Crocodiles to put some high-octane noise in your lunch this afternoon. Recorded at the 2010 Primavera Sound Festival on May 28, 2010 by the venerable RNE Radio 3 in Madrid. As is always the case, we have to go some 5,000 miles to hear a band that resides less than
– ABC Radio Hourly News – 6:00 am – September 10, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 30 years ago was probably typical of many September 10ths – labor disputes in Detroit, with newspaper workers on Strike and tensions ramping up with Police. On this
Talking Heads – live in Boston 1977 (disputed venue – disputed date – via undisputed FM broadcast) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Talking Heads this afternoon. I realize I’ve been spending a goodly amount of the past several weeks traipsing all over the world, running sessions and concerts from
– News reports and joint Press conference – Bush-Gorbachev Helsinki Conference – Sept. 9, 1990 – As the crisis in the middle east continued to heat up and as the U.S. was continuing to drum up support for an armed confrontation with Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the fourth summit conference
Since 1948 marked an election year, it also marked a more pronounced Cold War existing between the West and the Soviet Union to the East. And with the Cold War and the constant threat of some confrontation sooner rather than later, the questions arose about what Democracy was and why
Something to listen to when you have to eat fast – a set from Mission Of Burma at the 2010 Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona on May 28, 2010. Mission of Burma was an American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group formed in 1979 with Roger Miller on guitar,
– CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 8, 1998 – A busy news day. Beginning with a post-Labor Day Holiday feeding frenzy on Wall Street. Triggered by rumors of a reduction in interest rates, the dow rose an astonishing 289 points at opening bell, and
Once again over to Switzerland for another deep-dive into the extensive Archives of Swiss Radio. This weekend it’s the music of Klaus Cornell, as performed by the Radio Symphony of Beromünster led by the composer. Isekar, suite for Orchestra composed in 1961 and given here in a broadcast performance on
– Conversations With Artie Shaw – Guest: John Simon – Feb. 29, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Critics – an alternately loved and despised lot, viewed by some as a combination of giddy swooning fan and stone-faced curmudgeon. The critic, throughout history has been a starmaker and icon-basher.
Sunday with The Creative Music Universe of Henry Threadgill from the Berlin Jazzfest on November 4, 2023 and captured for posterity by North German Radio Kultur. For those of you just discovering Henry Threadgill, here’s the bio from his webpage to get you up to speed: Hailed by the New
