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Jon Solomon

Nov 12, 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.

11.12.25

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:05 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		Des Demonas Conduit Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! In The Red 2024
5:14 PM		Ara Kekedjian Ghapama N Habibi Funk 033: Bourj Hammoud Groove Habibi Funk 2025 Out Friday!
5:17 PM		Pavement Grounded Wowee Zowee Matador 1995
5:21 PM		Art Heist October 16th : Morning Demo Tape Human Headstone 2023
5:45 PM		The Kyle Sowashes Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck 2011 50 years ago Monday. Gordon Lightfoot cover.
5:52 PM		Tortoise Axial Seamount N Touch International Anthem 2025
5:56 PM		The Original Sins Sally Kirkland Out There 1992 RIP.
6:00 PM		Set Break
6:12 PM		Tee Vee Repairmann Only A Memory 45 Blushing Grinning 2025 Tour-only single.
6:14 PM		Homeboy Sandman First Day of Christmas 12 Days of Christmas and Dia de Los Reyes Dirty Looks 2022 https://homeboysandman.bandcamp.com/album/12-days-...
6:16 PM		Zonk A ZONK 2024
6:31 PM		Wreckless Eric Lady of the Manor N England Screaming Tapete Records 2025 Album out November 21st.
6:36 PM		Water Damage Occii 090525 Occii 090525 2025 https://waterdamageatx.bandcamp.com/album/occii-090525
7:22 PM		L'Orchestre National de Mauritanie La Mone La Mone / Kamlat Sahel Sounds 2011
7:28 PM		the educated fools dance the apartment N Tantric Decapitation: 69 minutes of trichotomy and liquefaction Total Punk 2025 d/b/a The Retail Simps.
7:29 PM		Set Break
7:40 PM		Kiwi Jr. Hard Drive, Ontario N Hard Drive, Ontario 2025 First new music since 2022.
7:45 PM		Darius Jones Another Kind of Forever Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) AUM Fidelity 2024
7:53 PM		Wet Tuna Raw Food Warping All by Yourself Three Lobed 2022

Chat is archived.

Let us open the chat, you and I.

Hi Jon, sunset show season!

It is that time indeed.

Hey Jon! Hi evryone!

Good evening Jon. I may have missed it, any running goals updates? I’ve got 5 more training runs before Turkey Trot!

GW, I actually started using a training app and it is going well. Hard, but well. Yesterday it made me do 8K and I did not care for it weather-wise one bit.

Hope to hit my goal by December 21st.

Hi Alex!

Greetings Jon Solomon - greetings chatters. Jon - did you ever get to check out those tracks I sent you?

Builds character, Jon…remember that!

I was pretty psyched when it was over. Not because of any remarkable performance, but because I'd done it.

Which ones, DJ Tenderloin? The megamix?

Did I not write you back about it? If so, I apologize.

Megamix & Neil vs Neil thing I made

no worries - i can re-send if necessary before next week's NY show

Megamix very good! Neil vs. Neil I don't think I received...?

I will resend!

good app

Good afternoon everyone

sent. i sent it to you on the 7th but you were at radio summer camp! cheers

Ah yes. I was away Thursday afternoon until Sunday early evening. Then I slept and slept and slept...

Hey Rob! Hey Patrick!

zero chance doesn't sing his own name while listenin to this song

Hey hey hey

TAndy! Good evening!

Hellloooo everyone

Well well well. DJ PUP!

Hellohello Jon and Co, really enjoying this track

Oh! It's a party like that! Hi @Pup, & every every

Can I call you FoEMG&SS for short?

Hihii!

Ohi DJ Pup

TAndyyyy hey good to see ya

Sure, or ears👂

Happy Drive season as well, to all who celebrate

Drive going well. 90.05% of the way from this year's goal thanks to so many of you!

Good evening, Jon, good evening chatters.

Donutage!

@Jon, we are celebrating the arrival of our new shirts, me and Mrs from Maryland

Did the tale of the mind boggling app instructions have anything to do with playing this track?

What's the birds-eye lowdown on this caper, whatever that means?

Alex, more that the Lourve art heist got me thinking about the band Art Heist!

Freedom of association! Whose heads? Our heads! 😄

Very nice, Rob.

hi, friends. Delighted that I get some time in my workday to actually listen! hi, Jon!

Jen! This is a welcome surprise.

for me too!

Really enjoyed making a two second guest appearance on your show last Friday.

Hello Jon! Hello Everyone!

Dan's here!

I was going to add, I wish I could offer a chair to you as you did for me...

Dan, how did your big livestream go? I was sorry I could not attend more but I was at a work retreat from Thursday night on. Ducked in when I could.

