Every little bit helps . . . a lot: Become a Patron! – Swedish Radio Symphony – Sixten Ehrling, Cond – Shura Cherkassky, piano – BBC Proms – September 12, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More history this week. From the 1985 BBC Proms festival, a performance by
Coffee works: Become a Patron! First Army tanks and Allied infantry battled within six and a half miles of Cologne Wednesday night after throwing three bridgeheads across the Erft river. Only flat plains lay ahead to the great city on the Rhine. Wide Ninth Army swept through disordered German resistance
Coffee works and it works real good: – REM – In Concert from Dortmund, Germany – October 2, 1985 – WDR Rockpalast – REM in the early days was the proverbial breath of fresh air. They represented that slice of Rock which was so quintessentially American that it established Athens,
Everything helps: Become a Patron! Much politicking and much wrangling on Capitol Hill and red flag warnings over Mogadishu this February 27, 1995. The GOP-majority Congress led by Newt Gingrich has said they will pass this entire legislation in the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. About two weeks
Become a Patron! Over to BBC 6 Music this afternoon for a session by Brooklyn-based Indie/Psych-rock maven Sam Evian, live in-studio and recorded for Marc Riley on February 24th. Sam Griffin Owens, who is known professionally as Sam Evian, has released three full-length albums and one 7″ single. In 2016,
Become a Patron! – NBC Radio – News Of The World – February 27, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this February day in 1945 was full of optimism and momentum. The Western front was now pushing East toward the Rhine River with good reports coming in
Become a Patron! – The Style Council – Live at De Meerveert, Amsterdam – October 31, 1983 – VPRO – Tuesday with The Style Council, recorded live at De Meerveert in Amsterdam on October 31, 1983 and preserved for posterity by VPRO in Hilversum. In case you forgot, or didn’t
Every little bit helps: Become a Patron! News for this day, at least in America, was entirely devoted to reports on the Gulf War and the progress being made as allied forces entered Kuwait. The official Kuwait News Agency claimed this day that the Iraqi occupation forces had evacuated Kuwait
Goes well with lunch: New faces on the scene. Pushpin got started in 2020 and are self-described as “London’s finest purveyors of infectious wonky-pop noise”. This session, their first-ever radio session, recorded on September 23, 2023 at Radio for John Kennedy’s Ex-Posure program gives some clue as to the somewhat
Subscribing works wonders: Become a Patron! – Today With Mrs. Roosevelt – Feb. 26, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1950, just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War and during the steady boil of the Cold War, the horserace for Hearts and Minds took us to
