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Jon Solomon

Oct 8, 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.

10.8.25

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:05 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		Silkworm Treat the New Guy Right Lifestyle Touch and Go 2000
5:12 PM		CZARFACE Lumberjack Match (clean) Every Hero Needs a Villain Brick Records 2015
5:15 PM		Memorials Another Waterslide 45 Fire 2025 Tour-only single.
5:20 PM		Mulatu Astatke Nètsanèt N Mulatu Plays Mulatu Strut 2025
5:28 PM		Fucked Up Long Ago Gardens Grass Can Move Stones Part 1: Year of The Goat 2025 "Nearly 20 years after its humble beginning, the journey of F'd Up’s ever evolving Zodiac series begins its towering conclusion with “Grass Can Move Stones,” a monumental 10 part finale beginning with the album “Year of The Goat.”"
5:56 PM		Brian Eno The Big Ship Another Green World 1975
5:59 PM		SPRINTS Coming Alive N All That Is Over Sub Pop 2025
6:03 PM		Set Break
6:11 PM		Split System No Cops In Heaven N No Cops In Heaven / Pull The Trigger Static Shock 2025
6:16 PM		Sister Irene O'Connor Mass - 'Emmanuel' Fire of God's Love Philips 1973 About to be reissued by Freedom To Spend, the first authorized pressing of this Australian nun's album in nearly 50 years.
6:21 PM		Phantom Tollbooth Barracuda Power Toy Homestead 1988 Heart cover.
6:25 PM		Tuluum Shimmering Braided Like the Lightning N Leaping Past the Moon 2025
6:56 PM		Horsegirl Julie (Demo 1) Julie In Twos 2025
7:00 PM		Khaled Al Melody Jani Bigool N Habibi Funk 031: A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes V/A Habibi Funk 2025
7:05 PM		Void My Rules Sessions 1981-83 Dischord 2011 For our friends at WCSB.
7:05 PM		Set Break
7:12 PM		Mazarin 22:09 Live on WPRB https://mazarin-rocketgirl.bandcamp.com https://www.discogs.com/artist/348157-Mazarin
7:34 PM		Set Break
7:38 PM		Eraser Talk To Me N Hideout Siltbreeze 2025
7:40 PM		Turing Machine What Is the Meaning of What (Jee Day Remix) What Is the Meaning of Remixes 2014
7:47 PM		Coca Leaves & Pearls Wrecked Anthem All One Song 2025 "Four tracks of faux-Neil jammage commissioned by the fine folks at Aquarium Drunkard for use as theme and interstitial music on All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast. Coca Leaves & Pearls is Chris Forsyth (BASIC, Solar Motel Band), Jordan Burgis (Systolic Murmers, ex-Honey Radar), Joey Sullivan (Florry, Bark Culture) and John Murray (Florry)."
7:54 PM		Akiko Yano Walk On The Way Of Life Tokyo Wa Yoru No Shichi-ji WeWantSounds 2025 Reissue of the 1989 album "7 O'Clock in Tokyo."

Chat is archived.

FINALLY.

Welcome back! A few weeks ago we were discussing bands named after Polankski films but forgot about Thin Lizzy's "Chinatown"

That's a perfect note to return on.

Thanks, Marcus.

aw mazarin, sweet!

Wonder what those dudes got up to. One of 'em had a band called Light Heat for a spell.

Opening with Silkworm... yep this will be indeed a classic show as Jon mentioned.

Brian! I had to for...reasons.

Good to see you all in the 'ol chat tonight.

The Rebel INS!

One of my favorite stanzas of recent discovery in this one.

"Y'all don't want any of this Score without any assists Sound boogie down like the brothers, Kenny and Kris"

Awful what garbage kind of offensive noise is this

A: WPRB

Get off my lawn!

😇

Heya Ears.

Welcome back! Glad to hear that you enjoyed your travels

I missed the radio very much but I had some excellent off-air experiences for sure.

Good evening Jon Solomon! Good evening chatters! Quite lovely out right now and this tune is fitting that perfectly

DJ Tenderloin! Ahoy!

Ahoy matey! Land ho! Not sure why I've fallen under your nautical spell here

If this track was a house, I'd move in

I need to finish listening to this Mulatu Astake record in full but it was loaded with standouts, including what's playing.

DJ Tenderloin, 'tis the power of The Barge.

Aye

Classic JS selection. Love it!

Canada’s best band!!!

GW, what about Flashlight Brown?

The concept for this new F'd Up record is, like the singer of the band, high.

this song makes me wanna puke, hell yeah

Please don't puke until the song is completely over.

It is what the band would want.

No wrong answers Marcus!

hey now. good toe tapping and doom on this one.

GW! Dale!

Flutes, who knew?

I see swords, fog, mountains, wizardry

Marcus - agreed - a little bit o'

I can't see the wizardry, swords, mountains, BECAUSE of the fog :(

sword & sandles

it's so epic and all over the place - it's a little King Gizz in a few places

epic tune

I think this band name is very accurate

dare I say

i thought 2025 was the year of the ass.

