"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
World Party – Live at Brixton Academy – 1993 – BBC Radio 1 Heading over to the 90s tonight for a concert by World Party, recorded at Brixton Academy in London in 1993. Listening to World Party reminded me that…
Public Enemy – Live At Phoenix Festival 1995 – BBC Radio 1 Public Enemy in concert to end the week. A suspicious lack of Rap and Hip-hop on these pages over the years. Any particular reason? No – other than…
Martin Luther King – Address At Chicago Rally – Extended Excerpt – July 26, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Martin Luther King – we celebrate his birth today. A celebration that would have been unthinkable 53 years ago,…
WMPS -Stokley’s High-Noon Roundup – 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A dose of Heartland Americana this weekend. In 1952, Rock n’ Roll hadn’t been invented yet – it was in the woodshedding stages and hadn’t been unleashed on…
Noreen Corcoran – Why Can’t Boy And Girl Stay In Love – 1963 – Vee-Jay Records (master tape) – Noreen Corcoran – a name that would ring no bells with you, unless you were a die-hard fan of 1950s Television.…
The Fixx – in concert at The Paris Theatre, London – 1982 – BBC In Concert series – BBC Radio 1 – The Fixx – one of the prime examples of a band who were catapulted to stardom via exposure…
Ahmad Jamal Trio – live at l’Olympia – 2000 – RFI-FIP – Ahmad Jamal this week, recorded shortly after celebrating his 70th birthday in 2000 playing to a sell-out crowd a concert at the famed l’Olympia in Paris. One of…
– Aerosmith – Live at The Schaeffer Music Festival, New York – August 29, 1975 – WCKG-FM Since most of you are probably going into Tryptophan overload from your Thanksgiving extravaganzas, I can’t think of a better way to…
– ABC Information Network Hourly News – August 5, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Aside from the bigger news just looming to the east, the news regarding the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and the nervous anticipation of further…
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Jimi Hendrix – Live in San Diego – May 24, 1969 – Wally Heider soundboard More milestones in Rock this weekend. The legendary Jimi Hendrix, along with Mitch…