11/17/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

No Lie Relaxer – White Eyes – mp3 – This week, it played!
The Monks – Blockhead – Next Stop…Sowetto Vol. 2 – C – N – Not *those* Monks.
Blumfeld – Jet Set – L’Etat Et Moi
Heathern Haints – Oh, Holy Light – mp3
Prowler – Automagically – Wooly Mammoth – N
Dianogah – Time For A Game Of Stick – Battle Champions
The Stiffs – The Creeps – Dance Of The Dead – Reunited. Not *those* Stiffs.

Sorry – Just Making Noise – The Way It Is
Jelly Babies – Candy Bricks – Messthetics Greatest Hiss – C – mp3 bonus track.
Pan American – Amulls – For Waiting, For Chasing – N
Planet Of Pants – Infomercial – Athens Music Project – C
Tom Recchion – Terry Riley In Rome – I Love My Organ
Party Photographers – 21 – Shaking Through Vol. 1 – N
Adrenalin O.D. – Rock & Roll Gas Station – The Wacky Hi-Jinks Of…

Fire In The Kitchen – 38:28 – Live On WPRB – 7/10/1990.

Puffball – Topblower – The Super Commando
Jason Adasiewicz – You Can’t – Sun Rooms – N
X-Ray Spex – Genetic Engineering – Germfree Adolescents – R
Astoveboat – Jonathan Bourne – New Bedford
Babylon Dance Band – Bold Beginnings – Four On One
Alkaloid – Mr. Shell – Burnt & Bent – C
The Lyres – I Really Want You Right Now – The Early Years: 1979-1983

Signal To Trust – God Of The Northern Woods – Folklore
Exploding Star Orchestra – Ascension Ghost Impression #2 – Stars Have Shapes – N
Low & The Dirty Three – I Hear…Goodnight – In The Fishtank
Brian Bennett – Discovery – Music For Dancefloors: The Cream Of The Chappell Music Library Sessions – C
TW Walsh – Behind The Curve – The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten – N – C



Posted in Jon Solomon, Radio Shows, WPRB | No Comments »

11/10/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Die Kreuzen – Fuckups – S/T
The Grasshoppers – I Am There – Next Stop…Soweto vol. 2 – N – C
Air Miami – Dolphin Expressway – Me. Me. Me.
P.E.D. – The Frog Song – mp3
Artanker Convoy – Caught You Coming Round – 2010 Autumn
The 3Ds – Fangworld – Strange News From The Angels
Jukebox Zeros – Let’s Get Zooed Out – City Of Bother & Loathe – N – Testors cover.

Constantines – Draw Us Lines – Tournament Of Hearts
Nurses – I Will Follow You – Destroy Your Friends (live & demos 1979-1981)
Shellac – Be Prepared – Excellent Italian Greyhound – Happy birthday Bob Weston.
Amy Bezunartea – Rope – Restaurants & Bars – N – Last week’s live guest.
Monsieur Mieurax – Cat Walk – mp3
Ennio Morricone – Rapimento In Camp Aperto – Crime & Dissonance – Happy 82nd birthday! From “The Most Beautiful Wife.”
The Eastern Dark – Whore – Girls On The Beach With Cars

Radio Birdman – Aloha Steve & Danno – The Essential Radio Birdman – R – For James MacArthur.
Glen Branca – Symphony No. 5: 6th Movement – Symphony No. 5 – R
No Lie Relaxer – White Eyes – mp3 – Unreleased
Tight Phantomz – Hash Sisters – Crazy When Wet
Gore – Mean Man’s Dream – Mean Man’s Dream
Lewis Tucker & Coleman Freeman – Mr. Marvelous – mp3 – About Marcus Dupree.
The Effigies – Rather See None – For Ever Grounded – R

Red Eyed Legends – Hamlicus (indoor version) – The High I Feel When I’m Low
Ciccone Youth – Macbeth – 12″ – R
Johnny Wicks – Jockey Jack Boogie – The United Records Story – C
Ron Asheton – Meet The Creeper – Destroy All Monsters
WhiteBuzz – The Return Of Phoenix – Welcome Back To Meteor City – C
Kashmere Stage Band – Thank You (Part B) – Fantastic Soulisticated Music – C
Turing Machine – Swiss Grid – A New Machine For Living – Jerry, you are missed.

Stnnng – I Am An Architect – Dignified Sissy



Posted in Jon Solomon, Radio Shows, WPRB | No Comments »

Live performance #215 – Amy Bezunartea.


