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• Non-COMM recap: Photos, audio, and setlist from the Mississippi Blues Project concert with Super Chikan and the Fighing Cocks

  Award winning Blues guitarist and singer Super Chikan and the Fighting Cocks made the trip from his home in Clarksdale, Mississippi to Philadelphia last Thursday, May 16 in a double header Mississippi Blues Project concert as part of WXPN’s Non-COMMvention … Read More

• Non-COMM recap: Photos, audio, and setlist from the Mississippi Blues Project concert with Homemade Jamz Blues Band
• RIP Ray Manzarek of The Doors (listen to songs from their Live at The Spectrum show in 1970)

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• Download "Come and Wake Me Up" from Our Griffins (playing Johnny Brenda's on 5/31)

  

  With their new LP Michael Boyd ready for release, Our Griffins have shared a new video for their song “Come and Wake Me Up.”  The song is the first taste of the upcoming album from Easton, PA’s DJ Brown and is available … Read More

• XPoNential Additions: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Red Baraat and Matt Pond join 2013 lineup
• Get your prog-rock on: Yes Festival to make only U.S. appearance at Susquehanna Bank Center on 8/3

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• Non-COMM recap: Photos, audio, and setlist from the Mississippi Blues Project concert with Super Chikan and the Fighing Cocks

  Award winning Blues guitarist and singer Super Chikan and the Fighting Cocks made the trip from his home in Clarksdale, Mississippi to Philadelphia last Thursday, May 16 in a double header Mississippi Blues Project concert as part of WXPN’s Non-COMMvention … Read More

• Non-COMM recap: Photos, audio, and setlist from the Mississippi Blues Project concert with Homemade Jamz Blues Band
• Listen to Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee and Allison Crutchfield of Swearin' cover Grimes via Rookie Mag

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• Tonight's Concert Picks: Turning Violet Violet at Kung Fu Necktie, Bleeding Rainbow at Johnny Brenda's, Mary Lattimore at Kung Fu Necktie, Philebrity Valentine's Day special with Juston Stens at Underground Arts, plus more

  

  Local indie group Turning Violet Violet play Kung Fu Necktie tonight.  The Key Studio Session alums carve out chamber alt-rock songs on the fringe of art-rock that seem bathed in a purple glow, though that might just be residual effects … Read More

• Tonight's Concert Picks: The Wailers at World Cafe Live, American Babies at Johnny Brenda's
• Tonight's Concert Picks: Arrah & The Ferns at Johnny Brenda's, Low Cut Connie at North Star Bar, and American Babies at Kennett Flash

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• Kuf Knotz, Modern Inventors, The Districts and more to perform Beck's "Song Reader" at World Cafe Live on 01/08

  

  We’ve all heard about it by now: Beck, the cutting-edge musician who gave us leaf blowers on stage and the 1994 hit “Loser,” set forth his latest release in an unconventional medium – a songbook.  Available this week and distributed … Read More

• 2nd Street Festival announces its 2012 lineup (includes Man Man, The Great Unknown, Blayer Pointdujour )
• Toy Soldiers, Eric Slick (of Dr. Dog) and more Philly bands to pay tribute to Levon Helm on June 12th at World Cafe Live

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• Tonight's Concert Picks: DRGN King at PhilaMOCA, The Great Unknown at Johnny Brenda's, XPN Welcomes Martin Sexton to The Landis Theater, Nightlands at Arden Gild Hall

  

  Philly’s DRGN King are celebrating the release of Paragraph Nights tonight at PhilaMOCA.  The full-length debut from the psychedelic power pop outfit was released through Bar / None Records on January 22nd and runs the gamut of infectiously good songwriting … Read More

• Download Sounds From the West from local multi-instrumentalist KC Jones (playing Johnny Brenda's on 2/2)
• Download The Key Studio Sessions Vol. 5 (feat. The Spinto Band, Turning Violet Violet, Heyward Howkins + more)

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