I saw them open for the damned at that bowling alley- what's it called?

"Grass Can Move Stones will encompass the final three entries into the series; Goat, Monkey and Rooster, telling one connected story over three albums, an almost five-hour musical voyage through their varied styles and influences, that will revisit and recontextualise elements from the previous 9 zodiac entries as entirely new music."

Apropos of nothing…just saw Robert Plant on Later with Jools…Plant can hold his own with the harmonica.

Jimboooooo! Richard!

Still laughing over "Flutes, who knew?"

brooklyn bowl. that's it. this song is insane

Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia sounds more like a back page sports headline than a venue name, yet here we are.

this song just keeps on giving.

Glad to have you on this ride.

YOU CAN PUKE NOW, LUCY.

blegh!

loving the show!

Thanks so much, Richard. It feels GREAT to be back tonight.

I came in around 5:20 and thus far it's a fantastic show tonight Jon

For my next trick I will try and clean up a story some said was impossible to tell on the radio.

https://www.fuckedup.cc/year-of-the-goat-side-a-long-ago-gardens.pdf

Cuntology 101!

did you get to see any ICE antics?

Dale, both Chicago and Memphis were sunny and safe.

I understand from friends on the ground that some parts of Chicago are having a lot more ICE activity since I left but it isn't because of the city or the citizens.

Oct. 18 - No Kings - I'll be there. No secret police in this country

On my calendar.

Tuning in late to Phantom Tollbooth covering Heart, nice!

this cover of barracuda is kicking my butt

Hi Jon and crew!

Hey Alex! Chris hello!

I promised rippers and trippers and this set has got 'em.

Tuluum Shimmering - i like where this is going. rippers, now trippers! might have to get me a sippers...

Sort of like the ringing in your ears after a show....

New TL album is nearly four hours long. Listened to all of it while doing accounting most of my Saturday AM...

Jon - do you eat the animals? cuz you mentioned memphis and omg - gus' world famous fried chicken. just saying. jeez - my mouth is actually starting to water

like the rippers. really enjoy the trippers though...

I do not, DJ Tenderloin. I had a lot of free pizza and some very good Somali spaghetti during my brief visit to Memphis.

Welcome back Jon!

Check out this wild spot I went to in Memphis.

https://memphislisteninglab.org/

Dan!

It was in the old Sears catalogue fulfillment center, which is now a 1,000,000 square foot arts and culture hub (among other things). Including a gorgeous radio station!

waza. Just got done workin at ye olde salt mines

You haven't missed much...

Welcome!

am ready to shimmer & disappear

and to think they used to ship out j.c. higgins bikes and rifles for the boys and sears junior bizarre rompers for the girls.

Every person I spoke to who was from Memphis had at least one relative who worked there.

could also get baby monkeys and baby alligators from sears in the day.

Holy carp! That place is a temple

wow. memphis listening lab looks incredible. um, can we have one please here in philly? that is on my list next time I'm there. understood re: animals. Jon I shouldn't eat the animals, for a multitude of reasons. I'm weak Jon, Weak. I smell bacon and I become weak in the knees Jon. It's not pretty.

Just 'cuz I don't eat it doesn't mean I don't love the smell / spell of BBQ!

Sorry, somehow "auto-approve" got ticked off by mistake...

HolA Senyor! I need advice from a pro.

DJ Tenderloin, we stayed at a hotel that used to be the old train station. Giant Black Moses mixed media art in the lobby.

I can try, CAS. I can try.

I need a song about Pillows

So when you smell the delicious meats cooking - how do you do it? run away? cold shower? It seems difficult. Old train station hotel? just sounds better & better. and I can use southwest points to get there!

more specifically....hand-crafted, glow-in-the-dark Monster pillows created by Edley Odowd former drummer of Psychic TV

That's a touch harder.

Searching old playlists I found this...

https://theseknottylines.bandcamp.com/track/my-pillow

I KNOW

I also played this in 2008...

https://carpetfloor.bandcamp.com/track/hovering-pillows

I find if there isn't a song about something I want there to be a song about I ask a group of people (say a radio station's chat) if they would make it for me.

crafty....

precisely my thought

Well, it's very important to the artist that I have the right song

This sounds like a commission. Anyone reading up to the task?

dub on my pillow - the aggrovators

there's apparently a clem snide version of tears on my pillow

Tears On My Pillow was my next suggestion (Little Anthony and the Imperials version).

send me your pillow - john lee hooker & canned heat.

this is good stuff. thx Jon.

carpet floor is perfect

i wonder if commie ever did a pillow set

Rock Hudson recorded a song "Pillow Talk" for the film

Commie would be a perfect person to ask.

I can check my library for other pillow tunes post-show.

Somebody has been listening to Burning Spear

Selecta Jerry has a name!

