Art Decade

November 18, 1970 Filmore East, New York Traffic - Introduction by Bill Graham Medicated Goo Pearly Queen Empty Pages Heaven is in Your Mind...

Metro - Mono Messiah Sometimes when you're looking for stuff that sounds like Métro, you just have to listen to more Métro. Featuring Jo...

Boy George - Girlfriend Thanks to Ted for the tip on this barnburner. I've no time for Google Image Search today... open your mind and ...

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Le Brin D'herbe available on: this

The Meters: People Say This reminds me a bit of the brilliant if depressingly prescient If I Lose My Job posted by Emmett moons ago. Stagfl...

That Thing - That Thing (American Version) Shamanistic sleighbells at the 4:44 mark...

Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National: Okwukwe Na Nchekwube (Faith and Trust) Click here for a short bio and discography on Celest...

Rare Bird - Passing Through

Lenny Williams - Please Don't Tempt Me (How & Why? edit) This is a jam.

Tears For Fears - Change

Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim: Drinking Water One from the 1969 Sinatra/Jobim sessions . Oh, and speaking of Scorcese, he's goi...

Magnet - Willow's Song It's kind of amazing that Paul Giovanni actually wrote this; it sounds more like something that would have s...

Notorious B.I.G. - Everyday Struggle

The Rolling Stones: 2000 Man "Anderson has a fine sense of how music works against an image....I love the scene in Bottle Rocket when ...

Yes - Big Generator Jon , Trevor , Trevor et al. going big on this pro- hallucinogen anthem.

FROM THE ARCHIVES Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Aya Mood Original air date: Condonsday, 2007

Joe South - Cosmos This is from Joe's 1975 Island LP Midnight Rainbows , which he recorded after a three year sabbatical from the music ...

The Thought - Atlanta Threat

Manhattans: Kiss and Say Goodbye I won't be able to see you anymore because of [pause] my obligations...

Jimi Hendrix - Strato Strut

Pop Levi - Blue Honey I'm liking the overdubs on the second verse. Available on: this .

December 6, 1969 Altamont Speedway, San Francisco Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash Carol Sympathy for the Devil (Take I) Sympathy for the...

Built to Spill: Time Trap Just because, on this Friday afternoon, this is what I really want to hear.

Terry Riley - In C BONUS BEATS

Beulah: I love John, She Loves Paul and The Battle Cry of the West Two from the late, lamented Beulah. The first from their debut album, 199...

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel

Hey party people - our latest show for Viva Radio premieres today at 2 PM. This week's show features a lot of new-to-me stuff that I...

The Beatles: Martha My Dear January 14, 1969 - "A/B Road" session tapes also known as The Nagra Reels. More info on the "Get ...

Moby - Grace

FROM THE ARCHIVES Satwa: Allegro Piradissimo Original air date: 3/27/07. For eleven January evenings in 1973, the Morroccan sitar of Lula C...

Jake Fairley - Frantic

The Parallax View: Keep your fingers on the box and Antisocial Tendencies

Jürgen Paape - Fruity Loops 2

December 1, 1976 Roxy Theater, Los Angeles Lou Reed - Jam Sweet Jane I Believe In Love Lisa Says Kicks She's My Best Friend Waiting For ...

Aphex Twin - Wet Tip Hen Ax

Tony Bennett and Bill Evans: Some Other Time It's raining and I'm off to see Death of a Salesman . So here's a song for a rainy ...

Brian Eno - Bell Study with Distant Delay

M83 - Gone

Steely Dan: The Caves of Altamira Off of The Royal Scam . Becker and Fagan write of the cover art - "before long we find ourselves star...

Thomas Fehlmann - Schöne Grüsse

Neil Young: Motion Pictures Well all those people think they've got it made But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow, or trade Anything I ha...

Joachim Spieth - You Don't Fool Me B1

Grant Green: I Can't Stop Loving You Grant Green's take on the Don Gibson standard, off of Goin' West , an album recorded in 196...

The Doors: We Could Be So Good Together "The Doors were different, The Doors interested me. The Doors seemed unconvinced that love was ...

Yo La Tengo - The Race Is On Again

Grateful Dead - If I Had The World To Give (outro) Recorded "live" inside the pillowy acoustics of the Cleveland Music Hall, Monda...

Vic Godard & The Subway Sect - Nobody's Scared Out Of Touch

Be Bop Deluxe - Sound Track Am I making this up, or is there a scene in Fast Times where Judge Reinhold is washing his car in the driveway,...

Shop Assistants - Train From Kansas City After Dark

The Pioneers - Long Shot Kick De Bucket Simply a classic that's been hitting the mark for me lately. I like drum machines, but good luck...