Art Decade

2012: The Year In Review General Strike - My Other Body Walter Wanderley Trio with Astrud Gilberto - It's A Lovely Day Today Brigitt...

Crystal Fighters - Champion Sound (Psychemagik remix) This has the sickest bagpipeësque riff in it since at least Big Country... or maybe...

The Oceans - Super Snooper In 2013, always remember: you are a super snooper.

Darlene McCrea - My Heart's Not In It This was on one of those Yo La Tengo mixtapes that were recently made available for purchase fo...

Rufus - Walkin' in the Sun Written by Jeff Barry .  In his own words: "My father was blin...

Richard Berry and The Pharaohs - Louie Louie Had you heard this original version before? I had not, until a week or so ago when I happene...

William DeVaughn: Be Thankful For What You Got "Diamond in the back, sunroof top, digging the scene with a gangster lean..." ...

Inga Humpe - Moon There's a TV commercial I remember really liking as a kid. I don't remember what the commercial was for, but in...

The Jackson 5 - I'm Your Sunny One I think it's safe to say that Michael enjoyed singing a great deal. This track is available ...

new Viva show ( #139 ) in the archives The concept behind this one is you pop into a malt shop on a snowy day in NYC while doing last-mi...

The Ornette Coleman Trio - European Echoes Meanwhile, in Stockholm...

Syl Johnson - Different Strokes "In Russia, the Moscow Forum. I packed it three nights in a row. It was so crazy, ...

The Feelies: The High Road

Les Garçons - Dans Quelques Minutes This would make for some mighty hip hold music. 

Orchestra Baobab : Coumba Let the sunshine in.

Jessica Pratt - Bushel Hyde Half Twain the Jesse I feel that Ms. Pratt is feeling her music very deeply. You can possess this recor...

Blanche Blanche Blanche - That's Siberia This was one of my picks after trawling through the music of 2012 for about two weeks. It...

Bedhead: Left Behind

  El Cento: Fuzzy Light Nice groove on this one. From the Austin trio's debut. Learn more about El Cento and supp...

Los Relampagos - Danza Del Fuego Música española por on conjunto español de músicos jóvenes, en una grabación especial con una técnica y ...

new Viva show (#138) in the archives I decided to see what would happen if I tried to dig up an hour's worth of material from the y...

Son House - Death Letter Blues

Lefty Frizzell - I'm Not the Man I'm Supposed to Be If Jake LaMotta had been in the habit of writing aching cou...

Ege Bam Yasi - I Want More (Malcolm Eggs Mixegg) Thanks to the kind people at Viva Radio for the tip on this, and thanks to idk for the...

Terry Melcher - Rebecca Last night I had a dream that Humbert Humbert penned a tune with Jim Croce.

Gramme - Headsore I don't know a bunch about the folks in Gramme, but my sense is that they are not fucking around. You may want to b...

Renegade Soundwave - Thunder II (art by Jim Harris )

Lou Christie - Riding In My Van Special thanks to Walkathon for peeling this one off in his guest mix for Viva radio . Thesis: the part...

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott - The Left Bank Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, words by Robin Scott. I first heard this life-enhancer on T...

The Everly Brothers - Roving Gambler > Down In The Willow Garden Put this record on of a Saturday morning and make breakfast for your ...

Charlie Parker: My Little Suede Shoes

I'm happy to report that Walkathon, the Chicago-based musician, synth maven, and vinyl enthusiast, has contributed a tasty guest mix fe...

Deux - Everybody's Night This is available for purchase here and here , so I took the link down by choice, but everyone should be su...

Walter Carlos - Sonata in E Major (D. Scarlatti)

Tommy Roe - Dizzy This must be the Guinness world record holder for most key changes in a #1 hit. Strum along with the chord progression ...

Brute Force - King of Fuh And you wonder why people don't worship butane...

New Viva show ( #136 ) in the archive, featuring works by W.A. Mozart, G. Rossini, F. Chopin, D. Scarlatti, C. Debussy, E. Grieg, M. de Fal...

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - Henry and James The other day a musical couplet popped into my head -- "Henry and James / Rememb...

Legendary longtime commenter and playlist contributor is back with another hour of sound for your pleasure. Enjoy anytime in the Viva archi...

Bill Withers: I Don't Know

Hey folks, please join us in the Viva archives for a special new "episode" ( #134 ). We'll be waiting for you! x

The Field Mice - Let's Kiss and Make Up Most mp3 blogs have posted this already, but it's new to me, so whatevs. I love that th...

Ian Hunter: Just Another Night

Cocteau Twins - Watchlar Here's one of the songs I enjoyed "discovering" for the 1990 project . Fortunately it's a B-si...

Thanks to all for your help with the 1990 project. The playlist is now streamable here . Sorry about the imagery above, BTW. It's not...

Pintura Fresca - Tiritando

Dusty Springfield - Arrested By You Eternal gratitude to new Viva Radio contributor Wombleton Records for introducing me to this enchant...

Gang of Four: Love Like Anthrax

MARGINAL SOUND QUALITY UPGRADE! Carole King - Porpoise Song (publisher's demo) I took the trouble of acquiring a recording of indete...

Blur: Resigned