"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Kayak in Concert at Midsummerpop Festival – July 7, 1973 – VPRO Archives – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! The history of Pop music is no stranger to the legions of bands considered ignored, overlooked, underrated or just dismissed. A series of bad breaks, a lackluster...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Radiohead in Concert at Via Asagio, Rome – Recorded May 2, 1995 – RAI Radio 2 Planet Rock Taking a brief step back to the 90s tonight. I was originally going to run this the other week, but got sidetracked and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – PFM In Concert from Osaka – November 25, 1975 PFM were one of those bands who came to epitomize the true eclectic nature of the 70s. The changes that began in the mid 1960s matured and took off by the early...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Duke Spirit – Live @ Exit Festival, Croatia – July 13, 2012 The Exit Festival in Serbia is probably one of biggest festivals going on in Eastern Europe at the moment. It hasn’t been around for long (since 2000 as far as I...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Copenhagen Philharmonic – Live – Dec. 14, 2012 Over to Copenhagen this week for a special concert by The Copenhagen Philharmonic featuring Bryce and Aaron Dessner from the band The National, billed as Sixty Minutes Of The Dessners. Stepping out of their customary...
Clink on the link here for Audio: Radiohead In Session at The BBC – June 13, 1992 Radiohead have become, without a doubt, one of the most innovative, influential and highly respected bands of the past twenty years. Tonight’s Roundtable features the band just around the time of their first...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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