– 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
– Meet The Pres – Russell Long – Feb. 28, 1965 – As questions began to raise regarding our role in Southeast Asia, it was still early on in the game to see just where this excursion was heading. There was still majority support for the Vietnam war. The sharp
– War On Drugs – live at Pustervik, Gothenburg. – May 19, 2014 – Sveriges Radio P3 – Kicking Friday in an orderly direction with War On Drugs, recorded at Pustervik in Gothenberg on May 19, 2014. The War on Drugs was formed in 2005. The band consists of Adam
Wallows tonight – recorded at Hordern Pavillion in Sydney on December 12, 2024 by the venerable Triple J. Figures – we have to go all the way down to Sydney, Australia to hear a local L.A. band. Wallows have been around since 2011, only then they were known as The
– CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + Hourly News – Feb. 27, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – News for this February 27th in 1981 had much to do with the visit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Washington and the veritable love-fest that blossomed between The
Jagwar Ma – live at Bråvalla Festival, Norrköping Festival – June 26, 2014 – Sveriges Radio P3 – Jagwar Ma to get Thursday rolling up to speed. Jagwar Ma made their presence known all over the place in 2014. Hitting the road in what was shaping up to be a
Pierre Boulez leads Orchestre National de France – October 29, 1981 – Radio France Musique Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) – When the world learned of the passing of legendary composer-conductor Pierre Boulez, at the age of 90, the airwaves and the internet filled with tributes and remembrances of one of the
News of the War on this February 26, 1943: Combined British and American forces threw Field Marshal Rommel’s tank columns into full retreat from the outskirts of Thala today, handing them their first defeat in Tunisia, and tonight Allied artillery lobbed tons of explosive steel Into German positions in the
