"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– ABC World News This Week – October 20, 1991 – ABC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 20, 1991 culminated a week of contentious questioning and cross-examination over President Bush’s nomination of Clarence Thomas to the…
– Natalie Dessay and Laurent Naorui with Maciej Pikulski, Piano – In Concert – July 14, 2014 – Radio France Musique. – Something a bit different this week. One of my favorite singers of Opera (who, I was gutted to…
– News from KMPC-Los Angeles – June 30, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Not all the news that happened on this June 30th in 1968, but enough to keep you on your toes. During one of their hourly…
– Tina Turner – Live At Park West, Chicago – August 17, 1984 – With the sad news today of the passing of the legendary Tine Turner, our year of loss in the music world is compounded. This post was…
At the risk of turning this week’s evening post into an homage to “those who left too early”, I nonetheless ran across this very rare Tim Buckley club date from May 1975, recorded weeks before his untimely death from a…
– Terry Reid – In Session for Beat Club – Dec. 31, 1969 – RBB Berlin – Terry Reid tonight. Probably more well known by fans as “the man who turned down Led Zeppelin” than for the actual artist himself,…
Haley Bonar – in session for 3VOOR12-FM, Amsterdam -October 12, 2016 – VPRO-Radio – Haley Bonar ending up the week with a session recorded in October 2016 by Amsterdam FM station 3VOOR12. Bonar is a familiar face and voice on…
– Elton John – Christmas Eve, 1974 Hammersmith Odeon – BBC Radio In Concert Series – Continuing with Rock Legends this weekend. Elton John and his Christmas Concert of 1974, recorded and broadcast as part of the In Concert series…
The inimitable PJ Harvey tonight. In session for John Peel on the occasion of his 60th birthday and recorded on Sept 23, 1998 for BBC Radio 1. In January 1991, following her departure from Automatic Dlamini, Harvey formed her own…
– Joy Division – In Session for John Peel – November 26, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Considered pioneers of the Post-Punk movement, Joy Division formed in 1976. Initially influenced by The Sex Pistols, founders Bernard Sumner and Peter…