"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Madder Rose – Roland Navigator – Volume CD Magazine – Issue 9 – 1994 I see the flood of bands hitting the Spring Festival circuit this year and I’m reminded of the flood of bands that descended on the world in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Wolf Alice – in concert at London Calling 2014 – May 9, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 More bands from the extraordinary London Calling 2014 festival from earlier this month Tonight it’s Wolf Alice, a band from North London who have been together...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sir Roy Walensky of Southern Rhodesia on Meet The Press – October 27, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Independence movements in Africa began to gather steam, so too did concerns that violence would break out. Visions of a...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News: Second Sunday – Sic Transit America – June 10, 1972 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection In the 1960s, as awareness of what was going on in our world was growing, the state of our Cities was coming under scrutiny. By...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – May 19, 1993 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in May for 1993 was certainly a mixed bag of emotions. In Copenhagen, the worst rioting in decades broke out after Danes voted overwhelmingly...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Temples – Prisms – from the lp Sun Structures – 2014 – Heavenly Records It may be a moot point, but Temples have been gathering much momentum and steam since the release of their debut album Sun Structures earlier this year....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Eastman School Wind Ensemble – Hill: Sextette for Woodwinds – April 10, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some recently rediscovered Americana tonight. American composers of the early-to-mid twentieth century, aside from the big names such as Aron Copland, have...
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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