The Key

• Non-COMM recap: Photos, audio, and setlist from the Mississippi Blues Project concert with Homemade Jamz Blues Band

  Last Thursday during XPN’s Non-COMMvention, the Tupelo, Mississippi brothers and sister trio, the Homemade Jamz Blues Band, performed in concert with Super Chikan for the final Mississippi Blues Porject concert series. The band performed songs from its new album, Mississippi … Read More

• RIP Ray Manzarek of The Doors (listen to songs from their Live at The Spectrum show in 1970)
• Listen to Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee and Allison Crutchfield of Swearin' cover Grimes via Rookie Mag

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• Philly electronic music experts sound off on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

  

  Tomorrow brings the official release of the album the internet has been eagerly anticipating since a 16-second ad aired without fanfare during a March episode of SNL. Random Access Memories, the latest from French discotronic duo Daft Punk, has been … Read More

• Gotta Hear Song of the Week: "Burning Instinct" by Red Baraat (playing the XPoNential Music Festival in July)
• My Morning Download: "ICU" by Lou Doillon

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• Non-COMM Recap: Pete Yorn and J.D. King brought The Olms to World Cafe Live

  

  Pete Yorn and J.D. King developed their new project The Olms out of a shared love of 60s psych pop (The Byrds, The Beatles) and extended periods of studio collaboration, and brought the live band that resulted to the Non-COMM … Read More

• Non-COMM Recap: The country sounds of Marie Miller (photos, audio, setlist)
• Non-COMM Recap: Feisty funtimes with Kopecky Family Band (photos, audio, setlist)

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• My Morning Download: "ICU" by Lou Doillon

  Singer, actress and model Lou Doillon is the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg; her father being director Jacques Doillon and her mother actress and singer Jane Birkin. Doillon will release her debut album, Places, on June 18 on Verve Records. Doillon’s … Read More

• My Morning Download: "Until We Get There" by Lucius
• My Morning Download: "The Tide" by Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck (playing Voltage Lounge on Saturday, May 18)

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• My Morning Download 5/7/13 - "Never Wanted Your Love" by She & Him (playing Mann Center 7/9)

  Happy Record Release day to Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, AKA She & Him. Today they release Volume 3 of their duets on Merge Records. They’ll be playing The Mann Center on Tuesday, July 9th with Camera Obscura opening the … Read More

• Stream new She & Him album via NPR Music (playing The Mann Center on 7/9)
• Listen to a new Camera Obscura song, "Do It Again" (opening for She & Him at The Mann on July 9)

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