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• Peter Hook & The Light to play New Order songs in September, after New Order plays them in July

  Will the real New Order please stand up. Peter Hook, the bassist from New Order and Joy Division won’t be out on tour with New Order this summer when they play The Mann in July, but Hook and his band … Read More

• Say What? Souls Of Mischief playing Underground Arts on June 27
• Watch Cold Fronts signing to Warner Brothers / Sire Records via Vine

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• Peter Hook & The Light to play New Order songs in September, after New Order plays them in July

  Will the real New Order please stand up. Peter Hook, the bassist from New Order and Joy Division won’t be out on tour with New Order this summer when they play The Mann in July, but Hook and his band … Read More

• Say What? Souls Of Mischief playing Underground Arts on June 27
• Watch Cold Fronts signing to Warner Brothers / Sire Records via Vine

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• Listen to the latest episode of Folkadelphia streaming on demand! (ft. Bailey Hounds, Vandaveer, Patty Griffin and more!)

  

  In case you missed this week’s episode of Folkadelphia, the weekly exploration of the many definitions of folk music on XPN2, fear no! You can now listen to the show in its entirety streaming on demand. Highlights include music from … Read More

• Watch Low Cut Connie perform two pop-up shows in Chicago (playing Appel Farm on 6/1 and Underground Arts on 8/3)
• Scottish garage rockers Paws playing a free show at Morgan's Pier on 6/12

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• The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Wild Belle, Petula Clark and Neighborhood Choir)

  

  Check out photos and videos of Eels‘ knock-out appearance at World Cafe Live [link] Local acoustic musician Kyle Swartzwelder recorded a stirring session for Folkadelphia [link] Download “Joy To You Baby” from Josh Ritter‘s new LP The Beast in its … Read More

• The unstoppable Eels play World Cafe Live with clowns, track suits (photos, review, video, setlist)
• A brief and baffling history of opening acts for Eels (playing a sold-out World Cafe Live tomorrow)

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• Non-COMM Recap: The Relatives wrap up the show with gospel harmonies (photos)

  

  Sharply-dressed gospel-funk ensemble The Relatives wrapped up this year’s Non-COMM with a Friday night set of sweet harmonies on the World Cafe Live stage. Hailing from Texas and performing together since 1970, the group just released its first album of … Read More

• Non-COMM Recap: Jose James brought smooth sounds to the World Cafe Live stage (photos)
• Non-COMM Recap: Meet lively bluegrass combo Della Mae (photos)

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