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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...
June 8, 2000 – Microsoft, rather than go along with the Justice Department’s breakup order, decided to fight the ruling. The Department of Justice issued a ruling, declaring Microsoft’s dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats...
Cat Power – in session for John Peel – June 18, 2000 -July 20, 2000 – Re-Broadcast December 13, 2000 – BBC Radio 1 – Cat Power in session for John Peel – two sessions; first recorded in June and the second in July of 2000, featuring seven songs in...
Become a Patron! January 13, 2000 – By all accounts, the new millennium Flu season was shaping up to being the worst in a long time. Flu and flu-related deaths were shooting up ever since the season officially got underway. Some cases were misdiagnosed and doctors were cautioned not to...
Alms for indigent historians?Become a Patron! December 30, 1999 – lots going on, the day before the last day of 1999. Terrorists on the loose were generating a goodly amount of panic among law enforcement and causing many to consider curtailing New Years Eve festivities out of fear Ahmen Ressem...
Sign up to be a Patron and get downloads for free: Become a Patron! November 7, 2000 – Election 2000 – Voting day – the day that would end up a lot differently than how it started. At the time of this broadcast, polls were still open, precincts reported a...
Patrons get lots of freebies for subscribing, honest!Become a Patron! October 30, 2000 – A view of the world and everything going on in it, this 30th of October in 2000. Starting with news of the Palestinian uprising in the Gaza area. The Israeli Knesset was scheduled to meet today...
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