August 7, 1945 – Hiroshima: Once, A Bright And Vibrant City
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Tom Smothers Has A Word Or Two About Censorship – 1969 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room.
Tom Smothers – Lecture at The Commonwealth Club of California – August 22, 1969 – It was a while ago, fifty-seven years to be exact. Seems trivial now but at the time it was one more bone of contention in a contentious decade that seemed to spread over every aspect
Oasis – Reunion Tour 2025 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Oasis in concert. A compilation of bits from each of the gigs they did comprising the 2025 Reunion tour. After so many false starts – rumors that weren’t true and speculation, an Oasis reunion finally happened. After years of back and forth and denials along with olive branches, the Gallagher
August 6, 1965 – LBJ Signs The Voting Rights Act
LBJ- Signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – August 6, 1965 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1965 – LBJ signs into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Johnson: Wednesday I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers
Vladimir Ashkenazy, William Steinberg, The L.A. Phil. Music Of Wagner, Borodin And Rachmaninoff – 1968 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
L.A. Phil – Steinberg-Ashkenazy – Hollywood Bowl – July 30 1968 – Another classic, lost concert this week. A never-before-heard Hollywood Bowl performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, guest conducted by William Steinberg and featuring the Russian sensation, Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy in a performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano
Giant Rooks – Landgraaf – 2026 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Giant Rooks this afternoon. Recorded at a recent appearance at Pinkpop, this past June21st and preserved for posterity by VPRO. Giant Rooks are from Hamm, Germany and got started in 2014. In 2019, they won the 1Live Krone Award and the Preis für Popkultur in the months following the release of their EP Wild Stare. Their debut album Rookery was released
August 5, 1962 – Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle
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When Birth Control Was Illegal – 1961 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
The Open Mind – Birth Control – November 15, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For those of you wondering the significance of the latest SCOTUS proposal/ruling on overturning Roe v. Wade and the issue of legal abortion in the U.S., looking at the history of what got us
Cabaret Voltaire – Brussels – 2026 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Cabaret Voltaire this afternoon – one of the premier Experimental bands and guiding lights since the late ’70s, throughout the 80’s and beyond – recorded in concert at Ancienne Belguique in Brussels on June 12 of this year. In honor of the band, the Ancienne Belguiqe website ran this bio
August 4, 1964 – A Tonkin State Of Mind – LBJ Addresses Gulf Of Tonkin Indicent
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