Engineered 11/1/10.

Amy Bezunartea web site

Kiam Records web site



Posted in Amy Bezunartea, Jennifer O'Connor, Jon Solomon, Live Performances, WPRB | No Comments »

Supplemental Reading.


Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. As always, I’ve attempted to post them in the order they were played on-air.

Grab Superchunk’s Misfits cover before it is too late!

Drowned In Sound has an oral history of Oneida’s “Each One Teach One.”

RIP Ari Up and Billy Ruane.

Varsity Drag’s song about Ruane is a free download here.

If you want more information about tonight’s live guest, Amy Bezunartea, visit the Kiam Records web site.

Dag Nasty with Shawn Brown on vocals.



Posted in Jon Solomon, Supplemental Reading, WPRB | No Comments »

11/3/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Superchunk – Horror Business – mp3 – Misfits cover.
S. Quaranta – Hybrid Moments – The Halloween Ep – Misfits cover.
Royal Baths – I Detest – Litanies – N
The Slits – Instant Hit – Cut – RIP Ari Up.
C4AM95 – Dale Bozzio – III – Now is the winter of our discoteque.
3rd Bass – Gladiator (Easy Mo Bee Remix Instrumental) – Cd5
The Demon’s Claws – At The Disco – The Defrosting Of… – N

Dag Nasty – Another Wrong – Dag With Shawn – First album with singer from Swiz.
Reading Rainbow – Always On My Mind – Shaking Through Volume 1
Varsity Drag – Billy Ruane – For Crying Out Loud – RIP Billy Ruane.
Mikrokolektyw – Tiring Holiday – Revisit – N
The Slits – Life On Earth – Return Of The Living Slits – RIP Ari Up.
The For Carnation – Emp. Man’s Blues – S/T
Idle Times – Million Miles Away – Hookup Klub Round One – N – C

Amy Bezunartea – Live on WPRB – 20:07 – http://www.amybezunartea.com

Death Of Samantha – Simple As That – Strungout On Jargon – R
Oneida – Sheets Of Easter – Each One Teach One
The Slits – Or What Is It? – 12″ – RIP Ari Up.
White/Light – Untitled (Galactic Zoo) – From The Ashes Perfect Attainment Shall Be – C
Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina – Criminals – The Boarder’s Door – N
King G & The J Krew – Sit Calm – Indestructible Songs Of The Humpback Whale – Jeff & Jason of Rodan, rapping.
X – T.V. Glue – At Home With You – R – Australian.

Buzzcocks – Nostalgia – Love Bites – R
Endless Boogie – Empty Eye – Full House Head – N
The Slits – FM – Cut – RIP Ari Up.
Phillip Malela & The Movers – Intandane – Next Stop…Soweto Vol. 2 – N – C
Del Rey – E Pluribus Unicorn – Immemorial
The Eternals – Shot Down! (In The Middle Of Division St.) – Out Of Proportion
Teenage Fanclub – Star Sign – Star Sign – R



Posted in Jon Solomon, Radio Shows, WPRB | No Comments »

Supplemental Reading.


Been a while since I did a Supplemental Reading, but here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show. As always, I’ve attempted to post them in the order they were played on-air. Above, a killer Gray Matter song from a record with much-maligned cover art.

RIP Marion Brown. You should read the “fireside chat” All About Jazz did with Brown in 2003.

The new A Sunny Day In Glasgow record can be downloaded for free here.

Gratis tunes by Times New Viking and Kurt Vile are also there for the taking.

Talented rapper Eyedea, dead at 28.

Daylong Valleys Of The Nile have posted their entire demo online.

Here’s a link for the live Chord performance “Tristan Chord.”



Posted in Jon Solomon, Supplemental Reading, WPRB | No Comments »

10/20/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Gray Matter – Drain – Thog
Bobby Smith & The Big Sounds – Soul Of Unit Seven – The Git Down – C
The Corin Tucker Band – Riley – 1,000 Years – N
Marion Brown – Exhibition – S/T – RIP.
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Sigh, Inhibitionist (Come All Day With Me) – Autumn, Again – N
Circle Of Animals – Poison The Lamb – Destroy The Light – Steve Shelly of Sonic Youth on drums.
Farming Jim – New Year’s Eve 83 – Messthetics #110 – C – mp3 bonus track.

