– The Good, The Bad & The Queen – live at St. Denis – 2007 – RFI/Le Mouv – Never really intended to be a band, but a concept album calling itself The Good, The Bad & The Queen, the side-project of Blur‘s Damon Albarn became an unexpected and substantial
(Editors Note: I originally ran this post in 2017 – upon hearing of the passing of Terry Reid, I could think of no better tribute than to leave this post as-is and present it as I first ran it in March of that year. What an astonishing artist we lost
The Civil Rights Movement in America, although simmering since the Reconstruction days after the Civil War was taking center stage, almost one hundred years later. Throughout the 1950s, the movement grew as did the backlash. By the 1960s it was an unstoppable revolution, led by an increasing number of dedicated
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– Elbow – In Concert At Pinkpop 2015 – June 12, 2015 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Elbow to get Tuesday running in an orderly and optimistic fashion. From the prestigious and long-running Pinkpop Festival in The Netherlands, recorded on June 12, 2015 by Radio Nederland. Heading up the bill for that Friday
Starting off the week with an In Concert appearance from Pilot – recorded for BBC Radio 1 on June 21, 1975. Fifty years ago, Pilot had a huge hit, Magic which to many earned them the unlikely label of “one hit wonders” – at least in the U.S. Cut to
August 4, 1979 – dead in the middle of Summer and the Dog Days, especially the East Coast. Sticky humid days, sticky humid nights. Weatherman promising a “cooling trend” that never happens. Summer in Manhattan – August 4th, 1979 – it was a Saturday. The world kept spinning and news
– CBS World News Roundup – August 4, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day where activity of all sorts was on the rise – August 4th in 1978. The good news was a surprise surge in the Stock Market, spreading a wave of giddy over Wall Street.
– Sharon van Etten – live at Glastonbury 2015 – June 28, 2015 – BBC6 Music – It was a little over ten years ago when I first ran across Sharon van Etten by way of a session for BBC 6 Music‘s Lauren Laverne. I was instantly taken by the
Putting the weekend to bed and getting ready for what will most likely be another insane week with a set from Flavien Berger and La Brume, in concert at Le Bataclan in Paris – recorded on June 15 of this year by Radio France International. Here is RFI’s notes regarding
