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Click on the link here for Audio Player- Procol Harum in Session – raw session tracks – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 I was watching an excellent BBC Documentary on the birth and life of the Progressive Rock Movement in Britain from 1966-2004. And even though it could be disputed,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Ganjas – In Session at Rockaxis – July 2013 Checking out the goings-on in Santiago tonight with a live set by Chilean Psych-meisters, The Ganjas in a session recorded by Rockaxis in July of this year. One of the first...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Cabaret Voltaire – In Session for John Peel – June 25, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 One of the more important, influential, yet largely overlooked groups of the early 1980s was Cabaret Voltaire. Taking a separate cue from Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/New Romantic...
Become a Patron! A band more people have probably heard about than actually heard, John’s Children were one of those fabled “you-had-to-be-there” bands that loomed high in the pantheon of Psychedelia, but in fact released only one (sort of) album and a string of singles and became largely known as...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: THE SPECIALS – BBC Peel Sessions Diving into the 70’s this Friday night with The Specials. A session recorded at the BBC for the John Peel Program, most of it from May 23, 1979. Here’s what’s on the player: The Specials John...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Los conciertos de Radio 3 – Niños mutantes -15_05_12 Anyone who has done any radio surfing on the Internet will find there are literally hundreds of stations all over the world who devote a goodly chunk of their daily programming to live...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Whiteout-Time And Again (Peel session) Earlier this year I ran a track by the 90’s Brit-Pop band Whiteout with promises to run some of their session recordings at another time. Well, I didn’t forget and tonight it’s a track from a session...
Click on the link here for Audio player:The Dynamites Featuring Charles Walker – In Session at KDHX – 2008 Continuing our Week of Funk with The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, live in session at KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded on January 10, 2008. Walker, whose career has gone back to...
Click on the Link and play loud: The Futureheads In Session 2010 I first discovered The Futureheads on Myspace around the time their second album had come out. They were gathering a good word of mouth and gigging pretty consistently. That was 8 years ago and a lot has happened...
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