12/5/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Nerves – Get Me High – New Animal
Artanker Convoy – Alaska – Mature Fantasy – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Shebele’s Band – Kenoru Lebetchahe – Ethiopiques 22 – [C]
Stratotanker – Cowboy X – Trifecta – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
The For Carnation – Grace Beneath The Pines – Promised Works
The Jinx Clambake Explosion – To The East – Smash Hits – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
J.R. Ewing – Laughing With Daggers – Ride Paranoia – For Larry Hagman, I guess.

Metz – Wet Blanket – S/T – [N]
Stratotanker – Our Game Our Way – Gambit – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
.22 – The Acts Of Love – Pity
Artanker Convoy – Declasse – Brazil Compositions – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Bastro – I Come From A Long Line Of Shipbuilders – Peel Sessions – 1990.
Daughter – Do I Dare – Skin – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Parquet Courts – Borrowed Time – Light Up Gold

Artanker Convoy – 35:29 – Live on WPRB – RIP Joe Fiorentino.

Games – Listen – S/T – [N]
Art Con – Smokescreen – S/T – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Pavement – 5 – 4 = Unity – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – For Dave Brubeck.
Rites Of Spring – Remainder – 10″ – Demo tape, previously unreleased.
Stratotanker – Straitaway – The Miracle Of Flight – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Big Daddy Kane – Ooh, Aah, Nah-Nah-Nah (Master Mix) – 12″
Sonic Youth – Kill Yr Idols – Smart Bar – Chicago 1985 – Live recording. – [N]

Former Utopia – Schism – Ep – Forthcoming.
Artanker Convoy – Ejector – Cozy Endings – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Melotone Sisters with Amaqola Band – I Sivenoe – Next Stop…Soweto – [C]
The Jinx Clambake Explosion – Pretty White Girl – Smash Hits – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Codeine – Pea – When I See The Sun – [N]
Screamin’ Mee-Mees – Hot Sody – Live From The Basement 1975-1997 – RIP Jon Ashline.
Daughter – Hit Me – Skin – RIP Joe Fiorentino.

Stratotanker – Dream Her Back Better! – Out Of The Hanger! – RIP Joe Fiorentino.
Artanker Convoy – Winter Rain – Out Of State – RIP Joe Fiorentino.



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24-Hour Holiday Radio Show on WPRB, 2012 edition.


Hello December!

I wanted to give several weeks’ warning that I will be doing my 25th Annual 24-Hour Holiday Radio Show on 103.3 fm WPRB / wprb.com starting this Christmas Eve at 6:00 pm ET until Christmas day at 6:00 pm ET.

If you would like to submit music for airplay or make some requests, by all means get in touch.

Please also read the the public call for Christmas stories I posted a few weeks ago.

You can RSVP for the show on Facebook.

The studio webcam and live listener chat will go live here come the afternoon of December 24th.

Thanks.

Happy Holidays (eventually)!

Jon Solomon
jon@wprb.com



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A public call for 2012 Christmas Stories!


Thumbs up for Christmas!

In early December of last year I had the idea to ask a number of friends, musicians, comedians and others that I admired to record their definition of an original “Christmas story” which would then be interspersed throughout my annual 24-Hour Holiday Radio Show on 103.3 fm WPRB.

I was floored with what I received in such a short period of time, including pieces by Rick Rizzo (Eleventh Dream Day), Bill Goffrier (The Embarrassment/Big Dipper), Joel R.L. Phelps (Silkworm/The Downer Trio), Tom Scharpling (“The Best Show on WFMU”), Daniel Ralston (The Low Times Podcast), Aaron Herzog and Gregg Gethard (The Holding Court Podcast), Seth Herzog (“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”) and Ethan Sandler (“Crossing Jordan”).

You can listen to almost all of those archived recordings here.

It is now mid-November 2012 and the time has come to build on last year’s success! I’m not only going to be reaching out to more folks personally to record works for the marathon’s 24th installment but I also wanted to extend the offer TO YOU.

Record something between now and December 19th and there’s a chance it will make it into the show. It can be a reading of a favorite Xmas story, a cover of a holiday song you love or an original piece. I leave that in your hands.

