"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Courtney Barnett – Live At Glastonbury 2014 – June 27, 2014 – BBC 6 Music Music tonight from rising star Courtney Barnett, recorded by the venerable BBC 6 Music at this years Glastonbury Festival, recorded last Friday. Courtney Barnett has been...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The World Of 1994 – NPR Special Program – March 30, 1974 Part 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Click on the link here for Audio Player – The World Of 1994 – NPR Special Program – March 30, 1974 Part...
A buck here and a buck there, it adds up:Become a Patron! 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 “news capsules”, KMPC in Los Angeles reported the second straight night of demonstrations...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – MBS – Raymond Gram Swing News and Comment – June 30, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day seventy-five years ago was about increasing tensions throughout Europe. The Anglo-Soviet Pact brought Europe a little closer to war on...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ultravox – Live At The Old Waldorf – March 13, 1979 – ©Terry Hammer Archives Most people think of Ultravox from the large-scale/new-romantic/sonically epic songs and the first of a string high-budget/high-concept videos to appear on that newly minted cable channel...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chateau de Sceaux Festival – Girard String Orchestra, Andrè Girard, Cond. – 1952 – Paris Radio Taking a brief tour far back in history, all the way to the 18th Century for the music of French composer Michel de Montéclair as...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Richard Burgin, assoc. Cond. – Joseph Battista, piano – April 14, 1951. For this week’s rehearsal, Associate Conductor Richard Burgin leads the Boston Symphony in a rehearsal of the Chopin Piano Concerto number 2, with...
– KMET-FM – Los Angeles – June 27, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Free-Form Radio in 1968. When the 60s got started AM Radio was the predominate form of Pop Culture in the country. Los Angeles was no different. FM radio, though sounding a million times better, was largely...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Wynton Marsalis Quintet With The Sachal Jazz Ensemble – 2013 Marciac Jazz Festival – August 3, 2013 – Radio France FIP East meets West this weekend with The Wynton Marsalis Quintet joining up with The Sachal Jazz Ensemble and turning August...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Can – Live at Lyon, France – January 17, 1976 – Band soundboard. One of my favorite bands of all time tonight. Can were part of that initial wave of Progressive music to come out of Europe in the early 1970s....
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