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
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Definitely up-and-comers tonight. Telegram have been together less than a year – their appearance on The Marc Riley Program over BBC6 Music marked their third appearance anywhere. They won’t even start recording their first album until next month, and already
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sixty years ago, almost to the day, America was muddling over the question “what’s happening to today’s youth?” – Crime was up, juvenile delinquency was up, unwanted pregnancies were up, drug and alcohol abuse were up, high-school drop-outs were up.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Even at the ripe old age of 97, the passing earlier this week of French Contemporary composer Henri Dutilleux was sad news. One of the leading Contemporary Composers of the late 20th Century, Dutilleux was a rugged individualist, refusing to
Click on the link here for Audio Player: One of the bands you probably won’t be hearing live, this festival season. Doves have been on hiatus since 2010, laying low and letting their music speak for itself. Together since 1998, Doves have had a good run so far.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The ongoing crisis over The Falkland Islands ratcheted up a few more notches, this May 21st in 1982. With British Special Forces landing, and more expected before nightfall, Argentina admitted troops had landed and that Argentine forces were fighting
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Yet another sad passing to report. News today of the passing of Doors co-founder and author Ray Manzarek at 74 from a long bout with Cancer in Germany took a lot of people by surprise, me included. Despite reports coming
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Slight change of pace tonight. Pop with Indie leanings from Mexico City by way of Madrid in the form of Natalia Lafourcade. Recorded in session for the Conciertos de Radio 3 program on RNE Radio 3 in Madid, May 17,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Back to Paris this week for another installment of French radio performances of the 1950s. This time it’s the music of Jeanine Rueff, who is probably best known as a music educator, with one of her star pupils being Jean-Michel
Click on the link here for Audio Player: I originally ran this on my previous site a few years ago, but it seems as apropos now, maybe even more so, than it did then. There seems to be a resurgence in interest towards Folk Music of late. Perhaps
