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Jon Solomon

Oct 15, 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.

10.15.25

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:06 PM		Set Break
5:09 PM		Twisted Teens when the wire get cut Twisted Teens CPNPC 2024
5:12 PM		Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama Sexy Robot N Tokyo Funk Diva WeWantSounds 2025 Originally released in 1983.
5:16 PM		The Lemonheads If I Could Talk I'd Tell You Car Button Cloth Atlantic 1996
5:19 PM		Lichens You Are Excrement, You Can Become Gold The Psychic Nature of Being Holy Mountain 2005
5:40 PM		Run-DMC Rock the House King of Rock Arista 1985
5:42 PM		Another Michael Farewell Transmission N I Will Swim to You: A Tribute to Jason Molina V/A Run For Cover 2025 I've come around on this one.
5:48 PM		Camper Van Beethoven Oh No! Telephone Free Landslide Victory Independent Project 1985 It is the 40th anniversary of this album and "Oh No!" was recently covered by Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
5:50 PM		Set Break
6:04 PM		The Fall Introduction / Cruiser's Creek Seminal Live Beggars Banquet 2025 Recent remaster.
6:11 PM		Igor Lumpert Resistance of the Earth Resistance of the Earth ears&eyes 2025
6:19 PM		sunn O))) Eternity's Pillars N Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential Sub Pop 2025
6:32 PM		Uncomfortable Police Thermodynamic Moral Panic Hazmat Kat Teen Beat 2025 The duo of D. Trevor Kampmann (hollAnd) and Mark Robinson (Unrest/Flin Flon).
6:34 PM		Charlie Werber Krater 0 Krater 2025
6:56 PM		Antibalas La Ceiba N Hourglass Daptone 2025
7:02 PM		Government Issue Hear The Scream (alternate take) Government Issue Fountain of Youth 1986
7:04 PM		Set Break
7:13 PM		Grammar Debate! 31:30 Live on WPRB https://grammardebate.bandcamp.com
7:44 PM		Set Break
7:48 PM		Cobra Verde One Step Away from Myself 45 Sub Pop 1995
7:52 PM		Garmarna Kashmir R Kashmir Massproduktion 2019
7:58 PM		Monde UFO Long Division 4 Songs Fire 2022 Fugazi cover.

Chat is archived.

Wow! Two weeks in a row!

Yay!

Hi Jon! and I love this week's image

Thank you! Took it at Comic Con over the weekend.

IT BEGINS.

I imagine this thing that just ended was the radio and not our phones being weird?

The interstitial music after the underwriting? Yes, I made that.

hey now!

Hey Dale!

this guy

THIS guy!

Wow Jon that's incredible, congratulations!

When we have the ball is that "offense" or "defense?" The board of trustees at Penn State asked for my answer ASAP.

Pat. Tyler. Hello.

How is everyone tonight?

here. always here, just not on this particular thing, really.

Chris! Good evening!

im good might have aten too many dried figs

Happens to the best of us.

indeed it is.

ach, this band.

Hello Jon

I did not expect to be playing this song this week but I saw Kurt Vile cover it on Monday night at Best Show 25 and here we are.

Marcus!

no longer motorbike guy. sold my motorbike.

Mummenschantz returns to MacCarter theatre this season

End of an era.

I haven't seen Mummenschantz in ages!

evan dando is in his way a very tragic figure

i made it to 60, didn't want to push my luck.

i could explain but it's a lot of typing for a chat

very familiar with evans struggles. love him, love the band, etc. 80s and 90s

boston was where i started

no that;s not it

@Jon, that interstitial music was fabulous

Hate Your Friends - "I don't wanna"

hey jon, play some Sorry!

Thanks, Rob. The Chrome Music Lab or whatever it is called is fun to play with.

i mean "i never learned how to exist without drugs" is a haunting quote i'll never forget

this song is telling me to have more figs

Hey Jon! Hey chat! Wow that Lemonheads track was a blast from the past. First song I heard by them. On the radio growing up in the 90's when I was 9.

That's intense, Pat. First (and only?) time I saw The Lemonheads I was so excited and they were terrible. HP Zinker opened / ruled.

Hey, Brian! I didn't know that song so well until this week, which is wild.

Hello Jon & Friends! This 'Lichens' piece makes a fine complement to the 'Neutral' noise piece on Pat's show earlier today! More meandering centrifugal dissonance is ALWAYS welcome chez moi! ❤️‍🔥

Teresa! I rediscovered Lichens after the dude from Holy Mountain Records died and this song is named after a quote from the film The Holy Mountain.

sometimes i think about this tour evan dando did a while back for the re-release of Baby I'm Bored. it was a small venue and he promised to sign every copy sold. i picture him sitting there upstairs at the foundry signing the face of his estranged ex-wife over and over again

Rough stuff.

i bet the thoughts in his head sounded a lot like "You Are Excrement, You Can Become Gold" from the album The Psychic Nature of Being by Lichens

The only time I've ever seen Evan Dando perform was not with the Lemonheads but as a cameo appearance at a 'Loser's Lounge' showcase back in the mid 90s. I can't even remember who was the artist being covered that night. It may have been J Mascis' birthday?

available now wherever 20 minute tracks are sold

It's a good song for sure, haven't heard in years. Lemonheads a band I need to explore more. I like the album Lick. Heard a couple new tunes from this year which sounded decent.

Theresa that sounds like fun

The first three Lemonheads records were super formative to me.

I was in Boston when "Hate Your Friends" was released. He was very much a local hero in the Punk Rock scene

My Hate Your Friends shirt has a dirt stain on it from making a diving catch at recess. I feel like I've typed this story before.

what did boston people say when he went acoustic?

