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Jon Solomon

Jul 1, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

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.

7.1.26

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:06 PM		Set Break
5:07 PM		Air Miami World Cup Fever Me. Me. Me. 4AD 1994
5:09 PM		Set Break
5:12 PM		Swash Slow Bark Powers of Ten Swash 2026 https://swash.bandcamp.com/album/powers-of-ten
5:16 PM		Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer Brothers Grimm N Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer 2026 Frankie Pulitzer = Tom Hardy.
5:18 PM		SML The Drums Spontaneous Music Live International Anthem 2026
5:42 PM		PJ Harvey Voyager N Voyager 2026
5:46 PM		Tortoise Swung from the Gutters TNT Thrill Jockey 1998
5:52 PM		Dale Crover Harvest Moon/The Bit N Get Yer Ba-Ba's Out Joyful Noise 2026 Half Neil Young cover, half Melvins cover.
6:01 PM		The Embarrassment D-Rings (Skeel Session Version) Heyday 1979-83 1995 1980 recording, 2026 remaster.
6:03 PM		Set Break
6:12 PM		999 No Pity The 999 Singles Album Parlophone UK 1978 B-side to their second single.
6:14 PM		Sun Ra and His Arkestra East Two N East Two + 7 2026 Previously unreleased October 1972 recording.
6:29 PM		The Feelies Extracts Extracts From The Forthcoming Release By New York's Most Original Combo Stiff 1980
6:33 PM		Heavenly Bodies Ursus arctos L N AM I AN ANIMAL? 2026
6:57 PM		Ciccone Youth Burnin' Up 45 New Alliance 1986 Mike Watt + Sonic Youth cover Madonna.
7:01 PM		Dickson Gawani So Tinha N Studio Simpa: Digital dance music on VCD from Dagbon, Northern Ghana V/A Autotune The World 2026
7:06 PM		Born Against Mount the Pavement 9 Patriotic Battle Hymns for Children Vermiform 1991
7:08 PM		Set Break
7:15 PM		Dr. Dog 37:14 Live on WPRB https://www.drdogmusic.com
7:51 PM		Set Break
7:54 PM		Guardian Singles Tea Lights Exploding Guardian Singles Trouble In Mind 2021
7:56 PM		Baba ould Hembara Ma’na ‘Arbiya (Lebyaal) Wallahi Le Zein!: Wezin, Jakwar & Guitar Boogie From Mauritania V/A Latitude 2011

Chat is archived.

Chat? Open!

You? Radio? Tonight?

Hiiiii

Hello hello.

You ready for an empty nest?

I haven't really been thinking about it those terms yet but I am going straight from Los Angeles up the west coast on tour so...

We are LIVE!

That "dance dance dance on the radio" clip always throws me off

Hi Jon and all!

Hey Alex! Welcome on in!

Was in Upper Darby on Friday, not too far from Media.

I might be found there on occasion. Usually getting a ticket.

I've always wondered why there isn't a lower darby. greetings Jon Solomon! greetings chatters!

Hello DJ Tenderloin!

Sort of like West Brunswick...

Perhaps in the archaeological record.

I'm watching Belgum vs Senegal right now

Here's a Q for the radio cognoscenti. When broadcasting music, is the broadcaster free to use a streaming service?

hey now. at least the music is cool.

LGM!!

paul rudd is handsome!

He is! Chat regular Classy Pat did find pictures of Paul Rudd impersonators I sort of looked like, which was even funnier.

Hey Dale!

Goooooooooooooooooooal

I have the BBC text updates scrolling as I can't / shouldn't log into Telemundo on the same laptop I am pushing most my audio from.

If Commie Francis is out there - Mazel Tov on the house!!!

De que equipo?

A sweaty hello to you all! I tuned in just in time to hear about your Paul Rudd Award, Jon. Congratulations!

Senegal 2-0

Oh nice!

Donutage, good to see ya here.

Please keep me updated.

Or as the French say, BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Senegal. Looks like USA wont have to face Belgium. WHich is good and bad.

Belgium owes us one

No jinxes, Alex!

Lotta fut still to bol.

A belated qualification "should we win"

I've enjoyed how the rest of the broadcasters' contempt for alexei lalas has grown more overt

Alex, to answer your streaming question the short answer is "no."

Hello Jon! The return of the INS

Save for the first match of the tournament I have watched 'em all on Telemundo. It is improving my Spanish. Last night I remembered how to say "where is the charger for my laptop."

Marcus!

Just emailed you my Wayne coyne anecdote

Back in the 90's in NYC I was stopped and asked if I was John Starks by someone who should have know better. Starks is 6'5" and I am 5'11" on a good day but standing next to Ewing he looks nromal

If you need me to relay, happy to do so.

