Mac Krol – For Some Other Reason – 7″ – [N] – Mac from Superchunk (happy birthday!) teams up with Mike Krol. Super Onze – FACE A – Hommage à Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) 1992 Sweeping Promises – Egyptian Shumba – ILLUSION OF CHOICE – [C] – The Tammys cover. Martin Frawley – Heart In Hand – The Wannabe – [N] – He of Twerps. Bent Arcana – Psychic Liberation – Live At Zebulon Say Sue Me – Mind Is Light – Mind Is Light – Touring the USA this month. Protomartyr – For Tomorrow – Formal Growth In The Desert – [N]
Cable Ties – Crashing Through – All Her Plans – [N] – Very excited to see this Australian band in September. Rogér Fakhr – Express Line – Habibi Funk 016: Fine Anyway – Recorded in late 1970s Beruit. Sly & The Family Drone – Every Knife In This House Is Mine – Singularity 09: Every Knife In This House Is Mine Bully Pulpit – Fragile Machine – Natural Flavors – First new album in a decade. PJ Harvey – A Noiseless Noise – I Inside The Old Year Dying – [N] Water Damage – Reel 1 – But The Rat Was Very Smart Mekons – Where Were You – Heaven & Hell
Drive Like Jehu – Hand Over Fist – 45 Hot Snakes – This Mystic Decade – Audit In Progress Drive Like Jehu – Luau – Yank Crime Pitchfork – Sinking – 7″ Drive Like Jehu – Sinews (Original Version) – Head Start To Purgatory – [C] Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down – Jericho Sirens Obits – Refund – 45
Hot Snakes – If Credit’s What Matters I’ll Take Credit – Automatic Midnight Drive Like Jehu – If It Kills You – S/T The Yah Mos Def – Jive Like Jehu – Plays Ugly For Suckers EP – Samples the former. Pitchfork – New Kid – Eucalyptus Hot Snakes – Ben Gurion – Suicide Invoice Obits – Everything Looks Better In the Sun – Moody, Standard and Poor Drive Like Jehu – Do You Compute – Yank Crime
Obits – Pine On / Widow Of My Dreams / Run / One Cross Apiece / SUD / Military Madness (Graham Nash) – Live on WPRB – Recorded for the third-annual WPRB Membership Drive.
The Karl Hendricks Trio – I Think I Forgot Something…My Pants – The Jerks Win Again – Congratulations, Maeve + Dan! Etran de L’AÏr – Toubouk Ine Chihoussay – Live in Seattle Black Duck – Light’s New Measure – S/T – [N] – Doug McCombs, Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback. Alison Cotton – What You Told Me On That Journey In the Horse & Carriage – Singularity 01: What You Told Me On That Journey In the Horse & Carriage Maple Stave – The French Song – Arguments – Out August 1st. Harold & Wayne – The Lung – MISC. TAPE Vol. 01 – Junior, Dinosaur – [C] – Dinosaur Jr. cover. The Dentists – Just Like Oliver Reed (BBC session) – Janice Long session 02.04.87
Drive Like Jehu – Here Come the Rome Plows – Yank Crime
Sweeping Promises – You Shatter – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N] – Album out next Friday. Can’t wait. Altin Lazer Blaster – High Waves – Sounds From the Galactic Skylanes (Original Music from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) – [C] – a/k/a Altin Gün! X-Ray Spex – Identity – Germfree Adolescents – As heard in the end credits of “Polite Society.” MX-80 Sound- Promise Of Love – Crowd Control Jaimie Branch – Take Over The World – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) – [N] – Coming in August. Nagat – Eyoun El Alb – Eyoun El Alb – First-ever vinyl pressing of a 1980 Egyptian album. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flamethrower – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation – [N]
Silicone Prairie – Serpent in the Grass – Vol. II – [N] – Forthcoming. Danny Paul Grody – Path To Olema – Arc Of Day Lewsberg – Communion – Without A Doubt b/w Communion – [N] – Early mixes of two tracks off their next album. Touring the states this fall! Pelican – Ran Amber (Remastered) – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw – Expanded reissue of a 2005 record. Weird Nightmare – She’s The One – She’s The One – Ramones cover. Matmos – After Mud Guts – Singularity 04: After Mud Guts Heartbeeps – Hold Up – Cum Together
Breaking Circus – Driving The Dynamite Truck – Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. IV – [C] – It’s the longest day of the year / And you dribble into my lap / And it’s still reflected on the source of my good luck / I’m seething in the feeling that I’m driving the dynamite truck Al Massrieen – Sah – Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World – [C] Pays P. – Olatunji – Ça v aller
Todd Briefly – Maps – Demos 3 (Two new songs) – [N] Sharhabil Ahmed – Argos Farfish – Habibi Funk 013: The King Of Sudanese Jazz The Bret Tobias Set – Letters Sent – Letters Sent – [N] Induced Geometry – Caesium Standard – S/T – “[T]he solo electronic project of Philadelphia musician & Writhing Squares bassist Daniel Provenzano.” Hey Colossus – You Laugh At My Face – Singularity 07: You Laugh At My Face – Extended cover of a Jorge Socarras / Patrick Cowley song. Alabaster DePlume – Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins – Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem – [N] Ass Ponys – Two-Week Vacation – Earth To Grandma – The Embarrassment cover.
