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Jon Solomon

Nov 5, 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.

11.5.25

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:05 PM		Set Break
5:09 PM		Black Eyes Break a Leg N Hostile Design Dischord 2025 First new record in 20+ years.
5:13 PM		Nalbandian The Ethiopian & Either/Orchestra Amhara Rumba Ethiopiques 32 Buda Musique The series continues!
5:19 PM		Advance Base Movie Theater Manager N Movie Theater Manager Orindal 2025 https://advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/movie-theater-manager
5:23 PM		Yoo Doo Right, Population II & Nolan Potter Cavalier (We're Going Down) Yoo II Avec Nolan Potter Mothland 2025
5:35 PM		Ryan Werner Dirty Mind N Dirty Hell 2025 https://ryanwerner.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-hell "This is side one of Dirty Mind by Prince and side two of Hotter Than Hell by KISS. I don't know why I did this. Please don't sue me."
5:45 PM		Hadewijch Salvia R Live Specimens I 2025 https://hadewijch.bandcamp.com/album/live-specimens-i
6:05 PM		The A-Sides Sidewalk Chalk Hello, Hello Prison Jazz 2005
6:09 PM		Set Break
6:19 PM		The Drags Teenage Invasion N Dragsploitation…Now! Total Punk 2025 1995 album reissued.
6:21 PM		The Pastor Chris Congregation Don’t Worry It’s Just a Snakebite (What Has Happened to This Generation?) West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents” Sublime Frequencies 2025
6:26 PM		Natural Information Society + Bitchin Bajas Totality N Totality Drag City 2025
6:42 PM		Via 1,000 MPH Via Dromedary 2025 1987 recordings by Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull, Uzi) and Jerry di Rienzo (Cell, Nuclear Theater).
6:45 PM		Patrick Cowley Tech-No N Hard Ware Dark Entries 2025 Collects 1980–1982 recordings.
6:52 PM		Tim Barnes Metamorphosis Alpha Inside Energy Island House 2025
7:17 PM		IfIHadAHiFi Everyone's a Doctor N Paws in the Bacon Grease IfIHadAHiFi 2025
7:20 PM		Set Break
7:31 PM		Astute Palate Loose Wings Astute Palate Petty Bunco 2020 Playing tonight at Johnny Brenda's!
7:34 PM		Rolf Liebermann Symphonie "Les Echanges" Komposition Für 156 Maschinen R Symphonie "Les Echanges" Philips 1964
7:37 PM		Prolapse Ectoplasm Untied (A Faust Remix) N Swearing For Decoration Tapete Records 2025
7:41 PM		Psychic Temple Essaouira Plays Planet Caravan Joyful Noise 2022 With Jeff Parker.
7:56 PM		Roseblood Become the Night Roseblood 2025 Kathy Foster from The Thermals / All Girl Summer Fun Band.

Chat is archived.

The chat is OPEN.

The show is ON.

howdy Jon!

Hello hello!

Hello Jon, Hello Richard

hi Dan!

Hey Jon. I hope all is well. Some great radio please.

herro dere jon and solomites.

Richard, I'll do my best!

Hello, Dale! Hello, Dan!

Dan, do you want to let people know about what you'll be doing later this week.......?

Hi Jon and folks! Lurking while eating.

Anything good on the menu, Alex?

The only item worth noting is the basil infused olive oil on the salad.

Jon, I am looking for some help and have enlisted Dan Buskirk, Jerry Gordon and Marvin Rosen. I have also written to the station manager. I happened to catch a great Jazz program around midnight. I think the host is Turshu. She was terrific. If she is amenable, I would like to see the program moved to a better hour, she would get a larger audience and help fill the void of the loss of two Jazz programs. If you can help I will really appreciate it.

Richard, I have no say in programming decisions. You're always welcome to email the program director your thoughts.

