Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1968-September – Family You absolutely could never mistake the voice of Family’s Roger Chapman for anyone else. No other singer sounded anything like him. The American press wasn’t all that keen on this distinctive vocal-chord adventure. Reviews were sometimes unkind. But the
Click on the link here for Audio Player: We Were Evergreen – Way Out West Festival 2012 We Were Evergreen are one of those bands who have managed, without too much trouble, to get straight under my skin and stay there – and I mean that in a good way.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: yeah yeah yeahs – peel session, august 2002 With a lot of bands kicking off Spring/Summer tours at SXSW this year, New York’s own Yeah Yeah Yeahs got into the spirit by offering an opening night salvo to the Austin crowd, ahead
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for March 8, 1947 As a more-or-less companion to my post yesterday, which featured news from March 7th as presented by Radio Moscow, here is the U.S. take on the Foreign Ministers Conference, which was about to get underway in Moscow.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lianne La Havas Live at Trianon – February 19, 2013 Over to Paris this weekend for a set by 2012 BBC Faces To Watch Nominee, Lianne La Havas. By all indications, she’s arrived. A newly released album that’s getting incredible word of
A buck here, a buck there – it adds up: Become a Patron! Keeping the Americana theme going tonight with a portion of a concert given in Amsterdam by the sadly neglected, maligned and overlooked Moby Grape. Recorded by VPRO (the Pop Music wing of Radio Nederland), on February 12,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Strypes – Live At BBC Maida Vale – Feb. 10, 2013 I found this hard to believe at first. The Strypes are an Irish four-piece, firmly in the retro-Hard Rock/Blues mold. Guitar legend Jeff Beck is a huge fan, and is
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jim Noir – Marc Riley Session BBC 25-11-10) Haven’t heard much from the multi-talented Jim Noir lately. With such a prolific output as he’s had since 2005, you more or less plan your week around hearing something new from him. But, one
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lower Dens at The On3 Festival – Dec. 19, 2012 Over to Munich tonight for a set by Baltimore-based Lower Dens, in concert at On3 Festival, recorded live on December 19th of this past year. Another band receiving strange comparisons, the weirdest
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Handsome Poets – Eurosonic 2013 Some Dutch Indie/Alternative by way of The Handsome Poets, recorded in a concert at this past month’s Eurosonic 2013 Festival. The Handsome Poets got started in 2009, and in that time have two albums and a
