Diving into some nostalgia this Thursday afternoon with a set by Dum Dum Girls, recorded live at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on May 29, 2010 and preserved for posterity by WFMU in New Jersey in association with RNE Radio 3 in Madrid. In case you don’t already know (since the
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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
Over to the 2012 Lucerne Festival for a performance by The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded live on August 27, 2012 by RTS-Radio in Geneva. Sadly, this is only the second half as the first half missed getting recorded. But the second half is still fun and it
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Crocodiles to put some high-octane noise in your lunch this afternoon. Recorded at the 2010 Primavera Sound Festival on May 28, 2010 by the venerable RNE Radio 3 in Madrid. As is always the case, we have to go some 5,000 miles to hear a band that resides less than
– ABC Radio Hourly News – 6:00 am – September 10, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 30 years ago was probably typical of many September 10ths – labor disputes in Detroit, with newspaper workers on Strike and tensions ramping up with Police. On this
Talking Heads – live in Boston 1977 (disputed venue – disputed date – via undisputed FM broadcast) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Talking Heads this afternoon. I realize I’ve been spending a goodly amount of the past several weeks traipsing all over the world, running sessions and concerts from
– News reports and joint Press conference – Bush-Gorbachev Helsinki Conference – Sept. 9, 1990 – As the crisis in the middle east continued to heat up and as the U.S. was continuing to drum up support for an armed confrontation with Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the fourth summit conference
Since 1948 marked an election year, it also marked a more pronounced Cold War existing between the West and the Soviet Union to the East. And with the Cold War and the constant threat of some confrontation sooner rather than later, the questions arose about what Democracy was and why
