Jessie Ware – Live at Sveriges Radio P3 – February 28, 2013 This morning a look back at some of the artists who did Glastonbury proud this year. Jessie Ware was a standout during the Saturday portion of the festival, so I thought I would dig a bit into the
Festival season is officially kicking off this weekend – Glastonbury promises their usual embarrassment of riches and the rest of Europe will follow suit. Like everything else, it promises to be a roller-coaster festival season. This morning it’s history by way of an early live concert from Queen. Having released
– Dewey-Stassen Debate – 1948 Presidential Election; Republican Ticket – May 17, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When former New York Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Thomas E-Dewey debated former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen during the Republican Presidential primaries of 1948, it was something new that hadn’t been
– CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – June 27, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 27th, twenty-four years ago was somber and pessimistic on a number of levels. The Global AIDS crisis had gone from bad to worse, with a bleak prognosis that entire
– Tim Burgess – Live At Glastonbury 2013 – BBC 6 Music – As someone who has been a huge fan of The Charlatans since first hearing them in 1990, hearing founding member and lead singer Tim Burgess’ solo career, I’m struck at how intact the energy and eloquent the
– Oasis – Live At Wolverhampton Civic Hall – 1994 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Middle of the week with Oasis, one of those bands who indelibly defined the 1990s, and solidified what became the 2nd British invasion and epitomized what came to be known as Brit-Pop. Starting
– Michael Jackson death – Farrah Fawcett death – June 25, 2009 – Further evidence this day in history has been busier than most. Hard to believe it’s been fifteen years since the tragic news came that Pop Icon Michael Jackson had died. An already troubled figure working on what
War On Drugs – Live At Coachella 2015 – April 10, 2015 This morning a look back at Week number 1 at Coachella from 2015 – there was a lot going on, and War on Drugs had been described by many who were there as one of the highlights of
Switching it up a bit this weekend and diving into Pop Culture of the 1950s – this informal interview with Dean Martin via telephone on the Howard Miller program for CBS Radio on April 25, 1957. One of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was nicknamed “The
Well, now that Festival season is up and rolling, adjusting schedules, setting timers, studying lineups and crossing fingers that the multi-tasking doesn’t overload the computer has become a full-time task. But seriously, it’s worth it. This year promises to be a wall-to-wall feast of great music by old favorites and
