"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Paul Hindemith: Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra – CBS Symphony, Thor Johnson – World Premier – May 15, 1949 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Something special this weekend. A world premier performance of the Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra by German 20th century music legend...
Over to Köln tonight for a concert by Bay Area locals The Brian Jonestown Massacre, from May 12, 2010. Further evidence Psychedelia is alive and well and coming out of the West Coast and making it all the way over to Germany, where they seem to be enjoying it a...
Miles Kane tonight, in concert at Pinkpop from June 15,2013. Kane has been racing up the charts recently with the anthem-like single Don’t Forget Who You Are, his first big success since the breakup of his former band The Rascals (no relation to the 60s group) in 2009 and taking...
Staying with the 90s again this week and one of the less-celebrated bands of the Brit-Pop Invasion, Elastica. In mid-1992, ex-Suede band members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided to form a group. By the autumn of that year, bassist Annie Holland and guitarist Donna Matthews were added. After initially...
Something historic and elusive this weekend. As a longtime fan of Jethro Tull, I have always been particularly fond of the early period – the pre-Aqualung period of 1967-1969, but good sounding concerts which represented the band during that period have always been hard to come across. Jethro Tull, for...
I just ran across this one from the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland which was recorded on July 13, 2013. Sophie Hunger is from Zurich and she was a surprise hit at the 2008 Montreux Festival. Her sound is a mixture of a lot of different influences. And so is her...
One of my favorite bands of the last 20 years, Portishead in concert are always an eagerly anticipated event. And they certainly didn’t disappoint this year at Glasto. Beth Gibbons‘ mesmerizing vocals, mistakenly considered doom-laden by some, but once you realize that one of her influences was Edith Piaf, take...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Marilyn Monroe: Fame Is Fickle – NBC Radio Tribute – August 6, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Hard to imagine it was fifty-seven years ago today the world lost Marilyn Monroe. Within hours of finding her body, dead from an...
Jimi Hendrix, The Alan Price Set, The Move, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, The Kinks – Top Of The Pops – December 29, 1967 – BBC Transcription Service – Ending up the week with a completely classic show for a lot of reasons, not the least being Jimi Hendrix and what...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Division of Laura Lee and JJ – live at Knarrholmen Festival, Sweden, August 21, 2013 – Sveriges Radio P3 Over to Sweden tonight for a live session from the 2013 Knarrholmen Festival featuring Indie/Alt/Post-Punk band Division of Laura Lee, combined with...
