America’s Town Meeting: “Should America Open Its Doors To Displaced Persons?” – October 31, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Refugees, Displaced persons – victims of war, victims of politics, victims of genocide. People leaving their countries of birth because no home exists, bombed out and destroyed.
The Menzingers – In Philadelphia, an absolute institution. Diving into Friday Lunch with The Menzingers, recorded at the 2025 Manchester Punk Festival on April 19th. If you know, you know – if you don’t – The Menzingers website has a pretty comprehensive bio to get you started: “At this point,
April 3, 1969 – ABC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 3, 1969. Spring in the era of discontent. From Chicago, a second night of disturbances on the eve of the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Tensions and apprehension ran high. Already an outbreak
The Trashcan Sinatras – In Session – BBC 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – The Trashcan Sinatras were one of my favorite bands of the early 90s. From the release of their debut album, Cake, it was immediately engaging and demanding of numerous plays. Compared in the beginning to The
The Cleanup – An Oil spill with long-lasting consequences. April 2nd came on a Sunday in 1989. And on that particular Sunday the focus was still over the on-going disaster and its aftermath from the oil spill from the Tanker Exxon Valdez. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska‘s Prince
The Grogans – Australia heads to the Garage. The Grogans in concert for the Lunchroom today – Live at The King Street in Newcastle, Australia during Triple J’s 50th Tour on November 21, 2025. Here’s a blurb from their Management’s Website: “Genre-expanding outfit The Grogans are a trio of best
April 2, 1979 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1979 – The nuclear Power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg Pennsylvania was continuing. Amid signs of optimism that the #2 reactor didn’t completely melt down, officials were upbeat that the worst of
Mstislav Rostropovich (L) – Gennady Roszhdestvensky (R) – Legendary Collaborations Something historic this week – a concert from the 14th Edinburgh Festival in 1960 featuring the Leningrad Philharmonic, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky with Mstislav Rostropovich, cello in the UK Premier of the Cello Concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich, which was dedicated
April 1, 1979 – News – Bulletins – Carter Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 1, 1979 – the situation at the 3 Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant had already gone into the history books as the worst Nuclear Power Plant accident in U.S.history. On this day,
Back to some basic, no-frills American Rock n’ Roll this afternoon. In 1977, Mushroom Records ran a full-page advertisement showing the bare-shouldered Wilson sisters (as on the Dreamboat Annie album cover) with the suggestive caption, “It was only our first time!” In an interview that appeared in the July 28,
