An Interview With King Vidor – 1975 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry
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It’s September 1971 – It’s L.A. – It’s Seventeen- It’s Not Summer – It’s The Number 18 Bus.
Couldn’t wait for Summer to start – Had the whole thing planned out – Beach – Parties – Beach – road trip – More Beach – maybe love – Beach. And then you woke up – it became September – worse; it became Monday – even worse; it became six
Gong – Bremen 1974 – Past Daily Saturday Soundbooth
– Gong – live at Aula der Oberpostdirektion, Bremen – 1974 – NWR-Bremen Gong were (and still are, by all accounts) one of the more eclectic bands to come out of the Prog scene of the early 70s. And considering there was no shortage of eclectic Prog bands during that
Hungary: No Miracle. No Wonder. Just Drama – May 31, 1947
Subscribe and help keep us going: Become a Patron! A day fairly overflowing with drama, but for different reasons and in different parts of Planet Earth for this last day of May in 1947. Starting with news that the democratically elected Premier of Hungary, Ferenc Nagy (Pronounced: Fairenz Nahhjjh) had
Garbage – Leeds – 1996 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
Membership has percs, not to mention a ton of love: Become a Patron! – Garbage In Concert At Leeds Polytechnic – April 9, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – If the great French Existentialist writer Albert Camus were alive today, and asked what his favorite 90s band was,
HUAC: Damaging Reputations, Tarnishing Good Names, Impugning Morals – Nov. 2, 1947 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Coffee works wonders, especially for websites: Become a Patron! House Un-American Activities Hearings, otherwise known as HUAC and The famous Witch Hunts of 1947. With the Cold War ramping up to proportions edging on hysteria, it was Hollywood‘s turn under the Red Scare microscope. For two weeks, witnesses were summoned
A Shoreline Dream – Everything Turns – 2024 – Past Daily Lunch Break
Being a member helps a lot: Become a Patron! More new music on the horizon – today’s lunch is brought to you by A Shoreline Dream and their latest just-released single Everything Turns, a taste of coming attractions from their 8th album Whitelined, slated to drop on July 19th which
JFK: The Man Who Accompanied Jackie To Paris – May 30, 1961
On this May 30 in 1961, in what began during JFK‘s campaign as a promise to visit Paris and shore up sagging relations withFrench President DeGaulle, quickly became sidetracked when a proposed summit in Vienna with Nikita Khruschev was scheduled to happen around the same time. The French visit was
Throwing Muses – Cambridge – 1995 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
Goes sensational with coffee: – Throwing Muses – Live At Fort Apache Studios, Cambridge Mass. May 25, 1995 – WFNX-FM Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perennial 90s favorites Throwing Muses this morning. One of the reasons the 90s were a decade jammed with good music. Not only were
Antisemitism In The 1960s – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a member, it helps a lot: Become a Patron! Something has happened in America lately – call it the current political situation; here and in the Middle East – call it Social Media and the fact that nothing passes by unnoticed – call it In Search of the New