Over 4th of July weekend, WXPN is celebrating the country\u2019s 250th birthday with 250 songs that are from, by, and about Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The list spans genres and generations, from Lil Uzi Vert and Sheer Mag to Patti LaBelle and The A\u2019s, capturing how the city has shaped American music.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier in the spring we invited listeners to submit their favorites to us online, we also asked influential Philly music experts and people vital to the scene and combined that with staff picks to come up with our list,\u201d WXPN Programming Director Jim McGuinn said. \u201cThe beauty of any list like this is that your mileage may vary, but we hope everyone gets something from this great collection, discovers something new about Philly\u2019s music history, and enjoys celebrating our musical legacy.<\/p>\n
Tune in starting at 8 a.m. Friday and Saturday on 88.5 or streaming online to hear all 250 songs. If you miss any part of it over the weekend, we\u2019ll be playing these songs again on Sunday starting at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n
WXPN Presents<\/p>\n
The Philly 250<\/p>\n
Songs by, from, and about Philly<\/p>\n
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The party begins at 8\u00a0a.m. Friday and Saturday<\/p>\n
Listen on 88.5 or streaming online. On Sunday we\u2019re taking this list on a victory lap, you\u2019ll be able to hear the top songs starting at 8\u00a0a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 4th of July weekend, WXPN is celebrating the country\u2019s 250th birthday with 250 songs that are from,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-532705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}