– Paul Weller – in concert at The BBC Theatre – May 14, 2015 – BBC Radio 2 – Paul Weller this morning. Ever since his days as one-third of the Jam and one half of Style Council, Paul Weller as a solo performer has always been a favorite and
Alin Coen, live at the 2012 XRDS (Crossroads) Festival in Brussels, Belgium. Recorded January 30, 2012 by West German Radio. Making a racket in Europe, but very little on this side of the Atlantic, Alin Coen (and her band, sometimes referred to as The Alin Coen Band) have been primarily
Classic concert from Paris this week. The legendary Pierre Boulez leads Orchestre de Paris in a concert of music by Arnold Schönberg and Bela Bartok, with pianist Bertrand Chamayou in the Bartok 2nd Piano Concerto. Recorded at Salle Pleyel on December 21, 2011 by the veneral Radio France Musique.
– Meet The Press – guest: Dr. Linus Pauling – May 11, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – During the dark days of the 1950s, if you were concerned about the effects of nuclear testing on the atmosphere, were a peace activist and wanted to ban use of the
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
– 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
