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Dorian – in concert at Viva La Musica – 2018 – RNE Radio 3 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dorian to end up the working week. One of the most popular and nationally-renown bands on the Spanish Music Scene, Dorian have been around since 2002, have six albums to...
Nada Surf – Live at Warm Up Festival 2018 – Murcia, Spain – May 7, 2018 – Radio Nacional España First off – great concert, strange soundboard mix (vocals are somewhere in the ozone and the bass is heavy) – Second; since it’s a live broadcast by way of RNE...
Leopold Stokowski and The L.A. Philharmonic – Franz von Suppé – Die Schöne Galathée Overture – August 11, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A short, but historic one this weekend. A familiar face around the Hollywood Bowl in the 1940s, the legendary Leopold Stokowski leads the Hollywood Bowl...
Lush in concert from This Is Not A Love Song Festival in Nimes, France and recorded on June 4th of this year. As promised, I said a few weeks ago that I was going to try and post some additional concerts by Lush during their reunion festival tour this summer....
Jagwar Ma, in concert at Glastonbury 2016, recorded by the venerable BBC 6 Music on June 25th this year. As I said before, there must be something in the Australian water supply, as that country has been cranking out more than their fair share of mind-melting bands of late. Tame...
Blossoms – Glastonbury 2016. Recorded on June 24th by the venerable (and always amazing) BBC 6 Music. It occurred to me that I ran another Blossoms concert earlier this month and one last year. Okay, I’m a fan and it’s good to hear them get the audience and the press...
. . .or Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sivert Høyem – In Session at Into The Great Wide Open 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR Staying in Europe this week with a session from Sivert Høyem, Norwegian singer-songwriter and former frontman for the band Madrugada until their breakup in 2007,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Elephant Stone – Live At Best Kept Secret 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – Netherlands Continued our look back at Summer Festival season for 2014. On the radar as Band To Watch for 2014 (and probably 2015,2016 and beyond), Montreal-based Elephant Stone brought...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Travis – Live at Glastonbury 2009 – BBC 6 Music One of the early influential bands in the Brit-Pop movement, Travis have had a long and celebrated career. Starting in 1990, the Glasgow quartet have been cited as paving the way...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Romain Guyot and Lidija Bizjak in recital – 2013 Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux – September 6, 2013 – Radio France Musique Over to the Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux in France this week, for a concert given on September 6th...
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