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…



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.



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?



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



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



Tonight! Let’s do this!


cleanyrroom

I am counting on you tonight. WPRB is counting on you as well.

This the WPRB Membership Drive, the one week a year where we raise money for the station’s day-to-day operations. The drive runs from now through October 14. My only drive show for the year is this evening from 7-10 pm ET.

This evening’s program is titled “Quintessential WPRB” and will feature a 25+ year retrospective of the most-requested, most-wonderfully overplayed and thoroughly, uniquely WPRB songs I could recall.

Imagine a world without WPRB.

Heck, imagine a Christmas without WPRB.

That’s what the station is facing without the continued financial support of members like you.

Think back about all WPRB has given you, not just on Wednesday nights, not just for 24 hours during the holidays.

As a listener who has discovered music and won countless tickets through WPRB, as a member of a band who is played only on our airwaves or as part of a like-minded organization that has benefitted from 103.3 fm in some similar fashion, I hope you will give back.

If you appreciate the incredible freeform programming that WPRB currently provides and has provided free of charge for decades, this is the time to give.

If you respect the work that WPRB’s volunteer staff puts in to create challenging, exciting and creative radio, this is the time to give.

All pledges are tax-deductable, you can donate via check or credit card and you can get a wide range of “thank you” items in return for supporting WPRB. You can even pay your donation off in installments.

I hope some of you will consider making a $240 pledge and dividing it by 12 months. You’ll be giving more but this plan won’t hit your pocketbook as severely all at once.

In addition to the station swag available starting at the $15 pledge level I’ve arranged “thank you” prize packs from favorite labels including 12XU and Dark Entires. Donate $45 or more to be eligible to win. 3-4 amazing records in each bundle.

For the first time ever the station has set a public drive goal – $40,000.

For Clean Yr Room and my program to hit our goal of combining for at least $5,000 of this mark WE NEED TO RAISE THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS TONIGHT.

You’ve been so generous in the past and I know you will be there for WPRB this evening. Make sure to give tonight between between 7:00-10:00 pm ET. Every bit helps. Both myself and my co-host Julia Factorial can’t wait to read your name on-air.

pledge.wprb.com or 609.258.1033.

Thank you so much in advance.

X LET’S DO THIS X

Jon Solomon



Wednesday’s Membership Drive show is titled “Quintessential WPRB.”


The 2012 WPRB Membership Drive got off to a great start yesterday thanks to your support. Co-hosting Clean Yr Room with Art & Julia was great fun and we raised just over $2,100 for the station’s day-to-day operations.

You may not have heard but for the first time WPRB has set a public fundraising goal ($40,000). It remains my hope that between CYR and my program we can raise AT LEAST $5,000. We’re on pace but we won’t pull this off without your much-appreciated and much-needed contributions.

For my Membership Drive show this year I’m doing a program titled QUINTESSENTIAL WPRB.

What’s the plan? Well, what are the all-time most over-requested, constantly-played songs you’ve heard on the station since you started listening?

What songs from various promos and IDs do you wish you knew the identity of?

On Wednesday night it all will come together.

In addition to the station swag available starting at the $15 pledge level I’ve arranged “thank you” items from favorite labels including 12XU and Dark Entires. Donate $45 or more to be eligible to win.

All pledges are tax-deductable, you can donate via check or credit card.

To phone in your support: 609.258.1033

To pledge on-line: http://pledge.wprb.com

To listen: http://listen.wprb.com

Make sure to give Wednesday between 7-10 pm ET. We can do this!

Every bit helps. Please show your support of challenging, exciting and creative radio. Have a voice in the station’s future and allow us to keep doing what we love in the manner that you already enjoy.

Thank you once again in advance,

Jon

Jon Solomon
jon@wprb.com
Wednesdays at 7:00 pm ET on WPRB 103.3 fm



Don’t miss Clean Yr Room tonight!


cleanyrroom

The 2012 WPRB Membership Drive is underway! This is the one week a year where we raise money for the station’s day-to-day operations. The drive runs from now through October 14th.

I will be doing my annual co-hosting Clean Yr Room with Art & Julia tonight from 7:00 pm ET-9:00 pm ET as part of said drive. It is going to be a lot of fun. One of my favorite evenings annually.

This is big: For the first time the station has set a public fundraising goal ($40,000) and it is my hope that between CYR and my program we can raise AT LEAST $5,000. With your much-appreciated contributions we can hit that mark, if not exceed it!

Please show your support of challenging, exciting and creative radio – especially tonight and this coming Wednesday night.

There are “thank you” items starting at the $15 pledge level and both CYR and my program have some UNREAL SHOW-SPECIFIC THANK YOUS to offer on top of that swag. You know what to do. You know when to do it. X MAKE IT HAPPEN X.

If you appreciate the incredible freeform programming that WPRB currently provides and has provided free of charge for decades, this is the time to give back.

If you respect the work that WPRB’s volunteer staff puts in to create challenging, exciting and creative radio, this is the time to give back.

All pledges are tax-deductable, you can donate via check or credit card.

To phone in your support: 609.258.1033

To pledge on-line: http://pledge.wprb.com

To listen: http://listen.wprb.com

Make sure to give tonight between 7-9 pm ET and/or Wednesday between 7-10 pm ET.

Every bit helps.

I’ll be back tomorrow with details and an epic theme for my drive show.

Thank you in advance,

Jon

Jon Solomon
jon@wprb.com
Wednesdays at 7:00 pm ET on WPRB 103.3 fm



Join me Sunday for The Soundtrack Series!


I’ve never done a “reading” before, but I’ll be taking part in the Soundtrack Series this Sunday at 8:00 pm ET in Philadelphia at L’etage (624 South 6th Street).

Each guest will be telling a story built around a specific song and my portion is an uplifting tale of woe involving Naked Raygun’s “Home Of The Brave.”

It would great if you could come out. RSVP on Facebook.

Incentive: There will be visual aids.



Supplemental Reading.


1. Here’s this week’s links/videos/items of interest based on topics discussed during last night’s radio show.

2. The free downloads: A new Three Second Kiss song, music out of Grand Rapids by Radiator Hospital, an excellent album from WPRB’s own Lance Loud under the Peacock Dreams monicker, Golden Error with a hot and angular single, the Child Bite / Dope Body split, Titmachine on the Free Music Archive, tracks off recent releases for Corin Tucker Band, Souljazz Orchestra and Ceremony, the complete Rebecca Gates Saki Session and a Jennifer O’Connor demo.

3. RIP Dmitri Mevedev of Iron Cross.

4. Which one of you jokers put a picture of me on Reddit?!

5. The WPRB Membership Drive kicks off Monday. More on these festivities shortly.