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″
Jennifer O’ Connor – The Death Of Pop – 2007 Membership Drive
The Feelies – Real Cool Time (The Stooges) – Time For A Witness Killdozer – Good Lovin’ Gone Bad (Bad Company) – For Ladies Only
Killdozer – Take The Money And Run (Steve Miller Band) – For Ladies Only The Feelies – What Goes On (Velvet Underground) – Only Life
The Feelies – Paint It Black (Rolling Stones) – Crazy Rhythms Killdozer – When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin) – Killdozer / Ritual Device 10″
The Feelies – Sedan Delivery (Neil Young) – No One Knows EP Killdozer – Mr. Soul (Neil Young) – For Ladies Only 7″ Box Set The Feelies – Barstool Blues (Neil Young) – Uncovered Killdozer – Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young) – Snakeboy
Killdozer – Let Me Put My Love Into You (AC/DC) – SIDES 7-10 (Double Single & Comic Book Set) – [C] The Feelies – Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey) (The Beatles) – Crazy Rhythms
The Feelies with Peter Buck – See No Evil (Television) – 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA. March 7, 1987 Killdozer – Funk #49 (James Gang) – For Ladies Only
Killdozer – Run Through the Jungle (Creedence Clearwater Revival) – Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite The Feelies – I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms (Modern Lovers) – FNAC CDEP
The Feelies – Roadrunner (Modern Lovers) – Real Cool Time: 32 Years of Feelies Covers Killdozer – Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) – God’s Favorite Dog – [C]
Killdozer – I Am, I Said (Neil Diamond) – Little Baby Buntin’ The Feelies – Egyptian Reggae (Modern Lovers) – ATP NY 2009
The Feelies with Ira Kaplan – Looking At You (MC5) – Live in Maplewood, NJ – June 2016 Killdozer – Unbelievable (EMF) – The Pig Was Cool 7″
Killdozer – Hush (Billy Joe Royal) – For Ladies Only The Feelies – She Said, She Said (The Beatles) – No One Knows EP
The Feelies – Outdoor Miner (Wire) – Live Killdozer – Burnin’ Love (Arthur Alexander) – For Ladies Only
Killdozer – One Tin Soldier (The Original Caste) – For Ladies Only The Feelies – Carnival of Sorts (R.E.M.) – Real Cool Time: 32 Years of Feelies Covers
The Feelies – White Light White Heat (Velvet Underground) – 12″ Killdozer – Disco Inferno (The Trammps) – We Will Bury You – A Tribute to Killdozer – [C]
The Feelies – Kometenmelodie 2 (Kraftwerk) – White Eagle Hall, Jersey City 11/6/2021
Jennifer O’ Connor – The Death Of Pop – 2007 Membership Drive
Naked Raygun – Home Of The Brave – All Rise – The first song I played on WPRB! Das EFX – They Want EFX – Dead Serious The Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion (Original 1969 mix) – The Velvet Underground – 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Grauzone – Eisbär – S/T – [R] Jaimie Branch – Theme Nothing – Fly Or Die The Breeders – Son Of Three – Son Of Three
Volcano Suns – Jak – The Bright Orange Years Blackalicious – Chemical Calisthenics – Blazing Arrow Ramones – Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La) – Too Tough To Die
Superchunk – Why Do You Have to Put a Date on Everything – Foolish – [R] Public Enemy – Welcome To The Terrordome (Fear 2011) – .mp3 King Kong – Old Man On The Bridge – Old Man On The Bridge
Prisonshake – 2 Sisters – The Roaring Third – [R] Fadoul – Sid Redad – Habibi Funk 002: Al Zman Saib – James Brown cover. Government Issue – Caring Line – Beyond – [R]
Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission – The Magnolia Electric Company – There are evenings where I believe this is the greatest song ever recorded. Cher – Mr. Soul – Stars – Neil Young cover. The Clean – Anything Can Happen – Compilation
Dead Moon – Dead Moon Night – Echoes Of The Past Czarface & MF Doom – The King and Eye (feat. Darryl “DMC” McDaniels – Super What? The Dancing Cigarettes – Burn In Heaven – The School Of Secret Music Wounded Lion – Degobah System – S/T
Eleventh Dream Day – Between Here & There – Beet Jane Weaver – The Revolution of Super Visions – Flock The Cool Greenhouse – Get Unjaded – Sod’s Toastie
Ivy Green – I’m Sure We’re Gonna Make It – S/T New Order – Temptation – 12″ – …the first record I remember hearing on WPRB.
After roughly 121 shows broadcast out of my house, nearly a year of which were pre-recorded, plus three All-Hanukkah specials and a trio of 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show marathons between late March 2020 and now…last night I was back in a proper radio studio. That studio is nicknamed The Barge, and it is WPRB’s new secondary space which will soon see the return of many of your favorite DJs in person under one roof playing not just music for you but off of each other.
Thank you for joining me on this inaugural voyage into choppy but thrilling waters.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE! WELCOME TO THE BARGE!
