Art Decade

Polly Brown - Up In A Puff Of Smoke A pop song should be like a roller coaster you want to ride again and again.

new Viva show ( #142 ) in the archive

Don Covay - It's Better To Have (And Don't Need) Saturday Night Special

Honk - Hesitation Featuring a horn riff worthy of Steely Dan and a très chic chord change at 0:32 (and 0:50 and 1:39, etc.)

 Graeme Edge Band - The Tunnel

The Shocking Blue - Beggin' Featuring the invigorating and erratic Cornelis van der Beek on drums.

The Politicians - Free Your Mind     a stagecoach production  

L'infonie - Mantra (excerpt) full version available on compact disc

 Hartley C. White - Everybody Loves A Winner Thanks  Zach Phillips for the peel-off on this one, a jam that is truly and utterly out to ...

ST-4 - Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys

Hey friends, did you know that Zach Phillips of Blanche Blanche Blanche did a guest mix for us? Well, he did, and you can listen to it her...

Sunny Adé & His African Beats: Ja Fun Mi (instrumental) Still fresh after 30 years. Let's get this weekend started! [History b...

The Monotones - What Would I Do For a brief window of time and space -- say 1963-1964 in Britain -- this was the sound .  The children in...

Greg Condon Terry Reid - Fooling You

Greg Condon Joe Cuba Sextet - Gimme Some Love (Dame un Poquito de Cariño)

Greg Condon Janet Greene - Poor Left Winger

Greg Condon Roger Waters - The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)

Greg Condon Michael Franks - Monkey See-Monkey Do

  new Viva show ( #140 ) in the archives While I'm regathering the energies to search for "new" music, I made this little...

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge Still trying to get the wheels in motion for 2013. In the meantime, I ask: has a stranger pi...

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 ...