Original Pavement drummer Gary Young died at age 70.in 2023. Young drummed and did headstands with the indie rock band from 1989 to 1993, including on debut LP Slanted and Enchanted. Young w/ Pavement live in Cambridge, MA in 1991. m.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Cd...

Found this beauty of a trade paperback version of Nabokov’s King, Queen, Knave in a Little Free Library yesterday.

Ike Willis has died at 70. He was the vocalist and rhythm guitarist in Frank Zappa’s studio and touring bands from 1978 to 1988. Zappa and band performing “Outside Now” live in Paris in 1980, with Willis on vocals and guitar. #RIPIkeWillis m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzso...

Four-Song Peel Session of Scottish indie rock band Arab Strap from May 9, 2000. Length: 24:25. #IndieRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5u...

1995 cover of the Billy Bragg song “St. Swithin’s Day” by British indie dance duo Dubstar. It can be found as a bonus track on the reissue of their second album Goodbye, m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-XA...

The Charles Mingus Octet performs “Pink Topsy” in 1953. Players include Kenny Clarke and Teo Macero. On the 2019 collection The Rarest on Debut. #Jazz #JazzMusic #Mingus m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWUU...

British rockabilly band The Polecats performing the song “Let’s Bop” in concert. Song can be found on the 1992 album Nine. #Rockabilly m.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQN...

Three-Song Peel Session of Rhode Island indie rock band Small Factory from July 6, 1992. Length: 12:49. #IndieRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5sW...

2001 cover of the Beatles song “Things We Said Today” by contemporary bluegrass band Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen. From their album Running Wild. #Bluegrass m.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVt...

Feedback-laden 1978 song “Blow Daddy-o” by Cleveland post-punk band Pere Ubu. From the album Dub Housing. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=qXR_...

1966 live version of “Pain in My Heart” by soul legend Otis Redding (audio only). Song was the title track of his debut album. This version on the posthumously-released live album In Person at the Whisky A Go Go. #SoulMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=boA0...

Three-Song Peel Session of UK reggae group Icarus from November 26, 1980. Length: 14:41. #Reggae #RootaReggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=41pT...

1993 version of the spiritual “Amazing Grace” by Bryan Ferry. Players include Michael Brook in atmospheric guitar and Nathan East on bass. From the album Taxi. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZJ1...

Salacious 1977 song “Claudine” by the Rolling Stones. Mick & Keef wrote the song about the late Claudine Longet and her notoriety from the Spider Sabich murder trial. Legal issues prevented its inclusion on the Some Girls LP at the time but was later on a reissue. m.youtube.com/watch?v=u58u...

French-American singer /actress Claudine Longet has died at 84. She starred in the Peter Sellers movie THE PARTY, married Andy Williams and was the key figure in the murder trial of boyfriend Spider Sabich in 1976. Longet singing “Both Sides Now” in 1968. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YIII...

The late Clarence Carter performs “I’m the Midnight Special” on, what else, The Midnight Special in 1973. Backed by future members of Toto. #RIPClarenceCarter m.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6z...

R&B singer Clarence Carter has died at 90. His late 60s/early 70s songs at Muscle Shoals often included a mix of the reflective (as in “Slip Away”) and the raunchy (his popular latter day hit “Strokin’”. Official video for “Strokin” #RIPClarenceCarter m.youtube.com/watch?v=YmtL...

Three-Song Peel Session of London group Third Ear Band from June 8, 1970. Length: 17:25. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TDfx...

Kool & the Gang performing the synth-soul instrumental “Summer Madness” on Soul Train in 1974. Although it only reached #35 on the U.S charts, it has become one of the most-sampled tracks of all time. From the studio LP Light of Worlds. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8P...

Reggae artist Jimmy Cliff performing "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" live in a 1970 TV appearance. It reached #6 on the UK charts. Song on his 1969 self-titled album. #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwD...

R&B singer Ed Townsend performing his best-remembered song, the doo woo-influenced ballad “For Your Love” on Ed Sullivan in 1958. It reached #13 in the U.S. Townsend later wrote “Let’s Get It On” with Marvin Gaye. m.youtube.com/watch?v=otA9...

Philly Soul group The Stylistics performing “Betcha By Golly, Wow” on The Midnight Special in June 1973. Song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed under the title “Keep Growing Strong” and was recorded by Connie Stevens in 1970. Reached #3 in the U.S. #SoulMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=LAwo...

Four-Song Peel Session of English electronic music duo ISAN from February 14, 1999. Length: 23:57. #Electronica m.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls...

British indie guitar band The Wedding Present perform "Corduroy" live in a November 2005 show in London. Song originally on the 1991 Steve Albini-produced Seamonsters album. #IndieRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bota...

Full concert of Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack live in a 1988 NYC concert. Length: 52:56. m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8GZ...

