Jon Solomon Wed Aug 5 with Jon Solomon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

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Showtime!

Hey Jon! Jazz hands a-ready! 👐

Alex is first!

It aint Wednesday without human radio station.

I know I ain't crazy.

Hola, Patricio.

Greetings all from 3 hours ago

Hiiiii

Que hora es?

Dannnnnnnnn.

The time is now

Hey all

lollll

jon! salut!

Zach! EJ! OMBG!

Salut.

Are you playing music that I know?

Boston rock legend.

Alex, I don't know what you know!

Here's the Jim Sullivan-penned obituary.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/04/boston-garage-rock-lyres-frontman-jeff-conolly-remembrance

Anyone get up to anything exciting this week?

his energy was off the charts. in front of a crowd it was like "dang that guy is wound up, he might break something"

There were so many Lyres records to choose from but that song yelled "WPRB" to me.

I was asking both rhetorically and excitedly. I must be learning.

Those are both good ways of being.

to me he is the guy from DMZ. dont jump me mother.....

That DMZ live (?) record is well-worn in the WPRB library. Perhaps next week!

the guitar tone drives me wild!

studio version, debut album 1978

Record cover makes them look like UFO or something.

bad cover art is a problem

Sounds like some of his best / worst ideas never "made it to market."

While I was covering a gig in 1986 — with Lyres ostensibly promoting a new album, “Lyres, Lyres” — Conolly was backstage, post-show, waving a bottle of wine, veering between flip and self-flagellating: “This album is dead. Dead, man! I mean, I like the album plenty, but the next album will be even better. It will be called ‘Playpen,’ and on the cover I’ll be in an adult-sized crib with bottles of Stoli and porno magazines going ‘Wah! Why did she leave me?’”

sometimes i miss that city.

makes more sense than philly, expensive like new york but much much smaller.

I mostly agree, but I seem to be able to get around Philly easier than Boston historically.

still like Jersey better, at least where i am at

Word.

Hello Jon!

Hello world!

Jon this one’s going on the Halloween porch playlist

Amy, hello! Donutage, hello! Zach, hello!

I have a Can "greatest hits" CD that I inherited from Pat O's collection and it had an edited version of this. Couldn't bring myself to air the truncated option.

@Zach - I love that there's a Halloween porch playlist.

Kind of like making noises into the fan.

Some new live CAN footage from 1971 was unearthed this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Gs6-6fbW8

@Amy, it’s the curse of living in Lambertville. You go all in on Halloween or the children will hold grudges.

Lambertville Halloween is no joke.

I love turning on the radio to atonal moaning (complimentary).

The moaning will turn more tonal as the night proceeds.

perfect

I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but it is VERY humid in Greater Jersey today. I discovered this while unloading a moving truck.

The quality of this new Can footage, likely like the band themselves, is high.

Love having a flood advisory AND a heat advisory in the same day.

I need like 3 showers now

suns out again!

Laughed at I need more water re chat comments

It's a TRAP! Those are fully operational rainclouds up there,

Confident I will get soaked and sunburned on my post-show walk to the car.

Also, RIP Maha of Habibi Funk fame

A former co-worker of mine told me a story of someone giving out comic books (kids chose from various) & that's how he got into comics+The Punisher as a kid.

Jon, just learned from DebbyWebby that King Buzzo and some Butthole Surfers have a new supergroup, promises high weirdness

Next week, Dan. Please remind me.

edit to add: on Halloween. Not someone just randomly inviting kids over ..

Better than the person in our neighborhood giving out religious DVDs one year...

We start giving kids the choice between candy and a raw potato once the candy gets low. Potatoes are very popular.

Lol Zach

I would choose potato

herro dere.

The we all cheer POTATO!

Potataureg

pillar

Hi Pat.

Trick or treating for us was like heading into battle. It involved strategy, maps, best approaches & costumes that worked well on foot w/a pillowcase full of candy.

🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘🌘

Jimboooooo!

