"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Something different this weekend – a rare appearance from the pre-PBS NET series Soul! hosted by Poet/Author Nikki Giovanni and featuring The Delfonics in a live set, as re-broadcast on April 21, 1972 (it originally aired on January 5th). Live Soul sessions, or even concerts by prominent Soul acts are...
Some recently rediscovered Americana tonight. American composers of the early-to-mid twentieth century, aside from the big names such as Aron Copland, have been largely forgotten over the years. Their style of composition has fallen out of favor in the academic world, and most audiences tend to be more interested in...
Docs That Rock – Music That Matters by Harvey Kubernik – Otherworld Cottage Books – 2020 – Available at: Amazon.com Doing something new starting this week – an occasional series of Book Reviews. Since Past Daily is a history and Popular Culture site, and since we’re always hounding you to...
John Abercrombie Organ Trio – Recorded at Youth House, Szeged Hungary – October 7, 1995 – Radio Bartok, Budapest – The John Abercrombie Organ Trio this weekend. Featuring Dan Wall on Hammond B-3 and Adam Nussbaum on drums and recorded at The Youth House in Szeged, Hungary on October 7,...
January 30, 1977 – KTNQ-AM – The Real Don Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If they looked at your i.d. closely they would realize you weren’t 250 pounds – you weren’t 6 foot 6 and you weren’t 40 years old. But your Fake i.d., the one you got...
Teenage Fanclub – Live at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut – Glasgow, Scotland – May 22, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Teenage Fanclub this weekend. Recorded live at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow on May 22, 1991. With COVID running roughshod over music this past year,...
Another installment of Teenage life in the 1960s and the L.A. Radio that was inseparable along with it. Tonight it’s BMR and KFWB and Monday night, October 2, 1967. The news was strange – San Francisco just had the Death of Hippy march in the Haight earlier – the new...
Sigur Rós – in concert from Theatre Of The Living Arts – Philadelphia – September 22, 2001 Sigur Rós in concert to end the week. Recorded live at Theatre Of The Living Arts in Philadelphia on September 22, 2001. Another dose of much needed sonic comfort food tonight. Iceland’s Sigur...
January 29, 1975 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 29, 1975 – News for this day had much to do with President Ford’s Clemency program for Draft Evaders of the Vietnam War. It wasn’t met with universal acceptance on the one hand, nor was it...
January 29, 1942 – News in English From Radio Tokyo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 29, 1942 – News for this day, closely monitored by various news outlets, was coming from Tokyo by way of Shortwave broadcasts beamed at the U.S. and Australia. Although the vast majority of...
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