Superchunk – Song For Marion Brown – Indoor Living – R – RIP.
Seti-X – Elegy For Pluto/Secretary General – Scrambles Of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Remixed By Extraterrestrials – N
Kenny Chambers – Matters – Under The Tracks – He of Moving Targets.
His Name Is Alive – Capricorn Moon (live) – Sweet Earth Flower – A Tribute To Marion Brown – RIP.
Times New Viking – No Room 2 Live – mp3 – N – Unreleased.
Daylong Valleys Of The Nile – Life Out Of Bounds – Demos – Members of Pink & Brown/Young People.
Q & Not U – End The Washington Monument (Blinks) – No Kill No Beep Beep – Happy 10th birthday, this record.

An Albatros – Let’s Get On With It – We Are The Lazer Viking
Kurt Vile – In My Time – 7″ – N – Forthcoming.
Marion Brown Quintet – La Placita – Mirante Do Vale – Offering II – RIP.
Jandek – Part Five – Toronto Sunday – N
Eyedea & Abilities – Act Right – E&A – RIP Eyedea.
The War On Drugs – Baby Missles – Future Weather – N
Storm The Tower – Feeding The Filth Eater – Split cd with J Church

Chord – Tristan Chord – Live Series – Trevor de Brauw of Pelican.



Posted in Jon Solomon, Radio Shows, WPRB | No Comments »

10/13/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


2010 WPRB Membership Drive

The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Busted Statues – Blue Cheer – Bands That Could Be God – C – http://pledge.wprb.com
The Poison Arrows – N/A – Live on WPRB
Communicators – The Way You Want Me – S/T
Bored Youth – Outcast – Why Be Something That You’re Not? – C

Mors Ontologica – Demon Inc. – Don’t Cry
Shannon Wright – Violent Colors – Secret Blood – Forthcoming.
Pop. 1280 – Step Into The Grid – The Grid – N
Love Child – Willpower – WPRB Independents Day Special 1990
The Maids – Back To Bataan – Maid In Bataan

Strike Under – Elephant’s Graveyard – Immediate Action
Pink Skull – N/A – Live on WPRB
Codeine & Voix Bulgares – D Bulgare – mp3 – Insane mash-up.
Detention – Dead Rock & Rollers – Live on WPRB

Fucked Up – Neat Parts – Couple Tracks – Pledge $78, get a copy of this great collection!
Tre Orsi – The Engineer – Live on WPRB
Solomon Burke – Sidewalks, Fences & Walls – From The Heart – RIP.
Joel RL Phelps – Tender Years – Basement Demos 1995 – George Jones cover.
The Freeze – Trouble If You Hide – This Is Boston, Not L.A. – C – R

Pissed Jeans – Human Upskirt – King Of Jeans – Pledge $45, get a copy of this great collection!
Gilbert Deflez – Corto Maltese – Je Suis Vivant, Mais J’aipeur – N – C – Featuring Sylvia Fels.
Sludgehammer – ??? – Baxter
Tender Trap – Girls With Guns – Live on WPRB
The Thermals – When I Was Afraid – Now We Can See – Pledge $45, get a copy of this great record!

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Gimmie The Wire – The Brutalist Bricks – Pledge $45, get a copy of this great record!
Electrelane – The Greater Times – No Shouts No Calls
Hot Glue Gun – I’ll Kill You – 7″
Rapeman – Inky’s Butt Crack – 45
Gaunt – Second Best – …But Not Forgotten – The Mice cover.

Superchunk – Rope Light – Majesty Shredding – N
Neon Judgement – TV Treated – Early Tapes – N
Woven Bones – Couldn’t Help But Stare – n & Out & Back Again – N
Intelligence – Chateau Bandit – Males – N
Grass Widow – Shadow – Past Time – N

Brian McCann – Vince Lombardi Service Area – Lose Weight While Driving – R



Posted in Jon Solomon, Membership Drive, Radio Shows, WPRB | No Comments »

10/6/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

H.P. Zinker – Sunshine – …And There Was Light
Mulatu Astatke – Radcliffe – Mulatu Steps Ahead – N
Lida Husik – Back In The March – The Return Of Red Emma
Channels – Unreal Estates – Waiting For The Next End Of The World
Frankie Rose & The Outs – You Can Make Me Feel Bad – S/T – N – Arthur Russell cover.
Bubonic Bear – Throat Cancer Mountain – Anthrosphere Volume II – C
Chavez – Repeat The Ending – Pentagram Ring

