[/caption] – My Morning Jacket – in concert at Lollapalooza Berlin 2015 – Sept 14, 2015 – RBB Berlin – My Morning Jacket to kick off Throwback Thursday – in concert at the 2015 Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin on September 14th and preserved for posterity by RBB in Berlin. Just
Over to Madrid this week for a performance recorded and broadcast live on May 9, 2010 at the Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid featuring Orchestre Nacional de España, conducted by Josep Pons and featuring Franz Peter Zimmermann, violin – Jane Irwin, Soprano and Willard White, Baritone in music of Bela
CBS Radio Weekend Roundup – December 4, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of Seattle were awash in teargas and protestors as the WTO Ministerial Summit met to discuss trade negotiations which began on November 30. Instead, the WTO goings-on were eclipsed by
Wire – Live in Paris – May 2011 – RFI-FIP A repost from 9 years ago, with better sound this time. A concert by the timeless and legendary Wire, live in Paris (not sure the venue, but I think L’Olympia) and faithfully recorded and preserved by the venerable RFI and
Memorials tonight – recorded in session for John Kennedy’ program on Radio X on November 29th. MEMORIALS are an experimental pop band creating cosmic journeys into psych rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics, fired by the spirit of free jazz, drawing comparisons to Broadcast, Portishead and The Velvet Underground.
– NBC Radio News Of The World – December 3, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News about the Cold War overseas and discontent over Price Controls at home, for this December 3rd in 1947. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson predicted a dramatic rise in Meat prices for 1948 unless
ELO this morning. One of the most popular bands of the early 1970s, and certainly one of the most successful from that decade. The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) began life from the wreckage of The Move, which featured ELO founding members Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and drummer Bev Bevan. Roy
– The Shins – live at Enmore Theatre, Sydney – August 9, 2007 – Triple J Radio – Over to Australia this morning for a 2007 concert by The Shins, playing to a sold out (and pretty jazzed) audience as Enmore Theatre in Sydney and recorded for posterity by the
More historic favorites this weekend. Carl Schuricht leads Orchestre National de Radio France in this performance of Brahms Symphony Number 4 from a broadcast concert of March 24, 1959 and preserved for posterity by Radio France Musique. I understand now why some collectors of Classical Music don’t venture too much
Mark Twain 100th Birthday Dinner – November 19, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In case you forgot, November 19th was Mark Twain’s birthday. In 1935, it was a very big deal as that year was the centenary of his birth. So on November 19th, 1935 the Mark Twain
