"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 24, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 24, 1994 – U.S. and Japanese negotiators reached a compromise in Washington discussions about Trade talks. The first round of negotiations collapsed in February were now looking for a restart with a common understanding on...
April 4, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1987 – Pope John Paul II visits Chile and gets a glimpse of the violence in the streets of Santiago while conducting an open air Mass. Demonstrators, protesting the oppressive military dictatorship of Augusto...
Herbert Blomstedt and The NHK Symphony in Concert – October 24, 2018 – Suntory Hall, Tokyo – NHK-FM – The legendary Herbert Blomtedt leading the NHK Symphony in music of Beethoven and Stenhammer during this Subscription concert on October 24, 2018 and recorded live from the stage at Suntory Hall...
March 27, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1978 – The 16-week old Coal Miners strike was looking to be at an end – for the most part. Most of the Soft Coal Miners went back to work, their nationwide walkout at...
The Monkees – live At Budokan Hall, Tokyo – October 4,1968 – NHK-FM, Tokyo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Monkees in concert this weekend. Recorded live at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on October 4, 1968 and broadcast by Japanese National Radio Network NHK-FM. Coming just after my taste...
Melt-Banana – In Concert At One Live, Brighton – John Peel, Host – October 30, 2003 – BBC Radio 1 – Melt-Banana, in concert at One Live in Brighton – recorded on October 30, 2003 for John Peel. Okay – those of you expecting a continuation of the vibe from...
January 21, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 21, 1995 – Your typical day of accidents, trials, civil war and the situation in Kobe, Japan where a 6.8 earthquake leveled great swaths of the city. But news for the day began with an...
Madame Chiang-Kai Shek – Talk From Shanghai – September 11, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became known as the Second Sino-Japanese War (the First, lasting from July 1894-April 1895), The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the...
Parquet Courts – Live At Fuji Rock Festival 2018 – July 27, 2018 – NHK-FM, Tokyo – Parquet Courts to end out the week of new, bubbling under, bands at or under the radar, bands on a need-to-know basis, bands you’ll most likely be hearing about in the future, if...
The Oral Cigarettes – In Concert at Inazuma Festival – September 16, 2017 – NHK-FM, Tokyo – In our seemingly endless trek around the globe to find out what people are shaking and popping fingers to, here is a sample from last years Inazuma Festival in Shiga Prefecture on September...
