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Our Q&A With Out Center City Jazz Festival Headliner Dena Underwood

Out musician Dena Underwood—who you may recognize as one of the fab piano players at Tavern On Camac— opened last fall’s OutBeat, the nation’s first queer jazz […]

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REVIEW: Is Respect the Sleeper Hit of the Philly Spring Theater Season?

Appearances can be deceiving. Everything about Respect: A Musical Journey of Women, currently playing at the Penn’s Landing Playhouse, seems, at first, to be modest […]

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New Live Nation Music Venue Coming to Fishtown

The old Ajax Metal Co. building in Fishtown—situated across from SugarHouse at Frankford Avenue—is undergoing a $32 million renovation courtesy of the House of Blues Entertainment division […]

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Couple Go Viral With Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Pregnancy Announcement

A couple from Oregon wrote and recorded a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song parody that effectively dropped the news to their family and friends […]

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Worst Idea Ever: 24 Hours of the Grateful Dead on WXPN This Friday

Apparently, 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the “legendary” band The Grateful Dead. (What, you didn’t know?) And to commemorate this sacred occasion, Philadelphia radio […]

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Pink Shuts Down Body-Shamers On Twitter

Doylestown pop-rocker Pink (known around those parts as Alecia Beth Moore) has taken to Twitter to put some folks in their place who decided to take some […]

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Meryl Streep to Take On Bruce Springsteen in New Film Ricki and The Flash

We’ve heard it—and likely said it—a million times: Meryl Streep can do anything. But did we take into account that she might be taking on […]

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Penn A Cappella Alum John Legend to Produce A Cappella Series on Pop

John Legend, who cut his teeth singing with Penn a cappella group Counterparts, is set to produce Sing It On, a new a cappella-focused series on Pop.

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Grown Men Mourn Zayn Malik’s Departure from One Direction

Philly’s Dave and Brian, the goofballs who brought you “Downton Abbey With My Bros,” are back with another self-deprecating video that finds them mourning and crooning […]

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Miley Cyrus to Induct Wynnewood Rock Goddess Joan Jett Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Details are emerging about the April 18th ceremony to induct six new music icons into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take […]

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West Philly Native Billie Holiday to Receive Plaque on Philadelphia Walk of Fame [UPDATED]

UPDATE [4/8/2015, 10:15 am] In a previous version of this story we mentioned that All That Jazz director Faye Anderson nominated Billie Holiday for a […]

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Taylor Swift and Sam Smith Lead 2015 Billboard Music Awards Nominations

Wyomissing songstress Taylor Swift and British songbird Sam Smith lead the 2015 Billboard Music Award nominations, some of which were announced earlier today on Good Morning America.

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Here’s The Only Way Jay Z’s “Tidal” Thing Might Work

I’ll admit that I was kind of sick seeing all those photos from that Tidal press conference, the stage lined with “A-list pop stars” claiming they […]

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Kurt Vile Announces New Album Title

The followup to Kurt Vile’s 2013 album, Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze, will be titled All Over the Place, according to an interview with the Philly indie […]

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Atlantic City Announces Gayest Entertainment Lineup Ever

Atlantic City is working overtime to get the gays down for a visit. This afternoon, Visit AC released a new video showcasing its entertainment lineup for […]