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How Prince worked his magic on The Bangles’ ‘Manic Monday’

In the 1980s, Prince wrote one of the Bangles' biggest hits, "Manic Monday." Now, The Prince Estate has released the demo version of the track.

7 years ago

Dave Bartholomew, photographed on January 12, 2013 in New Orleans. (Erika Goldring/Getty Images)
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Dave Bartholomew, a father of rock and roll, dead at 100

Dave Bartholomew, the New Orleans trumpeter, songwriter, bandleader, producer and arranger, has died; his son, Don Bartholomew, confirmed the news to NPR. He was 100.

7 years ago

Detail from the cover art of Mort Garson's cult electronic album, Mother Earth's Plantasia. (Sacred Bones Records)
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Music for plants is real (even if the science isn’t)

Though it wasn't the first album touted as being for plants, collectors have been on the lookout for copies of Plantasia for decades.

7 years ago

A woman walks through La Perla, a neighborhood on the edge of Old San Juan, in 2017. (AFP Contributor/Getty Images)
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For those missing Puerto Rico, a song about dreaming of home

Within the canon of popular Puerto Rican music, there is no shortage of songs about the nostalgia for the island itself.

7 years ago

Members of The Crossing chamber choir rehearse
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Grammy-winning choir The Crossing premieres sci-fi theatrical performance

The 1954 dystopian sci-fi novel by Swedish poet Harry Martinson has been developed into a 90-minute performance with singers, actors, and video.

7 years ago

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New chamber music festival debuts tonight in Wilmington

Wilmington’s Serafin Summer Music aims to fill the void left by former Delaware Chamber Music Festival, which disbanded two years ago.

7 years ago

Sesame Street's Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby attend HBO Premiere of Sesame Street's The Magical Wand Chase at the Metrograph in 2017 in New York City.
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50 years young: How the music of ‘Sesame Street’ keeps up with the times

As the iconic TV program has aged, it has managed to stay musically apace with its forever-young audience

7 years ago

In this Feb. 12, 2017 file photo Dennis D.T. Thomas, (from left), George Brown, Robert Bell, and Ronald Bell, of the musical group Kool & The Gang, arrive at the 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced Wednesday, June 5, 2019, that the group will receive the 2019 Marian Anderson Award this fall. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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Kool & The Gang to be honored with Marian Anderson Award

The Marian Anderson Award is given in Philadelphia to "critically acclaimed artists who have impacted society in a positive way."

7 years ago

Carlotta Tendant receives a standing ovation from the audience at the conclusion of Big Mess Cabaret's
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Fans flock to the Troc for its final performance

The Filmore, The Met and World Cafe Live have all siphoned off the music fans who used to go to The Troc.

7 years ago

Roky Erickson cemented his rock immortality with the 13th Floor Elevators song
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We’re gonna miss him: Roky Erickson brought soulfulness to psychedelia

Roky Erickson was rock music's ambassador to inner space.

7 years ago

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Successful Roots Picnic draws 25,000 to Fairmount Park, minor disruption near the end

Despite the temporary panic, it was a glorious day of music at the Mann Center.

7 years ago

Terran Scott, Mehki Williams, and Grace Tarves in Lantern Theater Company's world premiere production of 'Minors' by Kittson O'Neill and Robert Kaplowitz (Mark Garvin)
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Pennsylvania’s heartbreaking ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal becomes a musical

‘Minors’ is a rock musical based on a pair of corrupt judges who sent children to prison in exchange for kickbacks. Both are now in prison.

7 years ago

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Members of the Nat Turner Rebellion ride in a parade during a Harambe Festival in Springfield, Mass., in the early 1970s. Pictured from left: Major Harris, Ron Hopper, Bill Stratley and Joe Jefferson (Courtesy of Reservoir Media)
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Rescued from the vault: Nat Turner Rebellion

Fifty years ago, the band Nat Turner Rebellion made a funky album in Philadelphia that could have been a total classic.

7 years ago

File photo: Members of the Afro-Brazilian band Batala perform at the Navy Yard during the Anti-Defamation League's Walk Against Hate Sunday morning. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Batalá, the ‘loudest show on Earth’ hitting Philly tonight

Drumming group with Afro-Brazilian roots brings ‘loudest show on Earth’ to Philadelphia Wednesday evening.

7 years ago

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Cellist and sometimes filmmaker Nicholas Canellakis will solo as part of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s season finale performance “Roman Hollywood.” (Matt Dine/DSO (left); Joe del Tufo, Moonloop Photography (right))
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Delaware Symphony ends season with cinematic flair

The Delaware Symphony Ochestra’s “Roman Hollywood” starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2019, at the Grand Opera House in downtown Wilmington.

7 years ago

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