"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Gilbert Becaud – Pauvre Pecheur – March 18, 1955 – Le Voix de Son Maitre On the off-chance you might not be in the mood to get your mind blown via Papir and our Nights At The Roundtable feature tonight, I...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Papir – Live at Roadburn 2014 – April 11, 2014 – VPRO-3VOOR12 While we’re collecting our thoughts over Pinkpop and getting ready for most posts from that recent festival, here’s one of the highlights of another festival earlier this year. Wall-of-Guitar/Psychmeisters...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 12, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The last thing anyone expected was an eruption from a volcano thought extinct for some 600 years. But nature has a few surprises here and there, and on...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – ABC Radio News – June 12, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With reports estimating upwards of a half-million, a massive demonstration was being held in New York’s Central Park, calling for an end to war and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Mayer – live at Pinkpop 2014 – June 7, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Saying John Mayer is Alternative might be stretching it a bit. If you discount the multi-platinum albums and Grammies, he’s your basic rock/blues/blue-eyed Soul/Country/Acoustic artist who happens to...
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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