VOID! guess what. I saw void. like 3 times.

void - columbia, MD's finest

Cleveland! "You have to be tough" to survive Cleveland.

the mighty Void

Tuluum Shimmering have defeated their attention deficit disorder.

we need more 4-hour albums

Matt it was a real Perfect Album for a Perfect Time.

Cool bit of a jam to walk in on. Hi there!

r.o.f.f.l.e.

Hey Jon!

DJ Tenderloin, I bet VOID was wild.

I missed Void, :-(

And hi Jon and everyoe

I thought for sure it would be the Horsegirl demo that summoned ya.

I switched over/switched off from Horsegirl to Void

But yeah, a great song for WCSB

is JD J Dilla?

void was insane. in fact a couple of those guys jumped on stage at merriweather post pavillion during the talking heads stop making sense tour, tried to do a stage dive, and were unceremoniously and quickly escorted out of the venue.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for reminder to register to vote. Please do PSA that every show. :)

Rob, that VOID song was the last song WCSB played before the plug was pulled apparently.

https://clevelandstater.com/news/news/csu-shuts-down-student-led-wcsb-hands-control-ideastream

"For its swan song, the station played “My Rules” by Void, and the on-air sign flickered off for the unexpected, but final time."

Jee Day is a DFA dude.

yesssssss Turing Machine. Best drum roll I've ever heard, from that band, on Bitte Baby Bitte

One of the all-time drummers, as previously discussed in this space.

DJ T haaaaaaaa! heckling the mighty Talking Heads, that is rad

Hey great show Jon, welcome back!

"All-time" drummer. Man, that's a lot of work.

Michael! Hey hey!

DJ T had I known that Void messed with TH I woulda heckled David Byrne when I had 2nd row Lolol. To ya know, keep it going.

Roff the Turing Machine drummah is insane. Might not even be yuman.

Speaking of great drummers... do people know about Des Demonas? I feel like I'm late to the party, but I saw them open for Neko Case last weekend and they were excellent. Can't stop listening to their latest record.

Nobody will be human for long if things keep on this way Matt. :).

I saw them (but not enough of them) at Gonerfest! They were going on when I arrived.

Rush has a new female drumma, which is rad

That is a cool move by Rush.

Roff I hearya, stay human

Des Demonas got the party started right. I need to listen to their record this week.

Void loved Talking Heads - not heckling at all - they're like "they're great, so we'll show them how much we love them by stage diving. the way people do at our shows"

I just had a Neil Yong shiver go up my spine!

DJ T ahh, gotcha.

Thanks Jon!

Roffle, check the notes on this one!

btw - they played burning down the house, the single at the time, during the set. then they played it - again - as an encore, when void tried to stage dive. never seen a band play their single twice. people loved it too.

You're very welcome Alex. Two songs to go...

On it!

Riff I hear it. Ragged & rusty riffage.

Roff, may I call ye Riff

But of course.

DJT I only saw bands repeat a song in same setting rarely, like when they shoot a video (I am somewhere lurking in the deftones' 7 Words video.)

thanks for all the suggestions guys

I will try and find more tomorrow for you, CAS.

Thanx Roff LOL I had a fat thumb moment

Pillow Drop at Casa Bizarro this Saturday! Heee

I do that a lot too Matt. I don't think a keto diet is gonna help that either.

Matt Sabbath - you're totally right, can't believe i didn't put that together. perhaps they were filming there for stop making sense doc. duh. i think you're right!

Coca Leaves! I hear Black Sabbath tried that once

I've had Coca tea. Good for elevation sickness

DJ Ten there are multiple versions of SMS songs (Psycho Killer) so the THs probably did mult take

I'd reather not take out a mortgage to find out. :)

When I saw Freaknasty they did Da Dip twice in an 11 minute set.

(With a newer song and a "dance contest" in between.)

DJ Ten nice!! Coca tea sounds lovely, with some cripsy cuke sandwiches

They knew what people were there to hear!

Lol Jon just picturing you there

Jon, my brother saw Survivor back in the day. He said they played "Eye of the Tiger" 3 times including for the encore

Marcus H I would expect no different. Rad song LOL

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/01/b-96-show-not-the-same-old-grunge-grind/

OMG - "Eye of the Tiger" 3 times including for the encore - that's amazing.

(This was where I saw Freaknasty.)

I saw my friend's band play Eye of the Tiger while he drummed on shrooms and screwed it up LOL

I will be back next week for an unprecedented second straight radio show. Regular ol' Iron Man over here.

grunge grind! Lol

"Grunge Grind" was a much less popular Freak Nasty tune.

JON IS IRON MAN

if he can't play Sprints no one can

Jays 1 Yankees 1

Came back from a lovely bike ride over to East Falls and this was a great landing. Thanks Jon. Magic in out of the bottle.

Go birds

Great show Jon. Nice chatting, hanging out here in the Jon Solomon Kibbutz Room. Have a great night er'body!

BIRDS!

OFF WE GO!

fanks Jon!

JON

Daaaaaaaa Birdsssss

Hannah Einbinder said it best...