
Category: Popular Culture


Film Music Of Toru Takemitsu – Kwaidan – 1964 – Past Daily Night At The Round Table
Toru Takemitsu – Soundtrack score to Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) – Film Music Of Toru Takemitsu (JVC-Japan) Another installment in the occasional series of milestone film scores by the Japanese Avant-Garde composer Toru Takemitsu. This one from 1964. The Horror anthology was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign

Nada Surf – Live At Warm Up 2018 – Murcia, Spain – Past Daily Soundbooth
Nada Surf – Live at Warm Up Festival 2018 – Murcia, Spain – May 7, 2018 – Radio Nacional España First off – great concert, strange soundboard mix (vocals are somewhere in the ozone and the bass is heavy) – Second; since it’s a live broadcast by way of RNE

4 By Christie Laume – Past Daily Nights At The Round Table: Rock Without Borders
4 By Christie Laume: L’adorable Femme des Neiges – Agathe Ou Christie – La Musique Et La Danse – Rouge Rouge – French Parolophone A taste of Yé-Yé tonight. For those of you who may not be all that familiar – here is her biography via the Ready, Steady Girls!

May 7, 1989 – Oliver North Trial: Not A Pleasure Cruise. Space Shuttle Atlantis: Second Time; A Go. Exxon Valdes: The Gift That Keeps Giving.
May 7, 1989 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 7, 1989 – A week full of wonderment. Starting with the verdict in the Col. Oliver North trial. North was on trial for his participation in the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal during

Duke Ellington Octet – Live At San Remo Festival 1964 – Past Daily Downbeat
Duke Ellington Octet – Live At San Remo Jazz Festival – March 22, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Duke Ellington this weekend. Live at The San Remo Jazz Festival in 1964. With his Octet, featuring Rolf Ericson, trumpet – Lawrence Brown, trombone – Johnny Hodges, alto sax –

If You Were A Teenager, And You Lived In New Orleans, And It Was May 1981, This Is What It Sounded Like
WNNR-AM – The Black Pope – May 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Just a hunch, but I would bet even money that, if you were born and raised in New Orleans and they did a DNA test, they would find musical notes mixed up in there. Music is

Public Enemy – Live At Phoenix Festival 1995 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Public Enemy – Live At Phoenix Festival 1995 – BBC Radio 1 Public Enemy in concert to end the week. A suspicious lack of Rap and Hip-hop on these pages over the years. Any particular reason? No – other than there are very few live/in-concert examples to choose from that


Four By Adrienne Pauly – 2006 – Past Daily Nights At The Roundtable: Rock Without Borders Edition
Adrienne Pauly – Four By Adrienne Pauly – 2006 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending out the weekend with a few tunes from one of my favorite artists; Adrienne Pauly. Adrienne Pauly is an artist/singer/writer/actor who disappeared shortly after her debut album came out in 2006. There was a