Gee Tee – Dudes in the Valley – Atomic EP Al Massrieen – Hatgeni Tani – Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music – Originally released in 1980. New Standards Men – Boney Lunar Dust – Against Our Vanishings – [N] RVG – Midnight Sun – Brain Worms Freddie Hubbard – Povo – Music Is Here: Live at Maison de la Radio, Paris 1973 clipping. – Check the Lock – Visions of Bodies Being Burned The Embarrassment – Careen – Heyday 1979-83 – Thanks to all who came to Montclair last Thursday! WPRB is sponsoring the Philly premiere of the Embarrassment documentary on Wednesday, August 30th and I’ll be introducing the film there too! Come on out!
Mac Krol – Fair Warning – 45 – [N] – Mac from Superchunk and Mike Krol. Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – Twilight Shimmer – New Future City Radio Mammatus – Expanding Majesty – Expanding Majesty – [N] Fenella – Telekinetoscopes – The Metalic Index – Jane Weaver, Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah. Asnakech Worku – Mech Alkugn Lela Sew – Asnakech EPMD – Da Joint – Back In Business Lifeguard – Alarm – Crowd Can Talk / Dressed In Trenches – [N] – Two EPs combined on one record.
TRVSS – (These Are Not Your) Children – Absence – Now known as MIRAKLER. Mark Sultan – Coffin Nails – Let Me Out Brigid Dawson and The Mother’s Network – The Fool – Ballet of Apes Wrekmeister Harmonies – Behold! The Final Scream – The Alone Rush Yoo Doo Right – Say Less, Do More – A Murmur, Boundless to the East
Upper Wilds – Radio To Forever – Jupiter – [N] Homeboy Sandman – Second Day of Christmas – 12 Days of Christmas and Dia de Los Reyes GHOLD – Exact/Repulse/Suffer – Singularity 05: Exact/Repulse/Suffer The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge – Frontier’s Edge EP – [N] Gunn-Truscinski Duo with Bill Nace – Fencer – Glass Band – Out Friday. Ahmed Ben Ali – Damek Majeeb – Habibi Funk 022: Subhana – [C] – Collection of mid-2000s recordings. Famous Mammals – Parachute Traction Excites! – Instant Pop Expressionism Now!
Belonging – Stay – S/T – [N] Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X – Afternoon X The Necks – Bloodstream – Travel – [N] Amaria Hamadalher – Tarhanine – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C] Joy On Fire – 3rd Grade Fire – Another Adventure in Red – Local. Shabam – On The Planet Of The Apes – 45 Tommy and the Commies – One Arch Town – Hurtin’ 4 Certain EP
Sgt. Papers – Sobaco Punk – SGTP Nick Millevoi – Midnight Connection – Digital Reaction – [N] Universal Eyes – Strange Attractors – The Golem Rescored – [C] – Members of Slumber Party and Wolf Eyes.
Silkworm – Scrawl – L’Ajre – MJD / DM / JG. 18 years. Charif Megarbane – 3aks el Seir – Habibi Funk 023: Marzipan – [N] Chaosmonaut – Passion Aggression – Passion Aggression The Breeders – Go Man Go – Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition) – [N] – Previously unreleased. Mars Williams & Vasco Trilla – The Tongue Set Free – CRITICAL MASS Emily – The Sower – Arise Yard Act – The Trench Coat Museum – The Trench Coat Museum – [N]
Baroness – Beneath The Rose – Stone – [N] – Out in September. Daniel Schell & Dick Annegarn – The ff BOOM – Egmont & the ff Boom – Originally released in 1978. “[T]his wholly individualistic concept album combines the lead members of the mighty COS (Daniel Schell and Pascale Son) with studio genius Alain Pierre (Ô Sidarta/Des Morts) and celebrated Dutch progressive rock singer Dick Annegarn, for what many consider to be both the overlooked hiding place of Belgium’s deepest psychedelic moment and European prog’s lost map to the ‘Franco-Flemish Boom’.” Bounaly – Takamba – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C] Virginia Wing – Half Mourning – Private LIFE Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – Planet E – From The River To The Ocean Siavash Amini – Not Yet Plant-Life, No Longer Flesh – Singularity 03: Not Yet Plant-Life, No Longer Flesh – From Tehran, Iran. Sweeping Promises – Throw Of The Dice – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N]
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
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.