R. Ring – Cartoon Heart / Build Me a Question – [N] – War Poems, We Rested – Kelley Deal + Mike Montgomery. Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Roy Ayers– 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free – Upside Down / Music of Many Colours – Originally released in 1980. CAN – Aston 77 Drei – LIVE IN ASTON 1977 – [N] – First release in the CAN LIVE series to feature bassist Rosko Gee. RVG – The Baby & the Bottle – Feral Maximum Joy – Dancing on my Boomerang – Station M.X.J.Y. – Reissue of a 1982 Y Records release. Black Artist Group – For Peace and Liberty Pt. 6 – For Peace And Liberty, In Paris Dec 1972 – First official record in…five decades! Arcwelder – Lafayette – Continue – [N] – “New Arcwelder album!” is something we haven’t been able to say in 25 years.
Crumbs – 4291 – You’re Just Jealous – [N] Mdou Moctar – Oh France – Funeral for Justice Danny Paul Grody Duo – Coyote Valley at Dusk – Arc of Night – [N] Acid Mothers Reynols – Lemurian Tsunami Inside a Hat – Vol. 3 Purple Ivy Shadows – Dancefloor’s Shiny Under Junky (Alternate Funhouse Take) – Dancefloor’s Shiny Under Junky (Alternate Funhouse Take) – Recorded in 1995, featuring the Small Factory rhythm section. Previously unreleased! Ana Frango Elétrico – Saudade – Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro – [C] – [R] Shellac – Scrappers – To All Trains – [N]
Blues Ambush – Horse Noises – S/T – Local. DJ Pup – Good Luck, Babe (“Ambient Stretch” Edit) – .mp3 – Chappell Roan stretched into ambient space, as aired on DJ Pup’s Flat Circle Radio Hour program 6/16/24. Excerpt.
James Chance & the Contortions – Dish It Out – No New York – [C] – A trio of songs for people we lost recently… Chuck D as Mistachuck – The Amazing Willie Mays (feat. Nabaté Isles) – We Wreck Stadiums Ass Ponys – Donald Sutherland – Lohio
The Lame Drivers – Spring – Become an Island – [N] Etran de L’AÏr – Ighre Massina – 100% Sahara Guitar – New album just announced coming in September, playing Johnny Brenda’s on Thursday night! FYEAR – Pts I -> VII – S/T – [N] Jake McKelvie – Pump Fake – A New Kind of Hat BASIC – New Auspiscious – New Auspiscious – [N] – Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi and Mikel Patrick Avery. Girma Beyene & Akalé Wubé – Mèlèwètesh Menèw – Ethiopiques 30 – Mistakes on Purpose Pissed Jeans – Seatbelt Alarm Silencer – Half Divorced – [N]
Writhing Squares – LEM – Mythology – [N] Oumou Sangaré – Kounkoun – Mogoya – [R] Aseethe – The Cost – The Cost – [N] Charif Megarbane – Stella Marina – Habibi Funk Limited 002: Hamra / Red Action Painting! – Just Who Are The Cockleshell Heroes? – Under The Bridge 2 – [C]
The Safe Distance – All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit – CHRIMBO WITH YOU – [C] – Half Man Half Biscuit cover. We’re under six months until December 24th… Mark Martucci – How To Shake The Bells – Arbor Christmas: Volume 24 – [C]
Osees – Cassius, Brutus & Judas – SORCS 80 – [N] – Out August 9th. Steve Beresford – Cicada – Dancing The Line – Originally released in 1985. Inspired by the fashion of Anne Marie Beretta. SUMAC – The Stone’s Turn – The Healer – [N] Mesmer – Ocean – Ocean – Local, with a video some are calling “too hot for Reddit.” Paul Lytton, Joe McPhee & Ken Vandermark – One – Prime Numbers – Recorded by Malachi Ritscher at the 7th Annual Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, Friday, April 25, 2003. Neil Young – Lookout Joe – Tonight’s The Night MEMORIALS – Acceptable Experience (Radio Edit) – Acceptable Experience – [N] – Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire).
