Getting back to the Coachella Music & Arts Festival this week. A great concert was enjoyed by all on April 14th when Radiohead took the stage for two amazing hours. Thom York and company proved once again they are one of the truly great bands currently making the rounds. And this Summer looks pretty memorable by all accounts.

Here's the rundown:

Radiohead Set list – Coachella - April 14, 2012

1.Bloom

2.15 Step

3.Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

4.Morning Mr. Magpie

5.Staircase

6.The Gloaming

7.Pyramid Song

8.The Daily Mail

9.Myxomatosis

10.Karma Police

11.Identikit

12.Lotus Flower

13.There There

14.Bodysnatchers

15.Idioteque

# Encore:

16.Lucky

17.Reckoner

18.Everything In Its Right Place Play Video
(With "After The Gold Rush" intro)

Encore 2:

19.Give Up the Ghost

20.Paranoid Android

Since it's the full concert, it's spread out over two players.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the concert we originally planned this weekend just wasn't happening technically. So as a substitute, here is a Talking Heads concert from Milwaukee recorded in 1984.

One of those bands that skirted New Wave, Post-Punk, Experimental and Avant Garde without actually being labeled one of those specifically, Talking Heads were a breath of fresh air and a change in direction for a lot of contemporary music at the time. Inventive while also having large appeal with the mainstream, they managed to bridge several camps at the same time, and achieved a huge amount of success in the process.

1984 was a good year for the band and this is an exceptionally good concert from that period.

Enjoy - play loud . . .you know the drill.

Something a bit more recent in vintage. Wire recorded this past May 9th live in Paris by Radio France.

It's really good to hear this band still together and still performing. They were such a pivotal force in the initial Punk movement in the mid-70's and their growth into Experimental and Alternative just proves how versatile and far-reaching Wire actually are. That they haven't achieved massive commercial success is really a good thing since their music doesn't adhere to flights of fancy and gimmicks - that it is, indeed timeless.

For that reason they have been one of my favorite bands of the last forty years. Always a pleasure to visit and always an experience worth having.

No matter when.

When Newstalgia first started (over 2 years ago), I ran a landmark piece of electronic music, conceived by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop headed by Delia Derbyshire who was not only a founder of the workshop, but one of the first women involved in Electronic music. Her contributions however, have gone sadly overlooked even though they were wide ranging (she did the original theme music for Doctor Who - elements of that theme are still used) they have been uncredited. Only in recent years, unfortunately after her death, has she been rediscovered and slowly being given the recognition she has deserved.

The piece I ran two years ago was The Dreams (which you can still hear). It was issued on disc via the BBC Transcription Service. The other side of that disc, also from 1964 is Amor Dei, another invention for Radio, with spoken word montage by Barry Bermange and electronic music score by Delia Derbyshire.

I've been meaning to run it for months now. It's just a coincidence that it happens to be on Easter weekend. I also ran across my friend Pati's mesmerizing photograph and thought the two more or less belonged together.

Maybe no coincidence.

Enjoy - and if you do, please consider making a donation to keep Newstalgia running.

Technical note: The piece gets very quiet in places for long periods of time. It's not over until the BBC Announcer comes on at the end. It's about a half-hour.

(Annuals - mixing up a big bowl of Experimental in Raleigh)

My bad. I've been meaning to post this band on Newstalgia for many months now. I've been a big fan ever since their first album Be He Me came out in 2006. It's bands like this that keep proving to me over and over that the good music ain't on the charts and it ain't on your local Mainstream radio station.

As usual, I ran across Annuals during one of my browses on MySpace in 2006. Got sucked in within the first 30 seconds and I've been checking on their progress ever since. They come from Raleigh North Carolina and they've been around since 2004, and doing it like so many bands these days are doing it - slowly, but staying at it and getting good word of mouth going.

This track, Brother opens their first album. They have a lot of new material out (or newer), but this track was the first one that got me and I suppose we could call it an oldie. But like my theory goes - if you've never heard it before, it's new to you.

