Monthly Archives: September 2010

Wed 9/22, 8PM: Pink Skull live on WPRB

Listen to 103.3 fm WPRB on Wednesday, September 22nd at 8:00 pm ET as Jon Solomon welcomes one of Philadelphia’s finest, Pink Skull, into the studios for a live set.

For years I’ve done my best to dance along as fast as I can to the duo’s fascinating mixture of blips, bleeps, bumps and bloops. Over two albums, endless digital files and countless remixes I’ve always wanted to know how a pair this layered and dense in its sound could possibly pull off what they do on record live as a quintet.

Now I have seen for myself in the WPRB studios…and it is crazy.

As someone once wrote somewhere sometime:

The result of this balance parallels along the various lines of PIL’s Metal Box, The Orb’s Pomme Fritz EP, the tropicalia Dada-ism of Tom Ze, and Eno & Cluster. Living / breathing electronic music made beyond the computer screen for bigger screens, [Pink Skull] could easily soundtrack a remake of Videodrome as well as it could a Kubrickian classic.

Here’s video of the band silkscreening 1,000 copies of their most recent record “Endless Bummer”:

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Wed 9/15, 8PM: Tre Orsi live on WPRB

Listen to 103.3 fm WPRB on Wednesday, September 15th at 8:00 pm ET as Jon Solomon welcomes Texan trio Tre Orsi into the studios for a live set.

The band will be playing songs from debut full-length album for Works Progress called “Devices + Emblems,” of which The Unblinking Ear said:

“That they could reclaim the soft/loud dynamic from nearly 20 years of terrible post-grunge and spin it into something distinctly their own on a song like “Best Kind of Failure” is nothing short of remarkable. I could cite other tracks as fine examples of their craft but, frankly, it seems a little redundant. There’s simply not a bad one in the bunch…

…”Devices + Emblems” is one of the year’s best albums.”

A free mp3 off said record, “The Engineer,” can be found here.

Want a live video? Eyes down.

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