Delivery – when your band gets started during COVID, you know you’re on to something. Delivery tonight – recorded at the Great Wide Open Festival on Vieland Island in the Netherlands on September 26, 2025. Both broadening and defying the sounds of their first two 7” releases, Delivery continue their
New Delhi Car bomb – Started as a random act – soon determined to be a terrorist bombing. Breaking news and an unfolding story from India taking place in New Delhi yesterday and earlier today. A car, packed with explosives blew up in the Red Fort area of New Delhi,
As a reminder that November 11th was originally designated Armistice Day, because that was the day the fighting stopped in World War 1. At the time, it was the costliest, most horrific war in recorded history – one that achieved the bitter irony of being called “the war to end
XTC – Got the 80s ready for a wild ride. XTC for a Tuesday Lunch break – recorded at the legendary Hammersmith Palais in London on December 22, 1980 and broadcast by BBC Radio 1 Can’t imagine what the 80s would have sounded like had XTC not shown up. Punk
– NBC Radio – Launch of Gemini 12 – November 11, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gemini 12 was the last of the Gemini space flights and the 18th manned American spaceflight since the X-15 spaceflights until Apollo 7 made its debut almost 2 years later. Its objective
Pale Blue Eyes – A marriage of two stylistic perspectives. And they weren’t kidding. Pale Blue Eyes tonight – recorded September 14, 2024 in the studios of VPRO 3voor12 in Amsterdam. From their website: Born of a cross-pollination between Totnes and Sheffield, Pale Blue Eyes have been steadily grafting over
What’s Happening To America: Education – Aug. 16, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The American classroom. In the 1960s it was a place of growing discontent. The school was ground zero for protest; about the war, about racial inequality, about the quality of education, about the growing gap
4th Greatest Dance Band of all time – and that says a lot. Faithless in concert from earlier this year at Concerts At Sea in Zeeland, Netherlands on June 25th. Faithless formed in 1995, with its core original members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. During the band’s initial period of success, Sister Bliss
November 10, 2000 – CBS News On The Hour – Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 10, 2000 – Election 2000 – not that long ago that people have forgotten, but long enough ago to serve as a reminder that our electoral system has been prone to
John Sebastian – Cambridge Folk Festival 1981 Since the archives is fairly bulging with posts we’ve done 10-15 years ago, I thought it might be a good idea to stop having them collect dust and reissue some of them in case you missed them the first time. So this one
