Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for October 19, 1987 “Not since Black Friday in 1929”, “The worst single-day drop in history”, “the bottom has fallen out”. That’s what this day in 1987 sounded like, or at least most of it. A 500-point drop in the Stock
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Mypollux -Plus a Meme – 2008 Hovering between Power-Pop and Heavy Metal, Mypollux is (or was, it’s hard to tell) a French band that’s been going since 2001 (or 2002 depending on which bio you read). They’ve been having a modicum of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Gloria Steinem Interview – Oct. 25, 1970 In case you forgot just how long the struggle for Womens rights has gone on in this country, I ran across this interview with Gloria Steinem, done for a local New York TV Station on
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Wolves & Moons – Nothing Ever Shone In The Sun -2011 I suppose you could consider Wolves & Moons to be Rock Without Borders, since the band is based in Paris. However, the founder and leader is Richard Allen, who is from
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Cheap Trick – Just Got Back – 1980 Okay, a track tonight by a band everybody knows – Cheap Trick. No guess work – no lengthy explanations – just play it loud. From their 1980 album All Shook Up – Just Got
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Pollock – Grey Eyes I first ran across The Pollock about a year ago while doing a World Surf for new and interesting bands to eventually post in Rock Without Borders. I was struck by how good this band was and,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Roussel – Rhapsodie Flamande – 1954 Over to French radio again. This week’s concert comes from The Strasbourg Music Festival, circa 1954, conducted by Frank Martin and featuring the music of Albert Roussel. Rhapsodie Flamande for Orchestra, written in the 1938. Roussel
Click on the link here for Audio Player: FrontRow_ Pete Townshend Special In light of the media blitz currently going on over the release of Who founder Pete Townshend’s autobiography Who I Am, the airwaves have been awash with interviews and reviews of the book. In case you may have
Kicking in helps keep us running: Become a Patron! Over to Berlin this weekend for a concert by the immortal Lionel Hampton, and his All-Stars for a concert given at the Sportspalast on April 10, 1953 and recorded by RIAS. A great concert with a stunning lineup of musicians, including
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Louis Prima – Buona Sera – 1956 In the 1980’s, legendary Las Vegas madman and trumpeter extraordinaire Louis Prima was immortalized to a whole new generation of fans via David Lee Roth‘s version of Prima’s classic Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody.
