"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Become a Patron! From the somewhat addled mind of Gordon Skene: You have options – and both of them are just below the photo. As you know, we were hot in the midst of our Annual Past Daily Fundraiser almost two weeks ago – doing our yearly stump for support...
As most of you know our site was, not necessarily hacked, but somehow went crazy. First puling us off-line and then crashing our server. Basically, in the midst of everything, we were interrupted. It has been a week of pandemonium – phone calls back and forth to hosts – lots...
A message from Gordon Skene And Past Daily The download version. Become a Patron! In lieu of a fundraiser this year, I have decided to give Patreon a try. If you’ve heard my little pitch (hit the player), then you know what we’re up to. I am appealing to you...
Sparklehorse – Live at La Cigale, Paris – October 15, 2001 – Radio France – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sparklehorse, in concert at La Cigale in Paris and recorded by Radio France on October 15, 2001. A tragic figure, whose suicide in 2010 changed the conversation from “what is”...
Dear Fans and Amazing Friends: In case you didn’t notice, our Past Daily Fall Fundraiser has been over a couple weeks now. It’s been crazy with a lot going on seemingly everywhere, but I wanted to reach out to everyone who donated time, money and energy and to sincerely thank...
Click here to Contribute: Past Daily’s Fall Fundraiser We’re only hours away – hours away from reaching our goal and hours away from ending our annual Past Daily Fall Fundraiser – our appeal to you each year to chip in what you can in order for us to keep history...
Our Story: Click on the link here to chip in what you can: Past Daily’s Fall Fundraiser Not going to sugarcoat this thing – we need to raise $5,000 within the next 24 hours. We’ve had a LOT of support the past two weeks, but we’re still coming up short. Those of...
Click here:Past Daily’s Fall Fundraiser – contribution button Have we no shame? Resorting to cheap theatrics in order to get people to chip in? Yeah, well . . . . A casual reminder, to those of you still on the fence, that we’re 4 days away from ending our annual...
Coffee used to be 10 cents. It was hot and strong and came in one flavor; coffee. That was a long time ago – another lifetime. Now, coffee comes in a galaxy of flavors and combinations – and you would be hard pressed to leave the average Starbucks, Peet’s or...
KHJ – The Real Don Steele – circa Feb. 22, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were growing up in L.A. in the 1960s, one of the great rituals of listening to Top-40 radio was being the first kid on your block to hear the latest single...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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