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  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: "Stay With Me" -vs- "I Won't Back Down," New song and album from Calexico, & Leonard Cohen & Arcade Fire among Juno nominees
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Death Cab for Cutie's new song "Black Sun," Gibson to sell Peter Frampton "Phoenix" guitar, and Sam Smith credits Tom Petty on hit song
  Reimagining Ortlieb's: Domenic Palermo of Nothing and Kyle Costill of BITBY have big plans for the NoLibs venue
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Listen to St. Vincent's latest song "Bad Believer," and Led Zeppelin shares unreleased demo of "Houses of the Holy"
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Watch Prince's new "Marz" video, Go on a cruise with Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Mark Ronson pays tribute to Amy Winehouse
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: The Grateful Dead to play last 3 shows in Chicago, Watch Bruce Springsteen perform Sat. night in Jersey, and who will sing at the Super Bowl?
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  Download a new song by Pokey LaFarge, "Something In The Water"
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Tickets for the final Grateful Dead shows, Jack White reunites "The Raconteurs" with Loretta Lynn, & Tom Jones and Annie Lennox to perform at Grammys
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: "Stay With Me" -vs- "I Won't Back Down," New song and album from Calexico, & Leonard Cohen & Arcade Fire among Juno nominees
  Download a Philly Folk Fest performance by Sturgill Simpson for World Cafe
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Death Cab for Cutie's new song "Black Sun," Gibson to sell Peter Frampton "Phoenix" guitar, and Sam Smith credits Tom Petty on hit song
  Download "Chateau Lobby #4 (in C For Two Virgins)" by Father John Misty
  XPN's Gotta Hear Song of the Week: "Fade Out Lines" by The Avener
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  XPN Weekend Arts Crawl...Ben Franklin turns 309, Edgar Allan Poe celebrates 206, Flower Show preview on ice, and looking ahead to MLK Day Monday
  We are the 21st Century: The story behind the song in Visit Philly's new video
  Documenting A Live Music Scene: A conversation with the man behind Philataper
  Listen to Fairport Convention from the Philadelphia Folk Festival, August, 1970
  The Fleeting Ends call it quits
  XPN Weekend Arts Crawl...Lots to do on the first weekend of 2015!
  The Key's Year-End Mania: Chris Zak’s 5 Tracks that Induced Synesthesia in 2014
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  Tonight's Concert Picks: Marshall Crenshaw at The Sellersville Theater, Citizen at Electric Factory, The Retinas at North Star Bar and more
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Tickets for the final Grateful Dead shows, Jack White reunites "The Raconteurs" with Loretta Lynn, & Tom Jones and Annie Lennox to perform at Grammys
  MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: "Stay With Me" -vs- "I Won't Back Down," New song and album from Calexico, & Leonard Cohen & Arcade Fire among Juno nominees
  Expanding the vocabulary of the bass with Julie Slick and Marco Machera
  Edelweiss, Blankbook and Cyberbully Mom Club rock the ballroom of a Drexel dorm
  Fire Museum presents Fursaxa, Tropical Rock and Itasca at The First Banana
  Healthy Philadelphia hosting health insurance info session for musicians at Johnny Brenda's
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  Folkadelphia Session: Ryley Walker
  25 locals (plus!) come together to sing for retiring XPN Folk Show host Gene Shay
  Funky Philly seven-piece Darla makes an elegant entrance with Darla Forever
  Tonight's Concert Picks: Ortolan at Kung Fu Necktie, John C. Reilly and Tom Brosseau at Sellersville Theater, Abi Reimold at Bourbon and Branch
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