It would be great if these did not exceed five minutes but if you run long…I am likely going to allow it.

For those of you I talked to who didn’t reach last year’s deadline, consider this a second chance!

Submissions can be sent to this email address. Please spread the word and have a happy holiday season.

Warmly,

Jon Solomon
103.3 fm WPRB



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11/14/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Evens – Wanted Criminals – The Odds
The Enemies – Capitol Idea – This Is It!: Greater Buffalo’s Greatest 1977-1984 – [C]
Sic Alps – Moviehead – S/R – [N]
Mr. Magic & Pookey Blow – Earth Break – The Third Unheard: Connecticut Hip Hop 1979-1983 – [C]
And The Swede – The First Song On This Record – S/T
Todd Barry – Germaphobe – Super Crazy – [N]
The Drags – Who’s Got The Electricity – Stop Rock And Roll!

Tyvek – Midwest Basements – On Triple Beams – Forthcoming.
Mincemeat Or Tenspeed – American Supernatural Warfare – The Tower
Ted Leo – The Lies Of Handsome Men – .mp3 – Francesca Blumenthal song.
Tara Cross – Oriental Men – Christmas – [C]
Clinic – Miss You (Peaking Lights remix) – Miss You
Sondra Sun-Odeon – Golden Bird – Aetherea
Titus Andronicus – Ecce Homo – Local Business – [N]

White Wards – Waste My Time – 45
Ahleuchatistas – Heads Full Of Poison – Heads Full Of Poison – [N]
The Karl Hendricks Trio – The Men’s Room At The Airport – Live on WFMU – Recorded 11/10/12.
U.S. Girls – Work From Home – GEM – [N]
Times New Viking – Try Harder – Merge Records 2012 Sampler – [C]
??? – Endiaw Mela Mela – Sleeping In The Market – Ethiopian Music & Sounds From Amhara
Nude Beach – Cathedral Echoes – II – [N]

Walls – Cheap Equipment – The Future Is Wide Open – [N]
Buzzcocks – Pulse Beat – The Peel Sessions – Recorded 7/9/77. – [R]
Steve Moore – Ancient Shorelines II – Light Echoes – He of Zombi. – [N]
Antiteater – Trauer (La Mandragola) – Cloud Cuckooland – [C]
Matthew Friedberger – Dying On The Sixth Side – Matricidal Sons Of Bitches – [N]



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11/7/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Motorhead – Bomber – No Remorse – Hooray!
Bitch Magnet – Americruiser – Umber
Ty Segall – You’re The Doctor – Twins – [N]
Iron Lung – Nails – Split Cd with Lana Dagales – :48 long.
The Mountain Goats – Harlem Roulette – Transcendental Youth – [N]
Moss Icon – Guatemala – It Disappears
Scrawl – Major/Minor – He’s Drunk – Thank you, Ohio.

New Bomb Turks – Ejection – Pissing Out The Poison: Singles & Other Swill ’90-’94 – Hawkwind cover.
Joel R.L. Phelps – 474 – 474 – In favor of Washington’s Proposition 74.
Spaceship Aloha – Galaxy – Universe Mahalo: Volume 1 – Chris of Man Man.
Califone – Bathwater – Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People – Reissue of the band’s first two Eps.
Holly Herndon – Fade – Movement
Prowler – Zoom – Y’all Don’t Know – Local.
Snapper – Hold On – 12″

Protomartyr – The Milk Drinkers – Colpi Proibiti – [N]
Fuzzbox – Love Is The Slug – We’ve Got A Fuzzbox…And We’re Gonna Use It – RIP Jo Dunne.
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet – Spiral Mercury – Stellar Pulsations – [N]
Population – Nightfall – Demo
3:33 – In The Middle Of Infinity Pt. 8 – In The Middle Of Infinity – [N]
Drew O’Doherty – Philadelphia Song – Starts
No Coast – Down But Not Yet Out – A Midwestern Tribute To “Forever Breathes The Lonely Word” – Felt cover. – [C]

