"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Carla Bley Trio – live from Uppsala Sweden – November 7, 2015 – Sveriges Radio P2, Stockholm – Carla Bley Trio this weekend. The past few days have been personal quests for Musical Comfort Food; that music which soothes the soul, offers solace and brings optimism, along with strength and...
Pulp – in session for John Peel – November 7, 1981 – broadcast November 18, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – One of the primary, if not reluctantly labeled bands of what became known as the Brit-Pop Movement, Pulp were hugely influential, primarily in the early to mid-1990s. This session,...
Hours To Go Last Full Day. Here we are, the last full day of our Fundraiser. A lot has happened these last, almost 20 days. We started off slow, but hopeful. And then Past Daily crashed and we went from Fundraiser to Rescue effort, trying to save all our...
Minutes ago, I got word that Past Daily was back up and that the new and improved Past Daily was coming together quickly and nicely. A little fine-tuning here and there, but this is the new, improved Past Daily! The one all of you who contributed and made happen! Everybody...
The start of a new week and things are pretty slow. Unfortunately, nobody chipped in over the weekend and we’re running behind in our goal. We really need to step it up if we’re going to meet our deadline and we have 12 days to do it in. If...
Looks can be deceiving. Judging by the tally on Indiegogo, we’ve only raised a little under $800 in 22 days. But that’s not quite true – we’ve actually raised a little over $1,000 in that time. The discrepancy? Well, when you donate via Indiegogo (the ones putting on the...
We got off to a good start, but thanks to coming down with this dreaded flu, we’ve had a stall. Sadly, being unable to drag myself out of bed, the past 6 days hasn’t helped raise any contributions. But feeling marginally better today, I am trying to keep up the...
There are those “glass is half empty/glass is half full” people around who look at situations and try to make the best or worst of them. I’m somewhere in the middle at the moment. The Fundraiser has been down to a trickle, but a trickle nonetheless. It’s cause for optimism,...
Click on the link here to MAKE YOUR TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION – INDIEGOGO PAST DAILY FUNDRAISER EXCUSE THE INTERRUPTION BUT . . . .We’re coming up on the last few days of our Indiegogo/Past Daily/Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fundraiser. We’re still a ways to go before we hit our actual...
It’s that time of the year again – Past Daily needs to pay bills, and it’s time to pass the hat. Luckily, we only do this a couple times a year, and if we absolutely didn’t have to, we wouldn’t be hounding you. But, truths to tell – putting Past...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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