Music
Princeton University hosts artists, scholars from Puerto Rico
Princeton invited artist and scholars from Puerto Rico to work on their projects at the university campus during the summer.
7 years ago
Listen 4:18Ruth Naomi Floyd, ‘Frederick Douglass Jazz Works,’ and our need for free critical artists
Floyd could have been this generation’s Ella or Mahalia. But she has taken the A Train on a track less traveled — and Douglass is her latest companion on that journey.
7 years ago
The music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced — both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fug ...
Air Date: August 2, 2018
A jazz legend’s Philadelphia home fading away
John Coltrane's vacant house on North 33rd Street is deteriorating but still bears marks of the composer's achievement.
7 years ago
Neighbors split on reinstatement of Made in America festival on Philly’s Parkway
Made in America will likely return to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in future years. The neighborhood responds.
7 years ago
Listen 2:03Songs from a half century ago still resound with meaning for a troubled time
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Philly mayor, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation agree to keep Made in America on the Parkway
Made in America will stay on the Ben Franklin Parkway.
7 years ago
Slavic singers bring the music, traditions, food of the Balkans to Bartram’s Garden
The Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble opened the second annual Balkan at Bartram’s Garden event Sunday evening.
7 years ago
Who’s entertaining who?: How the internet picks up Drake’s slack
As the #DoTheShiggy Challenge proves, Drake doesn't even need to dance anymore. We'll do it for him.
7 years ago
Philly hospitality industry doesn’t want Jay-Z’s MIA to go MIA
Mayors get criticized all the time, but it’s not every day the critic is a billionaire rap mogul.
7 years ago
The strange magic of YouTube’s ’80s remix culture
Whether you thought of the 2000s emo-punk boom as a watershed moment or the nadir of modern music, there's one song from that era that's hard to forget.
7 years ago
Two influential experimental rock bands headline festival — sort of
The two-night event headlined by influential rock bands This Heat and Faust. Or at least sort of.
7 years ago
Star Wars’ operatic score gets full orchestral treatment
"Star Wars" will be screened with its dialogue and sound effects intact, but with its score stripped out, replaced by a live version performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
7 years ago
A father-daughter bond kept tight by beatboxing
Ed Cage and his daughter, Nicole Paris, share a love of beatboxing. Their YouTube beatbox battle went viral in 2015, and since, they've traveled the world performing together.
7 years ago
Local pianist to romance the butterfly at Insectarium
The butterfly pavilion at the Insectarium in Northeast Philadelphia will host a concert of bug music.
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