Every Thursday at 7 p.m., John Vettese takes XPN2 listeners for a musical tour of the Delaware Valley on the Philly Local Second Shift. Here’s a recap of what we heard on this week’s installment: 7 p.m. THE KEY STUDIO SESSIONS HOUR The Chimeras “The Bullet Song” (February 2008 session) The Dead Milkmen “The Thing [...]

Every Thursday at 7 p.m., John Vettese takes XPN2 listeners for a musical tour of the Delaware Valley on the Philly Local Second Shift. Here’s a recap of what we heard on this week’s installment: 7 p.m. THE KEY STUDIO SESSIONS HOUR The Shackeltons – “Records” (March 2011 session) Hop Along – “Tibetian Pop Stars” [...]

We’ve got a big Thursday evening planned on XPN2. In addition to the Weekly Eleven and the Philly Local Second Shift (now at a new time), your Thursday night host John Vettese is bringing back a regular feature from earlier this year: Cassingle Classics, where we delve into the overlooked world of cassette singles from [...]

Floating somewhere in the vicinity of Explosions in the Sky and Philly’s own Grimace Federation, experimental Baltimore duo The Water is a spectacle to take in. Visually, their set is augmented by all kinds of accessory noisemakers – video game controllers, mad scientist mixer rigs – and sonically, their brand of instrumental post-rock is both [...]

Every Thursday at 10 p.m., John Vettese takes Y-Rock listeners for a musical tour of the Delaware Valley on the Philly Local Second Shift. This week, he welcomes Steph Hayes and Sue Rosetti of Philadelphia’s Stargazer Lily on the air to play an acoustic set and talk about their band’s upcoming reunion shows, May 6 [...]