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
KROQ-FM – Mike Raphone – March 14, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Your town – L.A. And the weekend belongs to you. You have your fake i.d. and you’re going to punch a hole in the heart of Saturday night. You have choices – there’s the Strip and
Ikara Colt – live at Lowlands 2002 – Recorded by VPRO/3VOOR12 – August 23, 2002 – VPRO, Netherlands – Ikara Colt to end the week. A short-lived band, but intentionally so. The members were all Art-School students, naming their band after a fictional race horse, and it was pre-determined that
James McCord on Face The Nation – June 3, 1973 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – James McCord, one of the many figures involved in the Watergate break-in and subsequent coverup. A former CIA agent, who also worked for the FBI, he was an electronics expert and
The Beat – in session for John Peel – September 3, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – The Beat (or English Beat, depending on where you’re listening to this from) in session for John Peel, recorded on September 3, 1980 for BBC Radio 1. The Beat, along with Two-Tone label
Helen Love – in session for Steve Lamacq – June 22, 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – Eleven minutes of haywire, compliments of Helen Love, in a session for Steve Lamacq at BBC Radio 1 on June 22, 1998. Love, who claims she listens to nothing but Ramones records, has
Nelson Goerner – in recital – Concert given on November 13, 2016 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris – France Musique – Over to Paris again this week for a recital by Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner in a program of music of Bach, Beethoven and an encore by Debussy.
Magazine in session for John Peel – May 8, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Magazine tonight. Their third session for John Peel, recorded at the BBC on May 8, 1979. One of the seminal bands of the early New Wave movement, they were founded and fronted by ex-Buzzcocks founder
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Press Conference – March 26, 1975 – National Public Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in a press conference carried on radio and TV on March 26, 1975, told a room filled with reporters that the Middle East Peace
