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Featuring classics from heritage troubadours to new musicians and bands in the singer-songwriter tradition.

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Gotta Hear Song

Gotta Hear Song

Burning Instinct by Red Baraat

WXPN Welcomes:

WXPN Welcomes:

The Districts, Cheers Elephant, and Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang

WXPN Welcomes: Appel Farm Festival

WXPN Welcomes: Appel Farm Festival

Delta Spirit, Brandi Carlile, John Gorka and much more!

Key Studio Session:

Key Studio Session:

Market East joins us in the studio

Fitz and the Tantrums

Fitz and the Tantrums

On the World Cafe with Michaela Majoun

Mississippi Blues Project

Mississippi Blues Project

Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks in concert

Bobby McFerrin in Concert

Bobby McFerrin in Concert

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Listen to World Cafe Archives

Boy on World Cafe Listen to the Two Women of Boy
The charm and the openness of the music of the Swiss-German duo Boy have made their debut album Mutual Friends a world-wide success. Listen to their live performance and interview with David Dye on
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XPN Free At Noon

  • Low Cut Connie Low Cut Connie
    Named as one of the Top 5 acts on the Philadelphia scene by philly.com. Vintage rock-and-roll noisemakers Low Cut Connie ended 2012 with their crazy infectious single "Boozophilia" ranked…
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NonCOMM Audio Archive

Listen to Wild Feathers - Recap of the 2013 NonCOMMvention Live Performances. Nashville rock barn-burners Wild Feathers played a raucous set of Americana-infused rock, something between the Allmans and Led Zeppelin. Listen to their full performance!

AUDIO ARCHIVES from the
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Sense Of Place: Nashville

Country Music Hall of Fame A must visit to Nashville is the Hall of Fame and the infamous RCA Studio B. Listen to some outlaw country from Waylon Jennings, and Jimmy Rogers, Hank Williams, and Dolly Parton. Sense of Place: Nashville

XPoNential Music Festival 2013

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Artist To Watch

Featured Album Of The Week

First Listen Laura Marling

First Listen Laura Marling's songs dig well beyond the everyday, with each sung in a wise, dusky, brooding voice that always seems in control of its surroundings. LISTEN to the U.K. folksinger's fourth album, Once I Was an Eagle, in its entirety, before its official release date! On
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