The Rub – The Death Of Pop – Bikini Gospel
Mudhoney – Human Stock Capital – Plastic Eternity – [N] Langendorf United – From Guramayle to Le Hogon – Yeahno Yowouw Land Wowza In Kalamazoo – Milo on a Bike – Milo on a Bike – [N] El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Grateful – Glorious Game – The full collaboration is out Friday! Rocket 808 – Closing Credits – House Of Jackpots – [N] – Album due in May. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra – Black River – Lightning Dreamers FACS – Class Spectre – Still Life In Decay – [N]
Quasi – Riots & Jokes – Breaking the Balls of History – [N] Harold Land – Damisi – Damisi – Overdue vinyl reissue of this 1972 album. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – The Shape of Things to Come – Heaven’s Off EP, April 2023 – The Headboys cover. Human Adult Band with Jeff Schroeck – Thick & Sweet (uncut) – Last’d lathe 7″ Altın Gün – Doktor Civanim – Aşk – [N] BODEGA – Art & Advertising – Xtra Equipment
Power Supply – The Land of the Fire – In the Time of the Sabre-Toothed Tiger Chubb Rock – The Chubbster (Clark’s Radio Joint) – 12″ Joy On Fire – Thunderdome – Thunderdome EP – Local. Orchestra Ethiopia – Yèhetsanu lèqso – Ethiopiques 23 Sorry – That’s Fine With Me – That’s Fine With Me
Soft People – 29:59 – Live on WPRB – https://funtime1records.bandcamp.com/album/the-soft-people-the-vapors
Double Job – Die Spielsachen Des Chefs – Ohne Tanzen Planen Der Berg Groovt – Stupid White Men – Neil Young Abend
Borzoi – Bonus Army – Neither One Nor The Other, But A Mockery Of Both – [N] Lenny Welch – A Hundred Pounds Of Pain – Mainstream Disco Funk – [C] – Originally released in 1974. Cable Ties – Time For You – All Her Plans – [N] – New album out in June! Etran de L’Aïr – Nak Igley Ismadarana – Agadez Liturgy – Antigone II – 93696 – [N] Fadoul – Kalam Al Nass – Habibi Funk 002: Al Zman Saib Connections – In Space – Cool Change – [N]
Catalogue – Suburban Girls – MODERN DELUSION – [N] Ffos Goch – dim eira, dim sioe (fersiwn gwreiddiol) – dim eira, dim sioe / no snow, no show Meiko Kaji – Meikono Futebushi _芽衣子のふて節 – Hajiki Uta – [N] – Part of a five album reissue series for this “cult Japanese exploitation actress.” Originally released in 1973. David Boykin – Solar Suite – Solar Suite – Recorded live in concert 11/11/2006. MEMORIALS – Tramps! – Music For Films: Tramps! – [N] – New band from Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back, Better Corners). Album out in May. Bardo Pond – Hummingbird Mountain – No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki – [N] – All tracks recorded at the Lemur House, Philadelphia PA between June and December 1993. Dow Jones + The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest – Can’t Stand The Midwest 1979-1981 – RIP Greg Horn.
Regal Machines – Brother – Come On Up Little Sweeties Superb Owl – Eeeee-leck-trisss-iii-teeeeeeee – Wired For Ugly SAULT – In The Beginning – Today & Tomorrow Mountain Movers – Final Sunset – World What World
Unwound – Kantina – Fake Train Prophecy – What Ever’s Your Sign (You Got To Be Mine) Parts 1 & 2 – Mainstream Disco Funk – [C] – [N] – Originally released in 1975. Horse Lords – Bending To The Lash – Live in Leipzig The Notwist – Into Love / Stars – Vertigo Days – Live from Alien Research Center – [N] QWANQWA – Gurage – Volume 3 Purple Ivy Shadows – E.H. – Live At Cedar’s Youngstown Ohio 1992 Protomartyr – Make Way – Formal Growth In The Desert – [N] – Album out in June!
Delivery & Workhorse – Who Makes Demands? – Who Makes Demands? – Collaborative single from these two Australian bands. Alain Pierre – Funérailles chez les Hmongs (Thailande) – Des Morts (Of The Dead) – [N] – “Expanded reissue of mega rare 1979 unknown vanity pressing LP that blends ethnological field recordings, musique concrète principles and introspective synthesiser music from this cult European studio maverick and historic collaborator of COS, Philippe Druilet, Marc Moulin and John Surman.” Bret Saunders – A Balloon Drifted Over Montana – A Balloon Drifted Over Montana Zwei Null Zwei – Productivity – Productivity // No Reference – Debut single from members of Edsel, Girls Against Boys, Obits and myriad others bands. Pelican – City of Echoes – City of Echoes (Deluxe Edition) – [N] – Reissue of the band’s 2007 album. Frank Foster – J.P.’s Thing – The Loud Minority – Originally released in 1972. The Tubs – Two Person Love – Dead Meat – [N] – Ex-Joanna Gruesome.
Umlaut – 32:03 – Live on WPRB – http://myspace.com/umlautphiladelphia
Eyelids – I Can’t Be Told – A Colossal Waste Of Light – [N] Christopher Parker & Kelley Hurt – Crisis – No Tears Suite Rooftop Garden – Rooftop Garden – Thunk Gunk – [C] Sheryl & The Spineless Yes-Men – Pitter Patter – Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 – [C] RRR Band – Rock For Birds – S/T – Local.
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.
