The Key

• Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)

  

  Quirky upstate New York four-piece Foxygen got crazy in a late-night Non-COMM set yesterday that blended Doors-esque poppy psychedelia with punk-y dissonance. Check out the setlist below, and listen back to the set in its entirety here (via the WXPN … Read More

• Watch Surgeon perform "Greed" at Garage Mahal (playing Johnny Brenda's on Sunday)
• A conversation on A Pretty Daze with Philadelphia's Kurt Vile (headlining Union Transfer tomorrow)

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• Folkadelphia Session: Morning River Band (and their record release show on Fri. 5/17 at Milkboy Philly)

  

  I always thought Philly to be more of a bluegrass town, what, with its West Philly front porch jam sessions and train terminal busking, but that sweet-and-sour country style is alive and well in our fair city and giving us … Read More

• The Key Studio Sessions: Literature
• Listen / Download: "Fifth in Line to the Throne," a new song from Camera Obscura (opening for She and Him and The Mann Center in July)

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• Watch: Phoenix and Steve Martin & Edie Brickell at Non-COMM

  Dozens of bands played the WXPN Non-COMMvention this week. Audio, photos and set lists from most of the sessions can be found here. Below, watch Phoenix perform “1901,” and Steve Martin and Edie Brickell perform “When You Get To Asheville” … Read More

• Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)
• Non-COMM Recap: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside dabble in retro rock (photos, audio, setlist)

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• Non-COMM Recap: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside dabble in retro rock (photos, audio, setlist)

  

  Portland retro group Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside showed the Non-COMM crowd its rockability in a feisty set that closed out Wednesday night. The band is touring behind its latest LP Untamed Beast; check out the setlist below and … Read More

• Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
• Non-COMM Recap: Robert Randolph makes steel strings sing and the crowd dance (photos, audio)

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• Review: The Wonder Years go back to their roots to promote The Greatest Generation

  

  Local success story The Wonder Years took on an awfully ambitious task to promote their fourth full length album, The Greatest Generation: preform four shows in 24 hours. This madness started in the non air-conditioned basement the First Unitarian Church, … Read More

• Tonight's Concert Picks: Jamie Lidell at Union Transfer, Amanda X at Kung Fu Necktie, THe Appleseed Cast with Belgrade at the First Unitarian Church
• Tonight's Concert Picks: Purling Hiss with Spacin' at Johnny Brenda's, Glitter at World Cafe Live, Restorations at the First Unitarian Church, They Might Be Giants at The TLA, Meek Mill at The Tower Theater and more

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• Fun Cover of the Moment: Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles doing Free Energy's "Hey Tonight."

  When this popped up on Facebook earlier this afternoon, I wasn’t quite sure how seriously to take it. After all, when Titus Andronicus played the First Unitarian Church back in October, they kind of made fun of Philly party rockers … Read More

• Slam-dancing in the basement with Titus Andronicus (photos, recap, setlist)
• Tonight's Concert Picks: Titus Andronicus at First Unitarian Church, Rufus Wainwright at The Pullo Center, Kopecky Family Band at MilkBoy Philly, The Lawsuits at PhilaMOCA's Tuesday Tune-Out, Des Ark at Goldilocks Gallery

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