By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
In the world of make pretend bands there’s a few different categories. First you have your cartoon bands like The Archies, Josie & The Pussycats and Jem (the 80’s Josie & The Pussycats). Then you have your cartoons of real bands that made it to television like The Beatles, […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
James Brown wasn’t only known as the Godfather of Soul and the hardest working man in showbiz. He’s also known as one of the most sampled musicians in music. His song “Funky Drummer” is perhaps his most sampled song. It was recorded on November 20, 1969 and originally released […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
Brian Divver, one of WXPN’s web staff (and our resident metalhead) came across an article called “101 Things You Didn’t Know About Rock ‘N’ Roll” that we had to share. Reading through them is like reading a music geek’s collection of trivia. Some things I knew and some I […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
One of reggae’s most legendary labels was started in 1967 and since then has presented some of the best Jamaican music with the likes of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Dennis Brown, Toots & The Maytals and Lee “Scratch” Perry.
The Trojan Records story begins July 28th, 1967 when the […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
Northern Soul, the UK dance movement that took hold in the 70’s across London, never really caught on here in the States. Which was too bad. Internationally, the Northern Soul movement grew quite large and to this day - for R&B and soul music fans - the movement has […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director of WXPN
Over pop music’s vast history there have been many memorable musical moments involving key band members (i.e. lead singers) striking out on their own to do their own solo projects. I submit to you a list of some of these moves; you’ll agree that some of them have been […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN

WIBG – Philadelphia’s Top Music Men
Philadelphia has always had some of the greatest radio stations in the country. And growing up in Philly during the Sixties and early Seventies you had two incredible AM radio stations to listen to – either “Famous 56″ – WFIL or “WIBG” aka […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
Things have always gone better with Coke, although admittedly I was never much of a Pepsi drinker. “Things go better with Coke” was one of the many genius Coca-Cola marketing campaigns over the years. Working with their advertising agency McCann-Erickson, the jingle that was “Things go better with Coca-Cola” […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
Here’s a significant drummer that Dan The List guy left off his list today of great drummers. This drummer’s name may not be familiar to you, but my bet is you have heard his work. As a distinguished session drummer he’s played on many of the solo Beatles albums, […]

By Bruce Warren, Program Director for WXPN
In the August issue of Modern Drummer, there is a terrific article written by one of our favorite Philly Local musicians and drummer Pat Berkery. Pat was the drummer in The Bigger Lovers, and his other band is The Pernice Brothers. The article is called “The Top-25 Stax Drum […]