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Still Hustling, Still Hungry: G. Love proves it with a headlining Fillmore...
G. Love and Special Sauce | Photo by Josh Pelta-Heller for WXPN | hellerhound.com If you missed Garrett “G. Love” Dutton and Special Sauce Saturday night at their first-ever Fillmore appearance just...
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Free At Noon Flashback: A fired-up Ben Harper debuts Call It What It Is for a...
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals | Photo by John Vettese for WXPN It’s been eight years since Ben Harper teamed up with his long time backing band The Innocent Criminals, but this spring brings...
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Vance Joy warms hearts at a sold-out Electric Factory
Vance Joy | Photo by Cameron Pollack for WXPN | cameronpollackphotography.com This past summer, I had effectively written off Vance Joy as simply another singer songwriter with a famous falsetto and...
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Judah + The Lion bring the energy to World Cafe Live
Judah + the Lion | Photo by Cameron Pollack for WXPN | cameronpollackphotography.com On Wednesday night, Judah + The Lion turned World Cafe Live into the Electric Factory. Seriously. World Café Live,...
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Seriously: Andrew Bird soars at the Electric Factory
Andrew Bird | Photo by Jeremy Zimmerman | http://jeremy-zim.com/ The title to Andrew Bird‘s newest record is as much a challenge to entry as it is a question — Are You Serious omits the question mark...
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They Might Be Giants put on quite a show for a sold-out TLA
They Might Be Giants | photo by Matthew Shaver for WXPN | http://www.brightloud.com/ 30 years would be long enough for any band to appeal to a generation of parents and their children, if only because...
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Teen Spirit: Alex G’s introspective youth anthems bring out a hometown crowd
Alex G. | Photo by Josh Pelta Heller for WXPN | hellerhound.com If you were standing up front, close to the stage last night at Union Transfer, you’d have noticed a disproportionate demographic of 17-...
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“My F’in Night at the Opera”: Iggy Pop channels the spirit of ’77 at the...
Iggy Pop | photo by Wendy McCardle for WXPN | wendymccardle.com This story begins on March 19, 1977. It’s the day after the release of Iggy Pop‘s solo debut, The Idiot, and he’s performing at the Tower...
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Beyond the Bars: The Districts, Queen of Jeans and more rip it up for a good...
The Districts | Photo by Jeremy Zimmerman | http://jeremy-zim.com/ I could sit here and regale you with stories and stats about the Prison-Industrial Complex all day, but is that going to do anything?...
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Alessia Cara delivers a cathartic performance at the TLA
Alessia Cara | Photo by Morgan Smith for WXPN | phobymo.com As much as Alessia Cara‘s songs might be about finding yourself, the singer-songwriter’s self-possessed nature betrays an old soul; as her...
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Free at Noon Flashback: Boogarins bring psychedelic rock to World Cafe Live
Boogarins | Photo by Breanna Keohane for WXPN Brazilian rock outfit Boogarins kicked off the Friday afternoon by bringing their psychedelic rock sound into World Cafe Live for this week’s Free at Noon...
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Polica reclaims Union Transfer with its new United Crushers
Polica | Photo by Doug Interrante for WXPN I’ll never forget my first time…the 2012 Non-COMMvention. Non-COMM is the annual gathering of non-commercial triple-A stations, held every may at World Cafe...
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Gogo Penguin bring electro-jazz to World Cafe Live
Gogo Penguin | photo by Matthew Shaver | http://www.brightloud.com/ I’m a list fan. Top 10 lists, bottom 10 lists, doesn’t matter. When it comes to music, outside of the annual, quarterly, monthly,...
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Pearl Jam powers through an epic night at the Wells Fargo Center
Pearl Jam | Photo by Josh Pelta-Heller for WXPN | hellerhound.com It could be argued — say if rock critic and punk purist Greil Marcus were your arts and culture professor — that a gaudy spectacle like...
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Santigold throws the ultimate homecoming party at the TLA
Santigold | photo by Ben Wong for WXPN | brotherlylost.com Santigold’s Sunday night performance was the ultimate homecoming for the 39-year-old singer and songwriter. “I have been to so many shows...
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Delta Spirit frontman Matthew Logan Vasquez digs deeper at Boot and Saddle
Matthew Logan Vasquez | Photo by Hope Helmuth for WXPN | hopehelmuth.com On Tuesday night, Delta Spirit frontman Matthew Logan Vasquez made a stop at Philadelphia’s Boot and Saddle, performing material...
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Free At Noon Flashback: Moreland & Arbuckle draws large crowd for new album...
Moreland & Arbuckle | Photo by Sydney Schaefer for WXPN On tour in support of their newest album, the Kansas roots band Moreland & Arbuckle made a stop in Philadelphia, packing in a large crowd...
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Savage Intimacy: Frightened Rabbit returns to the Electric Factory
Frightened Rabbit | Photo by Jeremy Zimmerman | http://jeremy-zim.com/ “It’s been a while, Philadelphia,” said Frightened Rabbit‘s Scott Hutchison early on Friday night, “Three years, if I recall...
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Ben Folds and the yMusic ensemble reinvent piano pop at The Fillmore
Ben Folds | Photo by Matthew Shaver for WXPN There are artists in every generation whose entire persona is a craft. They are top to bottom an art form. They are not a showman, a gag, a schtick,...
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All The World Is a Stage: Parquet Courts Bring “Human Performance” to Union...
Parquet Courts | Photo by Jeremy Zimmerman | http://jeremy-zim.com/ Everyone has that one friend who’s really into irony. The kind of guy who moved to Brooklyn to make handcrafted recycled furniture...
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