Doing a Global Stretch this Friday afternoon. Dutch nu-punk/neo-pop/neo-Indie band Indian Askin, recorded during the Best Kept Secret 2019 festival from June 2nd of that year. The brain behind the self-proclaimed “nu-punk band” is Amsterdam multi-instrumentalist and producer Nelson ‘Chino’ Ayala. In 2016, Indian Askin came into the Dutch indie
September 26, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 26, 1991 – a day which marked some 55 hours since Iraqi security forces detained a team of UN nuclear inspectors in a Baghdad parking lot. The team uncovered what was called a “goldmine” of
Over to Madrid tonight for a session by Irish Indie/Alternative band Delorentos, recorded for Los Conciertos de Radio 3 on June 12, 2012. Delorentos are a Dublin-based band, formed in 2005. They consist of Rónan Yourell (vocals, guitar, piano), Kieran McGuinness (vocals, guitar), Níal Conlan (bass, backing vocals) and Ross McCormick (drums, backing
In 1937 President Roosevelt proposed to congress a plan to inject “new blood” into the supreme court and lower federal courts and to change procedure. For each federal judge past 70 who refused to retire, an additional judge would be appointed. If the six justices of the supreme court now.
XX in concert at Glastonbury 2017 for this lunchtime Thursday – recorded from the Pyramid stage by the venerable BBC 6 Music on June 23, 2017. The xx are from Wandsworth, London, formed in 2005. The band consists of Romy Madley Croft (guitar, vocals), Oliver Sim (bass guitar, vocals), Jamie Smith, also known as Jamie xx (beats, MPC, record production),
Sixty-four years ago today, President John F. Kennedy addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations: President Kennedy: We meet in an hour of grief and challenge. Dag Hammarskjold is dead. But the United Nations lives. His tragedy is deep in our hearts, but the task for which he died
Back to the U.S. this week for a concert featuring the Cincinnati Symphony under its Music Director Michael Gielen in a program of music by Bach, Schoenberg and Brahms. Broadcast on December 17, 1980 via National Public Radio. The first half of the concert is given over to two Bach
Even though we were still at the beginning stages of the Cold War (at the time we didn’t know it was going to last as long as it did), we were hopeful that cooler heads prevailed and those who had experienced enough of the war, now three years old, were
Changing it up a bit this afternoon. A set from the 2024 Glastonbury festival by rising star Nigerian Singer-Songwriter Ayra Starr, recorded by BBC 6 Music on June 29, 2024. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say: Sarah Oyinkansola Aderibigbe , known professionally as Ayra Starr, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. She achieved mainstream
– CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land belonging to Czechoslovakia. The Munich crisis over the Sudetenland, as it was known, was slowly turning into