Superchunk – Everything At Once – Majesty Shredding – N – Your frontrunner for Record of the Year.
No Trend – Without Me – Tritonian Nash-Vegas Polyester Complex
Tender Trap – Talking Backwards – 6 Billion People
Otha Turner & The Afrosippi Allstars – Sunu – From Senegal To Senatobia
Jennifer O’Connor – The Wind – mp3 – Unreleased Cat Stevens cover.
The Parting Gifts – Keep Walkin’ – The Strychnine Dandelion – N – Greg Cartwright! Forthcoming.
The Girls – Jeffrey I Hear You – Reunion

Come – Fast Piss Blues – Eleven : Eleven
Ideal Bread – Papa’s Midnite Hop – Transmit – Vol. 2 Of The Music Of Steve Lacy – N
Migala – Fortune’s Show Of Our Last – Arde
Colossamite – Is To Isn’t – All Lingo’s Clamor
Mecca Normal – The Arrogant Man Is Obsolete – mp3 – Previously unreleased.
Solar Anus – Electric Jellyfish – Skull Alcoholic
Jimmy Nipper Five – Two Wasted Years – Messthetics #101 – C

Moving Targets – Faith – Burning In Water – R
Prince Rama – Om Mane Padme Hum – Shadow Temple – N
Mama Tick – Horsedoctor – 45
Kallabris – 81 degrees n.B., 178 degrees o.L. Pt. 2 – A Selection Of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000 – C
Crash – Spot Me A Five – 45 – Cleveland band.
Crash – In My Head – 45 – British group.
Gogogoairheart – Hypnotized – Split cd with 90 Day Men

Filth – Freedom – The Shit Split
The Claudia Quintet – Keramag – Royal Toast – N
Rivulets – Gimme Excess – The Alcohol Eps – C
Vue – People On The Stairs – Insound Tour Support Vol. 1 – C
Crackerbash – Song For Lon Mabon – Drinking From Puddles – C



Posted in Jon Solomon, Radio Shows, WPRB | No Comments »

9/29/10 : 19:00 – 22:00 pm ET


The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel

Subverts – Can’t Control Myself – Independent Study
King Hannibal – Rerun – The Sound Of Funk Vol. 6 – C
Crocodiles – Billy Speed – Sleep Forever – N
Ein Heit – Limelight – 45 – Rush cover.
Clinic – Lion Tamer – Bubblegum – N
Seam – Two Is Enough – Are You Driving Me Crazy? – Congratulations, Chris!
Nobunny – Gone For Good – First Blood – N

Naked Raygun – I Lie – Basement Screams – R – For the show’s youngest listener.
Boys Life – All Of The Negatives – Departures & Landfalls
Abe Vigoda – November – Crush – N
Pell Mell – Bring On The China – Flow
Silver Abuse – Cuban Homo Farm / Plastic Rows – Fall From Grace
Anibal Velasquez y Su Conjuto – Que Paso – Analog Africa No 7: Mambo Loco – N
The Homosexuals – Neutron Lover – The Homosexuals’ Cd

A-Frames – Togetherness – 333 – N – R – 2002 demo.
Time Of Orchids – Crib Tinge To Callow – Namesake Caution
Trans Am – Triangular Pyramid – Sex Change – R
Urge Overkill – Last Train To Heaven – Jesus Urge Superstar
Archie Shepp – Cisum – The New York Contemporary Five – N – 1963. Don Cherry composition.
Rodan – Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto – Rusty
999 – Emergency – S/T – R

Thee Speaking Canaries – Excellent Poker Player – The Joy Of Wine
A.P.B. – All Your Life With Me – D-I-Y Do It Yourself – C
Purling Hiss – Limerence / Space Roots – Hissteria – Forthcoming.
Shades Apart – Dude Danger – Dude Danger – R
ONO – Aloe Cramps – Ennui
Disco Inferno – Glancing Away – Does The Word “Duh” Mean Anything To You? – C
Savage Beliefs – What’s Left In The Fridge? – The Moral Efficiency Of Savage Beliefs

Prisonshake – 2 Sisters – The Roaring Third
Anti-Clockwise – Stainless Steel – Artificial Light
The Mentally Ill – Padded Cell – Gacy’s Place
Black Mayonnaise – Radiation – Dissi Pative Structure
Benoit Pioulard – RTO – Lasted – N – Forthcoming.



Posted in Jon Solomon, Radio Shows, WPRB | 2 Comments »

« Previous Page — « Previous Entries
Next Entries » — Next Page »