Thanks for asking Jon. Folks, starting Friday morning at 6am EST I will spend 24 hours listening to Lindstrom's Little Drummer Boy. You can join the livestream anytime. Link at my Instagram, @danwadewhat

This is a fundraiser for an LGBT youth homeless facility here in Oklahoma

Dan this is the path to madness

I have a work retreat this Friday, but I hope to make it in as much as possible.

wazaaaaaa great pic Jon!

Hey, Matt! Randomly encountered that on the banks of Lake Erie while on a side quest when I drove to Chicago last.

The path to madness would be 24 hours of Randy Newman's "Laughing Boy"

Hey Dan! A stunt close to my own heart. I once blasted Gitarzan repeatedly from my dorm room. Only ended when the door failed.

Ah yes. the upstate region

amazebawls sunset rn

needed some advance base

B-side of this new single is a new Xmas tune of his. Not a moment too soon.

Also, hello Patrick!

Hey Jon!

First heard this one on Jen's show a few Fridays back...

Belate thank you Jon for the Kanopy app suggestion. I watched Flipside and was very entertained even with all its storyline maneuvers.

John, that's awesome.

I watched Pavements last night with a free Mubi trial and it struck a similar chord to Flipside for me. Hard to pinpoint why though.

Hello Jon! That is a great photograph at the top of the playlist

Thanks, Rob! Had to make sure I hadn't used it prior...

It's totally fine if you had used it prior!

yoo doo, nice driving music here...

Yeah, this song is Clyde Drexler*.

*A blazer.

@Jon, perfect pixel width of header pic too!

700 pixel width, baby!

Salvia! Hadewijch! This version is haaaaaazzzyyyy. Nice selection dj!

This song has saved me from many an abyss.

Been trying to catch up on the listens I bookmarked for previewing.

Jon you are diligent af!

To be fair, I have some listens bookmarked that are old enough to enter kindergarten.

Studio version of this has a fantastic ragged yell at the end of 18 minutes

Hadewijch is mysterious. 2 guitarists & a drummer. French stoners.

they keep a low pro

Like Spud Webb.

Or Alan Sparkhawk.

Ha!

Boost the bass & mid on this folx for optimal vintage

or Fred Lane

Oiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

albini esque raw production

haaaa jimbooooo

Jimbooooo!

Hungry for a sandwijch

Ordering a Sandwijch on this Wooden Shjip.

haaaaaaaaaa!!

get jiggy widdit

this aint a song it's a damn powerful alien tech

Hey, hey Jon Solomon. Broken ship by Immaculate Machine is awesome. The French version. Just sayin' for no real reason.

Hey, Korroffle!

Thank you for lending me one of the many O's in your name. :)

Hadewijch hjit the spjot Jjon!

evening jon

so it's Prince and Kiss covers but none of them are "Kiss" by Prince?

BAM!!!!! I'm playing at philamoca tonight if anyone's around, we're playing about 8:50-9:30 BAM

That is evil in itself Patrick. How could that be? Is it so?

another Pavement doc?! Dayum! The one about Gary Young is hilarious.

Jurassic Park: Yawn Dull Island coming soon to VOD

Bam!

The new Smiling Friends season is decent but not hitting the same as the others for me for some reason

BAM!

Yawn: Dull Island is how I typed it.

tubi has a lot of good stuff these days. a nick cave and birthday party doc, a few herzog films like fitzcarraldo and heart of glass....

Have a good jam Bam!

I need to watch the Gary Young doc next.

Correct, Patrick.

Likin dis noisy side of Solomon

Dale H Heart of Glass! Herzog fucking hypnotized his cast. That bavarian aint right in da head sometimes. Kinski wuz loud crazy and Herzog is quiet crazy.

Thanks kerrf!

oh chit the snakes is loose

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1XhwWScftwMHmuwtb4KV8NJquperGp0P4mtQa0o_66g&s=10

(Jon veers off into a wild snake tangent, playing godheadSilo's "time to feed the pythons")

Tubi and Mubi are different. I learned this last night.

matt, yeah but popul vuh and long dreamy shots...

mubi isn't bollywood i assume.

