"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Some early 70s Headbangers this weekend, via Humble Pie, recorded in concert for the BBC as part of the John Peel Presents series from Sepetember 20, 1970. It would be hard to say where Humble Pie were more huge –…
Within the vast heading of The History Of Music, I don’t think there is, or will ever be, a shortage of musicians and composers whose work has gone mostly unnoticed, or at best, largely underrated. Lily Bienvenu is one of…
Another historic concert from the vault. This week it’s the BBC Symphony, in concert from Royal Festival Hall in May of 1959, guest conducted by Nino Sanzogno with the legendary Italian Pianist Pietro Scarpini in music of Mendelssohn, Petrassi and…
Staying with the 90s again this week and one of the less-celebrated bands of the Brit-Pop Invasion, Elastica. In mid-1992, ex-Suede band members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided to form a group. By the autumn of that year, bassist…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7247″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 4, 1950 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for the week ending on March 4, 1950 had a lot to do with the Cold War and…
I grew up listening to the recordings of Dame Myra Hess on 78’s because as a kid, I wasn’t trusted with the lps in my parents collection and was relegated to the breakable, scratchy 78’s I got at Salvation Army…
The Great Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. From the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival and rebroadcast some years later. Kirk’s musical career spans from 1955 until his death in 1977. He preferred to lead his own bands and rarely performed as…
Not to be confused with the UK Psych band of the same name, the U.S. Kaleidoscope were one of the more eclectic assemblages of musicians ever to hit the stage in the 1960s. Incorporating a wild array of Middle Eastern…
A few years ago I ran an extended excerpt of a concert from The Verve recorded in 1997, during the middle period of the band. A few days later I ran across an earlier session from The Verve, this one…
Rescuing and preserving take a village: Become a Patron! Back to Paris tonight for a 1st French performance of the Concerto for 2 Cellos and Orchestra by Paul Tortelier. The Concerto was originally premiered in Germany in 1951, but since…