Coffee anyone? – Franz Ferdinand – Great Wide Open Festival 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Franz Ferdinand to end the week, in concert at the Great Wide Open Festival Summer of 2012 Holland, recorded by the Dutch radio channel VPRO. Franz Ferdinand formed in Glasgow in 2002. The
Become a Patron! As Convention season gets closer (and one can only guess what 2024 will be like), here is a sampler from another Republican Convention – seventy-two years ago – July 11,1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the acceptance speech for his party’s nomination on July 20, 1952. Eisenhower
News on this March 14th in 1948 came by way of commentary on the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe. Branded by some as an unwarranted blank check to the former European allies with no obligation to pay back, while looked on by others as competition with the Soviet Union
Become a Patron! – Primal Scream – live at BBC 6 Music Festival, Bristol 2016 – February 12, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Primal Scream headlined the first day of BBC 6 Music’s Music Festival in Bristol in 2016. In what wound up being one of the surprise hit
Become a Patron! The Philadelphia Orchestra -Wolfgang Sawallisch, guest Cond. Emil Gilels, Piano – December 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another classic concert this week. This time, it’s The Philadelphia Orchestra, guest conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch and featuring the legendary Emil Gilels in a performance of the “Emperor”
Become a Patron! Election ’88 was going full swing, this March 13th. Vice-President George Bush crushed his Republican opponents in the South Carolina GOP Primary the day before. As of this day, Bush has 705 delegates, while Dole was a distant second with 163. Robertson has 17. Meanwhile, a Newsweek
We exist because of subscribers like you: Become a Patron! Amy Winhouse in concert this morning. Recorded live at The Hove Festival in Norway from 2007. Amy Winehouse had an astonishingly short career, having arrived and peaked within a period of less than five years, with the remaining years mired
February of 1956 saw one of the most unusual periods of Solar Flare activity in history. The solar flare of 23 February 1956 and the resulting geophysical disturbance ranks as one of the most remarkable solar-terrestrial events of the twentieth century. It sparked many papers and has seldom been equalled.
Become a Patron! A week full of intrigues and showdowns, this one ending on March 12th. On Capitol Hill, John Tower fought a hard fight but lost when the Senate voted Thursday, 53-47, against confirming his nomination as Secretary of Defense. The Senate rejection by a vote of 53- 47
Tributes this morning – the news that Eric Carmen past away yesterday seems another in a long line of passings – one seemingly having no ending – but still . . . In case you forgot, or didn’t know in the first place – Eric Carmen, who was originally front
