"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – CBS Radio – Camel Caravan – November 18, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Benny Goodman for this Holiday weekend. 80 years ago this was the state of Popular Music in America. Big Band Swing was in its heyday and...
The Courteeners – live at Glastonbury 2013 -Recorded June 25, 2017 – BBC 6 Music – Become a Patron! The Courteeners this weekend. In concert at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival and faithfully preserved by The BBC. In 2014, Courteeners stood on the brink of unveiling their fourth and – by...
KFRC – Chuck Browning -November 11, 1969 – Rob Frankel Collection – Think about it – 50 years ago: If you were a teenager, chances were pretty good that you became a strict vegetarian, burned incense just about everywhere, reeked of patchouli, read Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha backwards and forwards –...
Urban Cone – in session for Sveriges Radio P3, Stockholm – April 2, 2013 – Sveriges Radio – Become a Patron! Swedish Indie bright lights Urban Cone to end up the week. A band well liked, well reviewed and well received but sadly called it quits or, as their Tweet...
August 29, 1939 – Watching the skies and with last minute and last ditch efforts to avoid war, tensions between the Axis powers and the Allies grew more strained by the hour. British Envoy Sir Neville Henderson, stretching shuttle diplomacy to new vistas, was arriving in Berlin to receive a...
Electric Guest – In session for Polski Radio, Warsaw – February 2013 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Local L.A. band Electric Guest, in session from Warsaw tonight. Recorded by Polski Radio in February of 2013. Electric Guest is a Los Angeles-based band formed in 2011. The group comprises Asa...
Become a Patron! With the War in Europe only months old, pressure was mounting to involve the U.S. – there was also fear that, because so many outside groups were involved in American politics, not to mention political/idealogical organizations, America would be ripe for some form of overthrow by subversive...
Babylon Circus Live at Lowlands Festival 2012 – Recorded by VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Babylon Circus to kick off the week. A band that, even though their bio calls them ska and reggae, miss the major mashup of a whole pile of genres,...
James Simon Kunen – Interview from On Screen – WBAI-FM – June 26, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Some things age well – some things age not at all and some things age poorly. In the Arts it’s a matter of subjectivity. Music we’ve heard and books we’ve...
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra – NBC Radio – Concert In Miniature -August 12, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Stan Kenton: A name synonymous with the revolution in Modern Jazz by taking it from the dance hall to the concert hall and achieving mixed results in the process....