That's amazing Marcus. I was asked if I was a professional baseball player once, but to be fair it was a child asking and I was in a dugout.

I got a message in my rarely-used Gmail last night asking me to do a radio interview about children in sports. Near-certain they were looking for another Jon Solomon who covers such territory. I should have said yes.

This "other" Jon Solomon has a child named Josh. I can not imagine having a child named Josh.

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/jon-solomon/

My name twin was a serial killer

When I search "Jon Solomon" in Google AI:

Famous Namesakes: The most prominent figures with this name include a well-known New Jersey independent radio DJ/event host at 103.3 FM WPRB (Jon Solomon) and an American political investigative journalist/commentator (John/Jon Solomon)

How have all your weeks been? Was one of you wearing a WPRB hat at the Tortoise show on Friday?

Marcus, at least this time AI said I was alive.

Plus that power pop guy

There's always a power pop guy.

kind of dizzy right now....

Had to look it up, he was in Pezband. Wurster name dropped him once and I nearly choked

The heat OMBG?

The rhythms? Both?

My parents are going to an evening of a jazz festival but did not the know the name of the act they are seeing. I looked it up and it is SML. Hot ticket. I'm jealous!

My youngest cousin is named Josh. It doesn't seem to discomfit him.

I just can't imagine having a son named Josh Solomon...and I can imagine quite a lot!

Pausa de hidrataction.

Your parents are pretty cool. My parents would've never gone to see something like this

They purchased the tickets without knowing anything about the band. They like the series and the venue. Last time they saw a Mary Halvorson project!

At first I was like "Donde esta el congelador de mi portatil" but then I was like, no, not the freezer for my laptop...

"Josh Solomon" would be a lot.

My mom liked things like Montavani, the Ray Coniff Singers, Ferante & Teicher, crap like that , I kid you not.

If you have a son you can name him King. King Solomon.

This is my son Chanama.

Chanama Solomon.

My mom was buying 78's with Lester Young on them.

Ha!

They killed at Woodstock

Andrew, I saw two of your bandmates on Friday in King of Prussia.

Boutros Boutros Solomon.

Has a certain ring.

They said Tortoise sounded best by the portapotties.

I was very happy with the sound in my lawn chair location. Their sound guy Elliot knows how to make a gazebo sound great!

Now "They said Tortoise sounded best by the portapotties." has a certain ring!

Not the first time I've seen him man the board at a gazebo...

I had to move to a cooler level of the house.

Didn't know your folks are now in SML. That's cool.

Kids are in town, going to grab early sushi before the game

Oh fun. Have a lovely night, Dan!

It is no longer Small / Medium / Large, it is now Solomon / Mom / Lawyer (retired).

Lol

Enjoy that sushi Dan - that's not a bad idea...

There is a bar between the studio and my car where I could watch the first half but I also consider said bar cursed...

great stuff jon!

How cursed? Like Poltergeist-level or Ghostbusters-level?

Hi, Michael!

Donutage, excellent question. Something bad always seems to happen when I am there. The "vibes" are "bad."

Hmmmmm.

I am a man of science so I don't go in for that stuff, but I did just get back from New Orleans and the hotel we stayed in had a book you could sign and fill out if you saw a ghost. Cuz the hotel is haunted. Suposedly. Like every hotel I would imagine in NOLA

I too am of science but also the second-to-last time I went to this bar someone I attended high school with but hadn't seen in decades had a black out drunk panic attack and I had to chase after them down the street for their own safety.

Belgium got one back 2:1 senegal

~10 to go, Alex?

10 includes potential extra time

2 up. I regret my jinx

Hope it was a good trip, DJ Tenderloin! Ghosts or no.

WOAH.

Greetings from the surface of the sun.

Yikes, Jon.

Heya Mary!

great cover! was this in the Neil show?

Hi Mary as well additionally

This only came out recently!

“Harvest Moon” strikes me as aspirational in this heat.

yeah, maybe don't go back to that bar Jon. Plenty of other watering holes in Princeton I would imagine!

So it is in the folder for a future NY night.

Hello Andrew!

No other places with game on between studio and car but I'll see what I can swing...

Ambitiously hope to be en casa by media tiempo.

thanks for harvest moon, one of my old time sentimental favorites.

This cover will take you for a ride.

Had to refill the wildlife water stations in the yard & missed the Paul Rudd talk. Sounds stellar. I'm def here for the music, but you miss one set break...jeez.

