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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. etc.) were hitting the charts in the UK and creating...
A couple more patrons and we’ll be set: Become a Patron! Missing Persons in concert tonight. Live from My Father’s Place in Rosslyn New York on September 30, 1981 and broadcast live over WLIR-FM. As Punk started calming down, the 80s were looking at an onslaught of another kind; New...
We’re here because of your support: Become a Patron! It’s always something of a mixed blessing to run across a concert by a band who were well known, but very little existing of them recorded in concert under decent conditions. In this case, it’s a good sounding concert but the...
A classic concert this weekend. Genesis, during what many consider to be the halcyon days of the band, when the inimitable Peter Gabriel was lead singer. Recorded on November 3, 1972 at, presumably the BBC’s Paris Theater in London. Following rehearsals in a dance school in Shepherd’s Bush, Genesis recorded...
Suarez – A-Sides and B-Sides – Compilation album – 2005 One of the more important bands during the 1990s in Argentina. Suarez epitomized Indie and the spirit of experimental Pop Music in South America. Fronted by Rosario Blefari, Suarez probably had more in common with the Prog and Psych bands...
Laughing Clowns – In Session for John Peel – Dec. 8, 1982 – recorded Nov. 29, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Laughing Clowns from Australia. I confess, I missed them during their first incarnation – but I was certainly familiar with their founder Ed Kuepper, who was the driving...
Inspiral Carpets – in session for John Peel – June 5, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – Inspiral Carpets tonight. From a session recorded for John Peel by BBC Radio 1 on June 5, 1990. Inspiral Carpets, even though they began life as a quasi Punk/Garage band, became heavily involved...
Charles Bradley – In Concert at Anciennes Belgique – October 24, 2013 – RTBF, Brussels – Charles Bradley tonight (1948-2017). With the sad news earlier today of the passing of Blues/Funk/Soul/ R&B legend Charles Bradley at the age of 68, we can honestly say we hardly got to know him...
The Move – live at Stadthall Offenbach, Germany – June 26, 1967 – Beat, Beat, Beat – Hessischer Rundfunk – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Move tonight – recorded just two months after the Yardbirds appearance (posted last night), from a performance at Stadthall, Offenbach, Germany on June 26,...
Queens Of The Stone Age – Reading 2000 – BBC 6 Music – Queens Of The Stone Age, in concert at The Reading Festival in 2000 (are you joking? Seventeen YEARS AGO??). The Palm Desert California band were one of the highlights of a festival that included headliners Oasis and...
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