"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Ultravox – Live At The Old Waldorf – March 13, 1979 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – Most people think of Ultravox from the large-scale/new-romantic/sonically epic songs and the first of a string high-budget/high-concept videos to appear on that newly…
– Tasavallan Presidentti – Live At Ruisrock Festival, Turku Finland – August 22, 1970 – YLE Radio Finland – As Progressive Rock started to gain popularity, the message quickly spread throughout the world. Coupled with several companies actively engaged in…
– Pete Brown & Piblokto – Live in Paris – 1970 – RTL – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news today of the passing of Pete Brown, a task which seems to be happening on a daily…
– Blossom Toes – In Session at Bouton Rouge – February 10, 1968 – We have that small, dedicated, somewhat loopy society of individuals known as The Record Collectors to thank for rescuing what has been, up to now, one…
– Working Week – live at Glastonbury 1985 – BBC Radio 1- Working Week tonight. From their concert at Glastonbury in 1985, recorded by the ever-present-always-amazing BBC Radio 1. Working Week were one of the first British Jazz/Pop/Funk/New Wave conglomerations…
Hands And Feet – In Session For John Peel – June 9, 1972 – BBC Radio 1 – A taste of British Country-Rock tonight by way of Heads, Hands and Feet – one of the critically acclaimed, yet short-lived bands…
At the risk of turning this week’s evening post into an homage to “those who left too early”, I nonetheless ran across this very rare Tim Buckley club date from May 1975, recorded weeks before his untimely death from a…
Editors Note: This post was originally written shortly after the terrorist attack on Le Bataclan in Paris in 2015. As a reminder that Le Bataclan in Paris, now the site of infamy and terror was, prior to last week, the…
Dutch psych-meister Jacco Gardner tonight, in a concert recorded during the 2013 London Calling Festival, held at The Paradiso in Amsterdam and faithfully recorded by VPRO in Hilversum. A little bio sampler via Tim Sendra at AllMusic: Dutch-born psychedelic explorer…
Described in the European press as “one of Americas best kept secrets”, Smashing Orange were a band from Wilmington Delaware, who landed in the UK and became part of the wave of Shoegaze bands of the early 1990s. Sadly, the…