The Clash – the only band that mattered. The Clash to get Monday rolling – recorded live at Shea Stadium on October 13, 1982 and broadcast on December 31st by NBC Radio’s The Source. Along with The Sex Pistols and The Damned, The Clash were some of the first examples
Leon Russell – Slipping Into Christmas – 1972 Leon Russell tonight. Okay – it’s that time of year again. And you are probably getting bombarded by Christmas music. Well . . .maybe not getting bombarded by the right kind of Christmas music. Like last year at my old site, I’ll
December 15, 2000 – World Briefing – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 15, 2000. A day where a lot was going on the world, and much of it, if you lived in the U.S., you missed. And as so often is the case, while we
Paul Sacher (L) – Willy Burkhard (R). -Two leading lights in Swiss Music Back to the Swiss Radio Archives tonight for a performance of Die Schwarze Spinne – Suite by Will Burkhard, performed by the Basel Radio Orchestra, conducted by Paul Sacher from a broadcast of May 16, 1955. Composer
A few words from Tom Wolfe this weekend, from the program Comment in 1971. In the 1960s and early 70s, people who weren’t initially drawn to literature or literary criticism found the writer/journalist Tom Wolfe a wordsmith whose work you couldn’t put down. At a time when literary boundaries were
The John Coltrane Quartet this Sunday – recorded live by Sveriges Radio at the Konserthuset in Stockholm on November 19, 1962. featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones, drums. An artist I don’t post nearly as much as I should, John Coltrane has been such
Further Evidence Eggnog Is Mayhem in a Dixie Cup. Eggnog – bane of Western Civilization. Happens like clockwork – Week before Christmas – party season. Tinsel – mistletoe – Santa wannabes – clever exchanges – love sometimes. And out comes Eggnog – somebody’s special concoction. Somebody whose name you can’t
Close Lobsters – In Concert at Ka-Bu Club, Hanau, West Germany – April 16, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection -Close Lobsters In concert this weekend. One of the Indie bands from Scotland who made a huge impression on U.S. audiences in the late 1980s. This one from their
Another session from Nantes, France tonight – Xameleon as recorded during a Sun Session – September 19, 2025 As the band themselves put it -Xameleon are Millennial Indie Pop. In French and English. Intimate songs for a world that’s too big. In a nutshell, the idea for the Xameleon musical project
The world, this day in 1966 was engulfed in one crisis or another. The Middle-East, no stranger to crises, was yet another conflict well on its way to reach boiling point by the time December was over. But to be fair, the Middle-East was not unique. We had the Soviet
