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Jon Solomon

Jun 18, 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.

6.18.25

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:05 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		ANDEMIC Owner/Operator N Humble & Glory 2025 Album out Friday!
5:14 PM		Blackman Akeeb Kareem Oya A (Eje Ka Jo) Peace and Love Baks Gold 1984
5:18 PM		Water Damage 012220 Demo 012220 https://waterdamageatx.bandcamp.com/album/demo-012... Thanks for the bumper sticker, Neal.
5:48 PM		The Dirtbombs Underdog Ultraglide In Black In The Red 2001 Sly Stone cover. RIP.
5:51 PM		Tallawit Timbouctou Side 2 Takamba WhatsApp 2018 EP Beamed in directly from Timboucotu, Mali.
6:03 PM		Bitterviper Bird of Prey Beaten Back N Bitterviper Blue Chopsticks 2025 Bitterviper is Nikos Veliotis, Taku Unami, Sarah Hennies, and David Grubbs.
6:14 PM		BEEF Spell Il Manzo EP Goodbye Boozy 2024
6:15 PM		Set Break
6:24 PM		Upper Wilds Love Song #6 Venus Thrill Jockey 2021 Win tickets to see Upper Wilds, Last Legs, Samuel S.C. and St. Lenox at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse in Metuchen, NJ this Saturday night!
6:29 PM		Nina Nastasia Happiness N Songs for a World of Trouble 2025
6:31 PM		Émile Zener Contraluz I (Corrente Tellurica) Contraluz Critique of Everyday Life 2023
7:24 PM		Engine Kid Stitches R Angel Wings Revelation 1994
7:29 PM		Rocky The Jacket Rocky Lulu's Sonic Disc Club 2023 Xanthe Waite (Terry, Primo) and Raven Mahon (Grass Widow, Green Child).
7:32 PM		Haruo Chikada & Vibratones Sofa Bed Blues Tokyo Glow V/A WeWantSounds 2022
7:36 PM		NERVES Empty R Glórach 2023
7:40 PM		Set Break
7:47 PM		The Bug Club Blame Me N Very Human Features Sub Pop 2025
7:51 PM		Gareth Liddiard & Rui Pereira Space Meets the Floor Bong Odyssey 2020 Pre-Drones recordings from 1993-1998.

Chat is archived.

Radio approaches from the distance.

Like a summer storm. :) Hi Jon!

Hey hey, Roffle!

We'll see if that summer storm arrives while I'm on-air tonight...

howdy

Hi!

Just a few rain drops landing in Philly at the moment.

Hi Richard

Hey everybody! Looks like a BIG Summer storm about to roll through South Jersey and cancel playoff deck hockey....

Just the Fax ma'am

It's gonna get wild sky later Parr. Love it.

Alright, how do we have here...?

Richard! Roffle! ParrScream!

The usual suspects

Present and transmission receiving.

Subject to change.

We had storms dropping 1 to 2 inches (or more) in a single hour roll through the DC/Annapolis/Baltimore area two or three hours ago. Right now some blue sky is showing. Tomorrow may be a repeat of this afternoon

And hi Jon and everyone

Wow, Rob! Hello!

Glad you could make it, GW.

Rando thought, squall would be an okay band name.

Jon, in light of the chance of a repeat of this afternoon around DC, I postponed the 24-mile one-way drive to my wonderful dentist to a morning next week, which currently predicted to be rainless

That seems wise.

i am amused beyond belief that i thought for a brief second that this is what andemic sounds like now

They've gone in a new direction.

And Jon, what pray tell is that bald purple man at the top of the playlist?

hey now.

Funny you should ask, as I was just making sure I posted that image at the correct width.

what did your daughter play on the pie-annie?

It is a sculpture from the Grey art gallery at NYU. Took the photo in "portrait mode" to see what would happen.

Hey Jon! Hello everyone! Win-win for me if hockey is cancelled, I get to listen to the entire show.

Let me see if I can look up the artist.

Dale, she played Darth Revan's Theme from the game Knights of the Old Republic.

Waza. Man when I listen to Deirdre & Jon's show I feel my IQ go up. Great stuff DJs!

Hello, MRCS!

have to look that up.

Rob, here's more about the exhibit.

https://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/exhibition/anonymous-was-a-woman-the-first-25-years/

WATER DAMAGE TURN IT UP NJ DE PA EARTH

Rona Pondick (AWAW 2016), Magenta Swimming in Yellow (detail), 2015–17, Pigmented resin and acrylic, 14 x 17 x 17 in., Private Collection, Boston, MA.

Check out the Water Damage bumper sticker listener Neal Markowski made! Now proudly displayed at The Barge.