Evan Dando's Reverse Dylan Heel Turn

I think it was more Ben Deily leaving the band.

he paid the electricity bills

Reverse! Dylan Heel Turn

Evan was trying his best and we all wanted him to succeed

that's nice

@Patrick -- It was! And Dando performed well and was a very amiable presence as I recall... @Marcus -- 'HYF' has such strong associations with my final semester as a Smith College student, back in '87

very cool

Teresa: I was at Tufts and on the air on WMFO. Never made it to Smith but went to a dance at Wellesley College once. That was an event

i first heard him/them in the Ray days and had to scour the used bins for the earlier stuff

The best parties in Boston were at Chocolate City in the dorms of MIT

Love the Lichens

really digging this piece.

Rob from Lichens is now an acclaimed film soundtrack dude.

rise of the Lichens guy

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4127168/

worked on Telemarketers!

Rock the house, @JonSoloman!

I thought he also did some of the music in Weapons too.

Hey there Ears.

👋 🌎

@Marcus -- I bet! Those mixer dances were always so high tension, full of sexual desperation and drama! They were straight out of a(?)/that(?) Jonathan Richman & Modern Lovers song

I have done a full 180 on this version of this song. I strongly disliked it the first time I heard it, I can admit.

very nice

google turned up Another Part of Me by Michael Jackson

Another Michael is from Philadelphia.

I think it's good to have a version of 'Farewell Transmission' that doesn't make me cry at the end, albeit cathartic that...

then he is welcome in my house

It has a surprising shuffle to it.

diggen it

Michael in the chat!

omg

how's it goin jon

fellow chatters

camper van solomon

Oh No!

Rob from Lichens, not from Maryland

Another Michael Gudgeon: tbd

M should be for Minas Gerais where most coffee in Brazil comes from

hollis brew

well done jon

will solaris have an intermission?

https://www.capitalphilharmonic.org/oh-god-beautiful-machine

Where is Bill Grundy now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16MkBZPW90

Solomon on Grundy

Pat, I do not believe there is an intermission.

I am also happy to offer one of you a pair of tickets to this concert / event in Trenton on the 25th if you would attend, chat.

Solomon Grundy born on a Monday

Ha, I didn't know about that TVP song Rob!

I know that nursery rhyme only from The Accountant movies

Jon, :-)

"As the host of Today, a regional magazine programme on Thames Television in London, [Bill Grundy] gained national attention for an interview with the Sex Pistols in 1976, during which the band swore and traded insults with him on live television. The interview effectively destroyed Grundy's career, elevated the Sex Pistols to notoriety, and signalled the arrival of mainstream punk rock."

well hello there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Grundy

Ancient history

Hello Andrew G' and everyone

Well hello, Andrew.

Bill Grundy's most infamous moment was very well re-created in that thoroughly underwhelming Pistol miniseries that I forgot I watched until now.

Wow, must have been really underwhelming

It centered the least interesting characters.

That'll do it

I would have much more preferred if they followed say Vivienne Westwood with the Sex Pistols existing more in the background. Chrissie Hynde too.

Who was...played by the lead on Alien Earth and I'm only realizing this as I type?!

She played Xenomork!

Sid and Nancy - Gary Oldman refuses to wear the swastika replaced with the hammer and sickle

I wore a surprising number of Sid Vicious t-shirts in middle school.

Loving this. Big fuzz. Big rumble. Happy brain.

@zach - agree. nice doom and gloom best experienced loudly.

"“Eternity’s Pillars” is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence."

It’s doing its job well

Sunn O))) know how to do it.

how do the AI bots say Sunnooo)))?

nobody check. we're doomed if them get their hands on this

They get stuck on the letter o then it just reverberates until it turns into this song.

lol makes sense

Jon is this what you’re gonna play for the team at football practice?

Zach, please don't let the rest of the Big Ten know my plan in advance!

wazaaaa

Yo Matt.

lovely drums

\m/ . . \m/

hi jon

Ossy!

good to see sabbath and ossy back together

Lol. Ozzy is the man

GI, Hup!

Almost all of their music that wasn't already on Bandcamp popped up there yesterday.

Including some bonus material like this!

cool, i thought the CD had like, everything. guess not.

GI hooray!

But which version of "Sheer Terror"??

Government Issue! Another band I must discover more of.

@Brian, they were my favorite DC punk band in the 80s

"blending in" by GI is a top 10 all time track for me.

I love one particular version of "Sheer Terror", "Blending In", and a couple of others

high praise. thanks for the recommendations.

have a good evening all. thanks Jon for another terrific radio program. off to band practice, will catch the rest in the archives.

Brian, GI are not only great but they started as a terrific DC hardcore band and developed into something different but equally excellent over the years. An all-time favorite for me. '

Bye!

Rob, this might be one more Sheer Terror for the pile!

Chris, I haven't cross-referenced the Dr. Strange Complete History discs to be fair...

Bye Brian, enjoy practice!

Jon, oh boy!!

Antibalas! nice selection , Jon

https://govt-issue.bandcamp.com/track/sheer-terror-bonus-track

New Antibalas sounds promising.

Yup, another version!

Thx Jon!

Nice, Rob.

Grammar Debate soundin like Phleg Camp led by Neil Young, tight

Ha. Wow. That works!

this song especially is like slowed-fown Phleg Camp

*down

the ragged glory of it all

great show, gotta go

Bye, Pat!

great set jon!

A nice night all around! (no jinxes for these last night minutes.)

Thanks for the Garmarna, Jon!!!!!

Is good!

And see you next time, great show tonight!

If I don't catch you in other chats first let us meet back here next Wednesday.

Garmana! Cobra Verde! Cool tunes as always Jon! Tanks!

WE DID IT!