Dawn Of The Replicants – John Peel Session – August 12, 1997 + Rule The Roost 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Dawn Of The Replicants to end the week. A band you could consider criminally overlooked, but since they are still very much together, the jury is still out
April 7, 1983 -CBS Radio News + Shuttle Challenger Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1983 – A day for the NASA history books. The Shuttle Challenger staged the first walk in space made by an American team in over a decade happened on this
King Adora – live at Birmingham Academy – October 31, 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – King Adora in concert tonight. Formed in Birmingham, England in 1998, King Adora was primarily a hard rock and Indie band, but were going in the direction of a Glam Revival. Because of that,
Jean-Yves Thiubaudet with Semyon Bychkov and Orchestre National de France – December 15, 2016 – Radio France Musique – Staying in Paris this week for a concert featuring the legendary and much-talked-about Jean-Yves Thibaudet with Semyon Bychkov leading Orchestre National de France in a program of music by Aram Khachaturian,
April 5, 1981 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1981 – The end of a roller-coaster week. President Reagan, surviving an assassination attempt from John Hinckley, was on the mend and was up and around, joking with reporters and White House staffers. Not so
Sonic Youth – in concert at Brixton Academy – John Peel Concert – Recorded December 14,1992 – Broadcast January 22, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Sonic Youth tonight. One of the first American Noise Rock bands, Sonic Youth got started in 1981. Founded by Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon,
schis April 4, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1978 – A day where the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East took a minor backseat to the situation at the Academy Awards and the Oscars the night before. Beginning with news of the
Essential Logic – in session for John Peel – Feb. 6, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Essential Logic tonight, featuring former X-Ray Spex saxophonist Lora Logic. This was the band she formed just after leaving Spex in 1978 and this is their first and only session listed as Essential
The Shins – in concert at the BBC 6 Music Festival 2017 – March 25, 2017 – BBC 6 Music – The Shins are getting ready to hit the road this Spring and Summer, promoting a new album Heartworms, their first in 5 years, came out last month and
Tony Scott Quartet – live at Prague International Jazz Festival – Nov. 22, 1968 – Czech Radio Tony Scott this weekend. One of the more underrated and overlooked Jazz clarinetists, Scott was a major practitioner of Cool School Jazz. After achieving considerable notice via Downbeat magazine (awarding him Downbeat Critics
