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Jon Solomon

Apr 23, 2025 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.

4.23.25

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:11 PM		Set Break
5:14 PM		Parts & Labor Rest Constant Future Jagjaguwar 2011
5:17 PM		The Charmels As Long As I've Got You Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles 1959-1968 V/A Rhino Atlantic 1991 So that is where the C.R.E.A.M. hook comes from!
5:19 PM		The Bats Loline N Loline 2025
5:24 PM		El Hadra Abul Gheit Gheitaniya Zar Rec 4 Zar: Songs for the spirits JuJu Sounds
5:44 PM		The Hard Quartet Six Deaf Rats The Hard Quartet Matador 2024 Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White and Emmett Kelly.
5:50 PM		SAULT S.O.T.H. N 10 2025
5:56 PM		Kustomized Fingertips We'd Really Appreciate That, Too Recorded live at The Empty Bottle on June 28, 1996.
6:00 PM		Set Break
6:08 PM		Generation X Wild Youth Perfect Hits (1975 - 1981) Chrysalis 1999 Originally released as a single in 1977.
6:11 PM		Chimex G. Udensity And His Afrikan Band Okpoko Na Azo Eze Nigeria Special Volume 3: Electronic Innovation Meets Culture And Tradition 1978-93 Soundway 2024
6:20 PM		The Ministry of Bad Ideas End of an Empire End of an Empire Premiere! https://upwardlycreative.com
6:28 PM		Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken Strummed Strings String Songs Debacle 2021
6:38 PM		Unrest Light Command N Perfect Teeth 4AD 2025 30th anniversary expanded reissue.
6:43 PM		Bosq Alode (feat. Kaleta) Love and Resistance Ubiquity 2018
6:49 PM		Cold Court Twin Twin Local.
6:51 PM		Set Break
7:00 PM		The Snow Fairies 30:05 Live on WPRB https://www.discogs.com/artist/683528-The-Snow-Fairies
7:30 PM		Set Break
7:35 PM		Germ House Final Touches World's A Chore https://germhouse.bandcamp.com/album/worlds-a-chore
7:38 PM		Chaba Amina Kindi Ebatal N Sweet Rebels - The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Rai V/A WeWantSounds 2025
7:44 PM		Highlife Motion Pictures Motion Pictures Neil Young cover.
7:47 PM		Acid Mothers Reynols Kicking Air Bricks Vol. 3 VHF 2024

Chat is archived.

Shortly, I'll be on the radio.

wacky Wednesdays

📻🎶

Very odd!

THERE we go.

The export channel out of my mixing program completely went d.e.a.d. I did a couple full restarts and here we are. HELLO!

It was working as recently as 15 minutes before the show. Ghosts in the machine.

yay! HI!

Onward / upward / etc.

The pope must die!

Movie, 1991

Is that from one of the Naked Gun films?

No Ghost in the machine nor bug shall keep our mustachioed hero from proffering forth the ROCK!

I think it was in such bad taste it only played for a week

GW, good to see you here.

Now that I've looked up the poster for The Pope Must Die it is instantly familiar. Robbie Coltrane!

Jon you are the wizard of the radio

Thankfully this wizard is not just a crazy old man.

C.R.E.A.M.

I had no idea where that beat was sampled from until recently!

Listen my brother you were born to be on the radio. May the blessings of the Buddha be with you

You're too kind. I'm just glad to be on the radio tonight, period.

love the new The Bats single! music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-8qpGLXfxo

I haven't watched that yet but the song is grand. Incredible they've had the same lineup the entire time.

Now you got me thinking about Passolini’s movie Arabian Nights

Fantastic film

we have entered Interzone

Heya Matt!

Not sure I've seen that, Mochi.

A little possession cult music for your Wednesday night...

The film is visually stunning shot on location in places Americans can’t visit like Iran

Sudan

I'll put it on my list.

yoyoyoyoyo yoyo yodelly odee hoooo

Jimbooooooooooooooooooo∞

somehow I missed The Hard Quartet last year! great lineup on it!

pavement rats

Mark Ibold of Pavement played in Spectre Folk for a while. Saw em share a bill w Lee & the Dust. Amazing. Spectre Folk live at Soupcon Salon 7.30.25!

