"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Part 1 Part 2 Sometimes you wish today’s technology was around in the 60’s. If that were so, you would probably have already heard this concert, had it on record, reissued on CD, committed it to memory and you’d think…
Click on the Link: The Temptations – Ball Of Confusion – 1970 Forty-two years ago The Temptations summed it all up with Ball Of Confusion. Forty-two years later, they’re still summing it up. The ball of confusion stays the same.…
With the news beginning this morning, and the updated reports concerning the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado throughout the day, I’m reminded of how all-too-familiar this seems. How it has repeated over and over throughout the years.…
Click on the Link: The World This Week – July 20, 1975 As life on Earth swirled around in its usual madness, life in Outer Space was swirling around in harmony, this week ending on July 20, 1975. The historic…
Click on the Link and play loud: The Futureheads In Session 2010 I first discovered The Futureheads on Myspace around the time their second album had come out. They were gathering a good word of mouth and gigging pretty consistently.…
Trying something a bit different tonight, and if it works it will become a regular feature. Rock Without Borders encompasses that genre of music that is innovative, experimental and in another language other than English. Tonight it’s a band from…
The 1948 Presidential race was hard fought and hotly contested. Within the ranks of the Democratic Party there was a faction, primarily representing the South, who objected strongly to President Truman’s strong Civil Rights stand. So resentful of the President’s…
Clink on the link and relax: Yury Revich Recital – July 16, 2012 Staying in France this week, and staying with the Radio France/Montpellier Languedoc-Roussilon Festival and a recital by Russian wunderkind Yury Revich in a program of music by…
The news for this week, ending on July 18, 1965 was rather sudden and sad. Former Governor, Presidential Candidate and United Nations Representative Adlai Stevenson collapsed and died of a massive heart attack on a London street, after speaking at…
Click on the Link: Deon Jackson-Love Makes the World Go Round Feat: Bob Babbitt, Bass – 1966 Not a good week for Music. Yesterday brought the sad news about Jon Lord. But also yesterday morning brought the sad news about…