"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
January 25, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 2000 – Weather and Primaries were making news on this day. Despite Weather Service computers saying otherwise, the Eastern Seaboard was hit with one of the fiercest blizzards in recent memory. In some areas,...
Cranebuilders tonight – in session for John Peel and recorded on June 13, 2003 for broadcast on June 24th. Cranebuilders formed in Liverpool in 2000 and take their name from the city’s former Music Shop Bell & Crane Music, where guitar player Simon Reynolds and singer/guitarist Tommy Roberts used to...
Amy Winhouse in concert tonight. Recorded live at The Hove Festival in Norway from 2007. Amy Winehouse had an astonishingly short career, having arrived and peaked within a period of less than five years, with the remaining years mired in drama and tragedy; ending in death in 2011 at 27...
November 16, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 16, 2000 – Election 2000 was still raging on. The vote was too close to call. It all boiled down to Florida. And as of this day, the Florida Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to...
20 years ago today it was the eve of Election 2000. Considered too close to call even the day before – polls were calling it even, giving George Bush a 4 point lead, Gore a 4 point lead – everyone put in a margin-of-error at 6 points. Poll workers were...
November 2, 2000 – it was coming down to the wire; the Bush-Gore election campaigns of 2000. Last minute sweeps throughout the country, hoarse pleas for votes – it was going to be a tight race and both camps were confident of victory, come Tuesday. But there was still a...
Midlake – live at Glastonbury Festival 2010 – June 26, 2010 BBC6 Music – Some Stateside Indie by way of Midlake in concert at Glastonbury 2010 – recorded and broadcast by BBC 6 Music on June 26, 2010. Midlake was formed in 1999 by a group of jazz students at...
The Beta Band – live in Paris – The Black Sessions – June 10, 2004 – Radio France International – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Beta Band in session/concert tonight – recorded live in Paris for The Black Sessions on June 10, 2004 by Radio France International. A puzzle...
Broadcast – In session for John Peel – recorded January 23 – aired February 9, 2000 – BBC Radio 1 – Broadcast, in their second session for John Peel tonight. Recorded on January 23, 2000 and aired on February 9th. Broadcast were formed in Birmingham in 1995 by Trish Keenan...
Keith Tippett and Mujicians – live at La Palma Club, Rome – Festival Controindicazioni – October 23, 2004 – RAI Radio Tre – If your blood runs cold at the thought of dissonant music. If experimental, Free-Form, Improvisation or any of those phrases denoting a decidedly not run-of-the-mill genre of...
