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WXPN Best of 2021: Video Sessions
Even before concerts came back, video sessions were a way artists and their fans remained connected in 2021. Whether it was a Facebook livestream…
Even before concerts came back, video sessions were a way artists and their fans remained connected in 2021. Whether it was a Facebook livestream…
WXPN Best of 2021: Video Sessions
Even before concerts came back, video sessions were a way artists and their fans remained connected in 2021. Whether it was a Facebook livestream…
Local
The Districts have cancelled their year-end shows, including NYE at Johnny Brenda’s
Philly rockers The Districts have called off their year-end shows. The band was set to cap 2021 with concerts at Johnny Brenda’s on December…
Philly rockers The Districts have called off their year-end shows. The band was set to cap 2021 with concerts at Johnny Brenda’s on December…
The Districts have cancelled their year-end shows, including NYE at Johnny Brenda’s
Philly rockers The Districts have called off their year-end shows. The band was set to cap 2021 with concerts at Johnny Brenda’s on December…
News
Dr. Dog’s final run of Philly concerts (including NYE) will go on as scheduled
As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges across the United States and year-end concerts are cancelled or postponed, the future of Dr. Dog‘s final…
As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges across the United States and year-end concerts are cancelled or postponed, the future of Dr. Dog‘s final…
Dr. Dog’s final run of Philly concerts (including NYE) will go on as scheduled
As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges across the United States and year-end concerts are cancelled or postponed, the future of Dr. Dog‘s final…
News
Culture Cypher Radio December Chart: Revisiting the radical and revolutionary music of 2021
It’s a bit strange for me to look back and make an assessment of the past year because it feels like 2020 never really…
It’s a bit strange for me to look back and make an assessment of the past year because it feels like 2020 never really…
Culture Cypher Radio December Chart: Revisiting the radical and revolutionary music of 2021
It’s a bit strange for me to look back and make an assessment of the past year because it feels like 2020 never really…
Recordings
The Key Studio Sessions: Kuf Knotz and Christine Elise
Welcome to the Key Studio Sessions three-timers club, Kuf Knotz! For his latest appearance on our long-running series documenting the Philly music scene, the…
Welcome to the Key Studio Sessions three-timers club, Kuf Knotz! For his latest appearance on our long-running series documenting the Philly music scene, the…
The Key Studio Sessions: Kuf Knotz and Christine Elise
Welcome to the Key Studio Sessions three-timers club, Kuf Knotz! For his latest appearance on our long-running series documenting the Philly music scene, the…
Recordings
Watch Reef the Lost Cauze play ‘IZ Alive’ — LIVE!
One thing that can be a drag about writing best-of-your-music-scene rundowns like the one we published earlier this week? Records we love invariably and…
One thing that can be a drag about writing best-of-your-music-scene rundowns like the one we published earlier this week? Records we love invariably and…
Watch Reef the Lost Cauze play ‘IZ Alive’ — LIVE!
One thing that can be a drag about writing best-of-your-music-scene rundowns like the one we published earlier this week? Records we love invariably and…
News
DJs Michael Brun and Win Butler will join Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ram, and Boukman Eksperyans at Kanaval Ball
WXPN’s year-long project Kanaval: Haitian Rhthms and the Music of New Orleans concludes on January 9th with Philly’s first Kanaval Ball, a free event…
WXPN’s year-long project Kanaval: Haitian Rhthms and the Music of New Orleans concludes on January 9th with Philly’s first Kanaval Ball, a free event…
DJs Michael Brun and Win Butler will join Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ram, and Boukman Eksperyans at Kanaval Ball
WXPN’s year-long project Kanaval: Haitian Rhthms and the Music of New Orleans concludes on January 9th with Philly’s first Kanaval Ball, a free event…
News
Bonnie Raitt will play The Mann in June with Lucinda Williams
Singer-songwriter icon Bonnie Raitt is touring in 2022, her first time on the road in five years. The spring run of dates in support…
Singer-songwriter icon Bonnie Raitt is touring in 2022, her first time on the road in five years. The spring run of dates in support…
Bonnie Raitt will play The Mann in June with Lucinda Williams
Singer-songwriter icon Bonnie Raitt is touring in 2022, her first time on the road in five years. The spring run of dates in support…
Recordings
Tierra Whack embraces genre-fluidity on “Body Of Water”
Philly visionary Tierra Whack just released a stellar pair of EPs called Pop? and Rap?, those titles with the question marks alluding to the…
Philly visionary Tierra Whack just released a stellar pair of EPs called Pop? and Rap?, those titles with the question marks alluding to the…
Tierra Whack embraces genre-fluidity on “Body Of Water”
Philly visionary Tierra Whack just released a stellar pair of EPs called Pop? and Rap?, those titles with the question marks alluding to the…