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Past Giveaway
Ticket Giveaway: BILLIE EILISH
Billie EilishXfinity Mobile ArenaOctober 23, 2025 Only one entry per person. Entry Deadline: 10/9/2025 at 11:59 PM ET. Contest Rules By entering this contest,…
Billie EilishXfinity Mobile ArenaOctober 23, 2025 Only one entry per person. Entry Deadline: 10/9/2025 at 11:59 PM ET. Contest Rules By entering this contest,…
Ticket Giveaway: BILLIE EILISH
Billie EilishXfinity Mobile ArenaOctober 23, 2025 Only one entry per person. Entry Deadline: 10/9/2025 at 11:59 PM ET. Contest Rules By entering this contest,…
Concert Reviews
Choose Transcendence: An inside look at Making Time ∞, Philly’s most daring music festival
At Making Time ∞, transcendence is both a guiding principle and a lived experience. You see it plastered on signs across the historic grounds…
At Making Time ∞, transcendence is both a guiding principle and a lived experience. You see it plastered on signs across the historic grounds…
Choose Transcendence: An inside look at Making Time ∞, Philly’s most daring music festival
At Making Time ∞, transcendence is both a guiding principle and a lived experience. You see it plastered on signs across the historic grounds…
World Cafe
‘Have I gone too far?’: Sarah McLachlan faces her toughest critic on new album
The Grammy Award-winning musician is used to playing for big crowds, but there was one person whose opinion mattered more than anyone else's: her…
The Grammy Award-winning musician is used to playing for big crowds, but there was one person whose opinion mattered more than anyone else's: her…
‘Have I gone too far?’: Sarah McLachlan faces her toughest critic on new album
The Grammy Award-winning musician is used to playing for big crowds, but there was one person whose opinion mattered more than anyone else's: her…
Press Play
PRESS PLAY: New Albums out October 3rd
It may appear that the month’s first release day is a modest one, but that’s showbiz baby! Splicing up sounds from Studio 54, Say…
It may appear that the month’s first release day is a modest one, but that’s showbiz baby! Splicing up sounds from Studio 54, Say…
PRESS PLAY: New Albums out October 3rd
It may appear that the month’s first release day is a modest one, but that’s showbiz baby! Splicing up sounds from Studio 54, Say…
World Cafe
Expect a lot of Puerto Rican pride at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show
Days before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl announcement, World Cafe spoke to Alt.Latino hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras about his 31-date residency in Puerto Rico.
Days before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl announcement, World Cafe spoke to Alt.Latino hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras about his 31-date residency in Puerto Rico.
Expect a lot of Puerto Rican pride at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show
Days before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl announcement, World Cafe spoke to Alt.Latino hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras about his 31-date residency in Puerto Rico.
Music News
Sing Us Home Festival returns to Philly’s Venice Island May 1-3, 2026
WXPN is excited to once again be part of Dave Hause’s Sing Us Home Festival, returning to Venice Island in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood from…
WXPN is excited to once again be part of Dave Hause’s Sing Us Home Festival, returning to Venice Island in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood from…
Sing Us Home Festival returns to Philly’s Venice Island May 1-3, 2026
WXPN is excited to once again be part of Dave Hause’s Sing Us Home Festival, returning to Venice Island in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood from…
Artist To Watch
CMAT | Artist To Watch – October 2025
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – aka CMAT – will be our next Artist to Watch. The Irish singer-songwriter recently released her third album, Euro-Country, and…
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – aka CMAT – will be our next Artist to Watch. The Irish singer-songwriter recently released her third album, Euro-Country, and…
CMAT | Artist To Watch – October 2025
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – aka CMAT – will be our next Artist to Watch. The Irish singer-songwriter recently released her third album, Euro-Country, and…
Concert Reviews
Unadorned and uninhibited, Lorde’s ‘Ultrasound’ tour rocks Philly
On the last day of September, Lorde asked, “Do you have the stones?” and dared us to be brave and meet her where she…
On the last day of September, Lorde asked, “Do you have the stones?” and dared us to be brave and meet her where she…
Unadorned and uninhibited, Lorde’s ‘Ultrasound’ tour rocks Philly
On the last day of September, Lorde asked, “Do you have the stones?” and dared us to be brave and meet her where she…
Music News
XPN Goes Back To School: What college radio is listening to in the upcoming semester
Remember when fall meant more than pumpkin spice lattes and rewatching Gilmore Girls in the diminishing twilight hours? Like when it meant you had…
Remember when fall meant more than pumpkin spice lattes and rewatching Gilmore Girls in the diminishing twilight hours? Like when it meant you had…
XPN Goes Back To School: What college radio is listening to in the upcoming semester
Remember when fall meant more than pumpkin spice lattes and rewatching Gilmore Girls in the diminishing twilight hours? Like when it meant you had…
