"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– CBS World News Roundup – April 10, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another interesting news day, this April 10th in 1979. Starting with an investigation of Nuclear Power Plants, based on the recent disaster at Three Mile…
Serge Koussevitzky and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – March 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, as conducted by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony, from a rehearsal broadcast of March 14,…
CJVC-Toronto/CBC Dominion Network – Jazz Unlimited – August 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The airwaves around the world in the 1950s were filled with concerts and club dates of every kind and type. But what about the disc-jockey…
KROQ – Jed The Fish – Iggy Pop Live From The Stardust Ballroom – Hollywood – November 30, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There are times, important times, times where you made every plan and had it…
– April 7, 1940 – Reports from Europe – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1940 – A day loaded with ominous ironies. This roundtable series of reports on the situation in Europe, as…
Blue Network – Our Foreign Policy – April 6, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sudden turn of events in the Balkans, Germany had now opened an Eastern Front. While this broadcast was on the air, Germany…
– Buffalo Daughter – live at NHK-FM Live Beat – March 31, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Buffalo Daughter in concert tonight. Following along with a stunning presentation of Pizzicato Five at Roskilde, I ran a few months…
– April 4, 1968 – Various News reports on the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 would be the year seemingly everything came to a head and threatened to turn our entire country…
Suede in session – BBC Radio 1 – April 3, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Suede for mid-week. One of the premier bands of the early 90s and one of the primary bands in the Britpop movement. Formed in…
– April 3, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 579 days since the War in Europe got started, April 3rd in 1941 was no less suspenseful than other days during…