Shellac – Dog & Pony Show – At Action Park Andal Sukabe – Hey Malale – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C] The Cool Greenhouse – Hard Rock Potato – Sod’s Toastie Kalamazoo Drone Society – One – Saturation & Compression Nana Love – Hang On Baby – Disco Documentary – Full Of Funk Escuadrón Del Ritmo – Las Cucarachas – Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 – [C] Sprints – Adore Adore Adore – Adore Adore Adore
Remote Islands – 26:03 – Live on WPRB – http://remoteislands.bandcamp.com
Oozing Wound – Midlife Crisis Actor – We Cater To Cowards Jacques Higelin – Je Jouais Le Piano – Pierre Barouh & The Saravah Sound – [C] Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever – Nightmare Forever Say Sue Me – True Love Will Find You in the End – 10 – Daniel Johnston song. Zombi – XYZT – 2020
En Attendant Ana live at Jerry’s On Front last Saturday night.
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel
En Attendant Ana – Ada, Mary, Diane – Principa – [N] – Gosh, they were great on Saturday. Bob Destiny – Wang Dang – Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World – [C] Ayako Shinozaki – Heterodyne – Music Now For Harp – [N] – Originally released in 1974, with Takehisa Kosugi on violin + sound waves. Bill Orcutt – Anxiety of Symmetry I – Anxiety of Symmetry Man or Astro-Man? – Space 1991 – Space 1991 Moon Orchid – Into The Violet – Skin/Skein Throwing Muses – Jak – Firepile EP – Volcano Suns cover.
Naked Roommate – Wandering Thumb – Typical Girls Vol. 6 – [C] Jeich Ould Badu – Elyn – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C] Lazy Salon – Deutzia – Bellis – [N] – Local. Out Friday! Sharon Van Etten – Memorial Day – Remind Me Tomorrow Anatomy Of Habit – Black Openings – Black Openings Natural Information Society – Is – Since Time Is Gravity – [N] Wax Chattels – Spanners & Implements – Clot
Eggs – The Government Administrator – 45 – I recently had a dream where I led a cafeteria in a rousing sing-along of this tune… Kid Millions & Jan St. Werner – Dark Tetrad – Imperium Droop Olden Yolk – Every Ark – Living Theater
Filling in for Uneasy Listening and Commie Francis…
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel
Guardian Singles – Chad & Stacey – Feed Me To The Doves Charif Megarbane – Tayyara Warak – Tayyara Warak Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World – This Stupid World UFO Över Lappland – Keep On Keepin’ On Space Truckin’ – S/T Eyelids – Crawling Off Your Pages – A Colossal Waste Of Light Wau Wau Collectif – Mariage Forcé – Mariage Floodlights – Wide Open Land – Painting Of My Time
Upper Wilds – 10’9″ – Jupiter Farid el Atrache – Hebbina Hebbina – Nagham Fi Hayati SPRINTS – Literary Mind (Live At Whelan’s) – Literary Mind Rocket 808 – MK Ultra Twist – House Of Jackpots FACS – When You Say – Still Life In Decay Altın Gün – Badi Sabah Olmadan – Aşk Mudhoney – Move Under – Plastic Eternity
CIVIC – Time Girl – Taken By Force Ramuntcho Matta – Zoique 2 – S/T Blues Lawyer – Chance Encounters – All In Good Time Giant Brain – Munich – Grade A Gray Day The Notwist – Exit Strategy To Myself – Vertigo Days – Live from Alien Research Center Connections – Slow Ride – Cool Change
Guardian Singles – Ground Swell – Feed Me To The Doves – [N] – Out Friday! Namian Sidibé – Garaba Mama – S/T Vanishing Twin – Tell Me Not Here – Singularity 08: Tell Me Not Here Pissed Jeans – Bathroom Laughter (Live in Allentown) – 45 Mesmer – Now the Onus is on You – Accidents & Trains – Local. Digital-only bonus track recorded in 1997. Dalton – Alech – Habibi Funk 001: Dalton OSees – Intercepted Message – Intercepted Message – [N] – “A pop record for tired times” coming in August.
