"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
I haven’t posted any Jeff Beck in a while and when I ran across this concert, recorded by The BBC for their In Concert series from July 1, 1972, I realized just what a tremendous talent Jeff Beck is and…
Over to Köln tonight for a concert by Bay Area locals The Brian Jonestown Massacre, from May 12, 2010. Further evidence Psychedelia is alive and well and coming out of the West Coast and making it all the way over…
Staying with the 90s again this week and one of the less-celebrated bands of the Brit-Pop Invasion, Elastica. In mid-1992, ex-Suede band members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided to form a group. By the autumn of that year, bassist…
One of the perennial favorites of the late 70s/early 80s for Friday. Magazine, in concert at The Metropol in Berlin, on October 30, 1980. Having remembered Howard Devoto as the early frontman for Buzzcocks, his transition over to Magazine in…
The Great Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. From the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival and rebroadcast some years later. Kirk’s musical career spans from 1955 until his death in 1977. He preferred to lead his own bands and rarely performed as…
Not to be confused with the UK Psych band of the same name, the U.S. Kaleidoscope were one of the more eclectic assemblages of musicians ever to hit the stage in the 1960s. Incorporating a wild array of Middle Eastern…
A band very much around, but in the 1980s they were billed as America’s First Ska band. The Untouchables were from Los Angeles and had come along just at the time the Ska crazy (i.e. The Specials, Selecter, Madness etc.…
I originally ran this post a few years via my old website, but many readers weren’t happy with the sound quality available at the time. So, as promised, I am running it again with new and improved sound and a…
Gilbert Becaud – Pauvre Pecheur – March 18, 1955 – Le Voix de Son Maitre For pennies a day you can keep the archive up and running: Become a Patron! The legendary French singer-songwriter/actor Gilbert Becaud, known affectionately as “Monsieur…
We could use a little love . . or even a little like: Become a Patron! Diving in the 80’s this weekend with none other than Depeche Mode, recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon by the BBC on October 6,…