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• 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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• Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)

  

  With just his guitar and his voice, Bay Area by way of Mississippi songwriter John Murry played an emotional, powerful set Wednesday night at Non-COMM. Playing an assortment of songs from his current LP The Graceless Age, he also threw … Read More

• My Morning Download: "The Tide" by Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck (playing Voltage Lounge on Saturday, May 18)
• Thee, Idea Men and friends cover Amy Winehouse's "Valerie" in Nashville (playing MilkBoy on 6/13)

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• Watch DJ Jazzy Jeff's new web video series, Vinyl Destination

  

  While on tour in 2012, famed Philadelphia turntablist DJ Jazzy Jeff had a camera with him at all times (well, most times), and the result is Vinyl Destination, a new web video series he launched with the new year. In … Read More

• Video flashback: Watch Rap City, the 1988 documentary about Philly's rising hop-hop scene
• Download a new mixtape by DJ Jazzy Jeff, Life Colors

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• Fried Chicken, dumplings, cupcakes and slushies, anyone? Questlove, Stephen Starr to open Hybird in New York on Saturday, May 18

  Questlove and restauranteur Stephen Starr open Hybird in New York’s Chelsea Market. The menu features Quest’s fried chicken drumsticks, dumplings, “Questolicious Cupcakes” (including the “Sexual Chocolate (On Chocolate)” variety, which would make a great song title – ed.), and slushies. … Read More

• Just announced: John Mayer, J.Cole, Ne-Yo. Jill Scott and Grace Potter join The Roots for July 4th WaWa Welcome America #phillyjam
• Tonight's Concert Picks: The Intersection of Music and Technology at Underground Arts, Kaki King at World Cafe Live, Buried Beds with Auctioneer and Great American Canyon Band at Kung Fu Necktie

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