Kinski acting crazy in Herzog's crazy films is just as logical AF. Fits like DNA.

oh Dale H I'm a yuge Herzog fan. Yuge. Had a Burden of Dreams shirt once! Bought from ol' Les Blank. RIP.

South Africa is the new(est) hollywood. Hotbed of subversive cinema.

looking at the mubi docs category - some interesting stuff. gotta ass the app to the roku.

I stay busy with tubi & kanopy. Lotsa good greazy things to find.

add. not ass. i can't find an 'ass' app. my wife wouldn't watch even if there was...

and dj jon solomon's letterboxd has some gems

@Matt, I have a couple of movie swag items and my favorite once again is my hat from "Enemy of the State". The Will Smith , Gene Hackman film that I bought at the Berlin Flea Market for a dollar. :)

ASS THE APP TO THE ROKU. WPRB Princeton.

Kerrroffle I see it! Sweet find. Have you seen Golden Glove, about the Reeperbahn killer? BONKERS.

No, I have not Matt, but it's now on the radar. Thanks.

Kerroffle okay but check in with me after ye see it. It is brutal.

I burn sage after a viewing

Okay.

Oh, I also watched Superman (2025).

I still have some sage that I picked from the side of Mt. Shasta last decade. I break it out.

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Perfect

I saw the new Super dog movie! It was a movie.

Haaaaaa!

It made me feel more hopeful than other superhero movies. Was also glad to see James Gunn reppin' Czarface the other day!

Just watched Repo Man

Andrew, first time?

Also, hello!

100th time

Just making sure. Did you ever the "sequel" Alex Cox made? I did not.

Or did I make this up?

Greetings Jon Solomon - greetings chatters - lovely evening

Didn't know about it - I could live in that movie though

No, I was right. Cox made a low budget film called Repo Chick.

Also...

https://screenrant.com/repo-man-2-plot-cast-filming-window-update-director/

Hello, DJ Tenderloin!

Jon the RM sequel is horrible. A greenscreened to hell. And not very punk roke.

*All

Oh, that deserved a sequel, but how did it fare? Hey TL

oh wait I'm thinking of another Alex Cox movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462600/

Blimey - could it ever be as quirky - hmm - might be music driven

I'm thinking of Repo Chick by Alex Cox. Avoid. No bueno.

i see you're discussing Repo Man - one of my all time top 10 faves. such an important movie for me - really my first true indie movie I think.

this is better than the other information society.

Let

ha that looks rad Jon

Looks promising Jon.

oops - try that again - Let's go get sushi and not pay

the acoustic Circle Jerks on the RM soundtrack is bettern the studio version, methinx

There was a comic book where Otto becomes Waldo?

https://web.archive.org/web/20121103175157/http://comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=19201

the RepoVerse is biggern I thought

DJ Tenderloin - yes - so man iconic lines - making me laugh out loud

"Otto, now using the name Waldo, has returned to Earth from Mars after ten years. Now nearly 30, he adjusts to life in mid-1990s, and gets a boring job as a telemarketer. When Waldo receives a call offering a free Hawaiian vacation, he makes taking the trip his goal, but his efforts are repeatedly thwarted by bureaucracy."

Wild.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTdMRlSTv_voznGdZnxxK6ATDh0vIwXcp-aGDCHk2cXHQ&s=10

Good evening, y'all.

@Tenderloin, Sounds like hard time in a Japanese prison antics fucking with a Sushi joint.

love that movie so much. great soundtrack of course also.

Hello, Donutage!

and Harry Dean Stanton!

Lively turnout tonight. Love it.

the best "fuck you"s in cinema (this is important as we are in the tristate area): Nic Cage (2x) in Valley Girl; and Emilio E in Repo Man

Yeah, but where the fuck is Waldo?

