– Radio Moscow – news and commentary March 3, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 3, 1947 – the world as it looked from Moscow in this day, with news and comment from Radio Moscow shortwave. Long before the days of internet and streaming, the only way you
-The Gaslight Anthem – Live At Area 4 – August 29, 2008 – BBC 6 Music – A blast of Americana at the Area 4 Festival in 2008. New Jersey’s own Gaslight Anthem increased the voltage in festival-goers seats at Area 4 in 2008. Bad news hit in 2015 when
Another historic rarity from the vaults of Swiss Radio. This week it’s the music of Othmar Schoeck with a 1948 performance of his violin concerto op. 21 with Stefi Geyer, violin and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by Volkmar Andreae. Othmar Schoeck was known mainly for his considerable output of
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McCoy Tyner for a Sunday – with his Big Band in concert from Detroit on September 1, 1991. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s McCoy Tyner, now an established artist in his own right, continued to expand at a high level, allowing him to record albums with different record labels, which
In the seemingly endless parade of loss, another one tonight – David Johanson. Founding member and lead singer of The New York Dolls, a band which proved to be a pivotal link between Glam and Punk. And then his many offshoot projects and persona, one being the irrepressable lounge lizard
Deep down you’re scared shitless. Had the plan you would take the year off and “discover America” – college would wait. Well, maybe not. They were waiting for you – General Hershey and everybody at the Westwood Draftboard. They wanted you. Maybe not you in particular – they wanted warm
– Laura Nyro – Live at Fillmore East – December 24, 1970 – soundboard recording – I don’t know where the rumor got started, or who started it, but there was a universal myth floating around for many years that Laura Nyro was terrible in concert – that she had
– OMD (Orchestra Maneuvers In The Dark) John Peel Sessions – BBC Radio 1 Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark (OMD) were initially lumped into the New Wave genre, but they were up to something else. As Synth-Rock was morphing into New Wave, OMD were laying the groundwork for what would
Busy day of war on all fronts for the last day of February. British armored forces late today stemmed a new Axis five pronged assault in northern Tunisia, coincident with American recapture of the railroad highway town of Kasserine to the southwest. (A Tunisia dispatch to the London Sunday Express
