"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Coffee anyone? – Franz Ferdinand – Great Wide Open Festival 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Franz Ferdinand to end the week, in concert at the Great Wide Open Festival Summer of 2012 Holland, recorded by the Dutch radio…
Become a Patron! As Convention season gets closer (and one can only guess what 2024 will be like), here is a sampler from another Republican Convention – seventy-two years ago – July 11,1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the acceptance…
News on this March 14th in 1948 came by way of commentary on the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe. Branded by some as an unwarranted blank check to the former European allies with no obligation to pay back, while…
– Radio Moscow – News from Moscow to America – March 7, 1947 – One of the constants during the Cold War period was the War of Words waged between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This broadcast, from Radio…
Goes great with a double espresso: – Flaming Lips at Villette Sonique – May 24, 2013 – France Radio Le Mouv`- 2013 was an insanely busy year for the band, with a world tour that took them completely around the…
A huge thank you to all of you who are subscribing: Become a Patron! – CBS Radio: Report To The Nation – 1950 Elections – Nov.9. 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since we’re a little less than 9 months…
Starting off the new week with Blur in concert at Glastonbury ’94 as captured for posterity and preserved by BBC Radio 1 on June 26th. Blur were one of the pivotal bands of the Britpop movement in the early 90s.…
I’d love it if you’d subscribe: Become a Patron! Diving back to 1980 this weekend for a concert by one of those defining bands of the late 70s/early 80s The Police managed to straddle the non-conventional Punk and New Wave…
Coffee works wonders too: Slade – Live at Reading Festival 1980 – BBC Radio 1 Had it not been for the phone call asking if they would be last minute replacements for an ailing Ozzie Osborne, Slade may very well…
Works wonders: Become a Patron! – News for February 14, 1975 – News for this Valentine’s Day in 1975 was anything but heart-warming. It was all about the Recession. It was about unemployment and it was about bleak economic figures.…