Oh wow, was not expecting this ending

Amy! May be over your way on the 5th.

oh into the melvins1

The softer(?) side of Dale Crover

This is great

This record seems to be all covers and I'm very curious what the track Doug Yuletide shall bring.

this is getting very better.

Crazy. love it.

Actually maybe it isn't all covers. Either way!

Doug Yuletide!

I like this. Interesting

i spent a significant amount of time listening to the melvins today.

Doug Yuletide will have to be previewed for xmas no? btw - that's a great name. Can't believe it was just sitting there the whole time. doug yuletide.

going to extra time tied at 2

One can definitely do that, OMBG.

Thanks, Alex. I can turn my eyes from the BBC text updates for a few then...

Open Tuning party

Tenderloin - right? Hidden in plain sight

still locked in on HiFi

12 string open tuning?

Got a ticket for Bug Club tomorrow eve. Taking bets on how hot it will be inside the Ukie.

Oh fun! I was going to go see Pissed Jeans but also wonder if the heat might PPD it.

and rewarded with vitage noize rock from lawrence kansas

Cracking a bottle. All parties related to work agree that Philly public transportation utterly will fail tomorrow in the heat.

this tune is a toe tapper!

Well, Andrew, let’s put it this way—do you have a living will?

* will utterly. But I'm the "very better" guy so....

wuh?

Time and tide Waites for no man.

It's also International Reggae Day.

Woo hoo!! My add $5 goodies were just delivered.!!

Oh that's awesome Zombologist. For several reasons.

Cool!

I drop packages at the depot but never get shipping confirmation so...

81? Well fuck me runnin...

Was planning on seeing Union Pacific 4014 "Big Boy" chug through along the Schuylkill River tomorrow...at Noon...when the real feel will be... 110 degrees. Do I really want to do this?

saw 999 in a bar in buffalo in 1979. i couldn't hear for three days.

I hope you all who pledged to "ADD 5" get your swag soon and thank you for your patience!

I saw 999 at 9:30 club in late 1983. Great show!

@Andrew I’m doing that as well, up in Pottstown

I’m going to die

Sqaw SUn Ra at the bottom line in mid 80. Still cant tell if it was a good or bad show.

Incredible, Alex.

I own a surprising number of 999 singles, yet I also bought their singles LP when I saw it.

Not far frpm Zappa here.

Saw Sun Ra in '78 and (I think) '86. Both fantastic shows.

halfway through extra time. no new scores

John from PREX has a great story of being in high school, wandering around the Princeton University campus and randomly coming across a Sun Ra performance that changed him.

Well, that's basically the story.

But imagine being like 15 and you walk upon a Sun Ra concert.

How it should work

My older brother took me to the '78 show. I was 14.

If that was 1986 or so, I was at that Sun Ra performance!

'86 show was at the Painted Bride in Phiully

Chris, impossibly good timing. Was it outside? If so, seems very possible.

Yes, outside near the U-Store

Good story, Jon

The Arkestra all wore Michael Jackson spaceman-esque pleather suits.

Yep indeed. That's part of the story too, Chris!

COME ON, SENEGAL!

The world is funny, all you have to do is show up. :)

Ran across Bo Diddly at a random bandstage in Central Park. Did a 5 song set to promote a show that evening. Blew my mind.

Jon - there is def a lot happening here in my other home county.

Alex, that's also great fortune. I once joked a concert I was driving past in Hamilton, Ontario was Loverboy and it actually was Loverboy!

Wild stories. I think the only show I've wandered into like that was Pat Dull & His Media Whores at a recird store in Columbus. They were a good band, but not exactly famous.

I saw Bo Diddley too - also at 9:30. He lived in DC at the time. he was amazing - he must've been in his late 60's I think, he was kicking his leg up, over his head. incredible.

@ Andrew Chalfen That rings a bell. the show I saw mustve been that tour.

It was at the memorably named Magnolia Thunderpussy.

Feelies!

The pride of Haledon!

The only time I was at Mohegan Sun I walked up to a band playing the Wolf's Den just in time for them to say "Thank you! We're Toto! Good night!"

Toto! That's funny. You may have seen the best part of that concert!

There were like 13 dudes on stage too.

Oh wow, segue into "Everbody's Git Something to Hide"! Sweet!

Feelies promotional flexi with excerpts of three songs that EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Mike Lupica left on my desk as a gift.

Cooooool!

@donutage: Buttkiss and Thunderpussy are also famous NYC Drag Queens who helped start Wigstock with Ru Paul back in the 90's

It was very sweet of him.

Big Sixers trade just happened.

Toto was like all studio dudes who played on other records if my memory serves.