Also, Mats I missed ya! Dale too! It is like I'm distracted by the radio or something!

de Kidal, not to be confused with KADAL https://kadal.bandcamp.com/album/kadal

your undivided attention to your craft is appreciated.

well said Dale

Always try to keep one eye on the chat (mostly to make sure Pat is behaving).

👁️

Well played and welcome, TAndy.

Lol

Songs of Josh Malina???

Josh Malina does Farewell Transmission, Jason Molina joins the cast of Sports Night.

Wiest Wing

Arthur Russell !

i really need to set an alarm for this rather than go to Bandcamp to hear what you played.

i saw glen hansard at the keswick

nothin like the present moment Andrew!

I jot down songs in the Notes app all the time so I don't forget to come back to them.

Also, I forgot about the Stoli-waving.

Jon is excellent at scanning for new & exciting musics & being open to suggestion, as are all da great wprb djs

Mats, if only I could keep up with the finds you send my way!

i never looked in to glen hansard because i was so sick of that falling slowly song being on wfuv every hour.

Re: Malina/Molina, I recently had to confess that mentions of Jason Molina always make me think of Jason Momoa

I am starting to think I am very Bad At Names

Jon you do great!

Ok, so Malina sings Farewell Transmission, Momoa is in Sports Night and Molina plays Duncan Idaho. Got it.

donutage my precision has gone way down over time, I get similar things confused constantly. Fuzzbrain from all the fuzz

Jon does his best

Molina is in a bonkers early film called The Bad Batch by a female director. Good stuff. Unrecognizable Jim Carrey.

wait that's MOMOA lol

I see Jason Molina and I immediately see Juana Molina and then I go listen to Juana Molina. So it's a known issue.

I need to re-shift for Juana Molina.

I got clunked on da head being born in Ridgewood NJ once upon a tyme and have never beent the same LOL. Spaciness started early.

Sup, Jon! It was terrific meeting you last weekend. Still looking forward to my first root beer seltzer, but in the meantime I found a "sunshine" flavored one yesterday.

Tyler sunshine is a flavor?! Rad

Tyler, outstanding to see you. Gave you a shout out in the open. I got a case of root beer seltzer for the offices here.

Sunshine is a La Croix flavor. It tastes like a Danny Boyle film!

Jon I love that film. The violence of sunlight

Mombasa!

I want a 28 Days Later Rage-flavored beverage

served at the Bone Temple

Tyler, the non-Wegmans root beer seltzer from Flavortown is frequently found at Aldi.

This is sweeeeeet

in Flavortown, ask for Guy Fieri

That's who behind these Waterloo limited edition flavors!

Hello, I'm late to the party

ROB!

gotta dash. Good night y'all!

"thoroughly brutal" EP is an excellent descriptor, Jon

later donut

I listened to the new Sweeping Promises in full yesterday and I described it as "unrelentingly enjoyable." Put it on the jacket sticker, Sub Pop!

I’m fully sold on this live set already.

Instant unintentional dancing

Get down, Zach!

Pat, please post the link to the recent interview you did with Honus Honus from Man Man in the chat. I insist!

floor under Zach getting molten

great Tom Waits meets klezmer vibe

Jon you engineered? Great use of natural echo

Put these floors together myself, Mats. Top notch dancing floors

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2026/07/21/honus-honus-man-man-vampire-lestat/

I like how this band speaks their own language

he plays a vampire on tv

I did engineer. This was when they were closer to Gogol Bordello than whatever different flavor of weirdness they landed on recently.

Somehow, zero muppets in this band.

Manamana

You know it’s a great set when your wife gently requests you relocate to the basement

Or joins you on the dance floor!

One of these Wednesdays. We have a wedding to dance at saturday, I’ll let her save her energy haha

That is fair!

Fun read Classy Pat. Thanks for the link.

https://gattamorta.bandcamp.com/track/black-hall Supergroup I mentioned. Looks like Coady didn't last very long in High On Fire.

