The Key

• The Week's Best MP3 Downloads, incl. Literature, Market East, Morning River Band

  Recent Philly transplants Literature previewed four new tracks in this week’s Key Studio Session. With a sound made for indie dance club nights, Literature are a surf-y, high energy bunch of polished musicians with well-coiffed songs. Stream and download “Court … Read More

• Tonight's Concert Picks: Surgeon at Kung Fu Necktie, The Killers at Susquehanna Bank Center, XPN welcomes the Philadelphia Songwriters Project to The Blockley
• Watch: Phoenix and Steve Martin & Edie Brickell at Non-COMM

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• Watch Vampire Weekend live in concert from NPR Music

  Vampire Weekend released their new album, Modern Vampires of the City, on Tuesday and recently performed a 12 song set at Apogee’s Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica for KCRW and NPR Music. Vampire Weekend play the Firefly Music Festival … Read More

• My Morning Download: "Ghosts and Creatures" by Telekinesis (playing Johnny Brenda's on May 7)
• SXSW required watching: Alt-J live in concert from Stubb's (playing a sold out show this Thursday at TLA)

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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 perform "I And Love And You" from the XPoNential Music Festival

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