Valley Girl is a great film - I think one of Nick Cages better acting jobs

Keroffle—He's been hiding on mars, apparently.

Valley Girl is one of my favorites. Was on Mary Vs. The Movies talking about it!

also make sure to see Vampire's Kiss in which Cage eats a live cockroach (for real)

perhaps you should do a show playing songs from all of your favorite films? could be a good idea for a set

Ok he won me over in Raising Arizona

@donutage, Mars is the future MAGA Argentina me thinks.

Raising Arizona - also in my top 10!

Did someone say Mary Vs the Movies?

Ha! They did! I did!

Throw down the gantlet!

@Kerrofle, they can have it!

Just a quick check in: a) today’s show was a great way to unwind after a very trying day at work; b) in this house, we embrace Nic Cage movies.

@donutage, Yeah.

And now my mom is calling me to drain the potatoes for dinner. Have an excellent evening! And watch Vampires’s Kiss!

Speaking of movies & music, I need to watch The Commitments again.

I thought he was good in Lord of War

If you would like to hear me talk to potato drainer Mary about Valley Girl...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-63-valley-girl-1983/id1559486906?i=1000568377640

Potatoes influenced so much it's not even funny Mary.

Just learned that there's a new women's soccer team in Portland, OR called the Cherry Bombs.

https://www.wweek.com/sports/2025/11/04/pre-professional-soccer-team-portland-cherry-bombs-will-debut-in-may/

lovely

Cool! 🍒💣

Excellent. And, now I've got that Runaways song in my head

Their merch is pretty good. Appreciate a new angle for a sport team name.

(Shameful confession: I knew "Cherry Bomb" first & for a long time only from the Bratmobile version. It wasn't until the original showed up in Guardians of the Galaxy that I figured out it was a cover.)

Lol Rob MD. the Runaways!

Jon this track's half life is reminding me of The Necks - and I love it

About half the lengths of a typical Necks effort but I hear ya.

This is a safe space for such confessions, Donutage.

Ha!

One of these days, Jon will find a 3-hour song and devote a whole show to it.

watch yo neck WuTaaaaannnggggg

Thank you, Jon. It's good to get it off my chest.

I think the dream is [intro] song [mic break saying goodnight] song [next DJ].

flaming lips have ridic long songs

I did ask a friend who worked at Bandcamp years ago to find me the longest song on Bandcamp. It was 2.5 hours in length and...it was terrible! I used it for mic breaks one week.

Lol

@Donutage, no worries. I'm sure all of us have been there

I might compose 250 minutes of synth noise for America 250 next year - pending grant support tho...

Appreciate any song that mentions KAYFABE.

The long songs Jon plays are wonderful!

Paws in da bacon grease!!

Applause

I did listen to some true noise this week and I couldn't bring myself to play it on the air. Was brutal.

@Andrew W, ooh, you should!

Seconded, Rob.

Oooh, I like this!

Jon, Rosasolis played a heartbreakingly beautiful noise piece once, Pita's "Get Out 3", still haunts to this day

To jam for hours is written in the DNA me thinks. Sure, started around a campfire no doubt, but we can still go there with a nudge.

Good pronunciation of "Louisville", Jon! Well done!

haaaaa! LO-ah-ville! I have an ear for that too donutage Lol

now I want a brown gravy sandwich and double bourbon

I lived in eastern Kentucky for a decade or so. Learned a few things.

I went to a stripper club in Louisville with my platoon in the Army. Quite revealing.

Jon how's yer relationship with the Lord, they call from their car

Jon: turn up 103.3 fm

Kerroffle, strip clubs usually are! 🥁

donutage are you a Kentucker Colonel?

donutage, I lived in Georgia; I found Kentucky beautiful

Sadly no. I never made it past "uneelcome Yankee" status.

haaaaa! metoo. carpetbagging is real

I *also* lived in Athens, GA, for abt. 5 years.