This is brand new brand new!

hard to keep up with things in this accelerated world we find ourselves, but lotsa wondrous creativity out there

such as Man Man !

haaaaaaaa the Big Top!

the circus days of olde

SNAKE HANDLING now we tawkin!

The beginning of that set definitely had some Circus Contraption adjacent sounds happening

Pioneertown! Pappy & Harriet's is the tiniest place. Fun desert venue.

I just followed you this week, Jon. “I’m doing my part!”

Oh? I will look for that and return serve.

instagram.com/jonsolomon

48 followers to go...

I got a Chevy with a Mopar cam - Ween, I'll Be Yer Jonny On the Spot

I am also close to 3000 followers, I am 242 away

The race is on!

Thanks for the show Jon!

Pffft. You guys. I almost have 20 so like… look out!

I had a man man album but it sounded nothing like that live set

It was like, mellow indie rock

Curious? Which one, Scurrow?

Zach LOLOLOL that's the spirit

Gotta have gumption

Jon this is cool. Joburg! I am fascinated with african dutch zef culture and language

GUMPTION

Thank ye Jon for the curation! Well done. Nice chunes all around.

Last track! Pat is here and up next!

Great show (what I caught)! Ty Jon and until the next time

wprb forevah

Thanks Jon, great show as always

So great to be with you all this evening.

drive safe yall on the huwet roads

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:06 PM		Set Break
5:11 PM		Lyres Help You Ann On Fyre Ace of Hearts 1984 RIP Jeff "Monoman" Conolly.
5:14 PM		Mdou Moctar Adounia Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sahel Sounds 2015 "Rain the Color of Blue with A Little Red In It"
5:19 PM		Photo-Curio waterbear Photo-Curio (2026)
5:29 PM		The Necessaries New Strangers In Town N Completely Necessary (Anthology 1978-1982) Omnivore Recordings 2026 The first authorized and (nearly) comprehensive anthology from this mid-’70s/early ’80s New York rock/punk/art scene band, who were Ed Tomney (Rage To Live, Luka Bloom), Jesse Chamberlain (Red Crayola), Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers), Arthur Russell (The Flying Hearts) and Randy Gun (Love Of Life Orchestra).
5:33 PM		CAN Aumgn Tago Mago United Artists 1970
5:50 PM		Shannon Lay I Need More Water N Past The Veil Many Hats Distribution 2026
5:55 PM		TV on the Radio Wolf Like Me Return to Cookie Mountain Touch and Go 2006 As heard in [redacted].
5:59 PM		Set Break
6:11 PM		Dead Moon Diamonds in the Rough Nervous Sooner Changes Tombstone Records 1995
6:14 PM		Amanar de Kidal Tarzoudé N Kel Tamasheq Sahel Sounds 2026
6:20 PM		Glen Hansard Being in Love It Was Triumph We Once Proposed…Songs of Jason Molina EP Plateau Records 2015 RIP.
6:25 PM		Peter Zummo feat. Arthur Russell Song IV (Quintet) Lateral Pass EP Foom 2014 Recorded in 1985, released in 2014.
6:40 PM		Knife in the Water Watch Your Back Red River Overcoat 1999
6:47 PM		Mwanahela & Golden Star Chombo Zanzibara 10: First Modern Taarab Vibes From Mombasa & Tanga, 1970-1990 V/A Buda Musique 2021
6:56 PM		Yard Act Cherophobe Rock N You're Gonna Need A Little Music 2026
6:58 PM		Set Break
7:10 PM		Man Man 28:46 Live on WPRB https://manmanbandband.bandcamp.com
7:38 PM		Set Break
7:45 PM		Mopar Stars Wreck The Bike L N Official Researchers Of The NJ Devil Perennial / K Records 2026
7:47 PM		Soul of the City feat. Kippie Moeketsi City Soul As-Shams Archive Vol. 2: Super Jazz from Joburg & Soweto 1974-1978 V/A As-Shams/The Sun 1975
7:54 PM		Ryan Huber Witching Hour N Witching Hour 2026

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