"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Ramones – Live at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco – December 31, 1978 Ending 2013 with a concert by The Ramones, recorded at The Old Waldorf in San Francisco, New Years Eve 1978. What better way to drown out an...
Become a Patron! What getting ready for New Years Eve sounded like in San Francisco in 1949, via KCBS. I originally posted this in 2013 – the City has changed even more since then. Gotten even less affordable to live – less gritty and more gentrified than ever. Well ....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News Of The World For 1966 – December 31, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If someone was to attempt to pinpoint exactly when things started to go haywire, they would most likely land on 1966. For all intents...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Mogwai – live at The Reading Festival 2001 – BBC 6 Music Diving into the world of Post-rock tonight with Mogwai, recorded live during the 2001 Reading Festival by the venerable BBC 6 Music. Mogwai are one of those bands who...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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