New faces this week. French saxophonist Mattieu Bordenave and his quartet, featuring Florian Weber on Piano, Patrice Moret on Bass and James Maddren on drums. All laid down at the Bavarian Radio Funkhaus in Munich on December 20th of last year. Much as we hear that Jazz is a lost
The Kills in concert this weekend. Recorded live this past November at La Gaite Lyrique in Paris by RTL Radio. Singer Alison Mosshart and Guitarist Jamie Hince both played in other bands before they formed The Kills in 2001. Mosshart was previously the vocalist of punk rock band Discount, while
– Top-40 Radio -Los Angeles – March 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was the Tuna Fiesta. It had to be. Nobody else ate it – they knew. You were starving. You missed Nutrition. You were building sets for the Talent Show. That’s what you get, taking Stage
Happydaze in session to kick off the year and this new (hopefully nightly) feature – recorded at the Edinburgh Festival this past August and featured on BBC Scotland’s Introducing series a few weeks later. Happydaze from Edinburgh, got started in 2020 after the breakups bands both vocalist Luke Bovill and
– CBS World News Roundup – January 5, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – On this day 24 years ago, the on-going tug-of-war between relatives of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban-American community in Miami and the Justice Department were approaching fever-pitch. On January 15,2000 U.S. Immigration officials determined the boy
As one of those people who hates saying “oh, you should have been there”, I have to say, if you have just discovered Genesis, and more importantly, Genesis during the Peter Gabriel period, you truly missed some of the best live performances to be given by a band in the
– NPR – America’s Town Meeting: Privacy – May 21, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Once the world entered the Age of Electricity, the Age Of Privacy became quickly antiquated. With all the technological advances designed to bring the world and its people closer, it also signified an
Although, as always is the case, much was going on in rest of the world, the news for this January 4th in 2005 was about relief and rescue efforts by governments worldwide in the wake of a devastating 9.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The Earthquake,
– Eurythmics live in Berlin – June 7, 1987 – RBB Berlin – Certainly, of all the bands qualifying as the one it wouldn’t have been the 80s without, Eurythmics has to go high on that list. Darlings of MTV at a time when MTV was getting started, massively popular
– Paul Badura-Skoda – in recital at Xavier University – February 5, 1978 – NPR Recital Hall – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Historic recitals this week. The legendary Paul Badura-Skoda, in concert at Xavier University on February 5, 1978 and captured for posterity by National Public Radio for the
