Listen to WXPN and be part of a community of music fans who are educated about the music, in love with the music, and passionate about discovering the newest, boldest artists. Enjoy a vast and deep play-list that includes both classic and little-known tracks from musicians like Bob Dylan, The Smiths, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Buckley. The Cure, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Radiohead, Talking Heads, The Hold Steady, Bruce Springsteen and TV On The Radio. Satisfy your musical curiosity with new music from promising recent artists like M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, Adele, Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and more. And discover some of the best of the best musical talent from Philly and the surrounding areas. Home of the award-winning WORLD CAFE® radio show hosted by David Dye, WXPN also serves up specialty programs that explore jam-bands, blues, and the quiet sounds of contemporary music. WXPN. It’s All About The Music. WXPN is the member-supported radio service of The University of Pennsylvania. Check us out at XPN.org.
The best station in the city
The music is good and sleepy hollow makes the weekends.
My fav station but…?
My fav station but skips and buffers endlessly. When will this be updated to fix these issues?
Love WXPN….
Love xpn. The recent update was hopeful. With the older version, I just figured out how to optimally listen to archives. Sleepy hollow in particular. Now you can only go back a few weeks and about an hour in, it stops……drag. With no way to retrieve where you left off. Or it randomly pops back into live. KCRW has a pretty good app for listening to past shows. Important stuff for listeners who love what you got! :)
Great App! Get it
Great stream with the recently played view—lots of XPN and event info, very stable.
Consistently frustrating
If you love XPN you’ll deal with the constant pauses, occasional drops and infrequent battery drain issues.
Please optimize for iPad
In general the app works fine, but does not do landscape on the iPad which is actually the way I would like to use it most...
Battery Drain
Absolutely love listening to XPN, but the app has a serious battery drain issue. Twice I’ve gone to bed only to wake up with a dead phone. Found out that the XPN app was the culprit. Tried to disable background activity only to find out that background app refresh is always on by default. May have to uninstall the app and use Tunein instead.
Updated for optimization with the latest version of iOS CarPlay Added
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