So, if you're familiar with them, I'm preaching to the choir. But if you've never heard them before - take a break and check them out. As always, they can use your support and I hope their fortunes take them to many places and turn on many people.

Update: Ending up the first week of our emergency drive still halfway there. Absolutely grateful beyond description for the donations in the past few hours. You got us to the 50% mark, and that's a hopeful sign. I know it's a pain, hearing about this with every post, but I can't stress how much I need your help. At it stands, there is a very good chance of losing the Archive, which will mean all the recordings you've been hearing and would hear will be gone. When that happens there's no point in continuing with Newstalgia, as the whole reason for having this website was to make those recordings available to you, for free, for learning, for broadening your horizons. If you feel that's worth a buck or two (or as much as you can), please consider making a donation in order to keep this site up and keep the archives a vital source of history at your disposal. We can do it - I swear we can.

Keeping going with our spotlight on the homegrown; tonight it's The Pixies and a session they recorded for John Peel at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in 1988.

Here's the rundown from that session, recorded on October 9, 1988:

1. Dead
2. There goes My Gun
3. Manta Ray

And it officially starts the weekend!

As you probably know by now (if you've been following Newstalgia and the Roundtable for any length of time), I am a huge fan of the Experimental/Progressive/alternative 90's band Suarez from Argentina. They have since broken up and gone separate ways with former lead singer Rosario Blefari launching a successful solo career, as well as acting career and is heavily involved in activism.

Her solo material is wonderful, and I've been featuring it over the past several months. But every so often I'm reminded of the earlier stuff, the Suarez stuff, and it takes me right back to the place I first heard them and the reason why they have been one of my favorite bands ever since - together or not.

Tonight it's Desmaya, a track that didn't wind up on any of their own albums, but rather included in a compilation album with several other bands from Argentina.

A casual reminder the world of music is vast and the discoveries are endless. Don't be shortchanged by mainstream radio - hit the browse button and see where it takes you.

It's always a kick to hear from the bands you discover and tell other people about. A couple months ago I ran a track from the French alternative/psych/experimental/ band Cotton Club and was pretty high on them and had hopes they would get a good word of mouth going via the blogosphere and everywhere in between. I got a very nice e-mail from the guys thanking Newstalgia for the support and last week they sent me a link to some of their new stuff, which they had finished mixing almost a week ago. I also got word they are doing a gig in Berlin later on this week on the 12th. So fortunes are picking up.

I'm happy to say they didn't disappoint and tonight's track, Hope Sailor is what came out of that session.

Good way to kick off the week with some new discoveries. FYI - head over to Soundcloud and hit the browse button and get blown away by what's out there.

Who says music is dead?

As long as we're in a Singer-Songwriter vein this week, I thought I would toss some PJ Harvey into the mix. Harvey hasn't captured the mainstream market, and its doubtful she ever will. Her material is too unflinching and visceral to be neatly tied into a convenient package. And that's a good thing, because she's been influential to a number of up-and-comers in recent years who have borrowed liberally from her in many different ways. But PJ Harvey is an original, and however you feel about her, you don't feel ambivalence.

Tonight it's a session she recorded for John Peel at The BBC on November 10, 2000.

Here's the track lineup:

1. This Wicked Tongue
2. Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name
3. Beautiful Feeling
4. Nickel Under The Foot.

Music that screams "Don't Blend In." So don't.

A track I heard almost non-stop when it was first released in 1981. Robert Williams' Buy My Record was an instant anthem on a lot of the free-form/New Wave Radio stations around the country at the time.

Trouble was, it came and went in a flash and not much has been heard from him since. Well, not if you're concentrating on the mainstream. Williams, a former drummer with Captain Beefheart and an experimental musician in his own right, has been issuing material since that 1981 release - just not on A&M.

But tonight it's that signature track. And since it's off the original A&M EP, it slides effortlessly right into the next track, Black Yard, which may or may not be familiar with you.

The 80's.