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A look at life in Roxborough, East Falls, Manayunk and Wissahickon as seen through the ...

Nov. 5, 2024 — Physicists have investigated to which extent a piece of music can evoke expectations about its progression. They were able to determine differences in how far compositions of ...

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar won the night's biggest awards, but the real takeaway from the Grammys is that a wave of younger stars has arrived on the pop scene, fully prepared to own the spotlight.

February 3, 2025 • You've seen Braxton Cook in this space before, but never out front. The alto saxophonist transforms the Tiny Desk with his own band.

One of the great challenges faced by the events during Grammy Week, including the FireAid benefit, is how to set the proper tone: How do you have a celebratory event like big concert or awards ...

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Last year, True Green unveiled their debut album My Lost Decade. The project helmed by Dan Hornsby — who wrote the novels Sucker and Via Negativa — makes clever bedroom-pop tunes, and today ...

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