WXPN

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  • Call Letters: WXPN
  • Frequency: 88.5
  • Formats: AAA Music

Description

WXPN-FM is the non-commercial public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania and the premier radio showcase for contemporary music that spans the progressive edges of rock, folk, rhythm and blues, and American roots. WXPN also produces programming for national syndication. Our signature program,World Café with David Dye is distributed by Public Radio International and broadcasts daily on more than 160 public radio stations nationwide. WXPN also produces the Peabody-Award winning Kids Corner, hosted by Kathy O'Connell. WXPN also produces the annual Singer Songwriter Weekend two-day music festival.

Pieces

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new flute jazz, from Nicole Mitchell, and some classif jazz flute from Herbie Mann and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Plus, New Mississippi blues from young ...

Bought by WMHT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Licenses: 1
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Texas native Rhett Miller threw away a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College to pursue music full-time. His gamble paid off. Miller's band O...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
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When Steve Forbert began making records in the late 1970's he was dubbed "the new Dylan". No doubt, critics and audiences responded to his intelli...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
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Review: Otis Taylor album "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs"

  • Added: Jun 30, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
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Frederick Usher, a collector and scholar of many kinds of art and music has died. He gave us the intriguing 1960 album "One String Blues."

  • Added: Jun 25, 2009
  • Length: 00:04:24
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Otis Taylor's avant=garde blues on "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs" -- and Christian McBride's "Kind Of Brown."

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KXOT Public Radio, WNPR, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and WMHT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
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Feature on B. B. King "Live At The BBC" a new album drawn from three concerts and a studio session over a twenty-year period in the UK.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KXOT Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WMHT, and WNPR


  • Added: Jun 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
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Music of the late Koko Taylor, "Queen Of The Blues" who died on June 2, 2009.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KXOT Public Radio, WNPR, and WMHT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 4
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A remembrance of the late Koko Taylor. Career review includes her rare first recording.

Bought by KEOS, WNCU, WBHM-FM, KLCC, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2009
  • Length: 00:06:00
  • Licenses: 5
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Guy Davis performs in our studios and talks about his new album. We also feature new albums from The Bad Plus and David Fiuczynski.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KXOT Public Radio, WNPR, and WMHT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
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Saffire The Uppity Blues Women are disbanding. Their final album "Havin' The Last Word" is featured here. Also: Benny Golson has reached the age of...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KXOT Public Radio, WNPR, and WMHT


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
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Blues File review of Chuck Berry boxed set "You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966"

  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:29
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Muddy Waters in concert in 1966 from an album with the curious title "Authorized Bootleg." His "Hoochie Coochie" riff explored. New music from Joe ...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KXOT Public Radio, WNPR, and WMHT


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Licenses: 4
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Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...

  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
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Review of a new fake bootleg album called "Authorized Bootleg" of Muddy Waters in concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1966

  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
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Music from Pat Thomas, son of noted Mississippi bluesman James "Son" Thomas, and newly jazzified versions of rock and R&B favorites.

Bought by WMHT, KXOT Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WNPR, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Licenses: 5
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On this edition of "A Musician's Life" Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with The Bacon Brothers. The Bacon Brothers are screen actor Kevin Bacon and his br...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
  • Licenses: 1
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"Jazz In The Garden" by the Stanley Clarke Trio with Hiromi Uehara on piano, and the second Chicago Blues Harmonica Project album

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and WMHT


  • Added: May 06, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 4
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Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with Squeeze's founding member Glenn Tilbrook. In the early 1980's critics were comparing Tilbrook and his collaborator Ch...

  • Added: May 01, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
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Feature: The enchanting Skip James recordings from 1931 have been restored by Pristine Audio and sound better than ever before.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WNPR, WMHT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5

Staff of WXPN

Traceycolo_square Tracey Tanenbaum (Admin) Senior Producer 30th Street Train Station, Pennsylvania
Robertdrake_square Robert Drake (Admin) Producer / Host Philadelphia, PA
Default-user-image Bruce Warren (Admin) Program Director Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Default-user-image Chris Williams (Admin) , PA
Default-user-image Kimberly Junod (Admin) Producer, World Cafe and Conversations from the World Cafe Cambridge, MA
Radioheadshotjm_square Jonny Meister (Admin) Blues host WXPN 30th Street Train Station, Pennsylvania
Default-user-image Quyen Shanahan VP for Development Cambridge, MA
Default-user-image Deb Ashmore Dir., Ind. Giving Philadelphia, PA
Default-user-image John Bartol (Admin) Director Non Broadcast Distribution Philadelphia, PA
Default-user-image Beth Warshaw (Admin) line producer Philadelphia, PA
Default-user-image Jim McGuinn Program Director - Yrock Philadelphia, PA