Jade Hairpins – Life in England – Life in England – Jonah + Mike from Fucked Up. SAULT – The Lord’s With Me – Earth Dan Matz – NIX NIX NIX Night – NIX NIX NIX Night – He of Windsor For The Derby Nina Nastasia – Too Soon – Too Soon – From the “Riderless Horse” sessions. Brainiac – Smothered Inside – The Predator Nominate EP – Previously unheard Tim Taylor demos. El Wali – The People of El Aaiún – Tiris CIVIC – Chase The Dragon – Chase The Dragon – [N] – Beasts of Bourbon cover.
So Cow – Institute Of – Do Re Mi Fa So Cow Billy Nomates – Blue Bones (Deathwish) – CACTI – [N] Chris Forsyth – 102597 – First Recordings, 1997 Steel Pole Bath Tub – This Town – Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 – [C] Farid el Atrache – Takassim Oud – Nagham Fi Hayati – Soundtrack from 1974. Shame – Lampoon – Songs Of Praise
Upper Wilds – Jupiter – Jupiter – [N] – Out in July. Fadoul – Laylat Al Jadba – Habibi Funk 002: Al Zman Saib 75 Dollar Bill – Anchor Dragging Behind – Singularity 06: Anchor Dragging Behind – Exceptionally limited edition lathe cut 12″. Zwei Null Zwei – Hate This Feeling – SUV (On Fire) // Hate This Feeling – Members of Edsel, Obits, Girls Against Boys, The Nation of Ulysses and many more… The New Pornographers – Bottle Episodes – Continue As A Guest – [N] Giant Brain – Terminator: Where an Astronaut Dies in Space – Grade a Gray Day The Embarrassment – Two-Week Vacation – Heyday 1979-83 – Originally released on the “Human Music” compilation in 1988.
