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Khatia Buniatishvili – In Recital at the Verbier Festival – July 24, 2012 – Radio France Musique – Part 1 Khatia Buniatishvili – In Recital at the Verbier Festival – July 24, 2012 – Radio France Musique – Part 2 I originally ran this concert four years ago, when...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Cars, in concert at Sussex University – 1979 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Some early New Wave tonight, courtesy of The Cars, who were at the forefront in merging guitar-rock with Synth-Pop in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Tonight’s concert...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land belonging to Czechoslovakia. The Munich crisis over the Sudetenland, as...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News of the Crisis in Czechoslovakia NBC Blue Network – September 13, 1938 September it seems, is a crisis month in history. On this September 13th in 1938, crisis was looming in Europe over a piece of disputed land belonging to Czechoslovakia,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Morning Edition – Bob Edwards – September 11, 2001 At the time, people were hard-pressed to call it a terrorist act. It seemed unconscionable that anyone would intentionally fly a plane directly into the World Trade Center. But when a...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News from BBC World Service – Paris Radio English service – September 4, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With War in Europe officially declared, this day in September 1939, the first official casualties reported wound up being civilians, innocent bystanders,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Eefje de Visser – live at Noorderslag 2012 – VPRO/3voor12, Netherlands Something a bit different tonight. Eefje de Visser is a relatively new-on-the-scene Dutch singer-songwriter who is not all that well known outside The Netherlands. Well . . .there is that language...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Live at Rockpile, Toronto – February 23, 1969 As long as we’re visiting the 60s this weekend (for entirely different reasons), I though I would dig into the vaults and drag this one out,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pond live at Amplifier club, Perth – April 23, 2010 – club soundboard If you’ve been staying on top of the current flood of bands coming over from Australia of late, you’ll notice a number of them have one common denominator;...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS World New Roundup – August 7, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News on this August 7th in 1945 was about the event that had taken place less than 24 hours earlier in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Atomic Bomb,...
