WXPN

  • 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

Scintillating new piano jazz from Hiromi uehara, and a new live album from Tail Dragger.

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Licenses: 6
Eric Bibb is inspired by Bukka White's guitar -- music from Bibb, White, a cool new Putumayo R&B sampler, and jazz bassoon from Daniel Smith.

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


  • Added: Jan 27, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Licenses: 6
Caption: Super Chikan playing his "chikatar", Credit: superchikan.com
Super Chikan's new album "Chikadelic" -- and blues on the bassoon from Daniel Smith. New jazz from Phil Brown and Al DiMeola.

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


  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
Music for Martin Luther King holiday, Mavis Staples, Eric Bibb, Syl Johnson, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and more!

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


  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
Sugar Blue's new album "Threshold." "How High The Moon" and its jazz spinoffs. New jazz, and dissonance...

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


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
Samuel James, thoroughly contemporary traditional bluesman - acoustic guitar from Rodrigo y Gabriela, Larry Coryell, Badi Assad, Michael Hedges.

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


  • Added: Dec 30, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
The latest from the incomparable singer Najma Akhtar, and music with an Indian flavor, including Donna De Lory, Sanjay Mishra, and Alice Coltrane.

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


  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
Holiday show featuring Carla Bley's "Carla's Christmas Carols", B. B. King, Campbell Brothers, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
A new album from Muddy Waters' son Big Bill Morganfield; and "techno-spiritual folk music" (??) from Inbar Bakal.

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
Jamaican Journey -- B is For Bob (Marley), Ziggy Marley, Ernest Ranglin, Judy Mowatt, Desmond Dekker -- great island sounds!

Bought by KZYX, KTRL, 90.5 WSNC, WNPR, WMHT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 7

  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
Blues from Communist East Germany, and a great American blues album that was in print only there for a long time. Flute jazz from two great players...

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


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 5
New blues from Eugene Hideaway Bridges, songs from jazzy-folk artist Lynn Biddick, and Tuvan throat singing from Huun Huur Tu.

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


  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
Review of Zora Young's album "The French Connection"

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:38
  • Licenses: 1
Zora Young's "French Connection" album, blues meets country, and the late Nashville bluesman Johnny Jones.

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


  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
You may not know his name but if you're a fan of HBO's "True Blood" you know Jace Everett's baritone. Each week Jace's song "Bad Things" accompanie...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
After years as a top blues player, Quintus McCormick has released his debut album. It's a good one.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:19
Edith Wilson, the third African-American woman to record commercially, from a 1974 concert with Terry Waldo's Gutbucket Syncopators-- and from 1921...

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:04
  • Licenses: 6
To his fans his story is legendary. Ireland's Barry Moore began playing music with his older brother Christy when he was a young teenager. He rei...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00
Steve Earle had a lot in common with his songwriting hero the late Townes Van Zandt. Both spent time in Houston, both played guitar and both had h...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:00

Staff of WXPN

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