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – My Mysterious Death (Turn It Up) – Bait & Switch
Positive Catastrophe – Cafe Negro Sin Azucar – Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo… – [N]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Ramada Inn – Psychedelic Pill – This might be my favorite song of 2012.
Evan Caminiti – Becoming Pure Light – Dreamless Sleep – Half of Barn Owl. – [N]
Jennifer O’Connor – Gloria – mp3 – Laura Branigan cover.
C.S. Yeh – Something Forever – Transitions – [N]
Diat – Pick A Line – 45

Big Crux – Big Funk – …Is A Big Funk
Walter/Halvorson/Evans – Interface – Mechanical Malfunction – [N]
Speedy Ortiz – Necronomicon – Cop Kicker
Demons Of Negativity – Resurrection – Beyond The Calico Wall – [R] – [C]



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10/24/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

The Rippers – Into My Trap – Better The Devil You Know – [N]
Electrelane – I’m On Fire – On Parade – Bruce Springsteen cover. Congratulations Daniel & Mollie.
Mark Feehan – Stumble Bum – MF – Half of Harry Pussy. – [N]
David S. Ware – 4th Dimensional – Live In The Netherlands – RIP.
Banditas – Dope Sick/Broke Gold – Save The Rats – Downright Scrawl-y. – [N]
Honest To Goodness – Taking In The Light & Dark, Of Which We Are All Composed Of (Part I) – S/T – Solo piece by Chad Stocker of The High Strung.
A.C. Newman – Encyclopedia Of Classic Takedowns – Shut Down The Streets – [N]

Heavy Hand – Inspired By Haircuts – Ten Years & Building – [C]
Liminanas – Crystal Anis – Crystal Anis – [N]
David S. Ware Quintet – Renunciation Suite I – Renunciation – RIP.
Robust Worlds – My World – Emotional Planet – [N]
Guv’ner – Almond Roca – Hard For Measy For You
Mark Eitzel – We All Have To Find Our Own Way Out – Don’t Be A Stranger – [N]
Greyhounds – No Slogans In ’76 – 45

Subsonics – Haywire – In The Black Spot – [N]
David S. Ware Quartet – Motif Duo – Dao – RIP.
Null & Void – #2 – Possibilities – 1983, previously unreleased.– [N]
53rd State – My Straightedge Youth Crew Had 10 More Confirmed Kills Than Yours – Forward Motion
Dan Friel – Ulysses (Peaking Lights remix) – Valedictorian/Exoskeleton – [N]
Bobb & The Kids – Selling Me Short While Stringing Me ‘Long – Take Me Home Vienna – 1981.
There Were Wires – The Hours – S/T – Live on WERS.

Schlong – Shattered Life – The Essential Schlong
David S. Ware Quartet – Acclimation – Wisdom Of Uncertainty – RIP.
The Fresh & Onlys – Presence Of Mind – 45 – [N]
Prinzhorn Dance School – Worker – S/T
Neil Campbell & Robert Horton – Multi-Colored Canopy Dropper – Trojandropper – [N]
Kustomized – Overnight Namedrop – The Mystery Of…



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Triumph!


When my personal archive cut out beforehand and WPRB’s internal recording system also failed, I thought that the final triumphant mic break from the October 10th Membership Drive program was lost forever.

But just like how the station’s listenership came through for WPRB that evening, a listener rose to the occasion and was able to provide a recording of the moment where Julia Factorial and I went well beyond the goal we had set.

Listen to our five+ minutes of triumph! Ring the bell!

2012 Membership Drive

If this recording inspires you to make a tax deductible donation to WPRB, you may do so here anytime before the end of the month.



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Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. The complete Police Teeth record I’ve been raving about streams above.

Yes, that’s music from Eddy Current Suppression Ring in an AT&T commercial.

Downloads? How does a free Absu single, live music from Don Caballero, a superb Eleventh Dream Day demo and a complete CUSS record strike you?