The Jesus Lizard – Hide & Seek – Rack – [N] – Coming in September. How are we feeling about this one? Hamid El Shaeri – Yefkini Nesma’sotak – Habibi Funk 018: The SLAM! Years (1983 – 1988) The Fall – Slates, Slags Etc – Slates (Live) EP – [N] The Bret Tobias Set – Fait Accompli – Fait Accompli – Local. Tuluum Shimmering – The Soft Plume Moves with the Breath of the New Day, and the Ray of the Sun Touches it with Colour – The Mountains are Singing and the Roses are Singing Pedro The Lion – Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz – [N] Circus Lupus – Deviant Gesture Catalog – 1990 9 Song Demo
Mary Timony – Untame The Tiger – Untame The Tiger – [N] Baroque Jazz Trio – Delhi Daily – Pierre Barouh and the Saravah Sounds – [C] – First released in 1970.
Babe Report – Turtle of Reaper – Did You Get Better – [N] – Members of FCKR Jr., Geronimo! and Yeesh. Fela Anikulapo Kuti + Egypt 80 – M.O.P (Movement of the People) Political Statement Number 1 – Live in Amsterdam – Recorded in 1983. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter – Hear The Children Sing – Hear The Children Sing The Evidence – [N] – Lungfish cover. Rhys Chatham – A Crimson Grail Part 2 – A Crimson Grail (For 400 Electric Guitars Jetstream Pony – Look Alive! – Under the Bridge 2 – [C] Camino Sound – Stacks – Corridor – [N] – Local. Neutrals – Substitute Teacher – New Town Dream
Swansea Sound – Je Ne Sais Quoi – Live at the Rum Puncheon – Playing Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia on Sunday. Rogér Fakhr – Had To See Harry – Habibi Funk 025: East of Any Place – 1970s studio tracks from this Lebanese musician that didn’t make it into “Fine Anyway.” FETID – Coalescing Decay – Sentient Pile of Amorphous Rot – [R] Stephen Malkmus – The Greatest Own in Legal History – Traditional Techniques Alkibar Jr. – Tamala – La Paix Helen Money – Brave One – Atomic The Monorchid – Alias Directory – Who Put Out the Fire?
Coral – Box Truck – 7″ – RIP Bob Schick. Pepper, Onion, Ginger & Salt – M.C. Mambo – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 – [C] – [N] Green Milk From The Planet Orange – Concrete City Breakdown (Live) – Let’s Split (裂けても) The Breeders – So Sad About Us – Safari EP – The Who cover. SQÜRL – Castle of Dice – Music for Man Ray – [N] – Carter Logan & Jim Jarmusch. The Fruit Bats – When U Love Somebody – Mouthfuls The Didjits – Captain Ahab – Hornet Piñata – For our captain!
Honor Role – Absolve – Rictus – RIP Bob Schick. Andal Sukabe – Debbo – Debbo Le Baron de Vincèse – L’Ombre Électrique (电影) – Passion Tropicale Alastair Galbraith – As In A Blender – Seely Girn Chris Forsyth – Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord – Chris Forsyth Plays Love Devotion Surrender – Recorded live at Solar Myth in Philadelphia on October 15, 2023, covering the Santana / McLaughlin album of the same name in full. Alain Pierre– Chant d’un mariachi (Mexique) – Des Morts (Of the Dead) Dynamic Truths – I’ve got Your Psychic Friend – Understanding is Overrated – RIP Bob Schick.
Honor Role – Purgatory – 7″ – RIP Bob Schick. Syl Johnson – Ms. Fine Brown Frame – Foxy Brown – Originally released in 1988. Graeme Miller & Steve Shill – A Lone Paleness – The Carrier Frequency (Original 1984 Stage Production Score) Alan Courtis & David Grubbs – Hinterhalt – Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves
Shellac – Chick New Wave – To All Trains – [N] – RIP Steve Albini. Jane Weaver – Quantify – Quantify / Deep Perelle – Record Store Day release from the “Love In Constant Spectacle” sessions. Neil Young + Crazy Horse – Valley of Hearts – Fu##in’ Up – Originally appeared on “Ragged Glory.“ Tidiane Thiam – Néené Africa – Africa Yontii – [N] Eagle Twin – Crow Hymn – The Unkindness of Crows – [R] – Thanks, Matt. The Fall – Draygo’s Guilt – Call For Escape Route EP – …anyone have the bonus 7″ lying around…? The Slinkees – Trans Am – Who Cares? – Mark Sullivan, Geordie Grindle, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson. Recorded in 1979.
