"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Become a Patron! – Magazine – About the Weather – from Magic, Murder and The Weather – 1981 Magazine arrived on the scene without so much as a genre attached to their music. Howard Devoto, having left Buzzcocks, formed Magazine…
Coffee goes great with everything: – NBC News – April 2, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was smack in the middle of Primary Season, this April 2nd in 1980. With Carter landslides in the Wisconsin and Kansas…
A blast of Pinkpop 2013 tonight. This morning it’s festival veterans Stereophonics, recorded on June 16th 2013 by the venerable Netherlands Radio outlet VPRO and station 3voor12. Described as “classic UK rock delivered with whiskey vocals”, Stereophonics have been summarized…
We get by with a little help from our friends: Become a Patron! – NPR: Options – Two Views Of The News (CBS-Washington Post) 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One thing is certain in news; the press will…
Every little bit helps: Become a Patron! News for this April 1st in 1945 wasn’t about joking around. It was announced hours before this broadcast that Allied forces had landed on the island of Okinawa. The strategic objective was some…
– Dodgy – Live At Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton – July 5, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 – Getting the week rolling with a lesser known (in the U.S.) but still much enjoyed set from Dodgy in 1996. Sometimes it takes…
You can – you really can: Become a Patron! Another historic clip from a concert – this one featuring pianist Eduard Erdmann with Hans Mueller-Kray leading the Stuttgart Radio Symphony in a performance of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano concerto, recorded May…
– International Literary Report – Interview with Garson Kanin – August 11, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with the legendary screenwriter, playwright, novelist and Director Garson Kanin discussing his career and the publishing…
Makes a big difference, honest: Become a Patron! The inimitable Roy Eldridge this weekend in a live gig from Lou Terrasi’s Club on 47th Street in Manhattan and broadcast April 13, 1953 on The Jazz Caravan. The quartet for this…