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Despite the hodgepodge of local acts that performed May 19 at Drexel University’s Spring Jam, the performers all found common ground by bringing out the crowd’s local pride. Spring Jam featured mostly Philadelphia-based bands such as Cheers Elephant, The Wonder Years, Man Man, and LA Riots, with mashup group Super Mash Bros. headlining the event. [...]

Local venues list their live shows for the upcoming week.

The Original Cafe Eleven at St. Augustine Beach is offering a summer lineup of live music --- with Lucero, Son of a Bad Man, River City Extension, and Man Man on the schedule. Go to originalcafe11.com for more information. See details below:LUCERO

Drexel’s Campus Activities Board held a weeklong set of activities that will culminate May 19 with the organization’s annual Spring Jam concert series, featuring Super Mash Bros. as the headliner. As with last year’s Spring Jam, the winners of the Drexel Voice and Drexel Battle of the Bands competitions, Marcus Franklin and Flint, respectively, will [...]

Thursday May 3, 2012 BENNINGTON -- Bennington College will host its annual Sunfest all-day music festival -- featuring a number of student bands and touring acts, including "Quintron and Miss Pussy Cat" (all one name, probably), O’Death, and headliners "The What Cheer? Brigade" (really, that’s the name of the band) -- on Saturday, May 5, starting at noon.

Watch Cat Martino, Sufjan Stevens and friends create a new song in the studio.

“Shaking Through” is a really good idea/web series that challenges artists to write a song from start to finish in 48 hours. For their most recent session, Weathervane/WXPN brought in Cat Martino, with Sufjan Stevens and Man Man’s Chris Powell providing back-up.

If you're headed to see Joan Osborne sing the blues at the World Cafe Live tonight, get there early for Lera Lyynn, the country noir femme fatale from Athens, Georgia who's the opening act.

An NME writer suggests that it's thanks to the influence of Britain's music press. Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley (centre). (Getty Images.)

The demise of popular indie band The Unicorns at the beginning of the aughts left many fans feeling a void. Prolific pioneers of lo-fi indie pop, frontman Nick Thorburn would of course not be gone for long. In 2006, the music world was rocked by the critically acclaimed debut album by Islands, "Return To The Sea", an experimental, long-form record that would go on to inspire countless musicians ...

MUSIC SPANISH NIGHTS The Philadelphia Orchestra snaps to a "Spanish Dances" theme, with conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and guitarist Pepe Romero. Program features Ravel's classic, "Bolero."