And of course, coffee: – BBC In Concert – 1979-03-24 – Fingerprintz – Diving into some 70s Post-Punk/New Wave to start the week by way of Fingerprintz. Started in 1979, Fingerprintz is probably best known in the U.S. as the first band to release Dancing With Myself (which later became
Coffee would be nice: One of my favorite, and arguably most underrated bands of the 70’s and early 80’s. Split Enz were amazing to see live.I remember their first tour of the U.S., promoting the release of “Mental Notes” (which was called “Second Thoughts” in New Zealand and Australia). They
Make a huge difference: Become a Patron! CBS Reports – The British Elections – February 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There was a time, right after World War 2, and well into the 1960s, where America expressed great interest in the political fortunes of other countries, particularly those
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 March 1980, Gen X went into Eel Pie Studios in
– 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 of the U.S. in 1938 and performed this recital for
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 photo above, as well as his experimental photography. But like
Coffee? Did you say coffee? – Be Bop Deluxe – live at Oxford – BBC Radio 1 Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Be Bop Deluxe were a band the critics loved but the audience apparently only moderately liked. Together in two short bursts – once from 1972-1974
You can do a lot with coffee: Schmitt: La Tragèdie de Salomè – Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Andrè Cluytens, cond. 1950 Besancon Festival – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The music of Florent Schmitt this weekend. A popular figure during the first four decades of the 20th Century, Florent Schmitt
– News for January 16, 1942 – News for this day in 1942 was hopeful and grim, in equal portion. The Battle for Singapore was on and fighting was going taking place all over the Far East. In Mexico, the government announced it would no longer grant citizenship for German,
It pays for us to keep running: Become a Patron! – XTC – In Concert At Old Waldorf, San Francisco – Feb. 25, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – One of the bands that made the 80s something to talk about, XTC were around longer than they performed live; six
