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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

• Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
• Watch Surgeon perform "Greed" at Garage Mahal (playing Johnny Brenda's on Sunday)

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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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• Through the years with The Walkmen at Union Transfer (photos, review, video)

  

  For once, The Walkmen seem comfortable enough to take a quick breath and a look back. Their seventh studio album, Heaven, is just over six months old, they’re heading out on a new round of tour dates in support of … Read More

• The Walkmen served a spaghetti dinner, covered Bob Seger at Union Transfer (photos, review, setlist)
• Tonight's Concert Picks: The Walkmen at Union Transfer, Grimace Federation at Kung Fu Necktie, The Cobbs at Johnny Brenda's, David Uosikkinen's In the Pocket at The Colonial Theatre

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• A conversation on A Pretty Daze with Philadelphia's Kurt Vile (headlining Union Transfer tomorrow)

  

  Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze, the latest from Philadelphia psych-songwriter Kurt Vile, has generated international acclaim since its March release on Matador Records. And rightfully so; it’s an ambitious double album exploring a plethora of ideas, and doing them all … Read More

• Tonight's Concert Picks: XPN welcomes Charles Bradley to Union Transfer, Morning River Band at MilkBoy, XPN welcomes Mary Chapin Carpenter to the Keswick Theatre, MAD Dragon Anniversary Concert at The Trocadero
• Dressed to impress, Iron and Wine charmed a sold-out Union Transfer crowd (photos, review, setlist)

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