Click on the link here for Audio Player – XTC In Concert At Hammersmith Palais – February 7, 1981 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 You can’t have a week of 80s music without including a concert by XTC. They pretty much defined the decade (at least
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Hank Jones Trio – Live at The BBC – May 28, 1994 Taking a turn to the mellow this weekend, with a concert by the great Hank Jones and his Trio, broadcast on the BBC from May 28, 1994. Jones is
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Deep Sea Arcade – Lowlands 2013 – Recorded August 16, 2013 – VPRO Another surprise hit from the 2013 Lowlands Festival. Deep Sea Arcade come from Sydney and, like their compatriots Tame Impala, Pond and a veritable Tsunami of others, have
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Soup Dragons, In session for John Peel – 1986 – BBC Radio Something slightly more familiar (at least to some of you) tonight. The Soup Dragons got started in 1985 and finished up in 1995. Between those ten years they released
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Staves live at Lowlands 2013 – Recorded August 16, 2013 – 3voor12/VPRO Recapping some of the events from Lowlands 2013 this past weekend. One of the opening acts from the first day, The Staves, were an early-on hit. The sisters Staveley-Taylor
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Imagine Dragons, live at Lowlands 2013 – Recorded August 17, 2013 by 3voor12/VPRO, The Netherlands Back over to Lowlands 2013 for another concert, finished just hours ago. This time it’s Imagine Dragons, who have been criss-crossing Europe and the U.S. all
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Joy Formidable – Live At Lowlands 2013 – recorded August 16, 2013 – by 3voor12/VPRO Another festival starting up this weekend. This one, the Lowlands Festival in The Netherlands started on Friday and goes until Sunday. One of the opening
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Melanie in Concert at The Paris Theater – 1975 – BBC 6 Music Melanie is one of those artists who helped define the genre of the Singer-Songwriter in the 1960s. Straddling the worlds of Pop and Folk, Melanie managed to embrace both
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Fourth of July celebration with President Kennedy – July 4, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The Fourth of July in 2013 is full of turmoil and uncertainty. Oddly, the Fourth of July in 1962 was almost exactly the same. The world
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Maia Hirasawa, Live at Musikplats, Stockholm – April 2013 Something a little unusual tonight. Maia Hirasawa is a Swedish singer-songwriter, who is very popular in Sweden, visited the U.S. once in 2009 and is becoming a big name in Japan. Hirasawa’s music
