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Frightened Rabbit

Frightened Rabbit
Glasgow’s Frightened Rabbit Plays Pedestrian Verse Live!

May 17, 2013 - Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchinson has been telling us too much about his love life since the Scottish band’s first album Sing The Greys in 2006.
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Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Sallie Ford Is An Untamed Beast

May 16, 2013 - Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside’s music was raw and forthright right from the beginning with their initial EP and the album Dirty Radio in 2011.
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RNDM

RNDM
RNDM’s Acts Features Joseph Arthur And Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament

May 15, 2013 - RNDM is a new band featuring Joseph Arthur, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Richard Stuverud.
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Bonnie Prince Billy and Dawn McCarthy

Bonnie Prince Billy and Dawn McCarthy
Dawn McCarthy And Bonnie Prince Billy Harmonize On What The (Everly) Brothers Sang

May 14, 2013 - It’s a love affair with songs and harmony itself today. Dawn and Will sing Don and Phil!
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Jim James

Jim James
How A Broken Leg, A 1930’s Graphic Novel And A New Studio All Lead To Jim James’ "Regions Of Light and Sound Of God"

May 13, 2013 - There have been albums under the name Yim Yames and projects with the New Multitudes and Monsters of Folk but Regions Of Light and Sound of God is the first bearing Jim James’ own name.
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Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart’s Best Songs Are the Ones He Writes Himself!

May 10, 2013 Rod Stewart has little to prove as a rock star. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame twice, once solo and once with The Faces. Of late he has had enormous success with a series of albums singing other people’s songs including standards of The Great American Songbook.
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Clive Davis

Clive Davis
From Barry Manilow To Patti Smith, Clive Davis Can Hear A Hit

May 10, 2013 - At the age of 81 music biz mogul Clive Davis slowed down enough to write his autobiography The Soundtrack of My Life. But talking with him you realize that it is just a moment before he is off again.
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The Slide Brothers

The Slide Brothers
Sacred Steel Virtuoso Slide Brothers Take Us To Church

May 9, 2013 - Robert Randolph, the spectacular young pedal steel guitarist, was the first player from the Sacred Steel tradition to break out to a wider audience.
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Phosphorescent

Phosphorescent
Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck Once Thought The Songs on Muchacho Were Too Personal

May 8, 2013 - It is easy to hear the steady growth in the music of Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck since his 2009 Willie Nelson tribute album. His last album, 2011’s Here’s To Taking It Easy, was a sprawling, languorous, epic written with his road band’s performances in mind.
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Hey Marseilles

Hey Marseilles
Hey Marseilles With Chamber Folk From Seattle

May 7, 2013 - Seattle’s Hey Marseilles formed around the collaboration of singer Matt Bishop and guitarist Nick Ward when the two were students at the University of Washington. The band just grew organically into the seven piece band that made their new album Lines We Trace.
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Folkadelphia Session: Field Report

If you haven’t been listening to Milwaukee’s Field Report by now, here’s your chance to make it up with no hard...Read More

The Week’s Best MP3 Downloads, incl. Literature, Market East, Morning River Band

Photo by Abi Reimold Recent Philly transplants Literature previewed four new tracks in this week’s Key Studio Session. With a...Read More

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Surgeon at Kung Fu Necktie, The Killers at Susquehanna Bank Center, XPN welcomes the Philadelphia...

Philly metal band Surgeon will release their new album tonight at Johnny Brenda’s Kung Fu Necktie (the show was moved due to a...Read More

Watch: Phoenix and Steve Martin & Edie Brickell at Non-COMM

Photo of Phoenix’s lead singer Thomas Mars by Joe Del Tufo | joedeltufo.com Dozens of bands played the WXPN Non-COMMvention this...Read More

Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)

With just his guitar and his voice, Bay Area by way of Mississippi songwriter John Murry played an emotional, powerful set Wednesday...Read More
     
     
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