Over to Germany this morning and the Serengeti Festival from 2014 for a set by Editors. Recorded and broadcast by West German Radio. Editors formed in 2002 in Birmingham. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band currently consists of Tom Smith (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Russell Leetch
Over to Belfast this week for a set by Polar Bolero from the 2024 Output Belfast Festival this past November. Polar Bolero, is a very new Alt Folk band led by multi-instrumentalists and songwriting duo Cahir McLaughlin and Pearse Donaghy, released their debut single, “Portrait.” earlier this year. It’s projected
During the Last week of December 1956, as the 85th Congress took up President resolution authorizing the use of force to keep the Communists out of the Middle East, the U.S. was fronted by an urgent world that was increasingly apparent the greater the distance from Capitol Hill. One sure
– CBS Hourly News – December 10, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News regarding the continuing odyssey of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and the tribulations and drama surrounding him. On this December 10th in 1981 it was news from Sakharov’s daughter-in-law Liza Alexeyeva, who said the KGB summoned
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,
