"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Toy In session – April 10, 2012 – BBC 6 Music – A session from Toy tonight. Five years ago I ran one of their first sessions after the release of their debut album. Press was high on the album, the audience was clamoring and they were proclaimed the Band...
April 8, 1951 – CBS Radio – Howard K. Smith News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 8, 1951 – 65 years ago we were knee-deep in a war in Korea and we were knee-deep in East-West tensions. Power plays and shows of strength. And how was...
Foals – Live at The BBC 6 Music Festival, Bristol 2016 – February 14, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Foals tonight – from the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol two weeks ago. Formed in Oxford in 2005, Foals have been around some eleven years now and, according to...
– SOAK – Live at Debaser Strand, Stockholm – October 7, 2015 – Sveriges Radio P3 – New faces tonight. SOAK, who is otherwise known as Bridie Monds-Watson, is an Irish singer-songwriter who, at 19 has issued her debut album (Before We Forgot How To Dream) in May. She has...
If you can: Become a Patron! News for this April 24th was ominous. The German invasion of Scandinavia was having a bigger affect on the war than even in previous weeks. With German troops occupying airfields in Denmark, and bringing up planes, supplies, gasoline and repair crews, nightly air-raids over...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Duke Ellington – In Concert from Zurich – September 10, 1959 – DRS-Radio Zurich Over to Switzerland this week for a classic concert by Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra, featuring Ray Nancy, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges,...
Valentines Day is over – Presidents Day is hours away and your contributions are trickling in. I’m heading into the Third Week of this Past Daily Emergency Fundraiser a little apprehensive. Sure, yesterday was a holiday for a lot of people – dinners and reservations and flowers. The mass outpouring...
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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