Click on the link here for Audio Player: Denver – Lo que quieras Continuing our occasional excursion to see what else is going on the world musically, I ran across Dënver, an Indie/Alternative/Electro-pop due from San Felipe Chile, consisting of Mariana Montenegro and Milton Mahan. Tonight’s track, Lo Que Quieras
Click on the link here for audio player: The Who BBC Sessions – 1965-1967 Depending on where you’re reading this, it’s either still August 23rd or already August 24th. In any event, it would be criminal to let a birthday observance go unnocticed of one of the most celebrated drummers
Click on the link here for Audio player: John Lee Hooker – No Shoes – 1960 August 22nd would have marked Number 95 for John Lee Hooker (born August 22, 1917). So by way of a tribute to one of the Blues immortals and a musical legend, here is tonight’s
Click on the link here for Audio Player-Part 1: International Chopin Festival – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player-Part 2: International Chopin Festival – Part 2 Since we’re still hip-deep in Festival season throughout Europe, I had to put this one up this week. An absolutely
Click on the link here for audio player: News for August 22, 1971 Since August 22nd came on a Sunday in 1971, the news for this day was taken up mostly with looking at the week past and contemplating what was ahead for the coming week. Starting off with news
Click on the link here for Audio player: Coup in Russia – August 21, 1991 News for this August 21st in 1991 had to do with the shocking turn of events in Russia. In the early hours of the morning, a coup staged by Kremlin hardliners ousted Mikhail Gorbachev and
Click on the link here for Audio player: The Clash – Charlie Don’t Surf – 1980 Something familiar for the first day of the new week. I haven’t played The Clash in a while and it’s always been good to pull up a chair and jump into any of their
Click on the link here for audio player: Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia – 1968 Even though news during this August in 1968 was primarily about the upcoming Democratic Convention in Chicago, the just finished Republican Convention in Miami and the ongoing protests to the Vietnam War, news for this August
Click on the link here for audio player: Lill-Babs – Vicken Tavla – 1963 Swedish 60’s Pop tonight – not that far removed from French Yè-yè of the same period. One of the big names blazing out of Stockholm was Lill-Babs who scored very huge with the Swedish language version
Click on the link here for Audio player: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Fires – 2012 In case you’ve been wondering, with the news the past few days regarding Russian Punk band Pussy Riot and the outrageous prison sentence handed down for “hooliganism”, probably not many of you have actually
