"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Another tribute this week. Word came out last night of the death of co-founder and Punk pioneer Alan Vega, the driving force behind Suicide and a noted visual artist, had died at the age of 78. Together with Martin Rev, Alan Vega established Suicide as one of the seminal projects...
Pierre-Octave Ferroud – Trio for Woodwinds (1933) – Radio session for ORTF, Paris – 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Pierre-Octave Ferroud may not ring any bells, and his music is largely forgotten. But in the early part of the 20th century he was one of the most bright and...
The Bill Evans Trio this weekend. Recorded at Casale Monferrato, Italy on November 30, 1979 and broadcast by RAI Radio 3. No doubt about it, we are living in fractured, nervous times – and anything we can do to calm the situation and the stirrings in our racing out-of-control minds...
Mott The Hoople tonight. From a concert recorded at the BBC’s Paris Theatre in London in 1971. In case you didn’t know, Mott The Hoople had been around since 1968 and had recorded a string of high-energy hard-rock albums which firmly established them as one of the bands spearheading the...
