The Key

• 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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• RIP Ray Manzarek of The Doors (listen to songs from their Live at The Spectrum show in 1970)

  Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., known to most as Ray Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, has passed away. He was 74 and died from bile duct cancer in a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. On May … Read More

• Watch The National perform "Sea Of Love" (playing The Mann on Friday, June 7)
• Just Announced: James Blake will return for a show at Union Transfer on 11/4

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• The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Roots Picnic, ONUINU and #LetBonnerShoot)

  

  The lineup for the 6th Annual Roots Picnic includes Gary Clark Jr., Lushlife and more [link] Dave Hartley‘s Top of the Key returns to tell you why the NBA should #LetBonnerShoot [link] Folk-inspired Philly songwriter Gretchen Lohse records a stunning … Read More

• Listen to Bleeding Rainbow's Yeah Right via Pitchfork (even though they didn't like it)
• Download a raging new Pissed Jeans track "Bathroom Laughter," from the forthcoming Honeys

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• Explore Philadelphia with Dave Hartley and BlackBook Magazine

  

  Dave Hartley is a man of many roles. He’s the versatile bassist who performs regularly with The War on Drugs, and has joined the Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society, and Buried Beds on occasion. He’s the sonic mastermind behind Nightlands. He’s … Read More

• Steven A. Clark gets in the studio with members of The War on Drugs, Man Man and Ava Luna for Shaking Through
• Watch Dave Hartley and Robbie Bennett of The War on Drugs play "Venus in Furs" with John Cale

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