Hi, Bob Bumbera from the XPN Morning Show here. Today, I start hitting the the XPN Blog with (what I think) are some interesting music news items, found during the XPN Morning Show, which we affectionately refer to as “XPN Music Notes”.

The audio can be heard by clicking the arrow below, and the series will be available as a podcast @ XPN.org starting next week. I’ll generally have the info. updated every “New Release Tuesday” on XPN but stay tuned [...]

We hope you enjoyed Friday’s concert with World Party and Allison Moorer, you can listen to the archived concert NPR.orgHere is a message from each artist!

World Party’s Karl Wallinger:

Hello. Good to be back. I’m never going away again, promise. I’m onstage tomorrow at four o’clock[at the Jam on The River in Philadelphia]. It’s great to be touring after such a long time, and so far I’ve been amazed by people’s ability to remember [...]

You want new Los Lobos?

You got it. Click here to listen to two new songs from a new studio album due in September. And you can even e-mail the band to let them know what you think.

Here’s the Philly Local Playlist for May 23rd!

Artist – Song – Album1. Cabin Dogs – Golden Blue – Electric Cabin2. Milton and the Devil’s Party – Live Without Me- What Is All This Sweet Work Worth?3. Aderbat – Get Out – Rabbits and Rocks – Aderbat4. Dave Quicks – Gold Mine – Album5. Audible – October Song – Sky Signal6. Bebek – 807 Dub – Bebek7. Hoots & Hellmouth – New Shoes – Hoots & Hellmouth8. Antje Duvekot – Dandelion [...]

24

We had Keifer Sutherland last week -let’s do 24 for the final 2 hours!

The Ramones-I Wanna Be SedatedThe Happy Mondays-24 Hour Party PeopleThe Sundays -24 HoursRay Charles- Hit the Road JackREM-It’s the End of the World As We Know It

“Chloe, I Need You to Upload the World Cafe to my PDA, Damn it!”

Every Friday we usually turn the World Cafe airwaves over to a listener for their 5 song selection, but every so often we have a notable guest and this week it’s Kiefer Sutherland.

Listen to MP3 clip of Kiefer talking with host David Dye

Kiefer has taken some of the money he made as Executive Producer of “24″ and indulged one of his passions, music, by forming his own [...]

“Chloe, I Need You to Upload the World Cafe to my PDA, Damn it!”

Every Friday we usually turn the World Cafe airwaves over to a listener for their 5 song selection, but every so often we have a notable guest and this week it’s Kiefer Sutherland.

Listen to MP3 clip of Kiefer talking with host David Dye

Kiefer has taken some of the money he made as Executive Producer of “24″ and indulged one of his passions, music, by forming his own [...]

Hello from beautiful Lousiville, Kentucky where we are at the public radio Non-Comm, a three day conference of public radio stations that play a lot of the same music XPN plays. Dan, David, Roger and I are all here, and later today David will be broadcasting on XPN live from WFPK studios starting at 4PM.

Over the next few days radio and music biz folks will get together to see some great music, share some stories about our stations with each [...]

“Brother Can You Spare A Dime”

songs relating to the Stock Market-Dow down 214 pts today!

10CC-Wall St ShuffleSteely Dan-Black FridayThe Third Rail-Run Run RunThea Gilmore-Brother Can You Spare A DimeO’Jays-For the Love of $$

Hey!

Here is the Philly Local playlist for Tuesday May 16th!

Artist – Song – Album

1. Antje Duvekot – Go Now – Big Dream Boulevard

2. The Spinto Band – Oh Mandy – Nice and Nicely Done

3. Stuntditch – Pipedream – Stuntditch

4. John Flynn – Dover – Two Wolves

5. Lilys – A Diana’s Diana – Everything [...]