Art Decade

Bob Dylan: You're a Big Girl Now (New York Sessions, Blood on the Tracks)

The Louvin Brothers: I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby " His eyes were filled with victory ...." A #1 hit back in '56...

Baz Luhrmann's got nothing on this baby!

Back-To-School Air-Guitar Special The Teenage Fanclub - Is This Music?

The Kinks: Get Back in Line

New Viva show ( #94 ) in the archives. Designed for a rainy day.

Art Garfunkel: Break Away It's just a phase you're going through...

Virna Lindt - Shiver May your Monday be as cinematic as this.

John Prine: A Good Time "Time was once just a clock to me"

Sakkarin - Sugar, Sugar This morsel of minimalist psych-gum from the mind of Jonathan King stormed its way to #12 on the UK hit parade in Ap...

The Stills-Young Band: Midnight on the Bay If you've ever been out on the bay at midnight, you know that it pretty much feels just like ...

The Reverend Gary Davis: Death Don't Have No Mercy The Grateful Dead: Death Don't Have No Mercy Gary Davis was recorded on August 24...

The Paris Sisters: Be My Boy Written and produced by Phil Spector.

Cleo & Patra - Marcus Antonius On The Run Daddy likey.

Albert King: As The Years Go Passing By

¡ NILSSON-FESST THIS WEEKEND ! Hey folks, I'll be DJ'ing at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca Branch this Saturday night (August 14, circa ...

Emmett presents: "The Waiting Is The Hardest Part" Spring-Summer Megamix 2010 Face A Grandstand - Soul Stage Orchestra Hilly Field...

New Viva show ( #93 ) in the Ark Hive.

Duke Ellington: Acht O'Clock Rock From The Afro-Eurasion Eclipse , partly inspired, apparently, by Marshall McLuhan. So for kicks, and o...

John Lee Hooker: Homework Here's a tip, kids - always do your homework.

from the archives Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina It was just about a year ago that I first heard this, lying on a beach in Sitges and lettin...

From the Archives: Henri Salvador: Saint Germain Des Pres View Monsieur Salvador's extensive discography .

New Viva show ( #92 ) in the ark hive.

Terry Riley vs. Hungrybear9562 - A Double Rainbow In Curved Air

Erroll Garner - Body And Soul It's going to be 95 degrees in NYC on Friday, so turn on the ceiling fan, pour yourself an old-fashioned a...

Sandii - Zoot Kook Featuring all the members of YMO, and composed by Haruomi Hosono. I'm feeling this chorus. While we're at it, her...

Imagine how sick these guys must have been live.

Superchunk: Detroit Has a Skyline And for more of Camilo Jose Vergara's photos, go here .

Grateful Dead: Jack Straw Leaving Texas, fourth day of July... The Dead live in Fresno, July 19, 1974.

new Viva show in the archives

YMO - 以心電信 (You've Got to Help Yourself) ...as recently covered by Keane!

Trek with Quintronic - Take It Off

Eternal Triangle - Nothing But A Friend (Endless Mix) I needed a bit of Balearica while cleaning the house yesterday, and this is what I arr...

Roy Ayers: It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind The second in a series of posts in which we discuss who should play who in yet to be re...

Peter Gabriel - Steam OK, so it's basically a rewrite of either "Sledgehammer", "Big Time", or "Fame", dep...

Jo Stafford - No Other Love Today we revisit the many manifestations of Chopin's E Major Étude in popular music (c.f.: Lemon Incest ) wi...

Going down .

compare / contrast

Bob James - El Verano Kicking off summer 2010 with this bringing-tears-to-my-eyes jam originally posted on bumrocks in Feb. 2007. Featuring ...

Dwight Twilley Band - Looking For The Magic Some music for your Memorial Day car wash, pool party, and/or barbeque. That step down to the mi...

Neil Young: See the Sky About to Rain

Bad Brains: I & I Survive This one goes out to one of my sister's old mixes.

The Cure: The Funeral Party I wonder if Angelo Badalamenti was a Cure fan. Coincidence?

1. Using the word "punk" in 1974: check. 2. pre-Slash top hat: check. 3. Rhythm guitar player tight pants: check. 4. When you'...

Carol - So Low My favorite note occurs at 0:43, 1:49, and 2:55.

Islanders - Tirolien Laender

Selections from my favorite youtube channel .

Pretty much all you need to know about American history is contained in this.

new Viva show here

Maceys Window - It's Getting Harder Sunshine Theatre - Mountain Two sunbaked 45s from '71, lovingly compiled on this . Maceys Window...