Beach House – live at Pitchfork Festival 2015 – October 29, 2015 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Beach House – a band who have been almost constantly touring the past few years, has been getting huge attention all over the world. Further evidence, the work you put into something,
– NBC Radio: Second Sunday – Newark: Anatomy Of A Riot – July 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection No end to turmoil sweeping over American cities in the decade of the 1960s. The rise of poverty and unemployment, and the rapid decay of Urban areas were all ingredients of
Daughter – live at BBC 6 Music Festival, Bristol – February 13, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Daughter in concert at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol on February 13, 2016. Getting started in 2010, and with a critically acclaimed debut album in 2013, Daughter have risen
KCBS-San Francisco – Lookin”em Over – Sports Program – November 1952, Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Football season – in 1952 it wasn’t too much different than Football seasons before or since. East-West rivalries. USC-UCLA rivalries. The state of Sports in 1952 – looking back at baseball. And drugs were
Bryan Ferry – Live At Belfast Castle, Belfast – 2002 – BBC 6 Music – Bryan Ferry in concert for a Tuesday. One of the most enduring artists, whose music and style have set him several notches above most singers. Ever since his days with Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry has
It’s Immaterial – in Concert at The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool – March 15, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – It’s Immaterial – one of those bands which became an integral part of the burgeoning Indie/Techno scene in the early 1980s. It’s Immaterial got started in 1980; had
Atomic Rooster – In Session for Alan Freeman’s Saturday Rock Show – 1970 – BBC Radio 1 Atomic Rooster were a very interesting band, although they didn’t get the immediate response from the audience and critics they should have, and they didn’t receive any of the recognition they deserved in
– Conversations With Artie Shaw – Guest: John Simon – Feb. 29, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Critics – an alternately loved and despised lot, viewed by some as a combination of giddy swooning fan and stone-faced curmudgeon. The critic, throughout history has been a starmaker and icon-basher.
Over to The Beverly Theatre in Beverly Hills, by way of London for a concert featuring Gladys Knight & The Pips, recorded in 1983 by the venerable BBC and broadcast over their Midnight Concert Series over Radio 1. This has to be one of the fastest paced concerts I’ve heard
– Wolf Alice – Live At Inrocks festival – November 13, 2015 – Starting Tuesday with a concert from Wolf Alice – recorded on November 13, 2015 by RTL, Paris. Ten years ago, I was of two minds about running this concert. First, I ran a Wolf Alice concert only