Tennesseans let me into their world more than Georgians

donutage nice! I visited the Harry Crews Archive at UGA. Cool town!

Athens isn't "real" Georgia.

Very, very true.

But it *was* a fun town.

I loved the record store in downtown Athens.

Donutage, I spent enough time around Louisville rockers to learn how wrong I was saying their city!

There is an joke in Texas, where I lived and went to college and lots of stuff, that a Yankee with a U-Haul is one of the other things that Texans don't like as the punchline of the joke..

There were a couple excellent ones, if I recall correctly. Wuxtry was one.

@Jon, we hope you can play the Faust remix of Prolapse

Kerroffle haaa! I love Texas. DRI, Black Congress from Houston; Bhole Surfers from Austin (and Georgia!). Love how big Texas does errythang.

It is in the hole. Rolf on deck.

Loose Wings on my running playlist now. What a jam.

Kerroffle I watch Texas Chainsaw 2 regularly, that movie understands Texas (and it's an analog radio station)

Speaking of Louisville rockers, is anyone else familiar with band Skull of Glee?

Jon! I love you!!!

by the way, today is Guy Fawkes Night in the UK - so happy Guy Fawkes, may your baked potato be crispy and right

nope donutage but great name!

Donutage, I know.

@Matt, I am a purest for the original. I totally got going down FM farm roads across the Texas back country which is vast.

Faust! Flashback Caruso!

Ty Jon!

Kerroffle. The first one is so greazy and brutal and beautiful.

They did so much with so little on TCM 1, it's amazing @Kerroffle

I found Skull of Glee on a compilation of Louisville punk. They have a great song called "Cannibals Gone Wild"

@Matt, low budget gold!

https://www.discogs.com/release/3638245-Various-Bold-Beginnings-An-Incomplete-Collection-Of-Louisville-Punk-1978-1983

ooooo Louisville punk! 78 - 83! Nice find donutage

Endtables are great. I have the White Glove Test 45. Babylon Dance Band is pre-Antietam.Your Food album is very cool.

(By all that I mean I should check out this comp.)

holy chit haven't thought bout Antietam in ages

They're playing with Oneida this week!

Dickbrains apparently were a pre-Freakwater Catherine Irwin!!

Oh wow, the very sweet Brett Eugene Ralph is in another of these groups.

I changed around my end tables today. Coincidence? Perhaps...

The late Wink O'Bannon is also all over this thing.

This shit needs another hour Jon!

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpi05lfcLRysH_vT-WifDg3iL0RaVhn6FbTYAr8pHxP52Ko5t-ilRYBkM&s=10

Appreciate it, Kerroffle but soon it is DJ Hog's time to shine.

Guess I know what I'll be listening to soon...

https://noisepollution.bandcamp.com/album/bold-beginnings-an-incomplete-collection-of-louisville-punk-1978-83

Oh, I love Hog, make no mistake, but I was just sayin'.

Under different circumstances I would love to keep playing music tonight!

Good zone all evening.

See ya Christmas then...

SELECTA JERRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

DJ RUNGUN WITH THE STUNGUNNNNNNnnnn

we were in Interzone

awesome show Jon - many thanks

Sweet, Jon!

Jon the Hadewijch wuz fabulous. Many thanx.

Dug the show Jon Thank you!

Gotta start planning The Night Is Young 4 ASAP!

You're all very kind.

Good evening. Most excellent radio show. Jon, still coming down from the world series over here. Sooo close, just 2 more outs! heartbreaking.

Brian, I have yet to recover. I thought they won on that play at the plate until I saw the replay. Argh.

But I guess I'm a full season Jays fan now.

Great show tonight, Jon!

Thanks, Rob. DJ HOG IS NEXT!

wprb forevah

Oh nice, Roseblood!

Bye!

Bye

Bye. <3

bye!