"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
4 By Christie Laume: L’adorable Femme des Neiges – Agathe Ou Christie – La Musique Et La Danse – Rouge Rouge – French Parolophone A taste of Yé-Yé tonight. For those of you who may not be all that familiar – here is her biography via the Ready, Steady Girls!...
Teenage Fanclub – In Session for Mark Goodier – Aug. 31, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Teenage Fanclub – one of the bands still very much together, still very much touring, still very much making records. Unlike the bands I’ve been featuring the past week, Teenage Fanclub have kept...
Harry Somers – Passacaglia And Fugue – CBC Symphony – Geoffrey Waddington, Cond. – 1958 – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Harry Somers this week. Somers, who was born in Toronto in 1925 and died in Toronto in 1999, has been regarded as...
Puressence – in concert at Reading 1999 – BBC Radio 1 Puressence tonight. From a BBC broadcast at the 1999 Reading Festival. The Indie band from Manchester, who were inspired to play music after going to a Stone Roses concert in 1991, formed Puressence in 1992. Although the story is...
Veruca Salt – Session at BBC Radio 1 – July 27, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – Some American Alt-Grunge tonight by way of Veruca Salt; the Chicago-based band who, after a year-and-a-half of woodshedding, honing and practicing, finally went public and went gold from the get-go. After performing...
Lang Lang In Recital – Recorded by Radio France Musique – November 12, 2016 – Over to Paris this week for a recital by the epic Chinese pianist Lang Lang, recorded live from Théåtre des Champs-Elysees this past November by the venerable Radio France Musique. Considered one of the most...
The Cocteau Twins – in session for Mark Radcliffe – March 12, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 – The Cocteau Twins tonight. In session for Mark Radcliffe at BBC Radio 1 and preserved for posterity on March 12, 1996. Originally characterized as a Punk Band, because their influences ranged from...
64 hours left. Okay, the suspense is building to what is going to look like a nerve-wracking conclusion. Pledges are trickling in – and that’s hopeful. We’re now on the other side of 60% of our goal – and that’s even more hopeful. Word is getting out, friends are telling...
