"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
A little love goes a long way: Become a Patron! – CBS Radio – The World This Week- ending February 1, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Somehow, it always winds up being about the Economy. This first day of…
Show a little love: Become a Patron! – 1981-01-01 BBC In Concert (Generation X) – BBC Radio 1 – Heading over to the Paris Theater in London for a half-hour set by Generation X, featuring the inimitable Billy Idol. In…
Coffee? – CBS Radio – The Wetbacks – April 11, 1954 – The hot-button topic of Immigration is once again heading to the front page. The decades-old question of how to deal with waves of immigrants entering this country to…
Become a Subscriber: Become a Patron! – News For January 31, 1941 – News for this last day of January in 1941 was a continuation of The Blitz which had begun months earlier. Continued daylight air raids over London and…
Coffee works too: – Violent Femmes – live at Town and Country – 1991 – BBC 6 Music – Violent Femmes this morning. A nod to the midwest bands during the 80s and early 90s who shaped and help define…
We need subscribers: Become a Patron! – NBC Nightly News (audio version) – January 30, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1972 began with reports from Northern Ireland of deadly force used against demonstrators…
– The Editors – Live At Trojan Horse, The Hague, Netherlands – October 6, 2015 – VPRO/3VOORFM – Switching gears this week for things more contemporary. This morning it’s The Editors, the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Indie band from…
Goes well with a Double-espresso Americano: – Supergrass – Live at The Reading Festival 2001 – BBC 6 Music – Perennial favorites Supergrass tonight. Recorded live at the Reading Festival in 2001 by the venerable BBC. One of the bands…
– Tcherepnine plays Tcherepnine – The NBC Music Guild – 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into music from the 1930s this week, with a recital by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnine, who was on a brief tour…
As one of the cornerstones of the Avant-Garde, Dada-Surrealist and Modernist Movements, Man Ray is probably best known for his painting, A L’Heure de L’Observatoire – Les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers) – which you can see in the…