That WD bumper sticker! Lol

a minivan too LOL

tho I would take WD more for Hydrox peoples

Limited edition "Stuff actually has one F" sticker. Since re-pressed without the typo.

Neal made these without getting the band's OK initially but now they're bringing a stack with them on tour...

I like this Neal feller instantly

I believe you are familiar with his work! Same guy who did the Big Black Xmas songs and the holiday rework of Hex Enduction Hour.

nice droney vibe.

we in da drone zone

Quality high concept dude.

High concepts done by live humans are needed in our society

We do seem to be a tad short on higher functioning humans currently.

Lol Roff well said

WPRB FOREVAH and Robo DJ we love you, too

I wonder sometimes if a Robo DJ rebrand is in order...

ROBO_Head got some chops indeed.

Anthropomorphizing the electron?

It's an interesting sculpture, Jon

And thanks for the exhibit info, Jon!

Hi Jon! Just a quick log in to register extreme approval. And now back to my stupor.

Thanks for breaking stupor for us, Alex!

My goto was to think it was ballistic gel after watching too many YouTube videos Rob.

Robo dj made me cry one time I shall never forget. Very beautiful stuff it played.

Water Damage is great, and the perfect band name for today's rain

Roff LOL I love those videos. Ballistic gel is super easy to make.

Rob, it was a great exhibit. My favorite piece was one made up of discarded strands of cassette tape turned into a map with headphones so you could listen to the found audio with information on each location in New York City.

https://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Grey-Museum_23-copy-960x1294.jpg

sometimes i imagine a song is about to wrap up but Jon looks over and his producer is gesturing for him to stretch the song out

Jon that sounds like a Christian Marclay approach

@Matt, Yeah, sometimes ROBO just goes there. Had a lot of good input me thinks.

@Roffle, ballistic gel? *Does search* oh yikes

...or the Disintegration Loops dude

@Jon, reading about the cassette tape piece is making me smile

we are but sentient ballistics gel

@Rob, Mythbusters got me hooked. :)

@Patrick, my producer keeps making the gesture.

Can you start this over? Need to check out that superfluous drum fill from another angle.

Roff I had a drink with one of the Mythbusters dudes in San Francisco. He was very supportive of a nonprofit I volunteered for. Nice guy.

What if I told you it DID start over? Twice?

Hey, Jimbooooooo!

jon gimme 7 more feet of flange stat

Jon the taffy gesture LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Jon I'ma need some saltwater melon phaser on this part here

This was our Sunday https://brandywine.guide/

jon's producer? Fralinger.

that's a small-batch salt water taffy joke

All of these captions could be Don Caballero song titles, Randy!

"Why what's the matter with Gladys?"

"Could I get out of a jam easily with this?" 

"Delivering the groceries at 138 beats per minute."

We are 138

We were surprise how large her work was considering how small they were printed

"Your architect must be a genius!"

Only one of these is a real song title...but which??

"jon's producer? Fralinger" as in the String Band?

as in Schrödinger

Schrödinger as a manager "maybe you have a gig, maybe you don't. You won't know until you show up"

the string band fralingers and the boardwalk salt water taffy fralingers have got to be the same fralingers

Lol Randy

dang, diggin this Jon! Howdy!

Jon's producer's hands are now 11 yards apart. what a wingspan on that guy

Thank you for bringing up that this exists last week, Donutage.

OMBG, hello!

Frere Jacques Jams

lovin this song

also "Frere Jacques Jams"

Jacques Derrida jams

Man what happened to the “now playing” widget on the main page? I tuned in and thought, golly this sure sounds like Water Damage, but the widget sez Blackman Akeeb Kareem. Lo and behold, I come here to see that it is indeed Water Damage. Anyone else having this error? Been like this since the new site launched for me. Breaks my heart

in my experience the "now playing can lag a bit, but the pop up player is a bit more reliable

I love Jacque Jams. Vous autres ready for this?

Daniel, it was totally fixed last week and now...it very much is not.

The lag seemed to be ironed out but I did notice lag tonight. Can look into it after the holiday / weekend?

Also, hello!

Yahoooo chat cool show Jon Solomon!

Joeeeeeee!

Summer officially kicking off here. Had pre school graduation AND the last day of 3rd grade in our house yesterday!

Congratulations!

We've been done since May 31st so I have completely lost touch with when other schools wrap. I think NYC goes until the 27th of June!

That feels crazy late.

At least it hasn't been 90 degrees +

Well, until now.

Now that school is done, I can safely run past the bus stop at 6:40AM , and not be mocked by the kids waiting there

There's a "no turn on red after 7:30 am on school days" sign I regularly encounter and I had no idea if I needed to obey it or not this morning (so I did).

How do they mock you, Randy?