Where is Soupcon Salon?

Bridge St Lambertville, behind Bucks Coffee. They're touring w Mountain Movers!

Oh very nice.

Wow Part & Labour too. Saw them at demerest hall at rutgers nb '05. Cool band

Mem of Ex Models played in their "country band" on that bill

I know I saw Ex Models at a two day fest at Rutgers around then but perhaps it was earlier in the 2000s.

Yes with the Thrones!

Apparently what I was thinking of happened in...2002?!

https://www.wrsufm.com/shorttime/2000/2002/images/2002_05_04_cinco_de_secret_festival_0007.pdf

But yes, Thrones!

Wow ty for the ephemera! So many familiar folks & Art here.

Richard, it took me a while to listen to the Hard Quintet record in full. Not all of it hits, but that song sure does.

Wow! Southwest Burrito & Curmudgeon advertised,, two other show spots! The spinach Burrito was tops!

Happy birthday week, Jon!

And yes, Generation X

Now I wanna hear wild youf dub

HB week! 🎂

Oh thank you both. Was Saturday.

Pickled Eggs, both places are missed in different ways!

Totally! I miss both places

Curmudgeon was incredibly supportive of local musicians

And HB Jon!

Thank you, sir.

Happiest (quite belated) Birthday, dear Captain Solomon! May your birthday week be filled with love, fun, adventure, and more delicious freebies from local businesses! Here's to a sublime year at your new age too.

Jon, End of an Empire was GREAT! But that link is not to the song. Any other way to get a copy of that?

Teresa, you're the best. If only a certain coffee chain would honor the free drink I was owed (but could not redeem) during Passover.

David, that was a premiere so I don't think it is available anywhere yet. The artist sent it to me to play on WPRB first. But watch their site and hopefully it appears there too.

"My X-mas Groundhog Day" was a premiere during the 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show.

Thanks, man. Happy Birthday.

If I see it go up I'll do my best to share accordingly.

Also, thank you!

Happy Birthday, Jon!

The kind wishes keep coming. Thank you, Marcus!

It was a pretty chill birthday, capped off with a lovely meal my daughter made and a documentary.

Cold Court has a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HybhogfW5KM

I always love the cantina bit in the Asylum Street Spankers' version of Higga Digga Doo

Thank you, Marcus.

Send that to me when I'm not on the radio please, Tyler!

I probably heard it on wprb, so I won't be surprised if it's already on

Oh okay i can email a link if that's easiest

Please do. Easier to cross-reference that way!

Hey Jon, just want to check in and say this has all been good music for gardening to.

Thanks, Mary! Good day for gardening, I expect.

It’s so gorgeous out, I’m annoyed I have a day job.

I have much of tomorrow off (in theory) and I hope to take advantage.

But some of my Thursday involves getting a relative's car inspected and that car doesn't start at present so perhaps I'll actually be stranded in a DMV parking lot instead...

Nothing says a day off like other people’s car maintenance. Bonne chance!

So true. Fingers crossed.

I'm liking The Snow Fairies. Too bad I was taking a walk during the first 20 minutes or so of this set.

N.J.O.K.

True true.

R.I.O.K. too

Hope it was a nice walk, Rob.

Thank you Jon, from the bottom of my heart!!!!!!!!

It was, Jon. I saw a robin carrying nesting material, some nice dogs, and it was overall very pleasant

Daniel, people really dug the piece. You should put it online ASAP!

Will do. Much appreciated

Rob, I saw a comically tiny dog on a recent walk that made my day. It was like watching someone walk a guinea pig.

Jon, for your Star Wars set: the Imperial March performed byDJ Skratch Bastid using only cuts and scratches https://youtu.be/ekgpZag6xyQ

I think I have that one but please email me a link if you don't mind!

Have a good evening, all. DJ Slayer is up in moments!