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by Jim McGuinn, Program Director and Host, Y-Rock on XPN
Interviewing Robert Smith in 1985, playing soccer against him in 1996, and reliving it all while record shopping in 2004. Every 10 years or so, my path seems to cross with The Cure’s Robert Smith… When I was in college I wrote for the school paper, […]
by David Dye, XPN Producer/Host of the World Cafe
Many of you know that I was a big Springsteen supporter from the first time I saw him at the Main Point and have many fabulous memories of those shows and the early days: Dancing with his girlfriend to “Thundercrack”, being pulled backstage at a College show […]
by Jonny Meister, Host/Producer of The Blues Show on WXPN
by Jim McGuinn, Program Director and Host, Y-Rock on XPN
Playing bass in front of 10,000 at the Tweeter Center when Cordalene opened for Weezer. I got my first guitar sometime in the mid-‘70s, but it mostly sat in my closet while I tried to become the next Dick Allen or Julius Erving. But during the […]
by Jonny Meister, Host/Producer of The Blues Show on WXPN
December 9 & 10, 1964
On December 9th and 10th 1964, John Coltrane recorded his signature album “A Love Supreme.” “A Love Supreme” is surely one of the 20th Century’s greatest musical works. It has continued to inspire musicians, critics, and fans since its release in February […]
by Jonny Meister, Host/Producer of The Blues Show on WXPN
Spring 1975
It was 1975. WXPN was playing on the radio in my basement apartment, and a record came on that changed my life. There was a street musician describing how he made his instrument out of stuff recovered from the trash.
Eddie One-String Jones was a street […]
by Jim McGuinn, Program Director and Host, Y-Rock on XPN
Nothing will ever top this one. Another hero and icon, and a surprisingly friendly guy. A man who pretty much invented punk rock. Who used to cut himself open with glass every night on stage. Who was institutionalized, who found and probably invented some weird sins […]
by Jim McGuinn, Program Director and Host, Y-Rock on XPN
Seeing Nirvana at City Gardens, Trenton, the week Nevermind came out. It was the early fall of 1991. Was musical revolution in the air? I can say that I was tired of my entire generation living in the musical shadows of the baby boomers. I love […]
by Jonny Meister, Host/Producer of The Blues Show on WXPN
January 1, 200,000 B. C. E.
One of the greatest moments in music history has to be the birth of music, right? That’s where you usually start the story. Of course, we don’t have an exact “birthday” for music, but anthropologists, biologists, neurologists, archaeologists, and others are […]
by Helen Leicht, Midday Host/Assistant Program Director; Host/Producer of Philly Local, WXPN
# 1 Moment: Seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan (February 9, 1964)
New York (AP) “A British band from Liverpool takes The Ed Sullivan Show” stage and sends waves of teenagers into screaming convulsions across America bewildering millions of parents. An estimated 73 million people […]