WXPN 88.5 vs Echoes App

The  WXPN app is your home for music discovery and an unparalleled listening experience featuring emerging and heritage artists. Programmed by music fans for music fans, our playlists are handcrafted. Driven by a mission to connect artists and audiences, WXPN is where many first heard artists like Brandi Carlile, Hozier, Leon Bridges, and boygenius before they became well-known. Enjoy a vast mix of both classic and lesser-known tracks from artists like Bruce Springsteen, Adele, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Janelle Monae, and so much more.  Live concert broadcasts, themed music programs, and artist interviews are also a part of the mix; reflecting a range of diverse genres including rock, blues, roots, and folk. As a non-profit, member-supported radio programming service, everything we offer is fueled by the backing of music lovers like you. To explore more and become a part of this vibrant music community visit xpn.org.

Echoes App: The Echoes App allows you to listen to Echoes and Echoes Online (subscription required) and explore all the great Echoes content! Echoes is a daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California. With host John Diliberto, a writer for Billboard, Pulse and other magazines, Echoes brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future. In addition to the many recordings heard on Echoes, we also produce interview features with popular modern music figures such as Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Enya, as well as less well-known known composers such as Dead Can Dance, Steve Roach, and The Orb. Echoesalso produces Living Room Concerts, live performances recorded in musician’s homes or studios and broadcast on Echoes. Concerts thus far have included Mark Isham, Steve Roach, Patrick O’Hearn, Ottmar Liebert, Michael Brook, Robert Fripp, Nightnoise, R. Carlos Nakai, Ancient Future, Sheila Chandra, Adrian Legg, Michael Hedges and many more. The Echoes App is brought to you by Echoes and built by Public Media Apps.