Livestream was a lot of fun, although Youtube kicked me off for copyright violations

I wonder if Twitch is the way to go should you decide to do something similar again...

I need to follow your pre-marathon conditioning routine next time

Everyone is telling me twitch.

Wowee zowee!

Indeed, Matt. How are you doing?

Doing good thank you sir

whoa, did not know anyone had covered this song

⛴️⛴️⛴️ 🌊🌊🌊

Happy anniversary (sad anniversary??) Edmund Fitzgerald!

Got the clam strips & weed & wprb so no complaints here

If I didn't play it this week, when would I play it?! Also, when did this event become A Big Thing on the Internet??

Got any whale songs on tap for Exploding Whale Day?

Jimboooo! Joe!

waza Jen

French Dip Day too

THIS is how I find out it is Exploding Whale Day?

And Kathleen Hanna's birthday!

Sorry, Jon! I thought you knew!

Great Lakes roll call! Lake Ontario wooo!

Aw man I missed the Exploding Whale block party.

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/11/its-exploding-whale-day-in-oregon-10-things-to-know-about-the-blubber-blast-55-years-later.html

I had no idea that this wreck was *only* 50 years ago. Kind of like how I thought New York, New York was a song from the 50s but it actually came out after I was born...

Time is fake.

There used to be a weird napster/soulseek era instrumental cover the Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald that was credit to Pearl Jam. Dunno if it was real or not.

Got a nice Edmund Fitz patch at one of the north shore lake Superior lighthouses!

hi, @matt. French dip day!

A friend went to see Tortoise with the Chicago Philharmonic last night and said it was senational.

edmund_fitzgerald_pearl_jam.MP3.exe

Pronounced Fronch Deeep

I would have loved to see one of their upcoming shows this week, Jon. I've always wanted to hear them live, maybe next tour!

I may try and swing.

bout time we had some axial seamounts round here

jimboooooooo yesssssss

OAT DOHG (hotdog)

Wend and saw Wednesday and Daffo last night in Brooklyn, it was surreal hearing most of the crowd singing along. What a good time!

OG Sins! nice

Nice, TAndy!

Sam Adams reminded me this existed. Again, if not this week...when?

Joe Franklin Show for the win!

fame

That was a cold mic situation

No lights for me, just clouds. : (

A friend in Morristown got some good photos of it, I didn't see it though

Joe Franklin Show was a special thing indeed.

Capital Weather Gang ‪@capitalweather.bsky.social‬ 4:37 pm Eastern Time 🌌 Latest geomagnetic storm is underway... but updated data suggests it may fall short of last night’s show -- strong or moderate, not severe -- which prob keeps aurora north of the DC area. Still, things changed fast last night 👀 … best viewing odds: this evening through around midnight!

I'll pull over at the Princeton Battlefield and look north later.

I couldn't see anything last night from my front deck, way too much light pollution and then some clouds in my berg. So I probably will skip it tonight altogether

That sounds like a good thing to do, Jon. Good luck!

Was certainly cloudy when I went to check the skies.

NOAA prediction. Weather permitting it's looking like it will be somewhat low on the horizon (red "viewline" is just about mid jersey). My experience is they fade in and out so even on a good night they can be a crapshoot. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

Thanks, Alex (HRL).

TV Repairmann tour only single! Nice one, selector dj!

Of course the gubmint could be wrong....

Princeton Battlefield! Nice, Jon! Ye may have to put on Ween's Freedom of 76 just for the, ya know, Idk why

True true. I'll see what my eyes show me.

Got a spectacular show in the MA/VT/NH confluence last nite

Jealous, Jimboooo.

loved that Zonk song, Jon

jimboooooo nice!

Thanks, Zach! Zonk!

Wreckless Eric! He played a super small local show here a couple years ago. He was pretty charming.

In a grizzled, old rocker way.

This record seems to be him re-recording an old collection he wasn't happy with at the time. I'm intrigued.

bout time had some grizzled on the show

Water Damage! Oreo Double Stufs! Munch em if ya got em

I picked up his then-current album Leisureland at that show. There were a few songs on it I liked a bunch.

He's always solid as a bare minimum.

Gonna have to split in a minute. As always, a pleasure & a privilege to have you on the airwaves, Jon.

Be well, sir.

You also!

reminds me of the NYC trains in the tunnels. Also have a vague feeling Ive said this before, here, and about Water Damage.

I have a friend who works for the NY Transit Museum who might also be a Water Damage fan...

Hey Jon. Hey chatters. That new Tortoise record is so good. I got the vinyl, can't stop listening. While I enjoy the songs individually, I think it works best as a complete listen in one sitting.

