Continuing our quasi-mind melting morning calisthenics with a Route du Rock performance by Ratatat from 2015. In case you’ve been (like me) overwhelmed with the sheer deluge of music coming in every direction for the past 15 or so years, there’s a chance Ratatat might have slipped under your radar.
Over to Scotland tonight for a session by Indoor Foxes via BBC Scotland’s Introducing program – broadcast live and recorded on December 6th. In what began life as a Bedroom project, Indoor Foxes (aka: Martha Barr) has evolved into one of the more compelling new artists on the current scene.
With the extraordinary events taking place in Syria the past few days, many have questioned; now that Assad is gone, who is to replace him? It’s been a point of concern and worry to many who cite the events in Iran in 1979 as the possible harbinger of things to
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Fuzzy Grass from this year’s Freak Valley Festival in Germany – recorded on July 15 by RBB in Berlin. Starting off the week with a dose of Psych from France by way of Fuzzy Grass. Fuzzy Grass (as the name might suggest) are French Psychedelia from Toulouse that got started
Legendary German violinist Gerhard Taschner with conductor Gustav König and the Hessian Radio Symphony in a broadcast performance of Hans Pfitzner’s Violin Concerto – recorded on April 28, 1955. The Noted Musicologist and author Nicholas Slonimsky has this to say about Hans Pfitzner: Pfitzner, Hans (Erich), eminent German composer, conductor,
– Sarah Vaughan – Live At Birdland – August 21, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Can’t think of a better Sunday than spending it listening to the cool and sumptuous sounds of Sarah Vaughan. This club date, via the Stars Of Jazz series which aired each Tuesday night
New bands on the horizon for a Saturday night – Sunspells in session for John Kennedy’s X-Posure program over Radio X, recorded earlier today live. SUNSPELLS are Oliver Taylor, Edward Taylor, Aaron Burke and Marley Chambers. The Art Rockers from Hertfordshire, England have a bombastic, charming energy, that they pair
– Steve Allen Show – farewell to L.A. – KNX-CBS Radio – Dec. 6-7, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Steve Allen, before his pioneering days as host of the very first Tonight Show on Television, was one of the mainstays of local radio in Southern California in the
You were an idiot. You could ask anyone – they’d say the same thing; you were an idiot. Big beaming letters – smack in the middle your forehead. Even your English teacher said you suffered from “unreal expectations”. You didn’t pay attention. You stared off into space – stared out
