10 days and counting - and we've got a special Night Before The Night Before on Tues 12/23 starting at 8pm - w/ @djrobertdrake.bsky.social #XPNTNB xpn.org/program/the-...

The 885 Greatest Cover Songs #XPNcountdown might be over, but join me tonight (7-9pm ET) in the Land of the Lost on @wxpnfm.bsky.social as I showcase some Rock of the 80s covers - a few you know but I'm sure many others never made anyone's personal list! See ya on the radio!

If #XPNcountdown was your first taste of the great weirdness of @wxpnfm.bsky.social , just wait for #XPNTNB. The end of the countdown means it’s proper holiday time and nearly time for Robert Drake and Christmas Eve cooking.

Props to @kristenkurtis.bsky.social for showcasing our #XPNcountdown so beautifully on @6abc.bsky.social this morning!! Plus, giving viewers an early peek at my @wxpnfm.bsky.social studio decor for The Night Before!! 💜🎄💜🎄

While the #XPNcountdown is wrapping up, the REAL countdown is underway until Dec 24 when I takeover @wxpnfm.bsky.social for 24 nonstop live hours during my 33rd annual edition of The Night Before on XPN! #XPNTNB 🎄🎅

Listening to the #XPNcountdown I think you can break it up into 4 chunks: first up "I never heard this version", followed by "Wait! That's a cover?!", then comes "Ooo that should have been on MY list!" and finally, "I can't believe this classic cover placed so low - travesty!" @wxpnfm.bsky.social

This is the accidental way that next year’s theme was announced. The 885 Greatest Holiday Songs And @djrobertdrake.bsky.social is going to take over the studio for a week straight to play them all! #XPNCountdown

Eagles fans have known deep in their gut that this team sucked since week 5. We saw the inconsistent running game, the poor special teams, the lack of offensive creativity, the league leading three-and-outs. But hey! we had a parade less then 12 months ago, so I don't care.

My blessing and my curse @wxpnfm.bsky.social #XPNCountdown

It's the #XPNCountdown of the 885 Greatest Cover Songs. Here's what you need to know, the playlist reveal, stats and more. Thanks for listening. xpn.org/885-countdown/

Weird Al AND The Residents... my quirk quota is met for today! WOO!! #XPNcountdown

#860 - Weird Al’s Bohemian Polka. Holy crap. I love the #XPNCountdown weirdo community. (Also How good was @kristenkurtis.bsky.social belting this out at the XPN Karaoke thing a few weeks ago? That was the best)

Fun Fact: It's not an 885 #XPNcountdown if it doesn't include some Weird Al Yankovic in it ... somewhere! @wxpnfm.bsky.social listen and follow along XPN.org

#XPNCountdown I just realized I should share my XPN Covers bingo card in case anyone else wants to play along (I've already crossed a couple off!)

imo when someone covers a song originally sung by the opposite gender they should keep the original pronouns and BE GAY FOR THREE MINUTES!! #xpncountdown

HERE WE GO! The 885 Greatest Cover Songs playback has begun!! From #885 until #1 … you voted and were playing them back to back to back! Learn more and listen XPN.org @wxpnfm #XPNcountdown

#ShoutOut to my favorite radio station, where today starts the long-awaited #XPNCountdown #885BestCoverSongs at 8:00 AM Follow @kristenkurtis.bsky.social @djrobertdrake.bsky.social @somevelvetblog.bsky.social @kallao.bsky.social @rahrahraina.bsky.social, and others for updates!

We've got many more Halloween musical tricks and treats coming up today on World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social, a "freaky" Funky Friday at 4pm, the Dark Side of New Wave w/ @djrobertdrake.bsky.social at 7pm and Amber Miller at 9pm w/ two hours of a wicked 90s mix. (Go easy on the candy!)

Best of Philly spotlight: For more than two decades, @djrobertdrake.bsky.social has turned his deep love of ’80s New Wave into communal celebration. A @wxpnfm.bsky.social mainstay, he’s still spinning at age 62 — always chasing that high of bringing people together through music.

Let's hear it for @djrobertdrake.bsky.social - congrats on his @phillymag.com award. XPN alos won Philly mag's "Best Concerts On The Cheap" for our 20 year (almost 1000th) Free At Noon program.

