Maisie Peters in concert from Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on March 21, 2024 – recorded by the venerable Triple J radio. When I ran a 2023 concert by Maisie Peters in December of that year, I made a prediction she’d become a household name in a very short time. Not
Anybody who thinks Los Angeles is a hotbed of corruption, bribes and backstabbing in 2025 has only to dive back a few decades in L.A.’s past to discover we ain’t as pure as the wind-driven snow our Chamber of Commerce makes us out to be. We were up to our
March 14, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 14, 2000 – Election 2000 – only three months into it and already Al Gore secured enough delegates to put him over the top. Only a week after Super Tuesday, the batch of
Anna Calvi – In Concert at Route du Rock – August 16, 2014 – RFI/FIP Ending out the week with a concert by Anna Calvi, recorded during the 2014 Route du Rock Festival on August 16, 2014. There was something very special about the 2014 season of Route du Rock.
– NBC – News On The Hour – for March 13, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Cold War climate was getting stirred up, this March 13th in 1961. News that West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt left a meeting with President Kennedy saying there would be no trouble
– Dead Kennedys – Live At Old Waldorf – October 25, 1979 ©Terry Hammer Archives – Taking a brief detour back to the 70s this morning with a concert by California’s own Dead Kennedys. Recorded live at Old Waldorf by the venerable Terry Hammer for KALX in Berkeley on October
Over to Paris this week for some down-to-earth music making by Orchestre National Il de France, led by Enrique Mazzola and featuring pianist Cedric Tiberghien in a concert from the Salle Pleyel in Paris and broadcast by Radio France Musique on November 7, 2014. Starting with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Number
In 1958 we were right in the middle of the Cold War – the threat of some form of confrontation between East and West was never far from people’s minds. The events prior to 1958 were signs stability anywhere in the world was tenuous at best. The situation in Hungary
News for this March 12th in 1948 had much to do with the recent events in Czechoslovakia and the sudden death of its President Jan Masaryk. Bad enough it was overtaken by Nazi Germany, starting with the Sudeten crisis of 1938, it was now coming under the influence of the
– Martha & The Muffins, live at Spize – Farmingdale, N.Y. – May 3,1983 – WLIR-FM Broadcast – Taking a small detour to the 80s tonight with a concert by Canada’s very own Martha & The Muffins. Recorded live by WLIR-FM at the club Spize in Farmdale New York. An
