sanctioned violence—is the cure.

Ok. Phew. Cure me, Cobra!

It depends on how cool your car is.

lol Dennisons

lol

Man, one of my favorite shows at Boot & Saddle was seeing Bodega with maybe 30 other people. It was so good.

Man, I miss B&S

fingers x'd for Hall & Oates

the Boot was a special place

Like She's Gone

Haven’t heard the whole Cool Greenhouse release either, however, based on the amount of times I immediately checked on-air playlists because of, “WOW. This sounds great!”, I’ll be surprised if it’s not a 22 fav.

I saw them with SAVAK and Gotobeds as a last-minute fill-in for...Hot Snakes?

They were the most Brooklyn band I had seen in ages but yet I love them.

Jon's always looking to go all alpha on the air. Perhaps his last song should be "Adult Education"

After I get off the air I'm driving up to the Doom Pantry to give ML a swirly.

lol

I read a great article about the place that replaced Boot & Saddle.

Ah, here it is.

https://www.phillymag.com/things-to-do/2023/01/03/solar-myth-jazz/

If you find the link, send it on, I’m curious

not sure how i felt about the chipmunky elements of that funk tune

I was supposed to go there last Wednesday for the first time but the pal I was meeting up with tested positive for COVID right beforehand.

David: AAALLVIN!

So, still no Solar Myth for me yet.

could maybe sing Voodoo Child over this pretty well

Hmm. I’m definitely interested in the emphasis on weird music. Will miss the food though.

DSM, yes, definitely.

it's not that different from the old B&S vibe wise though . i dunno if someone else owns the rights to the name "Boot & Saddle" but i i don't think "Solar Myth" is a good venue name (with all respect to Mr. Ra) especially when there's still the most beautiful neon sign in all of the city proclaiming its former name

"Hollywood" Hogan's ring entrance all but ruined Voodoo Chile for me.

Perhaps they should creatively adjust the sign and call the place BOO SAD.

Haha. good one, john! they have records and books for sale now though (I guess you pay at the bar?) That's a change. Some cool stuff, though I wonder who is gonna buy that $35 japanese repress of Miles Davis "You're Under Arrest" they have in the rack

and i mean "Jon"

I think it sounds like a great spot for a weekend afternoon hang.

From the article, it does sound like it has a very relaxed vibe.

omg I forgot about Hollywood Hogan!

A top listener-created moment of 2022 right here.

Y'all never cease to amaze.

Hallo Gallo!! I remember when you played this mix the first time!

also an omg forgot about this as well! And an LOL. Cheers JamesTotally!

JamesTotally is a legend for this

Totally!

I still dare WPRB to play the 10 hour Hallogallo mix some nut made

Or Lief Inge's "Nine Beet Stretch"?

Local 58's "Traffic Report" lite?

Andy, I need to do Nine Beet Stretch in full some (full) day

Haha I remember this

For Record Store Day 2023 I expect a 7" Nine Beet Stretch box set.

It is the size of a Hyundai Sonata.

We need Dopesmoker but time stretched 900% slower now

More like a pallet set, lol!

JamesTotally, thank you for making this a reality.

TURN LEFT

Torna a la izquierda (?)

Did anyone else end up in a mulch pile?

I forgot James put it on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/james-totally/hallogallo-turn-left-mix

¡Gire a la izquierda! ¡Gire a la izquierda! ¡Gire a la izquierda! ¡Gire a la izquierda!

10 more minutes until Lupica & Hall & Oates. Thanks everyone for making a fun evening exceptionally enjoyable.

I completely forgot about Moreish Idols!

Thanks Jon this was a fun time. Later everyone!

Awesome get together, Jon and have a great 2023!

Fun show, Jon! Shilpa Ray and Garrett T. Capps is in there for me also

Thanks jonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 💥💥💥

Thanks Jon!

@DSM no. I wound up in a Chat Pile

Thanks for the great set, Jon!

Thanks Jon!

Yeahhhhh

Top Flute!!!

FLUUUUUUUUUUTE.

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death Of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		Hammered Hulls Rights and Reproduction Careening Dischord 2022
5:15 PM		Danger Mouse & Black Thought No Gold Teeth Cheat Codes BMG 2022
5:17 PM		Memorials There Are Other Worlds Duophonic Super 45s V/A 2022 https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/there-ar... Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire).
5:23 PM		Earthless Death To The Red Sun Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons Nuclear Blast 2022
5:43 PM		Freddie Hubbard The intrepid Fox Music Is Here - Live at Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris 1973 WeWantSounds 2022
6:06 PM		Nina Nastasia Just Stay in Bed Riderless Horse Temporary Residence Ltd. 2022
6:08 PM		Weird Nightmare Searching For You Weird Nightmare Sub Pop 2022 Solo record by Alex Edkins from METZ.
6:11 PM		Set Break
6:20 PM		Pinch Points Reasons to Be Anxious Process Exploding In Sound 2022
6:23 PM		Hamid El Shaeri Dari Demou'ek Habibi Funk 018: The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) Habibi Funk 2022
6:27 PM		Pedro the Lion Teenage Sequencer Havasu Polyvinyl 2022
6:31 PM		Sam Prekop & John McEntire A Yellow Robe Sons Of Thrill Jockey 2022
6:55 PM		Kurt Vile Say the Word (watch my moves) Verve 2022
7:01 PM		Miquela e lei Chapacans Dizco rural Miquela e Lei Chapacans Finders Keepers 2022 Originally released in 1981.
7:06 PM		PLOSIVS Hit the Breaks S/T Swami 2022 Debut album from John Reis, Rob Crow, Atom Willard and Jordan Clark.
7:08 PM		Set Break
7:16 PM		BODEGA Thrown Broken Equipment What's Your Rupture? 2022
7:17 PM		Prophecy Betcha Can't Guess My Sign Mainstream Funk V/A WeWantSounds 2022 Originally from 1975.
7:22 PM		Tha Retail Simps Acceptable List of Games For a Socialized Human Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shots in tha Dark Total Punk 2022
7:24 PM		Mdou Moctar Imouhar (Drum Machine Version) Niger EP Vol. 1 Matador 2022
7:38 PM		JamesTotally Hallogallo (turn left mix) I asked if a listener could make this idea real and...someone did! https://soundcloud.com/james-totally/hallogallo-tu...
7:48 PM		Lime Crush Téléphone Timewaster Fettkakao 2022
7:50 PM		Moreish Idols Hangar Float EP Speedy Wunderground 2022
7:53 PM		Set Break

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"Best of 2022 (part one)!"

Favorite albums, songs, compilations, reissues and more from the just-closed calendar year. What did you love from 2022? Let me know in the chat!