Chisel – Your Star Is Killing Me – 8 A.M. All Day Ramuntcho Matta – Zoique 3 – S/T – From 1985. First-ever reissue. Kitchen’s Floor – Northern Fort – None Of That Fela Kuti & Africa ’70 with GingerBaker – Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die) – Fela With Ginger Baker Live! Chris Brokaw – Slaughterhouse 444 – Live At The Decommissioned Power Station In Florli, Norway Nick Millevoi – Rock & Roll Start – Digital Reaction – Local. Out in July. Floodlights – Painting of My Time – Painting of My Time – [N]
Standing Nudes – 39:36 – Live on WPRB – https://www.discogs.com/artist/3200642-Standing-Nudes
Moreish Idols – Green Light – Lock Eyes and Collide – [N] Baba ouldHembara – El Shams w’al Qamar (Lekhal Karr) – Wallahi Le Zein!! – Wezin, Jakwar And Guitar Boogie From The Islamic Republic Of Mauritania – [C] The Chills – Familiarity Breeds Contempt – Submarine Bells
Sweeping Promises – Eraser – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N] – Out June 30! Killer Mike – “Don’t Let The Devil” (Feat. El-P & thankugoodsir) – MICHAEL Water Damage – FUCK THAT : Reel 13 – Two Songs – [N] Killdozer – Conquistador – Michael Gerald’s Party Machine – We salute our champions with a Procol Harum cover. 🏆 MEMORIALS – Boudicaaa – Music For Film: Women Against The Bomb & Tramps! – [N] – A third advance single by the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (WIRE, It Hugs Back, Better Corners). The Bret Tobias Set – Good Morning Sunshine – Good Morning Sunshine Protomartyr – Elimination Dances – Formal Growth in the Desert – [N]
Death of Samantha – Simple As That – If Memory Serves Us Well The Leonard Simpson Duo – Nobody – LSD Axiom9 – Psychedelic Inner Sanctum II – Psychedelic Inner Sanctum Porridge Radio – Back To The Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky Ahmed Ben Ali – Damek Majeb / اغنية دمعك ماجاب – Habibi Funk 012: Subhana FACS – New Flag – Still Life In Decay
ANDEMIC – Owls – The Tides b/w Owls Yo La Tengo – James gets up and watches mourning birds with Abraham (Wednesday) – We Have Amnesia Sometimes
A second consecutive year of three straight hours of music inspired by Star Wars! Much appreciation to LizBot for flipping shows so this broadcast could happen on May the 4th. – JS
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel
Background music: YSSR’s “The Mandalorian Theme Song (80s Retro Synthwave)”
CivilisedSociety? – Star Wars – Violence Still Sucks Bang Bang Robot – Star Wars – La Guerre Des Etoiles “Star Wars” NicholasBritell – Forming Up / Unto Stone We Are – Andor OST MacMcCaughan – Only Do – Non-Believers Wordburgler – The Mos Eisley Rap Show – SpaceVerse Sam the Sham – The Wookie – 45 The Senate – Mausoleum Of Heroes / Daddy Issues – Tales From A Galaxy Far, Far Away.
Boris The Sprinkler – My Prom Date’s Parkin’ With Grand Moff Tarkin – Bits O Boris A.D. – Return Of Vader – 12″ Recess Monkey – Oh, Lando – Hot Air Auralnauts – Now I Am Gandalf – Larry OST Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip – I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper – 70s 100 Hits – [C] Hot Dad – The Star Wars (I’m in Love With) – The Star Wars (I’m in Love With) The 7-10 Splits – Aunt Beru – Greatest Splits
The Modal Nodes – Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugnaughts! – Lifeforms Dan Whitley’s Rebel Force Band – Chewie the Rookie Wookie – Living In These Star Wars XMAS – Star Wars – FOREVER Jeremy Messersmith – Tatooine – Tatooine The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Bertha Butt Encounters Vadar – Let It Out Smog – I Am Star Wars! – Julius Caesar Wounded Lion – Dagobah System – S/T
Background music: Osamu Shoji’s “Cantina Band”
The Thyme Machine – Star Wars – Top and Tail with The Thyme Machine Lazaro Salazar – Artuditu – Artuditu R2D2 DJ Food – The Tracks Go Off In This Direction… – The Tracks Go Off In This Direction… The Mountain Goats – The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones – .mp3 Anchorhead – Shredisode IV – Darth Metal DJ Z-Trip & DJ P – Imperial March (Breaks Mix) – Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 Butter 08 – Degobrah – S/T – Yuka + Miho of Cibo Matto, Russell Simins from JSBX, plus Rick Lee of Skeleton Key.
Background music: Neil Norman’s “Star Wars”
Servotron – Red Robot Refund (The Ballad of R5-D4) – No Room For Humans Bobby Curtola and Force – May The Force Be With You – 45 MitchDarrell – Cloud City (feat. Wells & Matthew Campbell) – Dreadhead Lando Galaxy 42 – Star Wars (Disco Version – 7″
Jon Solomon can be heard every Wednesday evening across the Delaware Valley from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET on 103.3 fm WPRB.
A veteran, award-winning DJ with over three decades of experience, Solomon is also available to DJ parties, weddings or private events. Just ask him nicely.