"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Can were one of those bands no one thought would be as influential in 1974 as they became. They had taken the cause of Progressive Rock and ratcheted it up a few notches and introduced Electronic music in a way…
WCBS – New York – The Bill Randle Show – February 11, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Picture this: Rock n’ Roll is still on the fringes – it hasn’t taken the country by storm; not yet. However,…
Dutch psych-meister Jacco Gardner tonight, in a concert recorded during the 2013 London Calling Festival, held at The Paradiso in Amsterdam and faithfully recorded by VPRO in Hilversum. A little bio sampler via Tim Sendra at AllMusic: Dutch-born psychedelic explorer…
BBC World Service – London Column – May 23, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the War in Europe ended, the horrors and atrocities of that war were coming to the surface in grim and graphic detail. Some…
– Haircut 100 – Live in Munich – March 1, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Haircut 100 – recorded live in Munich on March 1, 1983. At a time when Music was going in a million directions at…
Described in the European press as “one of Americas best kept secrets”, Smashing Orange were a band from Wilmington Delaware, who landed in the UK and became part of the wave of Shoegaze bands of the early 1990s. Sadly, the…
– Siouxsie And The Banshees – In Concert at Royal Albert Hall – 1988 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – A dose of Siouxsie and The Banshees, recorded in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1988. This…
-January 20, 1945 – NBC Radio: War Telescope – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 20, 1945. News of sweeping gains by the Russians in the East. Word that the Red Army was some 200 miles outside of Berlin. Advances…
XTC – In Concert recorded for BBC Radio 1 – March 25, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert series – XTC to get us up to Hump Day. One of their earliest broadcast concerts, only fifteen months together when…
Flu season, just like clockwork – fever, chills, aching, sweats. You’ve just thrown up everything you’ve ever had in your stomach since you were five. Your hair hurts. The best you can do is just lie there, encased in blankets,…