@djrobertdrake.bsky.social tell Bob thanks for the shout out! Unforgettable night. Silence, then an explosion when Stott hit that grad slam in 2023.

Loving the @wxpnfm.bsky.social Morning Show this morning as @djrobertdrake.bsky.social celebrates the 91st birthday of legendary, trailblazing bassist/guitarist Carol Kaye, who played bass on the first 3 songs listed below and played guitar on Robert Palmer's Some People Can Do What They Like album.

Hey Lancaster friends - thanks for coming out last night to West Art for the #LOTL dance party with @djrobertdrake.bsky.social

Great new track from Gail Ann Dorsey played by @djrobertdrake.bsky.social on @wxpnfm.bsky.social this morning. She can be seen here killing it on bass with Tears For Fears on "Raoul and the Kings of Spain," the title track to one of their best — and one of their most under-the-radar — albums...

Sure enough, in bed and hear at the end of @djrobertdrake.bsky.social’s marathon stint on The Night Before. And he’s playing some amazing classics. #JoinIn

I love the last hour of #XPNTNB so much. Thank you very much @djrobertdrake.bsky.social for another great year of holiday music. We started last night at the top of the 24 hours wrapping presents and are finishing it with drinks on the couch, kiddo in bed, waiting for Santa. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

@djrobertdrake.bsky.social thank you for doing The Night Before every Christmas Eve. Aretha Franklin’s Silent Night has me with such good chills. Closing it out with Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah had me in tears, like every year. Thank you.

Every year, the decorations take over more and more. Some year soon, we won’t even be able to find @djrobertdrake.bsky.social

@djrobertdrake.bsky.social listening to The Night Before was a holiday tradition while we lived in Philadelphia. Glad we could continue it when we moved to Charleston. Thank you @wxpnfm.bsky.social for streaming far and wide! May I request The Christians & The Pagans by Dar Williams #xpntnb

Made it to LBI where we go for Xmas Eve/Day & a few days after, ever since we fell into doing it during lockdown. Immediately brought up @djrobertdrake.bsky.social's TBN cam to keep me company as I finish wrapping and decorating. (The boys are listening in the car, 30 mins away; I left before them.)

This may not change your mind, but I suggest you try @wxpnfm.bsky.social , they have a 24 hour live music broadcast hosted by @djrobertdrake.bsky.social Not the same old, same old And you get a chance to support public broadcasting

My 5yo is absolutely bopping along to the John Facenda era soundtrack from the Wannamaker Light Show. (I keep expecting Facenda to bust in with “Santa got in his sled and threw a perfect pass to Harold Carmichael in the end zone.”) @djrobertdrake.bsky.social @wxpnfm.bsky.social

It's noon on Christmas Eve day which means we are listening to the Groovelily's Striking Twelve on @djrobertdrake.bsky.social Night Before program on @wxpnfm.bsky.social as we do ever year.

Just finished wrapping presents & decided to sleep downstairs on the couch so I don't disturb the family upstairs. Fired up the #XPNTNB Jingle Cam on the TV to watch @djrobertdrake.bsky.social on @wxpnfm.bsky.social as I drift off. Merry Christmas, Robert!

If you love Christmas music and that sort of vibe but are tired of listening to the same boring stuff, allow me to invite you to tune into @wxpnfm.bsky.social in Philadelphia where the great @djrobertdrake.bsky.social is starting his annual 24-hour marathon of appointment radio.

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Tonight! Join @djrobertdrake.bsky.social for his 33rd annual 24-hour nonstop live takeover of XPN for The Night Before from midnight to midnight. Listen live worldwide, watch it all on the JingleCam. They even have the quad speakers set up on the North Pole! Listen/watch here: xpn.org

We're getting ready for The Night Before w/ @djrobertdrake.bsky.social and as a warm up Robert welcomed the legendary Bela Fleck into our studios to play some holiday tunes and talk about Bela's 2008 holiday classic, Jingle All The Way. xpn.org/jingle-all-t... #XPNTNB

It’s not Christmas until Robert hits the airwaves.

Just a reminder to join me for my 33rd annual takeover of @wxpnfm.bsky.social 24 nonstop live hours - tomorrow from midnight to midnight! Besides on FM you can listen live worldwide AND fire up the JingleCam plus submit your holiday greetings for me to read on air! Just visit XPN.org

Just a reminder to join me for my 33rd annual takeover of @wxpnfm.bsky.social 24 nonstop live hours - tomorrow from midnight to midnight! Besides on FM you can listen live worldwide AND fire up the JingleCam plus submit your holiday greetings for me to read on air! Just visit XPN.org

Enjoying a very tiki Christmas season listening to @djrobertdrake.bsky.social on @wxpnfm.bsky.social #LandOfTheLost with @covfefecake.bsky.social this evening 😎🍹🌴

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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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