Dan DeLuca

Dan DeLuca is an Inquirer pop music critic. But his "In the Mix" column in the Weekend section ventures further afield, into books, movies, TV, the Internet, graphic novels and anything you might call "popular culture."

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Beach Boys hoping for waves of album sales - 05/17/2012: By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC

And on the 46th anniversary of the release of Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys played QVC. The reunited Beach Boys, that is, who are in the early stages of a 50th-anniversary reunion tour that was to have played a sold-out show at the Borgata on Saturday before returning to the Philadelphia area for a show at the Susquehanna Bank Center on June 16. They came to the sprawling 84-acre West Chester campus of the home shopping channel to hawk That’s Why God Made the Radio, their new album due to be released June 5.
'In the Mix' - 05/18/2012: Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix.
Incendiary talker at XPN fest - 05/16/2012: By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC

Amid all the established talent at Non-Comm, the most provocative figure at the annual radio industry gathering is a highly opinionated blogger named Bob Lefsetz. He’s widely believed to have inspired — and to be the subject of — Taylor Swift’s song “Mean.”
An empowered Santigold returns - 05/10/2012: By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC

Dan DeLuca: For Santi White -- the Mount Airy-raised, Brooklyn-based songwriter who began her U.S. tour for her sophomore album with a sold-out show at the Chinatown club -- what constitutes "a life worth fighting for"?
Adam Yauch, 47, of the Beastie Boys - 05/04/2012: By Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic

Adam Yauch, 47, a founding member of the Beastie Boys, the pioneering New York hip-hop group whose 1980s breakthrough as impudent, white rap superstars was followed by a long career that combined popular success with musical innovation, died Friday in New York.
‘The Passage of Power’: Another chapter in Robert Caro’s saga of Lyndon Johnson - 04/28/2012: Dan DeLuca

The Passage Of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Robert A. Caro Alfred A. Knopf, 712 pp. $35. Reviewed by Dan DeLuca
Music stars in XPN film fest - 04/23/2012: By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC

Music and movies meet during the inaugural XPN Music Film Festival which starts Thursday and takes place in University City, with 20 movies screening.
Highlights of the XPN Music Film Festival - 04/23/2012: Dan DeLuca

Big Easy Express. Directed by Emmett Malloy (The White Stripes Under Great Northern Lights), Big Easy Express rides the rails across the western United States, chronicling a five-city tour with the simpatico folk bands Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show, playing and singing their own songs before climaxing with a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “This Train Is Bound for Glory.” Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center. Charles Bradley: Soul of America. Poull Brien’s documentary focuses on Charles Bradley, who looks back on a life of poverty and struggle and, with the help of Daptones Records founder Gabriel Roth, transforms himself from a James Brown cover act to a soul singer with a singular sound who releases his debut album at age 62. Friday at 5 p.m. at the Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center.
Get out and buy vinyl: It’s Record Store Day - 04/20/2012: By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC

It’s Record Store Day. That means it’s the day to get out and support your local independent music shop. And there are a bunch in the area, still living and breathing in this digital age.
'In the Mix' - 04/12/2012: Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/in themix.

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Hall is 'Live from Daryl's House' - 04/11/2012: By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC
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Springsteen sings out about American dreams - 03/29/2012: By Dan DeLuca , Inquirer Music Critic
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At SXSW, music's future looking up - 03/20/2012: By Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic
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