Jon Solomon
Jon Solomon (born April 19, 1973) has been the host of “Jon Solomon’s Annual 24-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 7 p.m. ET until 10 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]
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. [3] Comedy Minus One is Solomon's current record label which has released albums by Bottomless Pit, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Obits, Oxford Collapse, Silkworm and Tre Orsi. [4]
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 University men's basketball team. [5]
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.
- ^ http://www.mypalgodrecords.com/catalogue.shtml
- ^ http://www.comedyminusone.com/releases.php
- ^ http://www.princetonbasketball.com/?page_id=397