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I relish those occasions when an artist quite familiar to you does a cover of a song that you love but didn’t expect from that artist. Any number of things about that performance can stir you.It can be a great note for note version, but I am most delighted when its a slightly different take [...]

Thanks to everyone who came to listen to the music on the WXPN Local Stage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Two wonderful days of music with a touch of rain (much more than a touch)..but great performances on Saturday afternoon Chinua Hawk www.chinuahawk.com,Birdie Busch www.birdiebusch.comBeaucoup Blue www.beaucoupblue.com Sunday afternoon Darcie Miner www.darcieminerband.comJohn Francis www.johnfrancismusic.comKate Gaffney [...]

Here is this year’s ANNUAL MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS PLAY BY PLAY! from Fluxblog, one of the best music blogs on the web. With some pretty classic commentary: 8:00 Green Day start the show off with “Blvd. Of Broken Dreams.” Billy Joe Armstrong looks sorta like a hot goth chick. Or Liza Minelli. 8:05 Diddy [...]

I spent the weekend in Nashville. First stop was at the gorgeous wooden Ryman Auditorium where a lucky audience got to witness the filming of the new Jonathan Demme performance movie of Neil Young and the World Premiere of his new album Prairie Wind. Neil recorded the album in Nashville and it is sort of [...]