Art Decade

Braid - This Charming Man Just following up on our other Braid post from the other day. Stereo-panned twin rhythm guitars harmonically c...

Juaneco Y Su Combo - La Cumbia del Pacurro Grateful thanks to the people at Tiger's Milk Records for peeling this off on a recent co...

Podcast #9, recorded the evening of Saturday February 15th>Sunday February 16th, 2014, part two: stream/download here In which our h...

#1 in the UK charts, nowhere on the US charts. I wish I could go back in time and persuade David Gilmour to play the guitar solo.

new Viva show (#154) in the archive

Oval - Photograph I first heard this played by  Ted some years back, and it's been making the rounds over at Viva Radio . Whatever t...

Girls At Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast Something in the melody here has caused  this to become lodged in my brain. Thought you might l...

SAVE YOUR DATE DJ Emmett comes alive on Saturday, June 21st (summer solstice), at 10 pm. Cafe Dancer, 96 Orchard Street, Manhattan. Th...

Pentangle - So Early In The Spring Recorded "live" at the Royal Albert Hall, June 29th, 1968. So here's another great hal...

Cathy Berberian with the Juilliard Ensemble - Black Is The Colour Arranged & conducted by Luciano Berio. "Black is the Colour...

Steely Dan - Rose Darling I'm claiming this as the definitive Steely Dan deep cut. (Brooklyn, the song Gaucho, Green Earrings, Caves...

Danielsson & Pekkanini - Otroligt Blåst Och Dum A question for our Scandinavian friends: Is the bit at 1:56 an old Swedish drinking s...

Medicine Head - Rising Sun May 16th? Feels like it's time to throw a couple of ice cold thirty packs of Stroh's in the back of th...

The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone So many "lost love" songs in the Supremes/H-D-H canon: Reflections, this on...

The Supremes - Reflections The psychic bow drawn at 0:40 is released at 0:50, like a corkscrew to your heart. Holland-Dozier-Holland et...

Les Espions - Casse-Tête Jungle Some soundpillows for your spring.

Love - Can't Explain (mono mix) Noisy proto-punk jangle from Arthur and the lads. One can easily hear why these folks covered it.

X-Ray Pop - Oh Oui J'Aime! I wanted to post this four years ago (true!), but couldn't seem to find a copy of the record or tape (...

Killing Joke: Change

Saturday, 10 pm, 96 Orchard Street. I'll play the tuneskis, you drink the brewskis.

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 8. Faedrelandssang (National Song) performed by Marian Lapsansky

Pain Teens - The Way Love Used To Be

The Move - Do Ya Not an obscurity, but I never really paid any mind to this song or this version until it appeared in this mix . Clearly ...

SAVE THE DATE DJ Emmett makes his triumphant return to Cafe Dancer (96 Orchard Street, Manhattan) on Saturday, May 3rd, at 10 pm. Featur...

Colin Tully - Theme to Gregory's Girl

Michael Jackson - Burn this Disco Out

Paul Williams - Nilsson Sings Newman From the man who brought you The Rainbow Connection, or so I'm lead to believ...

Elvis Presley - Tomorrow is a Long Time

Warren Zevon - Bill Lee It's back to baseball and another week of Greg Condon here in AD land. ...

 Equals - Police On My Back Thanks to  GC for the tip on this little slice of mod heaven. Many songs mention days of the week in success...

Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic - Ogreyala Mesetchinka (The Moon Shines) Thanks to Jerry for the tip on this LP. Featuring semitones ...

XTC: English Roundabout

Splash into spring with a soundbath tomorrow night (Saturday April 5th) at Cafe Dancer, 96 Orchard St, 10 pm to 2 am. Have you had your b...

Josef K - Revelation "Help Mom, I'm trapped in a maelstrom of harmonically complex noise with a genuinely funky underpinning, an...

Rosa Yemen - Larousse Baron Bic File alongside other semipermeable major/minor jammers such as this and  this .

new Viva show ( #153 ) in the ark hive

Podcast #9, recorded the evening of Saturday February 15th>Sunday February 16th, 2014. Download/stream: part the first part the seco...

Y Pants - Barbara's Song And the moon shined all night, the moon shined all night.

Broncho - Kurt (edit) Getting psyched for summer with this top-drown cruiser. This is an edit. For the full version, buy the limited pres...

Lexx - Jungle City where the nightlife really steams

Del Jones - Vibe-ing Theme More Duaneology for your Wednesday. I'm sure this riff has many antecedents, but I'm reminded of  t...

Holland-Dozier - Don't Leave Me Starvin' For Your Love

Jermz - Power Cut

SAVE THE DATE   DJ Emmett makes his triumphant return to Cafe Dancer on Saturday, April 5th, at 10 pm. Please reorganize your lives accord...

The Impossibles - The Drum Solid early '90s Slapp Happy cover.  (There are many .)

Cissy Kraner - Der Novak läßt mich nicht verkommen Quite possibly the first minor sixth chord vamp heard round these parts since this one...

René & Angela - I Love You More (Edit by Mr. K) One of the great mp3s. I downloaded it from bumrocks.com in 2006, but it lay in wait...

The Anita Kerr Quartet - The Wayfaring Stranger

Cocteau Twins - A Kissed Out Red Floatboat ELIZABETH FRASER!!!!!!!!