Elbow – live at Reading Festival 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – Elbow to start off the week. At a concert recorded during the 2001 Reading Festival and preserved for posterity by the BBC. For all the complaints about the current state of affairs in music, the objects of derision
Parquet Courts – Live At Fuji Rock Festival 2018 – July 27, 2018 – NHK-FM, Tokyo – Parquet Courts in concert for a Friday Jr. Lunchroom. Parquet Courts are an American Indie band from New York. Together since 2010 and have 7 albums out. Band members Andrew Savage and Austin
Echo & The Bunnymen – In session for Marc Riley – October 8, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – One of the seminal bands of the Post-Punk/Indie movement of the early 80s, Echo & The Bunnymen are still with us (after a layoff of several years) and still making wonderful
Lightning Seeds – Glastonbury 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – For Friday Jr. Lunch, it’s Lightning Seeds, recorded during their appearance at the 1998 festival. The Lightning Seeds are Liverpool, they formed in 1989 by Ian Broudie (vocals, guitar, producer), formerly of the band Big in Japan. Originally a studio-based
Crashland – Live at Cardiff University – 2000 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Crashland to put Tuesday to bed. In concert from Cardiff University and recorded by the venerable BBC in 2000. Only together a relatively short time, they have achieved that somewhat cynical assessment of being Criminally
Department S – In Concert – Dec. 19, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Department S in concert tonight, recorded by BBC Radio 1 for their In Concert series on December 19, 1981. Department S are a British post-punk/new wave band formed in 1980, who took their name from the
One of the most popular and influential bands of the Techno era of the 1980s was a trio from Japan known as The Yellow Magic Orchestra, or YMO for short. Having blazed a trail for electro-Pop, J-Pop, and Hip-Hop during their initial phase, YMO went on to become an
Inspiral Carpets – in session for John Peel – June 5, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – Inspiral Carpets tonight. From a session recorded for John Peel by BBC Radio 1 on June 5, 1990. Inspiral Carpets, even though they began life as a quasi Punk/Garage band, became heavily involved
Cornelius – In concert At Sónor Festival, Barcelona, Spain – June 22, 2018 – RNE Radio 3 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Cornelius in concert at Sónor Festival, Barcelona and recorded on June 22, 2018 by Radio Nacional España. Cornelius is the moniker of Keigo Oyamada, one of
Cloud Nothings – in concert at London Calling 2012 – Nov. 2, 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Cloud Nothings for Thursday lunch. In concert at the legendary London Calling Festival in 2012 and recorded on November 2nd of that year. In case you don’t know – Cloud Nothings
