Click on the link here for Audio Player: Rival Sons are a local (Long Beach) California band who have found their fortunes, not on these shores, but overseas. Getting together in 2008, they were signed to a major label from the get-go (Atlantic). But in true current day
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Click on the link here for Audio Player- Part 2: Over to Madrid this week for a live as-it-happened concert featuring Orquesta Nacional de España, guest-conducted by Jiri Belhlavek and featuring American violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Note: This was originally posted on June 5, 2013 – still relevant today. Forty-eight years ago today, America was hanging on hourly reports from Good Samaritan Hospital over the condition of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, gunned down on his way
Click on the link here for Audio Player: I understand Aztec Two-Step are still alive and kicking and touring around. I will admit they slipped off my radar around the time of this concert broadcast, via WLIR-FM, in 1976. No good reason, just distracted – 1976/1977 were busy
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Not the world premier recording (that happened in 1934 and that performance may not exist), but instead the performance by the dedicatee, who conducted the same orchestra as the premier. Only this one is from around 1956. Jane Evrard and
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Over to Hamburg this weekend for a broadcast concert from the 1984 New Jazz Festival featuring The Milt Jackson/Ray Brown Quartet. While part of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet, Milt Jackson played an extensive role as sideman and leader of
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Click on the link here for Audio Player: For those of you not familiar, China Moses is local. Actually, Los Angeles local. She picked up stakes and relocated to Paris several years ago and hasn’t looked back. Establishing herself and her talent on her own terms (she’s the
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Diving into more Retro tonight, this time by way of Spain. Dry Martina is a combination funk/retro/Spanish-Pop/Soul/Swing and a taste of Louis Prima headed up by singer Laura Insuasti-Malaga. The end result is a tasty, luxuriant blend, enhanced by some
Click on the link here for Audio Player: More festivals and more new acts tonight. Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs are a recent signing by the indie label Heavenly Records (who’ve been signing a lot of great acts recently) and their appearance at the London Calling 2013