I'm not sure they do - it's just my self-conscious dread & anxiety that makes me imagine they do (or would)

This I very much understand.

Quite relatable.

Yeah - thought you might #MakeRunnersWeirdAgain #MakeRunningWeirdAgain

BEEF

shake hands with beef

Made these from a recipe found on my new favorite online Running "magazine" - wife thought TOO sweet, daughter was pleased https://satisfyrunning.com/blogs/possessed/beastly-bars%e2%84%a2

Speaking of beef https://satisfyrunning.com/blogs/possessed/how-to-make-possessed-perky-jerky%c2%ae

One "eff"' was artful copyright evasion.

Jon's daughter with the eagle eye. Please clone her.

It's not "stuf'd?" Mandela in FULL effect

I mean two effs. I could give or take an effing eff

The have to use one F because Oreos don't use actual "Stuff"

Like how meatless food say chikn

Randy possessed!! Seminal northern CA black metal band

EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation

Jon refuses to concede on the whole Pluto thing

Hi first time chatting here is this where i can post pic from the no kings demo on saturday??

Yer upper wild, man, upper wiiiiiillllllddddddd

Hey, Jeanine. I'm sure people would love to see a picture.

Here's more on the great show this Saturday...

https://checkout.square.site/buy/S46NNG4TFFREFEWIR6AAF6CV

What were the rules again?

What ever... Venus and Mars are the answer...

Correct! You win!

Did I win?

Please email me (my email is at the top of the playlist) and I'll make sure you're on the guest list +1 this Saturday in Metuchen.

Hi jon ... im not sure how ! 😱

🏆 Robert 🏆

I wanna win the Most Fabulous Object in the World from Time Bandits

...oh geez, I'm never gonna get around to doing that.

Jeanine, if you post them elsewhere you should be able to share that link in the chat.

Robert, I need to let the venue / promoters know your name for the guest list somehow!

I'll try. Probably tomorrow morning, or so...

i might just go to the gig just to give them money.

That's fine. Plenty of lead time.

(We would also have allowed "Jupiter" as an answer.)

There's a Jupiter?

... interested.

Wow, this week, Bob's your brother. Nice to hear this tonight.

Jupiter was their 2023 LP

Apparently they're going to do one for each planet.

"Jon refuses to concede on the whole Pluto thing" also alluded to Planet Ten, which is where the Lectoids came from in Buckaroo Banzai

Red and otherwise!

Holst covers?

Jon "Yaya" solomon

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02EMzNB1TQ9NJ5X8gve4hgLuYzRhPasSg5hhRH9vHiKM9iELd2AtmJsA3VmjFJPiyDl&id=518879585&mibextid=CDWPTG

No kings photos!! NYC

Very nice. I saw an excellent Philly collection of photos that I'll link to here

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2025/06/15/no-kings-protest-philadelphia-photos/

Appreciate you sharing.

🙂

We were at a rally near DC on Saturday. Relaxed atmosphere, good signs, pretty much everyone who drove past was honking in support.

Oh lord it's raining again

Good evening, Jon. I've only caught a bit of the show because the internet feed was glitching, but very pleased to see you played the Dirtbombs!

Glitching for you only or is there a larger issue I should be aware of? Thanks again for that tip!

I'm not sure! I was in the supermarket, and sometimes that plays hell on cell signals.

You're the first to report so hopefully isolated to the grocery.

Not glitching on the stream.

Hope so!

this is a great ride

I'm back at home now listening on my trusty 32-year-old GE superradio.

I can report 5x5 streaming here in the kitchen

Richard, glad you are along for it. Goes places!

this is fantastic.

Agree, not glitching on the stream via iTunes/Apple Music

donutage - do some medium wave dxing later and tell us how it goes.

Damn this is great

There are three pieces on this collection, I've only previewed the one you're hearing so far.

This is very stimulating on my absurdly widely spaced stereo speakers at home

Oh excellent. My work here is done then!

It rained (but did not pour) while this was playing.

we had rain and sun, but alas - no rainbow.

I am not well rainbow-positioned at The Barge.

I actually saw a rainbow after my AM run a week or so ago; not a common occurrance - has to be a little after sunrise + rain coming over from the West

My neighbor was wearing one. I'll take the technical.

Alas, I must bid you all good night. Take care, y'all. Love you, Jon.

Happy summer goodnight.

Good night, Roffle.

Be well everyone.

Good night, Donutage. We all love you too.

Sorry, I think I mis-read who was departing when!

Thanks Jon! Excellent zone out tonight!

This ended up being a right on time. Appreciate it, Alex.

🔥📻🔥🎶

I agree, Richard.

loved the show! thanks!!

Me too. Which is nice.

This was a great show, Jon, thanks!!

Appreciate it, Rob!