Art Decade

Dave & The Diamonds - Think About Love It sounds like a Yardbirds-era Jimmy Page may have snuck in to play guitar on this. Available on ...

Thomas Dolby - Ravivar Fiore

new Viva show ( #108 ) in the archive

Step Lang - Easy Love Since this sounds almost as much like the Strokes as the A-side , I figure I might as well post it. Music by R. Caccia...

10cc - Speed Kills

Anne Cessna & Essendon Airport - Lost In Madagascar The note that really makes it for me is the major-third on the word "ceiling...

Freeez - Caribbean Winter

Ben Webster: Over the Rainbow (Live at Ronnie Scott)

Vangelis - Silent Portraits 1 Silent Portraits 2 Thanks to Hatchback and our friends at noncollective for the tip on part 2 (featured in th...

England's Glory - Bright Lights Showdown

New Riders of the Purple Sage: I Don't Know You

Guy Pedersen - Petit Moujik De Nuit MEDIUM POP voix homme - 5 guitares électriques

Paul Simon: Oh, Marion Pick your poison...

Head Hands & Feet - Safety In Numbers Kudos to the lads in White Denim for unfurling this one in this mix; it's a stone jam. Featur...

new Viva show ( #107 ) in the archives

Zoo - Hard Times, Good Times Engineer : Bernard Estardy - Studio C B E Arranged By Zoo Photography : Alain Marouani Produced By : Philippe ...

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?