"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Crack Cloud – in session for Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music on August 17, 2022. Together a relatively short period of time, and just getting started when COVID hit and with the subsequent Lockdown, Crack Cloud have managed to…
If you owned a car this May 9th in 1979, you were no doubt preoccupied with what number your license plate ended in. Because gas rationing was being enforced and was strictly limited to odd numbered or Personalized license plates…
Withered Hand – in session for Marc Riley – BBC 6 Music – April 20, 2023 – BBC 6 Music – Withered Hand to start the new week. Recorded in session for staunch fan Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music…
– America’s Town Meeting – Does Modern Art Make Sense? – April 1, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Does Modern Art Make Sense? A question that makes the rounds every decade or so. Art, like everything else creative,…
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of…
– CBS Radio Special Report: Alan Shepard Press Conference – May 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On May 5, 1961 America sent its first Astronaut into space. Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7, the first of the series…
– Yeah Yeah Yeahs, in concert at Camden Crawl – 2009 – BBC 6 Music – Yeah Yeah Yeahs in concert to end the week and get set for a new one. Recorded live at Camden Crawl for BBC 6…
Hunter Johnson – 2 Piano works – Richard Singer, Piano – Works Progress Administration – 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back over to early 20th century Americana this weekend. The music of Hunter Johnson as played by Richard Singer…
– Bennett Cerf – Lecture at Illinois State University – 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bennett Cerf is probably a name that doesn’t ring any bells to most people these days. For your information Bennett Cerf was an…
John McLaughlin-Mahvishnu Orchestra – Symphony Hall, Boston – January 26, 1972 – WBCN-FM – John McLaughlin and The Mahavishu Orchstra in concert this weekend. Recorded at Symphony Hall and broadcast live by WBCN in Boston on January 26, 1972. I…