"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
X in concert this weekend. A live broadcast from My Father’s Place in Roslyn New York on November 12, 1983. X came to epitomize the L.A. music scene in the late 1970s/early 1980s and they were one of the most influential to come out of the Punk/New Wave/Rockabilly/Rootsrock movements...
September 23, 1940 – FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover addressed a meeting of The American Legion in Boston on this day. An avid anti-Communist, Hoover warned of the sneaking influence of Communist and Fascist elements threatening to flood the country. In 1940 there was the somewhat unholy alliance between Hitler and...
Sir Ernest MacMillan Conducts Music Of Francois Morel – Esquisse Op. 1 – CBC Radio Session – 1956 – CBC Transcription Service – The music of Canadian Composer Francois Morel, played by the Toronto Symphony, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan in this 1956 CBC Studio recording. This week it’s Morel’s...
– NBC Second Sunday: The Young Rebels – October 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember what a period of upheaval the late 1960s were. Everything that had been considered the status quo was coming under scrutiny and questioned by those...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Angel Olsen – Live At The Scandic Grand Hotel, Stockholm – March 31, 2014 – Sveriges Radio P3 If the name sounds familiar, it’s because I ran an acoustic gig by Angel Olsen from Paris a couple months ago. This one...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Blue Network – The Magic Key – St. Louis Symphony, Cond. Vladimir Golschmann w/Soprano Helen Traubel – in concert – March 27, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. More rare and historic concerts featuring American Orchestras of the 1930s. This...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sleepy Sun – in session at KDHX – November 19, 2013 – KDHX/Soundcloud If you’ve spent any time scrounging around the Past Daily site, catching sessions from new bands, you might come away with the impression that nothing is happening in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for Feb. 6, 1951 The news for this February 6th in 1951 began with the worst Passenger train disaster since 1918. The Pennsylvania Railroad 5:10 Commuter Express train The Broker hit a temporary spur and careened over an embankment, killing some...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Trashcan Sinatras – Live at KDHX – Aug.8, 2009 One of my all-time favorite bands, Trashcan Sinatras have been around for a good-long time and show no signs of wear, strain or boredom. They have always been a consistently good and engaging...
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...
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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