The Great Unraveling – Alien Landscape – S/T – Members of Moss Icon, Universal Order Of Armageddon and Born Against. Hench – Tired – Tired – “love letters. one for a place i couldn’t stay any longer and one for a couple of people that couldn’t stay any longer. wish we all could’ve stuck around a while more.” Crumbs – Dear Deirdre – You’re Just Jealous – [N] The Mountain Movers – Ice Dream – Walking After Dark Squirrel Flower – Cortez the Killer – Cortez the Killer (Live in Austin, TX) – Neil Young cover. Norio Maeda & All Stars – Yagibushi – Rock Communication Yagibushi – [N] – Originally released in 1970. “…reinterprets 14 traditional Japanese folk songs into jaw-dropping Jazz Funk instrumentals” Amyl and The Sniffers – Facts – U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts
The Feelies – Sedan Delivery – No One Knows EP – Neil Young cover. Marijata – Otanhunu (feat. Ata Kak) – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93) – [C] Zeni Geva + Steve Albini – Kettle Lake (Studio Version) – Maximum Implosion Chad Fowler, Zoh Amba, Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Steve Hirsh – Alien Skin – Alien Skin
Ramones – I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement – S/T – RIP Steve Albini. These tunes all come from a list of “20 songs” he posted online last September. Johnny Cash – Rock Island Line – Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! John Cale – Barracuda – Fear Bill Withers – Who Is He (And What Is He to You? – Still Bill Buddy Holly – Everyday – The Buddy Holly Collection The Effigies – Mob Clash – For Ever Grounded Suicide – Rocket USA – S/T Stevie Wonder – Superstition – Talking Book Tommi Stumpff – Mich Kriegt Ihr Nicht – Mich Kriegt Ihr Nicht / Contergan Punk Naked Saygun – Leeches – Throb Throb The Pop Group – She Is Beyond Good and Evil – 7″ Washington Phillips – I Had a Good Father and Mother – The Key To The Kingdom DAF – Der Mussolini – Alles Ist Gut Kraftwerk – Showroom Dummies – Trans-Europe Express The Birthday Party – Big-Jesus-Trash-Can – Junkyard Oil Tasters – That’s When The Brick Goes Through The Window – S/T Killdozer – Hamburger Martyr – Burl – RADIO EDIT. The Didjits – Stingray – Hey Judester Clarence Carter – Let’s Start Doing (What We Came Here to Do) – Legendary Clarence Carter Nina Nastasia – This Is What It Is – The Blackened Air The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – Sunshine on Leith Dolly Parton – Jolene – Jolene The Modern Lovers – Hospital – S/T MX-80 – Follow That Car – Out of the Tunnel Appliances-SFB – Neo-Fascist – S/T The Smashchords – Brand New Rambler – S/T Wipers – Romeo – Over The Edge
The Specials – Monkey Man – S/T
Shellac – Side 1 – Futurist Shellac – Mantel – Billardspielerlied Shellac – Side 2 – Futurist
Joshua Wayne Hensley – Get The Lights – Get The Lights – All proceeds from this release (download here) will be donated directly to www.letterscharity.org.
Pere Ubu – Non-Alignment Pact – The Modern Dance Anita Ward – Ring My Bell – Ring My Bell Mountain – Mississippi Queen – Climbing!
“I hope when I die I go like John [Grabski], embroiled in the middle of things, surrounded by people I love, doing the things that matter most. I hope I leave a mountain of shit unfinished, that I have a pan on the stove, a phone call waiting and a pencil in my hand. I hope I’m man enough to be thinking about tomorrow.” – Steven Frank Albini
The Dicks – The Dicks Hate The Police – 7″ – RIP Gary Floyd. Fela Kuti – Just Like That – Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense Antietam – Pitch & Yaw – Pitch & Yaw EP – [N] Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit – Full Circle R.P.S. (No 7) – Full Circle Ednah Holt – Serious, Sirius Space Party (Club Mix) – Serious, Sirius Space Party – Originally released in 1981. Red Star Sky – Hauling – Hauling b/w I Know SPRINTS – Help Me, I’m Spiralling – Black Box Sessions – [N]
The Happy Cadavers – Rigorous Mortis – With Illustrations – From 1982, with a teenaged David Grubbs! Kofi Flexxx – Flowers In The Dark (feat. Confucius MC) – Flowers In The Dark Water Damage – Reel EEE – In E – [N] Butthole Surfers – Gary Floyd – Psychic…. Powerless…. Another Man’s Sac – RIP. Three Grebes – You’re Not Going To Like It – You Were A Joy – [N] – Franki Hand, Beth McDonald, and Ike Turner. The Droids – Disco Robot – Disco Robot / Cosmic Space Shuttle Contractions – Liesse – SAVAK / CONTRACTIONS split EP – [N]
E – Jumprope – Living Waters – [N] – Thalia Zedek, Jason Sidney Sanford and Ernie Kim. Sidi Touré – Guara Tcha Jina – Afrik Toun Mé Jane Weaver – Univers – Love in Constant Spectacle – [N] Tone Matrix – Albescent – Albescent
It simply isn’t possible to say everything in a single mic break about a person who bettered my life so much personally, professionally and sonically but I started tonight’s radio show talking about Steve Albini.
