Art Decade

The Band - Look Out Cleveland

The Real People - I Can't Wait Window Pane Two from legendary britpop pioneers The Real People. I saw them in (probably) spring 1992 at ...

13-year-old given a walkman, seems confused... [Thanks to JB for the heads up on this article.]

Lavender Hill Mob - The Party Song At 1,026 posts, we come to Montreal's Lavender Hill Mob. Great lead vocals from Nicky Prigeno, and cl...

REMASTERED! Paul Zaza - Le Payback I finally got a copy of this record. Please enjoy.

October 29, 1998 Kesselhaus, Berlin Air - Introduction Talisman Remember J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau Le Soleil est Pres de Moi Kelly Watch...

Jackson Five - Mama's Pearl Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are People Make The World Go 'Round BONUS BEATS Also, from two we...

Our new Viva show airs today at 2 PM, featuring some songs that I'll be posting here next week. also: doin' the twitter thing

Justin Hinds & The Dominoes: Carry Go Bring Come was recorded in one take and landed on the top of the Jamaican charts in '63.

Charles Mingus - Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk Some Monday afternoon jazz, from Mingus at Monterey , recorded September ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Ain't The One It's a Friday afternoon in June, and it's fucking sunny outside. But mostly because of the fir...

The Wailers - Midnight Ravers Please don't let me down

The Units: High Pressure Days (Headman Rework) High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix) Two remixes based on one of my favorite recent Emmet...

INXS: Original Sin

J.J. Cale - Travelin' Light Featuring J.J. kickin' butt on rhythm guitar in the right channel. Rhythm guitar in the left channel = H...

Wings - Backwards Traveller

This is a follow-up to Emmett's post earlier last week from Zeppelin's debut. Sandie Shaw's version of Your Time Is Gonna Come m...

new Viva show "drops" today at 2 PM

Jimmy Reed: Life is Funny A hypothetical: You're a hippy hustler who looks like a young Seymour Cassel; you pick up four middle aged mar...

KRS-One - Sound Of Da Police For Sheridan.

R. Stevie Moore - Showing Shadows Keeping the vibe going. Lots of tasty chord changes in this one. Extended version available on this .

Sir Douglas Quintet: Nuevo Laredo It's been ages since the last Doug Sahm post . Time to dust off the boots for this Texas legend.

R. Stevie Moore - Here Comes Summer Again Thanks to Piper for the tip and to Stevie for CD. Recorded on Tuesday, May 3rd, 1977, in Nashvil...

The Beach Boys - In My Room (Demo) Surfer Girl (Live in Hawaii rehearsal) And for kicks, here's this. Vocals only, it s...

Emmylou Harris: Hello Stranger With Nicolette Larson. And here is Neil Young with Nicolette Larson.

FROM THE ARCHIVES In honor of our recent milestone (1,000 posts in 924 days; or 1.08 posts per day since November '06), here is a select...

Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life

FROM THE ARCHIVES Hi-Voltage Orchestra - Midnight Blue Original air date: 6/16/08. I finally secured a copy of this on vinyl. Ta-dow. I don...

Jermaine Jackson - Erucu This is what you might have heard in the West Village 34 years ago.

Donald Byrd: The Cat Walk From the album of the same name with the following line up: Donald Byrd: trumpet Pepper Adams: baritone sax Duke P...

Smyle - She Means A Lot To Me The triumphant return of Smyle to these pages. Written and sung by the legendary Bas Muijs. available on: thi...

Townes Van Zandt: Don't Take It Too Bad It's just some kind of game made out of all of this living that we got left to do...

Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper: Stop This one goes out to the Strand Bookstore, where I recently unloaded a ton of books, and where the helpf...

Flo & Eddie - I Been Born Again

Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times This is ripped from my mom's copy of the album, which appears to be a 1st U.S. pressing (Atlantic SD...

June 20, 1970 Filmore East, New York Miles Davis - The Mask > It's About That Time > I Fall In Love Too Easily > Sanctuary >...

Genesis - The Musical Box Still obsessed with this.

Koko Taylor - I Don't Care Who Knows Koko Taylor - I Need More and More Had to brush off an old CD today. It wasn't even loaded int...

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...