Art Decade

The Charles Lloyd Quartet: Dream Weaver This one just feels good. Plus, hold on to your hats. the players: Charles Lloyd - tenor sax Keith J...

Elvin Jones: Moon Dance Recently, Emmett , my brother , and I took in a show by saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa , which was great, and afte...

Wreckless Eric: Whole Wide World "We're going to blow the lid on this myth of France because Americans always think of France as th...

The Cure: In Your House

Traffic - Dream Gerrard

Hank Mobley: The Best Things in Life Are Free One for the optimistic song titles category. The players: Hank Mobley, tenor sax Grant Green, ...

Jefferson Airplane: She Has Funny Cars

Agnetha Fältskog - Wrap Your Arms Around Me Music to lose your virginity to from Sweden's Agnetha Fältskog, best known as the first ...

Junior Wells: Ships on the Ocean That'll do nicely, thank you very much.

Lou Rawls: Trouble Down Here Below And this is how one should learn the alphabet...

The Beach Boys - The Little Girl I Once Knew I'm fine with the song, but mainly I just want to crank the intro, especially when it reapp...

A Hundred Birds - So Eye On ...back from Ireland. Shortly before I left I purchased this CD from a semi-homeless dude on W. 72nd St., and t...

Emmett Presents: The End Is Not In Sight Side A Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night Twin Engine - Mistress Of The Morning Nancy Si...

Simon & Garfunkel: Punky's Dilemma [demo]

Eddie Addenbury - Captain Jones I can't fully follow the narrative on this nautical pop nugget (produced & arranged by Mike Batt), b...

The Slits: Love Und Romance

new Viva show ( #105 ) in the archives

The Sir Douglas Band: Nitty Gritty

William Onyeabor - Love Is Blind William sounding vaguely new wave to me on this one. I haven't heard anything about if/when any Onyeabo...

The Cryan' Shames - The Sailing Ship To me this sounds more like a '90s retro-psych outfit trying to write a psych tune than an actu...

Lee Hazlewood: Dark In My Heart "I asked a girl for lovin' and she walked in the phone booth, That ain't cool - in the phone bo...

The Honeybus - For Where Have You Been Draw an afghan blanket over your knees and curl up beside the fire with this Colin Hare-penned ditty,...

New Viva show ( #104 ) in the archives. Designed for an imaginary pre-concert lot hang.

FROM THE ARK HIVES Legend - Heather On The Hill original air date: 3/10/09 This is a by-request archival repost, going out to Robert in Lawr...

Courtesy of JB, who sent me a link to this Playmobil performance of Joy Division's "Transmission" as performed on BBC2's ...

When evil grooves happen to good people.

The Grease Band - New Morning As I mentioned previously, there's a new mastermix in the works. It'll be a combination of highlights...

Is city life dragging you down? Get it together in the country tonight with a charming mix of sylvan obscurities, courtesy of Mr. Dave Lerne...

The Rolling Stones: Neighbo[u]rs I mean we all have them, right? me, you, Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly. Neighbors, that is.

New megamix in progress, new Viva show ( #102 ) in the archive.

Todd Rundgren: Love of the Common Man I've been burned in my prime

David Bowie: Rock'N'Roll Suicide "Give me your hands, cause your WONDERFUL!" Closing track on 'The Rise and Fall...

Studio: West Side If early New Order had Robert Smith guest on vocals.

James Burton: Fools Rush In Don't they though?

greg condon Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard: Who's that Knocking?

greg condon John Lennon: Old Dirt Road

greg condon The Grateful Dead: The Stranger

greg condon Charles Mingus: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love

greg condon Dennis Brown: Silhouettes

Modern Sound Corporation - Safari (pt. 2) Produced by Barry Guard. Distributed K-Tel Sweden. ...and a very happy New Year to all the listene...

Ann Steel - My Time Too essential not to post. Music by Roberto Cacciapaglia, lyrics by Giada Di Villahermosa. Recorded in Milan. Does ...

Two tracks to help ring in your New Year. Cheers! David Ruffin: Anything That You Ask For Ray Barretto: A Deeper Shade of Soul

Gimmicks - Bermuda Inn They don't make 'em like this anymore; in fact, they never made them like this. Recorded in Stockholm and...

The Roches - Hammond Song Big thanks to Greg for featuring this one on his female folk mix . Produced by Robert Fripp, with Frippertroni...

Juanita Rogers - A Love Letter Full Of Promises Available on this . And I'm still looking for suggestions for an all-acapella playlis...

Johnny Paycheck: Friend, Lover, Wife

Inga Humpe - Do I Have To

Curved Air: Hide and Seek This slice of life goes out to Mr. Beer N. Hockey . The title is definitely fitting to the music -- with all t...

David Allan Coe: Funeral Parlor Blues

Cornershop Presents Bubbley Kaur - Topknot I wanted to do a vinyl rip of this, but records ordered on November 22nd still haven't arrive...