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WXPN’s Concert Picks: Alex Savoth album release show, Jill Sobule tribute, Kevin Morby, Sadie Gust, more
The upcoming week of shows is packed with WXPN favorites. From our 2025 24 Hour Song Challenge winner Sadie Gust to Kevin Morby, you’ve got plenty of chances to see the artists we play on the air live in concert.
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World Cafe host Stephen Kallao’s got video game soundtracks, a cover, and Gloorp for Ears We Trust
Did you know World Cafe host Stephen Kallao is an avid gamer? For this week’s Ears We Trust, he’s sharing some video game soundtracks, a cover by Todd Rundgren’s band Utopia, and a new project titled Gloorp. That’s not a typo. Check out his picks here!
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Roots Picnic celebrates local acts alongside headliners JAŸ-Z and Erykah Badu at Belmont Plateau
After years at the Mann Center, this year’s Roots Picnic took place in Belmont Plateau, bringing the festival to one of Philadelphia’s most iconic gathering spaces to highlight local, national, and international talent.
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Philly drag icon Dito van Reigersberg — AKA Martha Graham Cracker — dies at 53
Dito van Reigersberg is more widely known as his stage persona, Martha Graham Cracker. His death was announced Monday night by his friend and bandmate Victor Fiorillo.
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WXPN is going Hollywood with Songs from Soundtracks for Throwback Thursday this week
Every Thursday through the summer, we’re blasting a mix of classics and deep cuts from different eras, themes, and scenes, including The British Invasion, Freedom, XPN Unplugged, The Long and Short of It, and he ABCs of RnB.
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BalletX and Dan Deacon team up to reimagine Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’
Philly’s contemporary ballet company BalletX and electronic musician Dan Deacon are performing “The Four Seasons Reimagined,” co-commissioned with ArtPhilly’s What Now: 2026 Festival and Highmark Mann, with Deacon scoring four separately choreographed sections based on spring, summer, fall, and winter.
