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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 – Gong In Session (Number 3) – May 29, 1973 – John Peel Program – BBC Radio 1 Earlier this week I ran a session by Gong alumnus Steve Hillage, recorded in 1976, after Hillage had left Gong. Tonight it’s a Gong...
It helps, it really does: Become a Patron! Another artist synonymous with a decade and genre of music. Steve Hillage has been associated with a number of influential artists and bands during the Progressive Rock era of the early 1970s, including Kevin Ayers and most notably, Gong. After Allen left...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Flaming Lips at Villette Sonique – May 24, 2013 – France Radio Le Mouv` In case you haven’t heard, Flaming Lips are currently on tour with Australia’s Tame Impala as opening act and are slated to play Los Angeles at the end of...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Le Orme in concert in Milan – 1974 – Band soundboard tape – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The tape of this concert has been sitting in a box, on a shelf, in the vault for the better part of thirty years....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Holly Miranda – In Concert at Glasslands – June 2, 2013 – Courtesy: NYC Taper.com First off, I want to express a ton of gratitude to the folks at NYC Taper.com for letting me run this concert tonight. For those of...
Click on the link here for Audio Player- The Pixies in concert at l’Olympia, Paris – broadcast live by Le Mouv’ – September 30, 2013 As promised last night, here is a special edition of the Roundtable, featuring a live-as-it-happened concert, kicking off the Continental leg of their European tour...
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...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ella y El Muerto – live at Terra Music – August 9, 2013 Back over to Mexico City tonight for a studio concert by Ella y El Muerto (She and The Dead – according to Google Translate, but . . ....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Atlanter, in concert at Øya festival, Norway – August 8, 2013 – NRK Radio Rock Without Borders Week continues with a concert by the Norwegian Alt and Desert Blues-inspired Atlanter, in concert during this years Øya Festival on August 8th. Describing...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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