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Kikagaku Moyo – live at Berlin Desertfest – May 4, 2019 – If you’ve ever wondered what the state of Psychedelia is in the world, head over to Tokyo where you will find it is alive and well and thriving. Kikagaku Moyo has been around since 2012 and have gotten...
Editors have so far released two platinum studio albums, and six in total, with several million combined sales. Their debut album The Back Room was released in 2005. It contained the hits “Munich” and “Blood” and the following year received a Mercury Prize nomination. Their follow-up album An End Has...
Miles Kane tonight, in concert at Pinkpop from June 15,2013. Kane has been racing up the charts recently with the anthem-like single Don’t Forget Who You Are, his first big success since the breakup of his former band The Rascals (no relation to the 60s group) in 2009 and taking...
Staying with the 90s again this week and one of the less-celebrated bands of the Brit-Pop Invasion, Elastica. In mid-1992, ex-Suede band members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided to form a group. By the autumn of that year, bassist Annie Holland and guitarist Donna Matthews were added. After initially...
The Great Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. From the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival and rebroadcast some years later. Kirk’s musical career spans from 1955 until his death in 1977. He preferred to lead his own bands and rarely performed as a sideman, although he did record with arranger Quincy Jones,...
Not to be confused with the UK Psych band of the same name, the U.S. Kaleidoscope were one of the more eclectic assemblages of musicians ever to hit the stage in the 1960s. Incorporating a wild array of Middle Eastern instruments and freely tossing World Beat rhythms into their songs...
A band very much around, but in the 1980s they were billed as America’s First Ska band. The Untouchables were from Los Angeles and had come along just at the time the Ska crazy (i.e. The Specials, Selecter, Madness etc. etc.) were hitting the charts in the UK and creating...
– Hozier – live at T In The Park 2015 – July 10, 2015 – BBC Scotland – Another week, another festival. This one from Perthshire, Scotland – T In The Park has been around since 1994 and has been voted most popular Major Festival in 2005 and 2006 and...
Babyshambles – live at Glastonbury 2005 – June 24, 2005 – BBC 6 Music – Babyshambles, live at Glastonbury 2005 to kick off the week. Recorded by the BBC on June 24, 2005 and aired on BBC 6 Music. Babyshambles was formed by Pete Doherty (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) during...
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band – live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival – June 30, 1984 – Radio Canada-Montreal. Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, live at the 1984 Montreal Jazz Festival and preserved for posterity by Radio Canada – Montreal on June 30, 1984. Before...
