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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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• 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: 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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• 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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• 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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• Tonight's Concert Picks: The Corin Tucker Band at Johnny Brenda's, Joe Jackson at The Keswick, Florence and the Machine with The Weeknd at SBC, Market East at Kung Fu Necktie

  

  Get your riot grrrl on for The Corin Tucker Band album release show at Johnny Brenda’s tonight!  Tucker was the vocalist/guitarist in the influential feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney alongside Carrie Brownstein in the nineties, but took a break from recording … Read More

• Tonight's Concert Picks: Iron Maiden, Japandroids, Jeffrey Gaines, Umphrey's McGee/G Love, and Vintage Kicks
• My Morning Download: "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" by Joe Jackson featuring Iggy Pop

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