"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Echo & The Bunnymen – Live from Liverpool Empire – January 11, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert – Echo & The Bunnymen in concert tonight. Recorded live at the Liverpool Empire in 1988 by BBC Radio 1 for their In Concert series. As a band who started...
Leonard Cohen – In Session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – July 9, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – With the incredibly sad news earlier this evening, of the passing of legend and icon Leonard Cohen, it gives further evidence 2016 has been a terrible year for loss....
Julien Baker – live at Outside lands Music and Arts Festival – August 6, 2016 – Livestream News faces tonight. Julien Baker has been creating a stir in recent months. The 20 year old singer-songwriter, establishing herself early-on as a member of the Memphis band Forrister has struck out on...
– Nina Simone – live in Hamburg – May 6, 1988 – RBBBerlin – It would be limiting of the extraordinary talents of Nina Simone to call her a Jazz artist – just like it would be limiting to call Nina Simone a singer-songwriter. Nina Simone was a gifted and...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Kris Dane – live at [PIAS] Nites – April 28, 2015 – PIAS It never ceases to amaze me, the amount of talent there is, seemingly everywhere on the planet. Kris Dane is a Belgian singer-songwriter who...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sharon Van Etten In Session for Lauren Laverne – BBC 6 Music – June 5, 2014 Something brand new tonight – in fact, hours old. Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, in session for the Lauren Laverne program on BBC 6 Music...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jesse Winchester – In concert at Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton MA – October 12, 1982 Sunday night, when the news came across several Social Media sites that singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester had lost his battle with Cancer at age 69, it...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sofie Winterson – live at Noorderslag 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – The Netherlands A new face on the horizon tonight. Sofie Winterson is a Dutch singer-songwriter, fronting a four piece group and currently making waves around Europe. With a debut album ready...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Keziah Jones – live at Nova Sessions, Paris – September 27, 2013 – Radio France FIP Keziah Jones (originally Olufemi Sanyaolu) is a Nigerian Singer-Songwriter and purveyor of Blu-Funk, a hybrid of Blues and Funk, done in the inimitable Nigerian style....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Nanci Griffith – live at the 1992 Cambridge Folk Festival – BBC 6 Music A change of pace tonight. No reason, but I don’t recall running any Nanci Griffith on Past Daily ever – so tonight’s a make-good on that. Here...
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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