"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Youth Wants To Know: Juvenile Delinquency – November 17, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Oh, those carefree, innocent 1950s – where seldom was heard a discouraging word. Apparently, to some we were heading straight to hell in...
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 – Nanci Griffith – live at the 1992 Cambridge Folk Festival – BBC 6 Music A change of pace tonight. No reason, but I don’t recall running any Nanci Griffith on Past Daily ever – so tonight’s a make-good on that. Here...
Click here for Audio Player – News for September 3, 1974 – NBC Nightly News (Audio) News on this September 3rd in 1974 was still about Watergate and the fallout associated with President Nixon‘s resignation. On this day it was about former Watergate figure John Dean, sentenced to prison for...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News bulletins and reports for August 9, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Become a Patron! On top of being a busy news day, this August 9th in 1995, it was also a sad one. News of the death of Grateful Dead...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News of the Day – August 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Forty-two years ago today, the Great National Nightmare, as Gerald Ford put it, was over. After months of investigations, hearings and discoveries, the end of an era had finally...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: San Cisco, live at Corner Hotel, Melbourne – May 25, 2013 – Triple J Radio Over to Melbourne tonight for a concert by San Cisco, a four-piece Indie-pop-Power-Pop band from Freemantle, Australia. Together since 2009, they’ve been primarily doing local gigs. In...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Melanie in Concert at The Paris Theater – 1975 – BBC 6 Music Melanie is one of those artists who helped define the genre of the Singer-Songwriter in the 1960s. Straddling the worlds of Pop and Folk, Melanie managed to embrace both...
Zen Circus – Live At Urban di Perugia – December 15, 2012 Over to Italy tonight for a live set by the enigmatic and somewhat overlooked (at least in the States), Zen Circus. I’ve been following Zen Circus for several years now, ever since their involvement with Brian Ritchie of...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Mando Diao – Live in Stockholm – Recorded by Sveriges Radio June 27, 2013 Even though their bio refers to them as an Alternative Band, and Wikipedia categorizes them as Garage Punk, Mando Diao strike me as more of a Pop aggregation...