Photo taken in my parents’ driveway by my friend Claire in 1993.
A third consecutive year of three straight hours of music inspired by Star Wars! Much appreciation to Commie Francis + Deirdre Dionysiac for moving their shows around this week so this broadcast could happen on May the 4th.
Background music: Patrick Gleeson’s “Star Wars – Luke’s Theme”
Mynoc – Tarkin’s Confidence – A Punk Rock Tribute To Star Wars – [C] Wordburgler – Dude Where’s My AT-AT At? (Grand Moff Remix) feat. Rift aka Garthim-Master – SpaceVerse – [R] The Planet Robots – Star Wars Soul Music Medley – Disco Music Inspired By Star Wars…(And Other Soul Music) Anchorhead – Shredisode V – Shredisode V – Finally found this one! Return of the Jedi Read-Along Parts 1 + 2 – 7″ – Thanks for the record, Dana K. Magnificent Octopus – Lapti Nek – Mussel Memory Kevin Kiner & Sarah Tudzin – Igyah Kah – Ahsoka, Vol. 1 (Episodes 1-4) – [C] – She of Illuminati Hotties.
Background music: Patrick Gleeson’s “The Tatooine Desert”
Jon Cougar Concentration Camp – Half Ass Jedi – Hot Shit, Cold Piss – [R] Altin Lazer Blaster – Rumble Droid – Sounds from the Galactic Skylanes (Original Music from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) – [C] – a/k/a Altın Gün! Joseph Scrimshaw – Don’t Call Me Prune Face (excerpt) – Rebel Scum Isao Tomita – Star Wars: Main Title – Kosmos Great Disturbance – Beggar’s Canyon – Great Disturbance Is Your Father Bespin Moons – A Binding Force – A Binding Force Jedi Scum – If This Is A Consular Ship, Then Where’s The Ambassador? – S/T – [R]
Wounded Lion – Degobah System – S/T – [R] DJ Food – The Tracks Go Off In This Direction… – The Tracks Go Off In This Direction… Auralnauts & She’s Excited! – Rey – Star Wars: Dark Side EP DJ Spin-da-Wheela – Butcher in the Stars: Anthony Daniels vs Bon Jovi vs Happy Flowers – 2021 Christmas Stories Dr. Cryptic – Star Wars Dub – S/T Mac McCaughan – Only Do – Non-Believers Boris The Sprinkler – My Prom Date’s Parkin’ With Grand Moff Tarkin – Bits O Boris
Background music: Patrick Gleeson’s “Cantina Music”
Servotron – Red Robot Refund (The Ballad of R5-D4) – No Room For Humans Schizophr3nica – Rebel Scum – Ice Planet Goth – [C] The Mountain Goats – The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones – .mp3 Lazaro Salazar – Artuditu – 45 The Thyme Machine – Star Wars – Top and Tail with The Thyme Machine The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Bertha Butt Encounters Vadar – Hits Coruscants – Coruscant Bop – Stormtrooper The Streets – “A joke conversation during studio downtime taken too far. It’s The Riverdales classic album Storm The Streets crossed with the original Star Wars trilogy.”
Background music: Patrick Gleeson’s “Droids”
Maynard Ferguson – Main Title from “Star Wars – New Vintage – [R] DJ Z-Trip & DJ P – Imperial March (Breaks Mix) – Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 Sam The Sham – The Wookie – 45 Smog – I Am Star Wars! – Julius Caesar – [R]
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.
