Become a Patron! I originally ran this in 2014, and at the time was going to post it on Saturday as a sort of Weekend Pop Chronicles feature, but since today is a holiday anyway, I thought I would run it now. Since Cinco de Mayo is more celebrated here
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – February 28, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1997 (also a Friday) had much to do with the subject of Teen smoking. A new law, starting this day, was slated to
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Cesar Chavez: The California Grape Boycott – 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those names certainly synonymous with political and human rights movements of the 1960s, I was reminded that 2015 will mark the 50th year
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR – President Clinton Statement on passage of NAFTA – November 18, 1993 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Amid a storm of controversy, with sides divided on whether or not it is ultimately a good thing, January marks the 20th anniversary
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ely Guerra – Live in Mexico City – May 8, 2013 Over to Mexico City tonight for a concert by two-time Grammy nominee and Grammy winner for 2011 Ely Guerra. Oh . . . haven’t heard of her? Well for starts,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lost Acapulco In Session at RNE Radio 3, Madrid – October 3, 2013 Over to Madrid by way of Mexico for a session at RNE Radio 3 by Mexican Surf-Cult band Lost Acupulco. The spirit of Dick Dale lives, and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ella y El Muerto – live at Terra Music – August 9, 2013 Back over to Mexico City tonight for a studio concert by Ella y El Muerto (She and The Dead – according to Google Translate, but . . .
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Instituto Mexicano del Sonido – Live At Terra Music Festival – August 28, 2013 Over to Mexico City tonight for a concert by Instituto Mexicano del Sonido (Mexican Institute of Sound), recorded on August 28th of this year. Around since 2001,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Slight change of pace tonight. Pop with Indie leanings from Mexico City by way of Madrid in the form of Natalia Lafourcade. Recorded in session for the Conciertos de Radio 3 program on RNE Radio 3 in Madid, May 17,
