{"id":205561,"date":"2026-05-29T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205561\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:37:06","slug":"kurt-vile-philadelphias-been-good-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205561\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of rockers from Philly. Patti Smith, Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates. But if you\u2019re asking which rocker is the most Philly, Kurt Vile is a strong contender.<\/p>\n

Over the last two decades, Vile\u2019s melodic, trance-inducing tracks have won him national attention. Here in Philly, though, the Lansdowne native is something of a cult hero \u2013 with a mural along the El tracks to prove it.<\/p>\n

Vile, the third of ten siblings, started out making lo-fi tracks in his bedroom \u2014 with sights set not on LA or Nashville, but on the Philly concert scene. He\u2019s bringing it all back home with his latest album, mostly recorded in his Mt. Airy basement.<\/p>\n

To talk about the release of Philadelphia\u2019s Been Good To Me<\/a>, Kurt Vile sat down with Avi Wolfman-Arent for this Studio 2 Extra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are a lot of rockers from Philly. Patti Smith, Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates. But if you\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,12736],"class_list":["post-205561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-studio-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}