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/breaking-news/article/jaylen-brown-reportedly-traded-to-76ers-for-paul-george-in-blockbuster-deal-after-celtics-miss-out-on-giannis-antetokounmpo-221544659.html

Seems positive for Philadelphia overall, but they continue to have a lot of guards!

What's the review here, Alex?

@Marcus - interesting!

Blegium awarded a penalty in the last minute of OT

Oof.

Hello everyone

Good evening, Rob!

My son's comment in that trade: "They are both equally ass".

Still tied, I imagine they will do penalties

3:2 Belgium

Ugh.

: (

Belgium scored!

Well look at that

Belgium still making trouble for Africa

This is not the result I had hoped for!

I feel like I've seen this movie before.

Marcus, good thing Belgium didn't play DRC earlier today (DRC was a Belgian colony)

Meanwhile, Heavenly Bodies is sounding great. I certainly can bear hearing this track

Very soothing stuff. Really like this band.

(Ursus arctos is the scientific name for the Brown Bear and Grizzly Bear) #BiologyNerd

@ Rob growing up in the 60s it was called The blegian congo .

you hate to see the colonists win!

Then Zaire

free kick for senegal at the top of the box. looks like this is it.

Game over 3:2

Appreciate the updates regardless of outcome, Alex.

Important anniversary alert: Big Trouble in Little China was released 40 years ago tomorrow.

I have colleagues from Belgium who will now be congratulated for being from the same country as somebody who did something.

@Jon Dennis just called this “a banger”

I think most of my friend Ryan's co-workers are Belgian.

Jon: with the amazing James Hong who has almost 500 acting credits

James Hong is still with us as of my typing this sentence!

Was in Nashville for a work thing (late 90's?) & happened upon a free outdoor music event by the riverfront. Looked like a regular thing, people in lawn chairs, beautiful evening- don't remember seeing it advertised. Saw this older man pull up beside the stage in a van/camper. He got out, helped his wife out passenger side & showed her to a seat in front, and then went on stage to play. Some classy R.L. Burnside right there

That's sensational, Amy.

Wow

So it's dinner time and CJ &D Pizza night at Cartesian - thinking of you Jon - so I'm out. Everyone have a wonderful evening! Great show Jon as always. Cheers-

James Hong is 97 and did a voice in something I watched rather recently.

I can't compete with CJ & D!

I know, I've tried!

Mangia, Tenderloin!

Oh, wow. I was just thinking about this song recently.

I was thinking of "Get into the groovy"

I was also gifted this single by (the same) someone who accidentally purchased a duplicate copy.

Shall spare you Tuff Titty Rap.

My college roommate Ivan had this 7"

WPRB has the 12" for sure.

@Alex, same

Jon, some 80's nostalgia for you: driving Route 1 south and knowing you're close to home when WPRB finally comes in static free at the South Brunswick water tower on Sand Hill Road

Beautiful. Someone once said "you can only count it as Central Jersey if WPRB comes in clearly."

Is this auto tune Africana? I think I'll barff mow.

"Hi-energy electronic dance music from Northern Ghana, created by farmers turned musicians working out of DIY rural studios. Relentless percussion, trance loops, heavy autotune and slinky VST synths. Sourced from locally-released VCDs circulating the markets of Dagbon and entirely unavailable outside the region until now."

Yea, we do that in philly too

"So Tinha" is Portuguese for "I only had"

I will work that into my pending break!

"You only had" not "I"

Am I right that the nh is the portuguese tilda

Ugh it's 90 to 95 degrees outside at 7 pm in both the DC area and the Philly/Princeton area

Alex: that's right

pronounced "cheen-ya"

Gonna have to clock out shortly. Thanks for a hot show on a hotter evening, Jon.

Thanks, Marcus.

I was close!

this is so awesome!

Donutage, have a great night. I am supposed to run tomorrow and that SHOULD BE SOMETHING.

You're not so bad yourself, Michael.

what's up john sorry got caught up in the game b4 forgot to hit back chat!

Zero need to be sorry. Ever. The chat is always here, we are not.

preesh!

Dr. Dog!! I've been waiting for this to make its way back to the show Jon!

Alright folks, I’m off to dinner—keep cool everyone

TAndy!

Mary, have fun tonight.

Actually, that goes for all of you!

Thanks Jon! Great whiplash 999:Sun Ra:Feelies. Please arrive home safely as your first priority.

You've got it, Alex. Fun times on the radio. Buskirk on deck.

Haven't heard this session in ages. Brought back some nice memories.

Thanks Jon for this show. I hope you make it home safely and in time to watch most of the World Cup match!

Thanks Jon!

I appreciate you all.

Good song, Jon. Great show!

We did it!