D'Angelo's Black Messiah is our featured album of the day for Black History Month. Listen all day as we put the spotlight on this 2014 classic from a music legend who sadly passed away last year.

Just an absolutely fantastic opening night tour w/ Brandi Carlile in Philly. Special shout out to Sistah Strings and The Twins.

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

In this week’s newsletter, I visualized The Post’s losses, Bezos’s net worth — and how much that net worth has increased each day since he bought the paper. (That and a lot more, all for free!)

Before we get to Dave’s World at 10am, it’s a special Sleepy Hollow appearance by Bruce Warren @somevelvetblog.bsky.social in for Keith today. Stay warm, enjoy the music.

very psyched for this: the documentary about Billy Preston is on its way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWU...

Keeping y'all warm today by playing some hott jams on the radio @wxpnfm.bsky.social now until 2pm. I'll dig deep on our Black History Month essential lp of the day, plus the new & the old that will deelite & surprise you. That's my promise 2 u.

happy birthday to this classic released on this day 2/6/89

Here's a version of my essay on recent protest music, which began life in the NPR Music newsletter -- I've expanded it to include thoughts on Benito at the Grammys www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

We're celebrating Black History Month by featuring an essential album each day. Today, Wed 2/4 we're digging deep into Janet Jackson's Control, released on this day in 1986. Listen all day to songs from the lp.

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

On our recent Sense of Place Baltimore series, Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social explores the vibrant Baltimore club music scene with Abdu Ali and DJ Ducky Dynamo. www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...

The threats are real. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Big congrats to Amy Allen for winning the Grammy for Songwriter of The Year, Non-Classical. It was great to have Amy on the show last May, talking w/ Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social about the songs Amy has written for herself and others. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1...

Last Fall we welcomed Christian McBride into our studios for a performance and an interview w/ the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social. Congrats to Christian for his Grammy win. Watch the session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEi...

"What I found was far stranger and more magical than I could have expected. There, working alongside the vessel’s mohawked and utterly unhinged captain, was the Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Bob Weir, who died last week at the age of 78." Bob Weir, the shipwrecked sailor, and me:

In the first term, Trump did a lot of penny ante grifting, but for his second term he's really figured out how to monetize the presidency into making billions. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

on this very cold, icy, and still snowy philly morning, i'm playing records on the radio @wxpnfm.bsky.social today from 10a-2p. hits and misses. it's gonna be hott. have a listen xpn.org

Ate hotdogs, got tiki drinks, and holed up in a snowstorm with Ratboys, who've never sounded more like their truest selves than on this album

ratboys forever pitchfork.com/features/rat...

sean mannion?!?! @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social wtf

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This posted late so if you read it you will automatically be granted one (1) wish that is guaranteed to come true. It’s about Pam Bondi’s Minnesota ransom note and how Trump perverted the already perverted GOP claims about “voter fraud.” www.ms.now/opinion/bond...

Rest in peace to the legend, drummer Sly Dunbar. Here's ten he played on. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Fu...

Go Birds.

I wrote about Alex Pretti's death, asking a specific question: What is the point?

The 🐐 backup QB mantle remains preserved

So much has changed in the NFL over years and yet here we are heading into conference championship weekend as a weary nation once again rises up to say “anyone but the fucking Patriots”

That the new arrangement seems to be going ahead with so little opposition shows not that TikTok has become safer, but that so much else in America has become more dangerous

rocking a pre-snow storm listening party on the radio @wxpnfm.bsky.social today from 10a-2p. have a listen. get your french toast on.

Saw the Sharp Pins last night here in Philly at Jerry’s. They rocked it. Kai and the band’s command of hyper melodic jams in the spirit of The Who, Fab 4, Zombies, Big Star, with some Gene Clark thrown in - without sounding like a total rip off of those bands is impressive. And inspiring. Go see em.

wow. this is a great mix.

deep Persian jazz. dig in. open.spotify.com/album/0dk01Q...

i mean seriously wtf this is mind blowing open.spotify.com/album/7uQoNn...

Your activism will be even more important this year. Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

The head of the Republican Party will head into the midterms trying to invade Greenland, impose higher taxes on consumers, terrorize American cities, build a lavish ballroom, refuse to release the Epstein files, and pardon drug dealers and fraudsters.

Protecting people is my job. No one—not this administration, not ICE—will keep me from doing it. I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.

highly recommended: fantastic doc about the rise of #techno tubitv.com/movies/10004...

Hurry! Accepting ALL donations!!! 😂🤣😂

The curse of Buffalo continues. I'm sorry Bills fans.

Greenland hat special. They're flying off the shelves.

Wow. What a throw by Nix. And what a catch by Mimms.

remembering bobby www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

playing records on the radio today on XPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social from 10a-2p Philly time. all people must go dancing. listen at xpn.org

".. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Fantastic interview w/ Don Was about Bobby. www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...