"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Futureheads – Live at Rocknacht, Köln, March 29, 2008 – WDR I haven’t played any Futureheads in a while, but I just ran across this short concert they did at the 2008 Rocknacht Festival in Köln in 2008 and had to...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player -Part 2: Over to Barcelona this week for a concert featuring music of two favorite composers; Benjamin Brittan and Gustav Mahler. The Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: And now for something a little different tonight – Frida Sundemo is a Swedish indie/alt/Pop artist currently touring around Sweden and hitting London later on this month with her new ep Indigo, which has been getting a lot of attention...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: I understand Aztec Two-Step are still alive and kicking and touring around. I will admit they slipped off my radar around the time of this concert broadcast, via WLIR-FM, in 1976. No good reason, just distracted – 1976/1977 were busy...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Definitely up-and-comers tonight. Telegram have been together less than a year – their appearance on The Marc Riley Program over BBC6 Music marked their third appearance anywhere. They won’t even start recording their first album until next month, and already...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: One of the bands you probably won’t be hearing live, this festival season. Doves have been on hiatus since 2010, laying low and letting their music speak for itself. Together since 1998, Doves have had a good run so far....
Become a Patron! Tonight one of those bands that had fiercely loyal fans or loudly damning detractors. Not soliciting that kind of reaction over here, they were moderately successful and enjoyed a good relationship with their American label Elektra until their extended hiatus, which began in 2006. One of the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Over to Paris this week for a concert by the Girard Quartet, with Raphael Pidoux lending an extra bit of cello for two of the four Boccherini pieces, recorded in concert at the Musèe d’Orsay this past March 19th by...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Okay – this might be a bit of a jolt, from the decidedly calm and soothing sounds of Ravel to the somewhat frantic and insane sounds of Gaye Bykers On Acid. Nobody ever accused this site of being boring ....
Click on the link here for Audio Player: With all the chaos going on this week, this one just seemed like the only alternative tonight. Neil Young in a solo session at The BBC, recorded on February 23, 1971. I’ve heard Neil Young a lot over the years,...
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