"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet – Live at The Continental Restaurant – WNOR-AM Broadcast – June 18, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Clifford Brown this weekend. In what very well may have been his last known broadcast before an untimely death from a car accident...
Beady Eye – In Concert at Brixton Academy – April 3, 2011 – XFM Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Beady Eye in concert this weekend. Reminded and remiss that I haven’t posted any Liam Gallagher, while posting lots of Noel Gallagher (via High Flying Birds), I decided...
KMET – Steven Clean – June 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s almost Summer – why you know it’s almost Summer is that it’s June; not yet June-gloom, but that week in June where it suddenly hits 100 degrees during the day and you can smell infinite possibilities...
Yes – in concert from London – 1971 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert series – BBC Radio 1 – Yes in concert to end the week. Recorded in London in 1971 for the BBC In Concert series which ran on BBC Radio 1. Although they had become something of...
Teenage Fanclub – Reading Festival – 1992 (Abbreviated set) – August 30, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Teenage Fanclub tonight, in an abbreviated set from their legendary 1992 Reading Festival appearance – recorded on August 30, 1992 by BBC Radio 1. Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band...
Pale Saints – in session for John Peel – recorded July 23, 1989 – broadcast August 17 – BBC Radio 1 – Become a Patron! Pale Saints for the middle of the week. I remember hearing Pale Saints around the same time I heard Lush, by way of their initial...
Sergey Khachatryan, violin – Capitol Of Toulouse Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev, Conducter – April 15, 2015 – Radio France Musique – Become a Patron! Over to France this week for a concert, broadcast live from Toulouse at the Halle aux Grains on April 15, 2015 featuring the Capitol of Toulouse...
Become a Patron! January 15, 1984 – Capping off a busy week with eyes on the brewing conflicts in Central America. The issue of whether or not the U.S. should intervene in Nicaragua was up for discussion. The potential tipping point was an incident taking place on the Honduran/Nicaraguan border....
Michael Rother – In session for Marc Riley – August 10, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Become a Patron! Running across this recent (August 2019) session with German electronica pioneer Michael Rother it immediately summoned up all kinds of memories. Having been very familiar with his work since his...
Become a Patron! Not that long ago, in retrospect, the age to vote in America was 21. In 1971, after considerable debate, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment was passed, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. It only seemed fair and ethical, since 18 year olds were being drafted into the...
