Become a Subscriber/Patreon/fan: Become a Patron! Music of Bela Bartok this Sunday night – Concerto For Orchestra, performed by the Southwest German Radio Symphony of Baden-Baden under the direction of Ernest Bour in this radio studio recording from SWF in Germany on May 5, 1962. Bela Bartók’s earliest mature compositions
Subscribe – Donate – Patronize: Become a Patron! The week ending May 4th in 1951 – a week with a lot of contrasts, most all of it captured through the new medium of tape recording and narrated by the legendary Edward R. Murrow for the weekly CBS Radio program Hear
Subscribe – Patronize – Kick in – Become a Patron! – Horace Silver – Live at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Horace Silver this week. A influential voice and a pioneer in the early Bop movement. A multi-faceted composer, arranger and band
Become a Member – a Patron – a Subscriber – a fan: Become a Patron! Okay – not what you had in mind, the week before Summer Vacation. You and your buddies; all four of you, huddled in an alley outside your girlfriend’s parents house, firing up a joint –
Become a Patron – a subscriber – a member – an all-around cool person: Become a Patron! IDLES this weekend – recorded just last year, July 10th to be exact, during the fabled Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. After spending eight years honing their live performances, IDLES released their debut
– Pussy Riot – Putin zazhigayet kostry – August 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pussy Riot – remember them? The Russian Punk band/Social movement who grabbed the world’s attention with a little ditty entitled Putin zazhigayet kostry (Putin Lights Fires)? And subsequently landed two of the band members
Every little bit helps: Become a Patron! – Mutual Broadcasting – Cedric Foster And The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 3, 1946 – A day where events in 1946 would play for months, if not decades after, especially ones where they appears to be no resolution, even
Coffee works and it works real good! – Icicle Works – live The Watershed, Bristol – May 25, 1985 – BBC Radio 1 – Ending up our week in the 80s with a set from Icicle Works, recorded at The Watershed in Bristol by BBC Radio for their In concert
Busy day in Britain as elections were getting ready and campaigns were down to their final day. British voters will choose tomorrow between one of the most conservative politicians to lead a major party there since the war and one whose rhetoric promises radical change. The conservative is Labor Prime
May 2, 1992 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 2, 1992. L.A. wakes up to relative calm, as the curfew and the presence of National Guard, as well as Army and Marine units patrolling the streets attempts to restore something resembling order. Many are
