"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
KABC-AM, Los Angeles – Bill Ballance Show – June 22, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Talk Radio had been a staple in America‘s diet since the 1960s – it was cheap to produce – it was often unpredictable…
The Suncharms – In Session for John Peel – June 5, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – The Suncharms tonight. An Indie/Shoegaze band from Sheffield who were initially together from 1989 to 1993, before calling it quits. They have reunited…
Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop – Newport Jazz Festival 1959 – July 4, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The word Visionary is one of those sadly over-abused characterizations that has lately come to apply to anyone who thinks past…
Ikara Colt – live at Lowlands 2002 – Recorded by VPRO/3VOOR12 – August 23, 2002 – VPRO, Netherlands – Ikara Colt to end the week. A short-lived band, but intentionally so. The members were all Art-School students, naming their band…
Seedling – in session for John Peel – broadcast: April 20, 2002 – BBC Radio 1 – Seedling were a band from The Netherlands who were together from 1996-2004; not very long by present-day standards, but long enough to make…
Blue Orchids – In session for John Peel – April 17, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Blue Orchids tonight. One of the more highly regarded and critically acclaimed bands of the Post-Punk/Indie period. Begun in 1979 as the…
Scars – In Session for John Peel – February 20, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Scars in session tonight. Voted Number 75 of the 100 Greatest Scottish Rock bands of all time, Scars were right in the middle of…
Whipping Boy – In Session for Steve Lamacq – Aug. 17, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Irish indie tonight in the form of Whipping Boy, a critically acclaimed band whose initial run went from 1988-1998. Originally playing cover versions…
The Zones – in session for John Peel – May 17, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 The Zones – short-lived Scottish PunkPost/Punk/Power Pop band formerly known as PVC2 and incarnated from the Soft Pop Band Silk. As PVC2 they were…