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Melody Gardot
In the studio with Philly's secret jazz superstar.
by Patrick Rapa
Between the last note of Melody Gardot's opening song at the Kimmel and the first report of one hand against the other triggering an avalanche of applause, there's a sliver of near-silence. And from some anonymous voice in the audience, a single word fills the fleeting moment. "Wow."

Adam Arcuragi
One man's super-organic, supremely human Manhattan Project on happiness.
by Brian Howard
"It took a lot of energy and time to get everything coordinated, but then once we got all the pieces in place," says Arcuragi, "I really just let it do its thing."

Tu Phace
Far-N-Low Studios is dropping hip-hop in the land of tube socks.
by A.D. Amorosi
Born Mike Taylor, Tu grew up in West Philly, graduated from Overbrook High, the son of a jazz-sax-tooting pop and an R&B-loving mom. Tu listened to all that and everything in between. "When I write I don't look at it as rapping," he says. "I look at it as songwriting."

Jaguar Wright
Philly's neo-soul survivor strives for the beautiful (but doesn't wanna talk about it).
by Tisha Kline
After a four-year drought, she's got a slew of new projects — a single out now, a digital EP due early next year and a full-length album further down the road — and doesn't want to talk about any of them.

Espers
Serenity now! Philly's psych-folk stalwarts are suddenly dreaming in color.
by John Vettese
It's clear from the first swift splash of cymbal and brisk strum of acoustic guitar: This new Espers record won't be the same old tour of the drone factory.