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Made In America announces lineup: Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Haim, Kendrick Lamar, Fitz and the Tantrums, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Public Enemy, Beyonce and more

Bruce Warren — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:58:54 +0000

Here’s the lineup for this year’s Made In America festival.

MIA Facebook special pre-sale happens Monday, April 15th, 10AM through Tuesday, April 16th, 10PM EST. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 17th at 10AM. Go here for ticket information.

Just Announced: XPN Welcomes Firefly Festival to Dover International Speedway, featuring Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Lumineers, MGMT, Kendrick Lamar and more

Julie Miller — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:05:11 +0000

Photo by Clara Balzary

XPN welcomes the return of Firefly Festival to The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway on June 21st-23rd. The line-up is huge this year, with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty and Foster the People headlining the multi-day festival and over sixty of the biggest established and rising acts in the country filling out the bill. Firefly’s diverse bill includes Vampire Weekend, rapper Kendrick Lamar, Public Enemy, Philly’s Dr. Dog, The Walkmen and the Spinto Band, Ellie Goulding, The Avett Brothers, Passion Pit, Calvin Harris, Grizzly Bear, Toro Y Moi, ZZ Ward, Matt and Kim, Dispatch, and new favorites HAIM, Wild Belle and Foxygen. Check out videos of some of the bands we’re most excited to see this summer and go here to view the full line-up. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, February 21st at noon; more information will be available here.

The Lumineers

Kendrick Lamar

Grizzly Bear

Alabama Shakes

Dr. Dog

The Walkmen

Japandroids

The Spinto Band

Kopecky Family Band

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Loretta Lynn at Keswick Theatre, Public Enemy with Whodini at Liacouras Center, Arlo Guthrie at Scottish Rite, Matt Duke at Steel City, Graham Parker & The Rumour at TLA

Skye Leppo — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:35:21 +0000

The “First Lady of Country Music,” Loretta Lynn, will be gracing the stage at Keswick Theatre this evening. The Appalachian songstress’s last album, 2004′s Van Lear Rose, is one of more than sixty studio records Lynn has released since her first #1 hit in 1967, “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin’ On Your Mind).” Tickets for tonight’s all-ages performance can be found here. Below, check out Lynn’s performance of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”

Public Enemy hits the stage with Whodini tonight at the Liacouras Center. Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and the rest of the hip-hop collective are touring in support of their latest album, The Evil Empire of Everything, which was released in conjunction with Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp, released earlier this year. Whodini, who haven’t released an album since 1996′s Six, hold authority as pioneers of the hip-hop realm, having been the first rap act to tour in Europe. Tickets for tonight’s show can be found here; the show starts at 7:30. Below, watch Public Enemy’s 1990 hit “Fight the Power.”

XPN Welcomes folk singer Arlo Guthrie to the Scottish Rite Theatre in Collingswood tonight. Guthrie, whose politically-themed songs have carried his career for nearly half a century, was born into a family of other folk artists, being the son of the renowned late Woody Guthrie and protege of his father’s friends, Pete Seeger and “Ramblin’” Jack Elliott. Tickets and information for the all-ages performance this evening can be found here. Below, watch Guthrie perform “Amazing Grace.”

XPN Welcomes Matt Duke to Steel City Coffeehouse tonight. The New Jersey singer-songwriter is touring supporting the release of his latest EP, Love On a Major Scale. You can listen to a single, “The Eyes,” from Love On A Major Scale here, and tickets for tonight’s all-ages performance can be found here. Below, watch Duke and Tony Lucca cover “99 Problems.”

British rockers Graham Parker & The Rumour will be performing at Theatre of the Living Arts this evening as part of their reunion tour. Last week the band released their first record in 31 years, Three Chords Good, which has been received well among critics and fans alike. Tonight’s all-ages show begins at 8 p.m.; go here for tickets. Below, watch Graham Parker & The Rumour perform the title track from 1977′s Stick To Me.

Guest Blogger: John Francis picks his favorite video jams

Bruce Warren — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:39:25 +0000

Singer-songwriter John Francis just released his new album, The Better Angels (which we recently featured as one of our local picks of the day). We asked John to do a little guest blogging for us and pick some of his favorite musicians—one song from each them and why he chose them. (John’s CD-release party is Friday, December 3rd at Tin Angel.)

Bruce Springsteen – “Streets Of Philadelphia”
“Receive me brother with your fateless kiss, or will we leave each other alone like this on the streets of Philadelphia?” Springsteen is one of my favorite artists and this song embodies why. He’s got that “human touch,” he speaks for us, and for people who have no voice, giving shape and texture and flesh to those often times intangible places inside each of us. In my years living in Philadelphia, I lived some of the lines in this song, as many of us have.

Public Enemy - “Can’t Truss It”
I love Chuck D cause he is a teacher. A historian, a truth-teller. The record ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ came out when I was in the 9th grade. The lessons in his lyrics confirmed my horrifying suspicions about American history and racism. Public Enemy’s story-songs are also a call to awareness and action. Thanks Chuck, it’s not easy to tell the truth, I’m grateful.

Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues”
This is Johnny Cash performing “Folsom Prison Blues” at San Quentin Prison with his band. This is why I love Johnny Cash and consider myself to be his student: “I wear the black for the poor and beaten down, livin’ on the hopeless hungry side of town. I wear it for the thousands who have died, believin’ that the Lord was on their side”. (From the song ‘Man in Black). He distilled all of his rage against injustice and his empathy for society’s outcasts into a singular symbol: wearing the color black. That’s why everyone from old guard Southern Baptists to tattoo covered punks with green hair can relate to Johnny, prisoners to presidents. He transcends because he is earthed in his own humanity and in all of humanity at large.

Bob Dylan – “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Shakespeare, Camus, Whitman, Twain…got nothin’ on this guy. I don’t trust anyone who dislikes Bob Dylan. Listen not just to the words, but the inflection and delivery. “He not busy being born is busy dieing.” What makes Dylan great is how he gets out of the way of the song.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up Above My Head”
One of my favorite singers / guitar players. She just lifts your spirit, doesn’t she? How about her guitar playing! Can I get an ‘amen’? Feel it?