Beep when you see a rat. - my son's instructions to the subway driver, 2007

NY Transit Museum!

Brian, on first blush I decided I liked it but wasn't sure how often I would return to it. Now I think listening all the way through is the way to go.

@Matt I got some oreos here haha. not double stuffed, but they'll do.

Brian K yessssss. The official snack of Water Damage.

Brian K in the ZONE

you know it

and re: trts. it's a grower for sure. can't stop thinking about it whenever I put back in its sleeve.

oddly enough this WD calls to mind King Buzzo's solo album, which was similarly mechanical, wheezy, dark, and repetitive.

I thought for sure the album closer would either open or close their philharmonic show. Instead it was apparently part of their second post-intermission set.

also NY transit museum rules. Got a tour when I was in the city earlier this year. Neat checking out the old cars and turnstiles.

Brian K sounds rad. There is a Barnum & Bailey circus museum in FL I wanna visit, and, like Jon, my brother from another, I know someone who works there

Niche museums rule

I still need to go check out the new Princeton art museum that just reopened after ~five years.

altho it is a bit painful when things from my generation, my g g g g g generation, turn retro and museum-worthy. Wince a lil.

very weird that Gen X is considered retro, but tempus fugit!

Like a Rubik's Cube in a museum; seems like just yesterday I was smashing mine, with a hammer, in suburban NJ. Unsupervised of course.

I for one enjoy seeing one of those clear / orange iMacs in a museum.

Its nice to be awake and cognisant during a new Water Damage playback :)

My wife texted me to say that her phone and the stereo are slightly out of sync so when she brought the former downstairs while both were playing WPRB she entered an accidental K hole of her own creation.

I love when that happens

Just had a minute or so of very choppy streaming on Apple Music/iTunes, Streamguys, and Radiorethink. I think it's back to normal

*all simultaneously

noticed some cutting here too, luckily it's back up and running

Working up a good autistic rocking motion.

Though it was hard to tell with Water Damage ;-)

Good to know. Got a text saying the same.

And it's back to normal

and there it goes again

aaand it ... came back, chopped up, and is alternating states rn

I just started to notice that too, I thought it was the song at first.

Blame it on the solar storm.

Sent texts to those who need to know this. First time in ages.

gotta run for band practice. thanks for the show and chat.

Have a good practice, Brian.

Huh, the solar storm ... maybe that's the actual cause??

Not joking either, apparently tonight is when we'll start seeing some impacts beyond the lights from the storm. Nothing major ofc just ruining our music!! Damn sun.

Seems to be stable again for the moment.

Water Damage should rename themselves Aurora Damage

Thought you might be scratching. Coulda been.

Bye Brian

Sahel sounds! Soundin good dj

We survived the solar flares with solar flair.

RIDE THE SOLAR FLARE

Retail Simps!

set the controls for the heart of the sun

them some big words in that album title

Nice

TALK ABOUT IT, REV SOLOMON! TRUTH!

TAndy LOL

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2RDE4B48IwKF4kYf1E9ZScv_FYoB9Mlmnh1wwHASmAQ&s

that mic break was so heavy I threw a couch

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4tbd62v0wkj51.jpg

Let's hear it for the WPRB fall silent drive, WOOT!

[Klingon war yell]

ONWARD!

[Yaujta war yell]

er, Yautja

Matt, I see you are throwing couches again?

Rob MD lol. DJ Jen threw a seat cushion. This keeps up and it'll be a furniturenado

Matt, I for one appreciate that you always have that couch at the ready.

wprb plays awesome music! Speaking o which, Rosasolis did a very cool jungle Herzog argentinian theme show that was amazing

Sorry to miss that one.

Thanks and praise Jon!

Thanks for the show Jon!!

Real fun, lively chat this week. Thanks for making it happen, all. Get ready for next Wednesday!

Too bad, I missed you tonight.

Thank you for the music, Jon. I hope you can see the aurora on your way home

@Matt, Furniturenado the movie?

It happens to the best of us, Richard.

Alex C thanks & praise reminds me of that bad brains song. NICE!

Rob MD LOLOOL Tornado cinema is quite a genre

Darius is a helluva player. Banger, dj!

damn you Rob MD now I have to pen the script FURNITURENADO lolol

Thx jonnnnnnnñnnnnnñnnnnnnnnnnnn

(you're welcome)

Jon that was a hoot, nice curation! That WD song was great, like a broken carnie ride under a sunset

Thx Jon catch you on the flippity - fun show this here evenin'

this band needs to learn to say RAW DA JERZEY WAY

The band name Wet Tuna is NOT MY FAVORITE.

With that...goodnight!