"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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…
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 band very much around, but in the 1980s they were billed as America’s First Ska band. The Untouchables were from Los Angeles and had come along just at the time the Ska crazy (i.e. The Specials, Selecter, Madness etc.…
Since I first ran this concert in 2009, I kept promising I would run it again someday with better sound on a better player than what was available at the time. But as time tends to slip by quickly, it…
Gilbert Becaud – Pauvre Pecheur – March 18, 1955 – Le Voix de Son Maitre For pennies a day you can keep the archive up and running: Become a Patron! The legendary French singer-songwriter/actor Gilbert Becaud, known affectionately as “Monsieur…
We’re here because of your support: Become a Patron! It’s always something of a mixed blessing to run across a concert by a band who were well known, but very little existing of them recorded in concert under decent conditions.…
A 70’s triple bill this week, via BBC Radio 1‘s In Concert series from January 13, 1979. Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric and Rachel Sweet share the bill in one of the more decade-defining concerts of the late 70’s, with a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fat White Family – in concert at Eurockéennes – July 4, 2014 – RFI According to press reports, UK Sleaze/Psych Rockers The Fat White Family have achieved a level of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Can – Live at Lyon, France – January 17, 1976 – Band soundboard. One of my favorite bands of all time tonight. Can were part of that initial wave of Progressive…