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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....
Become a Patron! You don’t hear about them much anymore, but Cooking shows on radio were practically a staple in the American diet all the way from the 1920 until somewhere around the 90s. It was only after TV became the predominant medium (and later on as Cable allowed narrow-casting...
It’s 1979 – September. School has started. You’re already a month in but you’re exhausted. You fall asleep in class all the time. Your teachers are noticing. You’ve discovered Madame Wong’s and Gorki’s and The Atomic Cafe and you don’t have time to go to sleep at night; there’s too...
The Who In Session – 1965-1966 – BBC Light Programme – BBC Radio – The Who in session from 1965-1966 tonight. In case you missed it, today was drummer Keith Moon’s Birthday – he would have been 73 this year. But fate had different plans and the legendary Keith Moon...
August 23, 1980 – Gdansk – a name that would figure prominently in the 1980s. Polish workers at shipyards in the port city of Gdansk were on strike for the 11th day, joined by some 150,000 other workers striking for better wages and recognition of the newly formed Labor Union,...
Moose – In Concert at The Marquee Club, London – September 3, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Become a Patron! Legendary band Moose in concert from The Marquee Club in 1991 tonight. The band credited variously as the ones who coined the phrase Shoegaze and launched it into the...
