Art Decade

Bad Cash Quartet - Amuse You ...and so we draw a close to Year Four of the Decade. As Year Five begins, my new direction is clear: mostly Sw...

Jerry Garcia - Eep Hour

Boat Club - Nowhere Two dudes from Gothenburg with a yen to emulate Flesh + Blood -era Roxy. How can I resist this? Available on Caught The ...

Eggstone - The Dog More from Eggstone. I feel like this one starts off inauspiciously, then gets ruling in a very '90s-anthem way on the...

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight!

Laetitia Sadier - Un Soir, Un Chien Oops... this is from a newish album so I probably shouldn't be posting it. I'll leave it up for ...

New Viva show ( #98 ) in archives. Thanks again to all who contributed to the 1997 project. I ended up using only a handful of the picks (i...

Eggstone - Taramasalata Huge thanks to Ely at Songblague for the tip on this slice of labyrinthine pop. I feel an Eggstone phase coming on....

photo courtesy of RVK Across the USA Eric Clapton: Black Summer Rain

Deerhoof - Polly Bee Getting pumped for the big show at Poisson Rouge tonight: Deerhoof. A band who continue to expand the rock idiom both h...

Beck - Deadweight (edit) I'm working on an all-1997 playlist for Viva Radio. This is one of the signature jams I remember from that glea...

Lifter Puller - Nassau Coliseum

Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo Recorded "live" at Chicago's historic Auditorium Theatre, Thursday, May ...

John Lennon: Oh My Love

The Jam: Wasteland

Gerry Mulligan: Prelude in E Minor Brazil meets Poland. And here's Freddy Chopin's original, completed in a deserted Carthusian mona...

New Viva show ( #97 ) in the archives.

In these metal ways, in these metal days Brian Eno: No One Receiving

I bet if you ingested J.J. Cale's Crazy Mama and chased it with Spiritualized's All of My Tears you'd wake up the next morning...

TONIGHT DJ Emmett comes alive at Heathers , 506 East 13th Street between A & B, 9 pm-close. Image courtesy of haw-lin .

drawing by Greg Condon Rick Danko: Shake It Rick Danko: Sip the Wine I just wanna make it up ... don't wanna fake it I ju...

New Viva show ( #96 ) in the archives.

Weather Report: Waterfall The players: Joe Zawinul – Electric and acoustic piano Wayne Shorter – Soprano saxophone Miroslav Vitous – Electri...

Japan: Quiet Life I enjoy how on Wikipedia the reference under Japan's entry stating that they influenced Duran Duran is cited as "...

Miles Davis Quintet - Orbits

Rodger Collins - You Sexy Sugar Plum (But I Like It) Some Northern Synth for your Saturday Night.

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Ship of Fools Fuck it. It's Friday. And besides, you know you liked Bob Seger just as much as I d...

Virna Lindt - Pillow Talk More vaguely twee Europop for this Wednesday.

Will Powers - Adventures In Success (at 45) "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you mad...

Joe Henderson: If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem Let's get this week started right. Recorded live ...

drawing by thijshere's flickr Bobby Womack: I'm in Love

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me

Alternate TV: Love Lies Limp brief band bio

James Brown: The Popcorn Recorded after a show at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium in 1968. Released as a single in May '69 charting at #1...

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Spaceship Orion ...one of those nights before a little trip when you stay up late packing and getting your affai...

Neil Young: Violent Side Here comes the night Here comes the anger You can say that again!

Serge Gainsbourg & Françoise Hardy - L'amour en Privé May your Friday be as cinematic as this.

The Staple Singers: God Bless the Children This plays over the final few minutes of Hal Ashby's The Landlord , one of the greatest gentr...

The Slickers - Johnny Too Bad Sheridan DuPre XVII was talking about this tune, as he'd heard the Taj Mahal version in a mix of Greg ...

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...