2020 song “Keep “Em Alive” by British punk rock veterans The Damned. From the EP The Rockfield Files. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=LR2W...

American alternative rock band Madder Rose performing “Ultra Anxiety (Teenage Style)” live at the Glastonbury Festival in 1994. Song from the band’s second album, Panic On. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ici8...

Spiritualized's three-song Peel Session ("Angel Sigh/Feel So Sad/Smiles") from January 7, 1992. Length: 20:20. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oKiz...

San Diego cowpunk band The Beat Farmers performing "Lost Weekend" live in the early 1990s. Song from the group's 1985 debut album, Tales of the New West. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TXM6...

Electric Light Orchestra performing “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” on The Midnight Special in 1975. Jeff Lynne wrote the song in response to his father’s complaint that his past songs lacked melody- it would be their first U.S. Top Ten hit. From the LP Eldorado. m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Py...

Jazz pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton cover the Beatles tune "Eleanor Rigby" live at the 2011 JazzFestival in Burghausen, Germany. Length: 7:28. #Jazz #JazzMusic #Beatles m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukr8...

2005 song “Banshee Beat” by American experimental rock band Animal Collective . From their acclaimed album Feels. m.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Y_...

Four-Song Peel Session of sister-fronted Scottish indie pop band The Twinsets from January 6, 1982. May include the most twee cover of "Suspicious Minds" ever recorded. Length: 13:13. #IndiePop m.youtube.com/watch?v=prAU...

George Jones performing “White Lightning” live in 1969. Jones Boys’ bassist James Hollie joins in on vocals. The song was a #1 hit for Jones in 1959. Title track to his third album . m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnV3...

1978 song "I'm a Liar" by London proto-punk band The Hammersmith Gorillas. From the group's lone album Message to the World. #RIPJesseHector m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfxF...

Jesse Hector, English garage rock icon who fronted such proto punk bands as The Hammersmith Gorillas and The Gatecraahers, has died at 78. The Gorillas’ 1974 debut single - a cover of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me”. #RIPJesseHector #GarageRock #ProtoPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5h...

Four-Song Peel Session of Scottish indie pop band The Pastels from January 17, 1984. Length: 14:37. #IndiePop m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3l...

1980 song “Gelosa Cara” by influential late Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti. Lyrics written by his longtime collaborator Mogol, their last album together. From the album Una Giornata Uggiosa. m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4-H...

Official video for Apocalypse Now-inspired 1982 song “Russian Roulette”by new wave glam rock band The Lords of the New Church. Song written by Tony James (Generation X) & Terry Chimes (The Clash). From the band’s self-titled debut album. #NewWave #GlamRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=g83z...

Five-Song Peel Session of Leeds post-punk band The Mekons from September 25, 1978. Length: 14:58. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTyY...

British roots reggae group Misty in Roots performing "Sodome and Gomorra" live. Song originally on their 1979 debut album Live at the Counter Eurovision 79. #RootsReggae #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=wocq...

1969 recording of "Take Your Time Rag" by blues artist Furry Lewis. From the live album Take Your Time. The country blues artist died in 1981. #Blues #CouhtryBlues m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3z...

1974 song "Twelve Hours of Sunset" by Roy Harper: an elegy to a pastoral England. From the album Valentine. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DpRq...

Heavy dub meets scathing commentary on 1974 roots reggae tune “Criminals in Parliament” by the late Prince Jazzbo. Bass played and engineered by Dennis Bovell. From the anthology Black Heart Man- Bushay Collection 1974-1978. #DubReggae #RootsRrggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=YXw1...

Joe Chambers, guitarist and vocalist for psychedelic soul band The Chambers Brothers,died at 81. In 2024. They are best remembered for their 1968 #11 hit “Time Has Come Today”. The band performing the song live in 1969. #SoulMusic #PsychedelicSoul m.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbs...

Satirical and lyrically tongue-twisting song “Well Spoken Moppers” by Grenadian-born, Trinidadian-based calypso icon Mighty Sparrow. From his 1965 album Trinidadian Heat Wave. PS - Moppers is slang for Drunks. #Calypso m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffWq...

Six-Song Peel Session of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac from March 10, 1969. Length: 17:49 . m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5eo...

1972 song “With You In My Life” by Ohio power pop group Raspberries. Written and sung by Wally Bryson. From the band’s self-titled debut album . #PowerPop m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysG...

1957 soul-jazz song “Plain Gold Ring” by Nina Simone. Originally on the Bethlehem label EP Volume 3. Can also be found on her 1959 debut album Little Girl Blue. m.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sh...

1993 song “Planet of the Shapes” by English fraternal techno duo Orbital. From the band’s acclaimed Orbital 2 album. #Techno #Electronica m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkBe...