A concert from Amsterdam by way of Madrid this week – the Netherlands Philharmonic, led by Etienne Siebens and featuing pianist Ralph van Ratt in a decidedly Dutch program – all recorded live on September 3rd 2011 by AVRO in Hilversum and relayed to RNE Radio Clasica. Opening with Symphony
– WNBC-AM/FM – News for New York – July 2, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Summer in Manhattan – nothing that taking up residence inside a walk-in freezer couldn’t fix. But this July 2nd in 1964 had its fair share of problems – not the least being the
Diving into the 80s this morning with a set by The Vapors – recorded at The Landsdowne in Boston on September 11, 1980. If you didn’t already know who The Vapors were, or had only heard about through some unreliable and AI driven websites, you would think The Vapors were
Over to Vauréal France tonight for a concert by Salut l’Orage (Hello Storm in English), recorded June 30 (yesterday) at the Forum in Vauréal, France. A guitar-drums duo from St. Etienne France, Salut l’Orage have been gathering an audience the past couple of years (nothing in the States yet,
In the third major landing on Borneo, Australian Seventh Division veterans stormed ashore at Balikpapan on the south-east coast on Sunday morning after the most intensive naval and air bombardment of the South- West Pacific campaign. They quickly secured a firm bridgehead on the beaches east of the town and
– July 1, 1973 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 1, 1973 – brought a new month and new drama around Capitol Hill. The week ending for this first day of July brought news of Congress demanding an end to the bombing
Getting Tuesday up and rolling with The Farm in concert at The Royal Court in Liverpool on March 24, 1991. Since they’ve released Let The Music (Take Control), just a few weeks ago, it only seems right to dig into the vault and bring out something from the band early-on.
The Red Scare in America. No stranger to dark days in history, America was now the object of a concentrated fear campaign based almost entirely on rumor. Following World War II (1939-45), the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political
Before Edward Snowden and before Bradley Manning we had Daniel Ellsberg. A lot of comparisons to that pivotal point in our history had been made to Ellsberg then. The release of the Pentagon Papers and their publishing in The Washington Post and The New York Times created an uproar
– Arctic Monkeys live at Glastonbury 2013 – June 27, 2013 – Arctic Monkeys from Glasto 2013 to kick the week off. So far, the jury is still out on Glastonbury 2025. Like most festivals, it’s run the gamut from wild enthusiasm to shrugged shoulders. The question is how much
