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Jon Solomon

Apr 24, 2024 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Jon Solomon

For those of you keeping score at home, it is me Jon Solomon, heard every Wednesday night on 103.3 fm WPRB...including this one! Requests? Please email me or chime in through the listener chat, champ.

4.24.24

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:09 PM		Wipers Over the Edge Over the Edge Zenorecords 1983 For Commie Francis.
5:12 PM		Jalwal, Annie & Geerasak Klug Tum La Thai? Dai!: The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground Finders Keepers 2016 Chicago cover?
5:16 PM		Kinski The Party Which You Know Will Be Heavy Alpine Static Sub Pop 2005
5:24 PM		Harold Land Choma (Burn) Choma (Burn) Mainstream Records 1971 Soon to be reissued by WeWantSounds.
5:34 PM		Landowner Landowner Plays Dopesmoker 666% Faster and with No Distortion
5:45 PM		Troupe Ecole Tudu Bili Manane (Barmo) Oyiwane Sahel Sounds 2018
5:48 PM		The Ex Prism Song Turn Touch and Go 2004
5:54 PM		Set Break
6:01 PM		METZ Never Still Again N Up On Gravity Hill Sub Pop 2024
6:06 PM		Super Onze Session pour Yehia le Marabout \| Face B Session pour Yehia le Marabout The Takamba champions of the Niger bend.
6:37 PM		MEMORIALS Precious Liquids II N Centre Pompidou EP 2024 New EP by Verity from Electrelane and Matthew from Wire. "Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in Paris earlier this year to create a piece of music in response to an artwork of our choice from their collection. We chose Louise Bourgeois’ 1992 installation ‘Precious Liquids’. This intimate and darkly poetic work ended up inspiring us to create five new tracks for this cassette."
6:43 PM		Black Sheep The Choice Is Yours A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing Island Mercury 1991
6:47 PM		Outer World The Drum the Beat N Who Does the Music Love? HHBTM Records 2024 Ex-Dahlia Seed / Positive No.
6:50 PM		Population II Le Serpent Serpent Échelle Bonsound 2024
6:54 PM		Eleventh Dream Day Bomb the Mars Hotel Beet Atlantic 1989
6:58 PM		Set Break
7:04 PM		TK Webb 33:45 Live on WPRB https://mexicansummer.com/artist/tk-webb/
7:37 PM		Set Break
7:41 PM		The Feelies Fa Ci-La Crazy Rhythms Stiff 1980
7:43 PM		Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena Flaming Cherries Jubilee at Antoine's West Kensington Three Lobed 2022
7:51 PM		Wrekmeister Harmonies Coyotes of Central Park We Love To Look at the Carnage Thrill Jockey 2020
7:55 PM		Hallelujahs Christmas Out of Season Eat Meat, Swear an Oath Black Editions 2022

Chat is archived.

Opening the chat now, going on the radio at the top of the hour...

Hello Jon, hello everyone

Hey hey!

GOLD LEADER!!!

Brian D!

looking forward to listening to the show !

Thanks, Frankie. At the least it should be "on it radio."

Angus MacInnes as Jon "Dutch" Vander (aka Gold Leader). Also seen in Atlantic City, Superman II and of course... Strange Brew

Hi Jon! Hope the music makes you feel better

Donating makes one feel like a Gold Leader (that stays on target and does not get shot down by the evil Sith Lord Vader)

"I mostly just stayed in and listened to the radio..." - I resembled that quote just about every day 2020 - 2021

Being on the radio certainly helps, Kelly but I'm struggling here! Weird stuff. Might call for an Emergency Bath post-show.

Good to see you in the chat!

Emergency Bath is opening up for Gold Leader yep. Doors at 8

Big fan of Gold Leader. Glad to see Angus MacInnes is still with us!

I had that same thought as I was lookin roun de webz!

I think someone I tangentially know met him at a convention recently?

They had his hockey card, see..

Sitting in the parking lot of our practice space listening to this excellent song AGAIN

Ha!

I hope it makes you feel better!

ooo band pracketice... I am departing soon for that. a certain radio show makes the Wed eve traversings of the Bucks Burbs very tolerable

BAM get well soon! Cooking up some Tylenol gumbo for ya

I suspect not drinking coffee the past two days is another factor.

Thanks, chef!

Now Thai cover of the best Chicago song, I will never get to practice

OK, Mavi Isiklar has some serious competition.

Yay - this song! Thanks Jon for keeping it fresh

Luk Thung forever. Love these comps

Andy, was I supposed to let you know when WPRB got something in the mail from you? Because we did. Thank you!

Shredz

Awesome!

this rocks

Real "bring that beat back" payoff for this one.