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10/17/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Police Teeth – (My Baby’s Got The) Black Lung – S/T
Lives Of Angels – Ascension – Elevator To Eden – 1981. – [N]
Onyito School Choir – Olenyo Ber Neno Nyar Oganda – Kenyan Songs & Strings 1950 & 1952 – [C]
Catherine Irwin – Mockingbird – Little Heater – [N]
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Memory Lane – Primary Colours – Yes, this song is in an AT&T commercial.
Chen Santa Maria – Jefferson Chopper – 45
Unnatural Helpers – Hate Your Teachers – Land Grab – [N]

Absu – Hall Of The Masters – Adult Swim Singles Program
The Ghetto Brothers – Girl From The Mountain – Power Fuerza – 1971.
Kurt Vile – Hunchback – Live on WPRB – 2009 Membership Drive.
Don Caballero – Fire Back About Your New Baby’s Sex – Gang Banged With A Headache, And Live
Grauzone – Eisbar – 45 – [C]
Eleventh Dream Day – The Wall – Demo
CUSS – One Off – High Gravity

Dethklok – Killstardo Abominate – Dethalbum III
Sun Airway – Close – Soft Fall – Local. – [N]
Girls Against Boys – Zodiac Love Team – House Of GVSB
Tunji Oyelana – Ipasan – A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79 – [N]
Dredd Foole & The Din – I’m Crying – Eat My Dust Cleanse My Soul
Linea Aspera – Malarone – S/T – [N]
The Gloryholes – Push Me Away – Knock You Up

Bear Claw – Chameleon – And The Sun
ADN’ CKRYSTALL – Puckies’ Power – JAZZ’MAD – 1980. – [N]
Small – Every – Cakes
Mono – Nostalgia – For My Parents – [N]
The Prefects – Agony Column – Amateur Wankers
Yokokimthurston – I Missed You Listening – S/T – Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore. – [N]
Fugazi – Furniture – Furniture – [R]

The Germs – Lexicon Devil – What We Do Is Secret – [R]
Kenneth David Stewart with Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson & Dave King – “thetastate” – Duke Sessions – [N]
Codeine – Wird – The White Birch – [C] – [R]
Sujo – Evocate – Kahane – [N]
The Walkabouts – Soul Thief – 45



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10/10/12 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


2012 Membership Drive! – “Quintessential WPRB”

Jennifer O’Connor – The Death Of Pop – Live On WPRB – http://pledge.wprb.com

Naked Raygun – Home Of The Brave – All Rise – First song I played on WPRB!
Fudge – Girlwish – 45
Killdozer – Knuckles The Dog (Who Helps People) – Uncompromising War On Art Under The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat
The Rapture – House Of Jealous Lovers – 12″
Fugazi – Waiting Room – S/T

Eyeball Skeleton – Eyeball Skeleton – #1
King Kong – Old Man On The Bridge – Old Man On The Bridge – If not the most-requested song of the past quarter century, then what is?
Hot Glue Gun – I’ll Kill You – 45 – [R]
Drive Like Jehu – Hand Over Fist – 45

Detention – Dead Rock ‘N’ Rollers – Killed By Death #2 – [R] – [C]
Anthrax feat. Public Enemy – Bring The Noise – Cd5
Stiff Little Fingers – Go For It – Go For It – The old Concert Calendar bed music!
Volatile Molecules – Lisa Smokes Pot – Demo
The Law – What Did Santa Claus Bring You For Christmas? – The My Pal God Holiday Record – [C]

Screaming Urge – Homework – Impulse Control
Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized – S/T
Strawberry Shortcake – Strawberry Rap – S/T
Dead Milkmen – Bitchin’ Camero – Big Lizard In My Back Yard
Gaunt – Silly Watches – Whitey The Man 10″

Government Issue – Caring Line – Beyond
Young Marble Giants – Wind In The Rigging – Colossal Youth
The Dismemberment Plan – The Ice Of Boston – The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified
The Vertebrats – Left In The Dark – Battle Of The Garages – [C]

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel
Big Black – Kerosene – The Rick Man’s Eight Track Tape
No Trend – Teen Love – Teen Love
Silkworm – Couldn’t You Wait? – Libertine

Moving Targets – The Other Side – Burning In Water
Butthole Surfers – Moving To Florida – Rembrant Pussyhorse
Pitchblende – Discoskull – Kill Atom Smasher
Vitapup – Staple In The Sun – 7″

New Order – Temptation – 12″

Slint – Good Morning, Captain – Spiderland



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