The Key

• Folkadelphia Session: Field Report

  If you haven’t been listening to Milwaukee’s Field Report by now, here’s your chance to make it up with no hard feelings from me (but do it quick). There are only a handful of musicians and bands that I nebulously … Read More

• The Week's Best MP3 Downloads, incl. Literature, Market East, Morning River Band
• Tonight's Concert Picks: Surgeon at Kung Fu Necktie, The Killers at Susquehanna Bank Center, XPN welcomes the Philadelphia Songwriters Project to The Blockley

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• Tonight's Concert Picks: Surgeon at Kung Fu Necktie, The Killers at Susquehanna Bank Center, XPN welcomes the Philadelphia Songwriters Project to The Blockley

  Philly metal band Surgeon will release their new album tonight at Johnny Brenda’s Kung Fu Necktie (the show was moved due to a water main break).  Chemical Reign has been a long time coming for the local four-piece: we first got … Read More

• Watch: Phoenix and Steve Martin & Edie Brickell at Non-COMM
• Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)

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• The Lumineers to headline XPoNential Music Festival on Saturday, July 27

  

  The Lumineers‘ career has skyrocketed in the year since we first met them, so we’re excited to announce that the Denver folk-pop five-piece will headline this year’s XPoNential Music Festival on Saturday, July 27 at the Susquehanna Bank Center with … Read More

• From the Pages of JUMP: Eric Slick performing Primal Essence at PhilaMOCA
• The Week So Far: Eight must-read stories on The Key

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• The Key's Year-End Mania: Michaela Majoun's five most sonically addictive songs of 2012

  For The Key’s year-in-review, we asked our trusted sources – our writers and photographers, XPN’s on-air staff, fellow bloggers in the Philly scene and even a few musicians – to send us their Top Five Whatevers. Could be the traditional … Read More

• Listen to songs from WXPN's Featured Album, The Avett Brothers' new The Carpenter
• Watch The Avett Brothers Field Recording from XPoNential Music Festival by NPR Music

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• Unlocked: Aaron Brown of Aaron and the Spell shares his video playlist of influences

  

  Listening to Aaron and the Spell‘s new full-length Sing, you can tell that songwriter Aaron Brown pulls from a large pool of influences. The primary sound is soul, for sure, but there’s a lot more going on than just that. … Read More

• Watch Wilco perform "Impossible Germany" from the XPoNential Music Festival
• XPoNential Fest Photo Recap: Wilco, The Avett Brothers, Dr. Dog and more at Susquehanna Bank Center

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