The Hurricane relief benefit brought the Philadelphia music scene together again for a great cause. I caught some of the performers at world cafe live. While the crowd should have been bigger, those who attended witnessed a lively, occasionally ragged evening of heartfelt music. Highlights for me included a rocking Joseph Parsons, the always engaging [...]

I admit it. I love music lists.Here’s a cool one from Stylus Magazine of the top 50 basslines of all time.

Everyday more XPN listeners and members become bloggers. For those of you who follow the bulletin boards, check out this new blog from “AllMusicFan.” His blog is Everything Reminds Me Of My Blog. Love the title. Check out his 885 Greatest Albums post. Nice stuff.

Now that the voting for the 885 All Time Greatest Albums has ended, our highly trained accountants are working hard at tallying the votes. Within a few days, the tallying will be completed and the results hermetically sealed in a jar and kept in a highly secretive location until we begin the playback on Tuesday [...]

Watching the concert for Katrina relief last night on NBC, which I thought was quite good, I was struck by the power of Aaron Neville singing the Randy Newman song Louisiana 1927. Talk about the history repeating itself…President Coolidge visited on the train, President Bush came by helicopter, but other than that, the circumstances seemed [...]