Jon Solomon
Jon Solomon (born April 19, 1973) has been the host of "Jon Solomon's Annual 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show" at WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey, since 1988, when he was fifteen years old.[1]
Solomon's weekly three-hour radio program can be heard every Wednesday evening from 5 p.m. ET until 8 p.m. ET at 103.3 FM WPRB and WPRB.com. Each week's show features a live performance. More than 200 bands have appeared on this show since 2001. Philebrity called Solomon "the closest thing the Philly indie rock scene has to a John Peel".[2]
Solomon has been a resident of the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.[3]
Record labels
One of Solomon's record labels, My Pal God Records, put out recordings by Silkworm, The Embarrassment, The French Kicks, Ex Models, Del Rey, Paul Newman, and TW Walsh.[4] Comedy Minus One is Solomon's current record label which has released albums by Bottomless Pit, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Obits, Oxford Collapse, Silkworm, SAVAK and Tre Orsi.[5]
Other activities
Solomon hosted the Philadelphia City Paper podcast "Local Support", a program that featured the music of artists from the Delaware Valley, and was the founding editor of the Princeton Basketball News, a web site about the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team.[6]
References
- La Gorce, Tammy (16 December 2007). "Holiday Show That's Rockin' Round the Clock". New York Times.
- "Talk The Talk: Jon Solomon". Philebrity. 30 August 2005. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012.
- Morton, Ryan. "Jon Solomon: Quirky Carols", Northwestern University Alumni Life, Winter 2011. Accessed December 16, 2017. "Solomon also runs an independent music label, Comedy Minus One, that produces post-punk, and he writes for various publications, while living in Lawrenceville, N.J."
- http://www.mypalgodrecords.com/catalogue.shtml
- "Releases – Comedy Minus One". www.comedyminusone.com. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
- http://www.princetonbasketball.com/?page_id=397