"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group…
– Split Enz – Live At Pinkpop 1980 – VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – By the time 1980 rolled around, Split Enz, who had pioneered the art of wonderful music mixed with a bizarre stage presence,…
The Timex All-Star Jazz Concert – Dec. 30, 1957 – NBC-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Live Jazz on radio had been around practically since radio was invented. But Jazz on TV was something new – and Jazz on…
– Joy Division – In Session for John Peel – November 26, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Considered pioneers of the Post-Punk movement, Joy Division formed in 1976. Initially influenced by The Sex Pistols, founders Bernard Sumner and Peter…
– Jefferson Airplane – Live At Winterland – October 3, 1967 – KSAN-FM – Familiar historic territory tonight. A concert by Jefferson Airplane – on home turf in San Francisco, at the Winterland and recorded for KSAN-FM on October 3,…
Editors Note: As I was readying our nightly music post, word came down that the legendary Art Laboe had died. To say he was an instrumental figure in the early R&B and Rock scene in Los Angeles would be an…
– KRNO San Bernardino – Morning Show – April 4, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I don’t know about you, but looking at these photos of teenagers from 1955, my immediate thought is “this is what 16 year…
David Bowie – In Concert with John Peel – June 20,1971 – BBC Radio 1 – David Bowie’s breakthrough album Hunky Dory wouldn’t come out until December, but this concert gives a lot of previews of coming attractions. Big changes…
– Ocean Colour Scene – live at Manchester Apollo – 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – History is jammed with bands who got sidetracked somewhere out of the starting gate and never regained their momentum; crashing and burning and left…
This is a repost from 2013, in case you missed it the first time: Unknown Mortal Orchestra have been a surprise hit at some of the recent Festivals in Europe this year (London Calling 2013), they were enthusiastically greeted at…