Joanna Gruesome – Live At The Forum Club, London – January 16, 2014 – band tape – Joanna Gruesome were formed in 2010 in Cardiff by Owen Willams (guitar and vocals), Max Warren (bass), and George Nicholls (guitar). Their core line-up solidified with the addition of Lan McArdle (lead vocals)
A commentary by Henrik Willem van Loon regarding the massacre and complete destruction of the Spanish town of Guernica in April of 1937 by Nationalist forces who were equipped with German planes and guns and the mass bombings conducted by elements of the German Luftaffe Condor Legion and the Italian
– NBC Radio Funeral for John Foster Dulles – May 27, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – The name John Foster Dulles probably doesn’t ring a lot of bells these days, aside from the name of an Airport in Washington D.C. – time and new players have clouded the
Gomez to kick off Tuesday – recorded at the 1999 Glastonbury Festival on June 25, 1999 and broadcast by BBC Radio 1. Guitarist and vocalist Ian Ball and drummer Olly Peacock having played in a three-piece band from the ages of 14 to 18. They met bassist Paul Blackburn and
Memorial Day – a day of reflection and remembrance – a day where we look at where we were then and see where we are now. The day you don’t wish people a Happy Holiday. It isn’t one of those kinds of days. There are the barbecues and the get-togethers;
– Suede in Concert from Royal Festival Hall, London, recorded by the venerable BBC in 2002. Suede this morning. One of those bands who descended on the Alternative/Pop/Britpop scene in 1989 and were instantly embraced by the critics and whose debut album was one of the fastest selling in decades.
Music of Robert Suter this weekend. Kleines Konzert fur Klavier un Kammerorchester with the Instrumental Ensemble of Basel and Charles Dobler, piano – conducted by Rudolf Kelterborn from this broadcast concert of January 21, 1954 from RTS, Switzerland. Robert Suter is a Swiss composer, born in St. Gallen. He studied
Although his recordings are still available, taking advantage of technological advances in restoration, and many discoveries of otherwise lost performances have surfaced in personal as well as broadcast archives, the name Wilhelm Furtwängler is slowly fading from view as we go further and further away from his passing, some seventy-one
New faces on the Jazz horizon this weekend. Daniel Garcia Diego and his sextet in concert at the International Jazzfestival in Münster, Germany and recorded on January 4th of this year by North German Radio. Spanish jazz pianist Daniel García is known for his musical blend of jazz and flamenco.
Deep dive into early the last century this weekend with one of those artists who were at the vanguard of what were becoming breakthroughs in race relations, not to mention a supremely gift artist in his own right. Alphonso Trent may not ring a whole lot of bells, unless you’re