Howdy howdy

Good evening, Rob!

I finally am hearing Dopesmoker, maybe?

Yes, I did send this to Captain Ahab as soon as I learned about it...

In very non-distorted cover form, yes.

Haha this is cool

I assume she is amused?

I believe so. Almost like Parquet Courts covering Sleep?

Huh. (Goes to look up the band Sleep)

This is really great! It does sound like Parquet Courts covering Sleep (-- I bet PCs are kicking themselves for not thinking of it themselves... )

My buddy Ike sent it to me a couple days ago.

Not sure how he came to discover it, though.

Good Evening Jon & Co.! @Jon -- Hope you feel better soon. I'm in the midst of a really cruddy cold that starts in the chest and then travels to the nasal sinuses. Blech!

Thank you, Teresa. I seem to have a bunch of stuff happening at once. Thought perhaps it was all because I mowed the lawn / trimmed the edges yesterday but usually when that happens I'm better soon thereafter. Today has sort of been a slow roll downhill.

Yeah, the peak allergy season stuff doesn't help any! I've been taking the DayQuil/NyQuil equivalent by Mucinex for the last couple of days and that has kept it in check somewhat.

What I didn't expect today along with my headache, if I may speak freely, was all the epic burping.

You are not alone! That happened with my son Julian's version of the family cold too. His became a much more straight-forward upper-respiratory thing on day 2 or 3.

Landowner! Old Connecticut Money! Never met a fellow Landowner fan 🥰

I only just made their acquaintance.

I hope that you feel better soon, Jon and Teresa

I used to do some epic burping in Atlanta when I was fond of the beer. 🤣

Jon-- Old Connecticut Money by Landowner is rad. Jittery & postpunky.

@Rob from Maryland -- Thank you! <3 @Matty -- Are Landowner from ol' CT? They're really fun!

Teresa great question, Idk. I think they are on the bandcamp if memory serves.

If only Sleep knew at the time what an impact Dopesmoker would have! An hourlong song made in secluded Mendo County, CA really made a splash.

Dare I say this is anthemic https://landowner.bandcamp.com/track/old-connecticut-money

Ohi

Ojai, Ca. The Ojai vampire 🧛

Wednesday innit Tandy

TAndy, sorry to miss you on Saturday!

Yayaya. Woke up too late for Sleep, but just in time for new METZ

metz were ferocious at underground arts Saturday

Oh nice! I saw some friends post photos from NYC. Crowd was going wild.

Yesssssss. I love ferocity.

Happy to report my head is clearing.

AAARGH completely forgot about that show...

Enjoying this music from Niger. Jon have you heard Nihiloxica? Ugandan drum/dark ambient group.

I have not!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/29/nihiloxica-uk-uganda-tour-visa-restrictions-interview

Oh chit thanks Jon! I have not read any press on Nihiloxica yet. Love The Guardian (usually).

Interesting stuff. I'll have to listen.

Super Onze reminds me of the nomadic musics recorded/found on Saharan cellphones. 👍

Indeed.

Speaking of Dopesmoker, this is a jam! Need a map a la Dopesmoker 😂

It is about 0.5 Dopesmokers (will check my math).

Haaaaaa! There's dark math and then there's dope math

It is a shade under 0.5 Dopesmokers.

Black Sheep! 🔊

Hey, Richard!

Hello! Sounds great, Jon!

Thank you, sir.

Eleventh Dream Day!

Hope your respective Wednesdays are going nicely.

Hi Jon, it's been awhile since i've tuned in but digging this song

Glad to have you on board, Em Boro.

you can call me Em :)

(the chat function requires a last name lol)

You got it, Em!

Correction from earlier: Seems this was engineered around the time Webb's second record for The Social Registry came out?

how do artists get chosen to play for wprb?

You mean live sessions?

yeah!

DJ interest / matching dates on the schedule / engineer availability. Back when that set was taped I used to record a band a week. Was not sustainable!

Sometimes labels reach out about getting bands in, but it is really up to the respective hosts.

that makes sense, and holy cow, a band a week?!

For a couple years there? 2004-2006 was a busy stretch.

that has to an insane archive of live sets omg

For me now it is more situational.

Close to 300!

i'm in grad school for archiving right now, and that sounds like such a fun collection to organize

I've been trying to make sure it is all accounted for the past couple of years.

a wprb live vinyl would go so hard too

WPRB does have a stalled reel-to-reel digitization project some grad student could potentially tackle...

someday... this is my first semester so I'm still learning a lot!

Ha! Nice.

Appreciate you catching the show again. Check in anytime!

Great show today, Jon. Thank you!

Thank YOU, TAndy. Heading home to rally!