Jon Solomon

'''Jon Solomon''' (born April 19, 1973) is an American radio DJ. He 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.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last=La Gorce|first=Tammy|title=Holiday Show That's Rockin' Round the Clock|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/16peoplenj.html?_r=0|newspaper=New York Times|date=16 December 2007}}</ref>

Solomon's weekly three-hour radio program broadcasts on Wednesdays on WPRB. Each week's show features a live performance, and 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".<ref name=philebrity>{{cite news|title=Talk The Talk: Jon Solomon|url=http://www.philebrity.com/2005/08/30/talk-the-talk-jon-solomon/|newspaper=Philebrity|date=30 August 2005|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722090851/http://www.philebrity.com/2005/08/30/talk-the-talk-jon-solomon/|archivedate=22 July 2012}}</ref>

Solomon lives in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.<ref>Morton, Ryan. [http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2011/alumnilife/close-ups/jon-solomon-quirky-carols_print.html "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."</ref>

==Record labels== One of Solomon's record labels, My Pal God Records, put out recordings by A Minor Forest, Bitter Bitter Weeks, Del Rey, The Embarrassment, Eyeball Skeleton, Ex Models, The French Kicks, Paul Newman, Silkworm, TW Walsh, Joel R.L. Phelps, Dianogah, and Emperor Penguin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mypalgodrecords.com/catalogue.shtml |title = My Pal God Records}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comedyminusone.com/releases/|title=Releases – Comedy Minus One|website=www.comedyminusone.com|access-date=2016-12-07}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.princetonbasketball.com/?page_id=397|title = About the site}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.keepingscoreathome.com Official Web site] * [http://www.mypalgodrecords.com My Pal God Records Web site] * [http://www.comedyminusone.com Comedy Minus One Web Site]

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