R.E.M. – In Concert at Milton Keynes Stadium – July 30, 1995 – Monster Tour – BBC Radio 1 – And Patrons get perks . . .seriously: Become a Patron! R.E.M. in concert this afternoon. From the 1995 UK Monster Tour, a set from their Milton Keynes Stadium gig and
February 17, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 17, 2000 – A lot going on – an election year, higher interest rates and the Pentagon defends its program to vaccinate troops against the Anthrax virus. Amid criticisms and a Congressional
Elbow – live at Reading Festival 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – Elbow to start off the week. At a concert recorded during the 2001 Reading Festival and preserved for posterity by the BBC. For all the complaints about the current state of affairs in music, the objects of derision
Even in the 60s, you had to make light of dire situations – or go insane. No secret, being around in the 1960s meant watching, listening and witnessing a lot of bad news. Conflicts, protests, riots, toppling of governments, the draining of human resources and a general feeling of suffocation
Damon Albarn for Monday Lunch – recorded at Gaite Lyrique in Paris on November 5, 2021 by Radio France International. On the occasion of the release of his then-latest album, “The Nearer The Fountain – More Pure The Stream Flows”, former Blur front-man Damon Albarn in a whole different, more
February 16, 1974 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 16, 1974 – a week focusing on a dissident and a hostage. The dissident in question was writer and outspoken Soviet critic Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose milestone novel The Gulag Archipelago not only won
Back over to Switzerland this weekend for music of Walther Geiser – his Fantasie Number 1 for String Orchestra, performed in this May 23, 1964 Radio Studio recording by The Radio Bern String Orchestra, Thjeo Hug, conductor and featuring Eberhard Glamsch and Eugen Huber, pianos. Wather Geiser was a violist,
– Sum and Substance – Interview with Jacques Lipchitz – March 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. An interview this week with legendary sculptor/painter Jacques Lipchitz. At the vanguard of the Cubist movement in the early part of the 20th century Lipchitz, along with colleagues Modigliani, Picasso and
What was it, thirty years? The waitress at Hal’s must’ve passed your table five or six times before she stopped and asked. You knew each other – more than that, you made promises – a long time ago. Same eyes – same ones you swore you’d never forget – same
– Bill Evans and Lee Konitz – Live at Philharmonie Hall, Berlin – October 29, 1965 A rather short one this week, but essential. Jazz legends Bill Evans and Lee Konitz, trading views on stage at Philharmonie Hall in Berlin on October 29, 1965. With drummer Alan Dawson and
