Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tinariwen – In Concert from Salle Pleyel, Paris – February 2, 2012 – RFI-Monde With the recent surge in interest in Desert Blues, a flood of bands had been getting world attention of late. Luckily for all of us, many of
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Options – U.S. Policy on Angola – Feb. 13, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the independence movements unfolded in Africa, and as nations emerged and went through the pangs of growth and adjustment, one of the most contentious
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – Newsdesk – April 10, 1998 – BBC World Service After decades of violence, untold numbers dead and two years of talks, it was looking very much like Peace would finally come to Northern Ireland. On this April
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Youth Wants To Know – Guest: Governor Allan Shivers (D-Tx) – April 28, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection At first glance, the year 1954 doesn’t seem like that momentous a period in World history. The Cold War and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC – The World Today – April 8, 2004 – BBC World Service Ten years ago today, the stark reality that our involvement in Iraq wasn’t going to be met with open arms had many wondering just how long this odyssey
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio: The Hidden Revolution – A Day Called X – March 18, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One thing was certain about the Cold War, there was no shortage of doomsday scenarios and no ceiling on the amount of
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Conversation: What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? – Nov. 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Sixty years ago there was no such thing as the Internet. Computers were massive and it never occurred to anyone in a
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Beach Fossils – In Concert at London Calling, 2013 – VPRO – 3VOOR12 Beach Fossils got started in 2009 in Brooklyn, primarily as a solo project for Dustin Payseur. The band quickly morphed with several other members joining ranks. The end
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Albert Collins – Live at The Montreux Festival – 1992 – RTS Putting Hump-Day in a Blues vein tonight. A classic concert from the legendary Albert Collins, recorded at The Montreux Jazz Festival in 1992, by the venerable Radio-Television Suisse. Sadly,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio – Issues and Answers – Roy Wilkins – Interviewed by Howard K. Smith – April 26, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Contrary to what is often said in some circles as a time when such landmark legislation as
