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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• 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

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

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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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• My Morning Download: "Tessellate" by Alt-J (from a limited time only collection of World Cafe downloads)

  Today’s free World Cafe download is from the British band Alt J. They appeared on World Cafe in December, 2012; you can listen to the audio from that session here. This month only, World Cafe is offering free downloads of … Read More

• The Key's Year-End Mania: Julie Miller's Top Five Pond-Crossers of 2012
• Just Announced: Alt J returns to Philadelphia in March (playing the TLA on 3/21)

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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 Dispatch: An NPR Music knockout with Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more

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• Watch more videos of Charles Bradley, Vampire Weekend and Pickwick from WFUV's coverage of the Public Radio Rocks SXSW showcase

  

  Our friends at WFUV in New York just released another batch of videos from our collaborative Public Radio Rocks showcase at SXSW last week. Below, watch videos of Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires playing “Confusion” (they’re headlining Union Transfer on … Read More

• 10 bands we loved at SXSW
• SXSW Recap: Stream Vampire Weekend's entire set from the Public Radio Rocks showcase, watch them perform "Unbelievers" (and hear two other new songs)

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