I am both honored and humbled to learn that I have just won Best Impresario in Philadelphia - in @phillymag.com 2025 Best of Philly! #PhillyLove #FTW #bestofphilly / amazing photo by @messina_martinez 📸 www.phillymag.com/news/2025/07...

Great job @djrobertdrake.bsky.social and @somevelvetblog.bsky.social, everyone on the beach around my OCNJ got to hear it too! 🤘🏻

it is such a JOY(!!!) to listen to @djrobertdrake.bsky.social interviewing the equally legendary #PierreRobert recounting his fascinating involvement in a mad magical moment in rock history. KEEP TUNING IN TO XPN!! #LiveAid #LiveAid40

This Sunday, we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Live Aid with a day long chronological playback of highlights from the Philly and London shows. Robert Drake @djrobertdrake.bsky.social gets it under way at 10am f/b Bruce Warren @somevelvetblog.bsky.social at 3pm. xpn.org/2025/07/09/w...

USAID, gutted. Contracts canceled. $2B in U.S. farm goods—rice, wheat, lentils—vanishing into the ether. Farmers left holding the bag. Musk & Trump swinging the axe, locking doors, shredding deals. A bureaucratic bonfire with global starvation as collateral. Hell of a plan.

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Awesome weekly show to tune in wherever you are!

Those Losties out there in the bright BlueSky - toss #XPNLOTL on your posts during tonight's trip into the Land of the Lost - Rock of the 80s on @wxpnfm.bsky.social 7-9PM ET - on the radio and live worldwide XPN.org #XPNcountdown

Wooooo! @wxpnfm.bsky.social #XPNLOTL

Just posted my most-recent winter weather update for the Philly region (Fri Noon)

The answer is white in front of your face.

I totally forgot about these!! I can’t believe you still have one and that the water is still in it!! @wxpnfm.bsky.social 💜💜

Thanks! And thanks for supporting @wxpnfm.bsky.social 💜

Now THERE is a memory from the Blizzard of ‘96 to beat all!! Thx for listening to @wxpnfm.bsky.social

Indeed!!

@djrobertdrake.bsky.social my son was born 1/12/96 Took two days just to shovel the driveway This photo of 21st street pretty much sums it all up:

Agreed! @wxpnfm.bsky.social

Thank YOU 💜💜

Join me TONIGHT on @wxpnfm.bsky.social as we celebrate with a LOTL DANCE PARTY live on the radio! Roll up the carpets and turn up the speakers right now for Funky Friday easing right into a two-hour LOTL DANCE PARTY from 7-9pm ET ... on the radio and live worldwide XPN.org!

After hearing from those who joined me during the final hour of The Night Before, moved by the music - I decided to pull that hour aircheck and archive it - whenever the mood hits. Feel free to share the link with everyone and best wishes for the New Year #XPNTNB www.mixcloud.com/robert-drake...

August Darnell - Christmas on Riverside Drive is one of my all time faves! #xpntnb @djrobertdrake.bsky.social

Thanks!! #XPNTNB 🎅

Thanks and thanks for supporting @wxpnfm.bsky.social and being part of the fun of #XPNTNB

Yep - he was a staple until they replaced him with Julie Andrews - who is just as wonderful <3 #XPNTNB

#xpntnb @djrobertdrake.bsky.social so happy to be tuned in! Been listening as long as I’ve collected our Christmas tree cut offs! Happy Holidays everyone.

And since this is the first #XPNTNB in the Bluesky era, I should share the story of how I was fortunate enough to briefly work with Val and Brendan from GrooveLily when I was doing PR for a theater in Central NJ in 2015. This news story was done during that time. youtu.be/0VjsF3Xs1-A?...

Thanks Sir!! Merry Merry! #XPNTNB

New find for me this year, courtesy of DJ Robert Drake: Joel Paterson's "Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar."

“The Lights and Buzz” dropping on @djrobertdrake.bsky.social’s The Night Before The Night Before on @wxpnfm.bsky.social just hit me right where I’m at. 😭

At any point over the next 24 hours, you can see/hear a single DJ on Philly’s WXPN play nothing but holiday content. All hail @djrobertdrake.bsky.social and #XPNTNB xpn.org/jingle-cam/