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
Music of Swiss composer Marcel Wahlich, performed by the Berumünster Radio Symphony on this broadcast for Swiss Radio on March 10, 1964 Marcel Wahlich was born in Zurich’s old town, the son of a well-known wind instrument repairer. There he grew up in a musically passionate family (his father
– NBC Radio – Life And The World – Chicago – Frank Lloyd Wright – Carl Sandberg -Oct. 30, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with Poet Carl Sandberg and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright giving their impressions of living in Chicago from October of
