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• Caravan Music Festival announces its 2013 dates / lineup, and it's massive

  The fourth annual Caravan Music Festival will once again bring a boatload of Philadelphia bands to the woods of Maine of a three day concert of music, fun, lake swimming, exhaustion, and who knows whatall else. The massive lineup of … Read More

• Where to see (or avoid seeing) Kanye West's new video projection in Philly tonight
• See Big Terrible and Ali Wadsworth celebrate Rotten City the North Star Bar tonight

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• Where to see (or avoid seeing) Kanye West's new video projection in Philly tonight

  

  Love Kanye West, hate him or occupy some ever-fluctuating middle ground (that’s me), you’ve got to give the dude credit for continuing to strive for new and creative ways of pushing his art into the world. Of late, his thing … Read More

• See Big Terrible and Ali Wadsworth celebrate Rotten City the North Star Bar tonight
• A conversation with The Thermals' Kathy Foster about bass, Rocky and their first decade as a band (playing Union Transfer tomorrow)

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• Caravan Music Festival announces its 2013 dates / lineup, and it's massive

  The fourth annual Caravan Music Festival will once again bring a boatload of Philadelphia bands to the woods of Maine of a three day concert of music, fun, lake swimming, exhaustion, and who knows whatall else. The massive lineup of … Read More

• Where to see (or avoid seeing) Kanye West's new video projection in Philly tonight
• See Big Terrible and Ali Wadsworth celebrate Rotten City the North Star Bar tonight

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• See Big Terrible and Ali Wadsworth celebrate Rotten City the North Star Bar tonight

  Philly blues-rock combo Big Terrible is gearing up to usher its third release into the world; the Rotten City EP gets its physical unveiling tonight at North Star Bar, and has been streamable at Bandcamp since the beginning of the … Read More

• A conversation with The Thermals' Kathy Foster about bass, Rocky and their first decade as a band (playing Union Transfer tomorrow)
• Download Major Lazer's remix of "Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (playing Roots Picnic on Saturday, June 1)

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• Paste Magazine chooses its Best 15 Cover Songs of 2012; Alabama Shakes' World Cafe performance of Led Zep's "How Many More Times" makes the list

  Paste Magazine has revealed its 15 Best Cover Songs of 2012. Some of the highlights include Nada Surf’s cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle,” Frank Ocean’s “Lovecrimes” by The Afghan Whigs, and “The Weight” by Wilco, Mavis Staples and … Read More

• Watch Alabama Shakes record a new song for the filmed-in-Philly movie Silver Linings Playbook
• Photo Recap: Alabama Shakes with Fly Golden Eagle and Riley Downing at the Electric Factory

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• Just Announced: Local Natives coming to the Electric Factory on 9/28

  After quickly selling-out their Union Transfer date last month, Local Natives have announced another U.S. leg that brings them back to Philadelphia with openers Wild Nothing for a show at the Electric Factory on September 28th.  The California indie rockers … Read More

• Listen to a live excerpt from Rodrigo y Gabriela's new album (playing the Electric Factory on 8/2)
• Tonight's Concert Picks: XPN Welcomes ALO to The Blockley, Denison Witmer at Johnny Brenda's, New Sweden at Steel City Coffeehouse, The Hooters with Good Old War at The Electric Factory

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