Warpaint – live at BBC 6 Music Festival – March 25, 2017 – BBC 6 Music – L.A.’s own Warpaint, recorded in concert at the recent BBC 6 Music Festival this past March and another standout performance from a band who’s been doing it the past 13 years. From their
E. Howard Hunt – interview by William F. Buckley – Firing Line Program – May 12, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since we’ve been looking back on the era of Watergate lately, I thought I would start running some interviews with key players in the scandal to give
Claude Pascal – Piano Concerto -Geneviève Joy with the ORTF Chamber Orchestra. Henri Girard, cond. ORTF-Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Less familiar music, performed by legendary figures. This week it’s the Piano Concerto by Claude Pascal, a contemporary composer whose work from 1943 to 2007 is substantial. And
Altered Images – In session for John Peel – October 7, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Altered Images this week. The Scottish Post-Punk band boasted a fan in John Peel, who gave the band their initial leg-up with two sessions, of which this one is the first. Due
April 25, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 25, 2000 – the political windstorm over the Elian Gonzalez affair was starting to wind down, or at least try to. The young boy, subject of an intense immigration battle as the result
The Boys – In Concert from Paris Theatre – 1980 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – The Boys, in concert from Paris Theatre in London from 1980. A somewhat short-lived band initially – going from 1976 to 1982 – and then resuming in 1999
Yusef Lateef Quartet – Cloitre des Celestins, Avignon, France – July 19, 1972 – Radio France FIP – Yusef Lateef Quartet this weekend. Recorded live at Cloître des Célestins in Avignon, France on July 19, 1972 and rebroadcast by the venerable Radio France and their FIP channel just recently. Multi-talented
Don Henley Press Conference – Winning a 1993 International Earth Award – June 10, 1993 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While we’re observing Earth Day, looking at Earth Days gone past, and considering the fragile nature of Earth Day present, a few words from former Eagles Founder and environmentalist
ABC – In Concert from the Musikhalle, Hamburg – Feb. 2, 1983 – NDR Radio – ABC to end the week. As long as we were on something of a roll last night with Prefab Sprout, I thought I would toss another prime example of the 80s from a band
April 21, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 21, 1994 – the civil war that raged in the former Yugoslavia was now making a living hell out of the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, as Bosnian Serbs continued a relentless barrage of shelling and
