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Watch Lucy Dacus perform “Hot & Heavy” on <em>The Late Show</em>
Lucy Dacus only just announced her upcoming album, Home Video. Her third full-length is billed as an exploration of how Dacus feels returning to…
Lucy Dacus only just announced her upcoming album, Home Video. Her third full-length is billed as an exploration of how Dacus feels returning to…
Watch Lucy Dacus perform “Hot & Heavy” on <em>The Late Show</em>
Lucy Dacus only just announced her upcoming album, Home Video. Her third full-length is billed as an exploration of how Dacus feels returning to…
Artists
PRESS PLAY: 8 New Albums Out April 16th
I wouldn’t usually pick an anniversary reissue to top the list of PRESS PLAY, but epic Ten isn’t your usual anniversary reissue. To commemorate…
I wouldn’t usually pick an anniversary reissue to top the list of PRESS PLAY, but epic Ten isn’t your usual anniversary reissue. To commemorate…
PRESS PLAY: 8 New Albums Out April 16th
I wouldn’t usually pick an anniversary reissue to top the list of PRESS PLAY, but epic Ten isn’t your usual anniversary reissue. To commemorate…
Artists
Welcome To The Locals: B-Eazyyy
Welcome to the Locals is a regular series by XPN host Rahman Wortman where he introduces a new Philadelphia-area artist to the listeners of…
Welcome to the Locals is a regular series by XPN host Rahman Wortman where he introduces a new Philadelphia-area artist to the listeners of…
Welcome To The Locals: B-Eazyyy
Welcome to the Locals is a regular series by XPN host Rahman Wortman where he introduces a new Philadelphia-area artist to the listeners of…
News
Lucy Dacus announces new album <em>Home Video</em>, shares single “Hot & Heavy”
Lucy Dacus just announced that her third album, Home Video, will be released June 25 on Matador Records. The lead single “Hot & Heavy”…
Lucy Dacus just announced that her third album, Home Video, will be released June 25 on Matador Records. The lead single “Hot & Heavy”…
Lucy Dacus announces new album <em>Home Video</em>, shares single “Hot & Heavy”
Lucy Dacus just announced that her third album, Home Video, will be released June 25 on Matador Records. The lead single “Hot & Heavy”…
Artists
Explore King Britt’s Google exhibit Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music
Just before the world settled into the pandemic lockdown, Philly producer / DJ / sound artist King Britt made the move across country to…
Just before the world settled into the pandemic lockdown, Philly producer / DJ / sound artist King Britt made the move across country to…
Explore King Britt’s Google exhibit Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music
Just before the world settled into the pandemic lockdown, Philly producer / DJ / sound artist King Britt made the move across country to…
Artists
PRESS PLAY: 8 New Albums out April 9th!
Collaboration, reclamation, celebration: this week’s batch of new albums has it all. At the top, acclaimed folklorist Rhiannon Giddens teams up with her partner,…
Collaboration, reclamation, celebration: this week’s batch of new albums has it all. At the top, acclaimed folklorist Rhiannon Giddens teams up with her partner,…
PRESS PLAY: 8 New Albums out April 9th!
Collaboration, reclamation, celebration: this week’s batch of new albums has it all. At the top, acclaimed folklorist Rhiannon Giddens teams up with her partner,…
Recordings
Japanese Breakfast yearns for connection on new single and video, “Posing In Bondage”
In an otherworldly music video for their latest single, Japanese Breakfast explores loneliness and connection in the dim lights of an empty supermarket. The…
In an otherworldly music video for their latest single, Japanese Breakfast explores loneliness and connection in the dim lights of an empty supermarket. The…
Japanese Breakfast yearns for connection on new single and video, “Posing In Bondage”
In an otherworldly music video for their latest single, Japanese Breakfast explores loneliness and connection in the dim lights of an empty supermarket. The…
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The Skeleton Key: Join in the chant with these Bandcamp Friday recs, a Philly punk gigography, gospel and hardcore livestreams, jazz lectures, and a Moor Mother dance party
You ever see something that is so absurd that you’re sure it has to be a joke even though you know it’s not? No,…
You ever see something that is so absurd that you’re sure it has to be a joke even though you know it’s not? No,…
The Skeleton Key: Join in the chant with these Bandcamp Friday recs, a Philly punk gigography, gospel and hardcore livestreams, jazz lectures, and a Moor Mother dance party
You ever see something that is so absurd that you’re sure it has to be a joke even though you know it’s not? No,…
Artists
Back To The Bell Tower: How a burst of pandemic creativity brought Verbatum Jones out of hiatus
It’s seldom that you come across a person with a personality that is so kind and joyous that it’s infectious. Where one conversation with…
It’s seldom that you come across a person with a personality that is so kind and joyous that it’s infectious. Where one conversation with…
Back To The Bell Tower: How a burst of pandemic creativity brought Verbatum Jones out of hiatus
It’s seldom that you come across a person with a personality that is so kind and joyous that it’s infectious. Where one conversation with…