Live Broadcast from Austin's SXSW Music Festival today at 4pm ET Live from Austin's Day Stage Café at SXSW Tune in at 4pm today, for a live broadcast from SXSW in Austin, Texas, with Diane Birch, Citizen Cope, The Court Yard Hounds, and Jakob Dylan. Then, at 8pm tonight, we'll broadcast Spoon! Live from SXSW Music Festival >>
Folk icon, Richie Havens at XPN's 2010 Beggar's Banquet. Photo by Adam McCullough. Get your ticket now. Folk icon Richie Havens will be joining us at Beggars Banquet next month, along with Alejandro Escovedo, Dar Williams, Jonatha Brooke, and more! Will you be there? Get your tickets now to XPN's Annual Beggars Banquet.
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Check out the free SXSW Music Sampler and Broadcast Schedule for the upcoming SXSW Music Festival in Austin Live from SXSW in Austion, Diane Birch, Citizen Cope, The Court Yard Hounds, and Jakob Dylan. Then, at 8pm tonight, we'll broadcast Spoon! Download your free iTunes Music Sampler. Live from SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas >>
Start Making Cents, an Online Music Sereis from WXPN's Tracey Tanenbaum. A series showcasing ways musicians, labels and producers are dealing with revolutionary changes in the music business. Click, Read, Listen to Tracey Tanenbaum on Start Making Cents.
Session of the DayMeet the next artist in the XPN/Weathervane Music Collaboration “Shaking Through” – Philadelphia’s own Strapping Fieldhands.
My Morning Download introduces you to the newest music on the web Beach House stopped by World Cafe with David Dye a couple of weeks ago to do an in-studio performance and interview. Here's an exclusive in studio version of a song from their new album Teen Dream. Download "Walk In The Park" from Beach House.
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It's too early to say whether or not this is just the first of future collaborations between Mercer and Burton as Broken Bells. But for now, the music world is sure to embrace this musical merger. LISTEN, Or,
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Y-Rock Tune in this Friday at 8pm as Austin's own Spoon headlines WXPN and NPR Music's South By Southwest showcase at Stubb's in Austin, Texas. Hear their full concert broadcast at 8pm on the radio at 88.5 XPN or on the the Y-Rock webstream. Get yPod here >>

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Current IdeasListen to Bob Bumbera's Reports on Technology, the Arts, Business, Sustainability, and Health. Stay up to date. Read our Current Ideas >>
Pick up your tickets for the March 24, March On Stage Concert with The Fractals, Andrew Lipke, and Nicole Reynolds. More Info & Tickets >>
Join WXPN General Manager Roger LaMay as he gathers with 500+ celebrants at the Blockley Pourhouse - to commemorate Michaela Majoun's 20 years as the Morning show host for WXPN.
Shaking Through The 3rd Shaking Through project debuts today with Strapping Fieldhands. Shaking Through - the new online music and video series from WXPN and Weathervane Music. Read, watch, listen and download
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Ingird Michaelson and Band at World Cafe
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Micahela is Turning 20 Live Remote Broadcast of the XPN Morning Show is coming up in Lancaster on Friday March 19.

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Watch Radio Video from Roger LaMay and the 2010 Benefit for WXPN Musicians On Call
Join WXPN General Manager Roger LaMay with highlights from this year's Musicians On Call Benefit featuring Ingrid Michaelson and Mutlu.
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