JACQUES BREL Grand Jacques (C’est Trop Facile)
SCOTT WALKER On Your Own Again
JON BRION Overture
NINE HORSES Wonderful World
BON IVER Creature Fear
BON IVER Team

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY You Don’t Love Me
BOB DYLAN One More Cup of Coffee
BILLIE HOLIDAY Good Morning Heartache
ARTHUR RUSSELL Goodbye Old Paint
BILL CALLAHAN Eid Ma Clack Shaw

SIR VICTOR UWAIFO Akuyan (Ekassa 46)
ALEMAYEHU ESHETE Tchero Adari Negn
MULATU ASTATKE & THE HELIOCENTRICS Addis Black Widow
THE STAN TRACEY QUARTET Starless and Bible Black

CASUAL Follow the Funk
FRED WESLEY & THE JBS Same Beat (Part 1)
SOUL MESSENGERS Equilibrium
DOOM Gazzillion ear

KID SAM Down to the Cemetery
THE SEA AND CAKE Weekend
PHOENIX 1901
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Brother Sport
RADIOHEAD Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box

SUFJAN STEVENS You Are the Blood

SHE & HIM This Is Not A Test
DENT MAY Meet Me in the Garden
JONATHAN RICHMAN No One Was Like Vermeer

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY Beware Your Only Friend
M. WARD with VIC CHESNUTT & HOWE GELB Way It Goes
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Pineola [Live]
THE DARLING DOWNS Circa ‘65

SUFJAN STEVENS The Avalanche
DEYARMOND EDISON Where We Belong
LIQUID LIQUID Lock Groove (Out)
23 SKIDOO F.U.G.I
OFEGE Adieu

MILES DAVIS On the Corner
MILES DAVIS New York Girl
STEVIE WONDER Too High
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
SNOOP DOGG Pass It Pass It

KANYE WEST I Wonder
TALIB KWELI feat. MOS DEF Joy
Q-TIP feat. NORAH JONES Life Is Better
THE MATTHEW HERBERT BIG BAND Everything’s Changed

4HERO with MARK MURPHY Twelve Tribes

STEVE REICH & PAT METHENY Electric Counterpoint-Fast (Movement 3) (Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint, Nonesuch 1990)
ANDREW BIRD Hot Math (Useless Creatures, Fat Possum 2009)
SIR VICTOR UWAIFO Dododo (Ekassa No. 1) (Ekassa, Philips Nigeria 1971)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Brother Sport (Merriweather Post Pavillion, Domino 2009)

TENNISCOATS Sitting By (Temporacha, Room 40 2009)
HIRASAKANA OYOGU Ant (Hirasakana Oyogu, Brothersister 2009) MySpace
THE LAST POETS When The Revolutions Comes (The Last Poets, Douglas 1970)
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Party and Bullshit (Who’s the Man?, Bad Boy 1993)

BEASTIE BOYS Shake Your Rump (Paul’s Boutique, Capitol 1989)
MADLIB No More Time? (The Change) (Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to Dilla, Stones Throw 2009)
ERYKAH BADU The Healer (New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), Universal Motown 2008)

NATHAN DAVIS If (If, Tomorrow International 1976)
MILES DAVIS Blue in Green (Kind of Blue, Columbia 1959)
MULATU ASTATKÉ Tezeta (Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits, Buda 1972)

M. WARD Jailbird (Hold Time, Spunk 2009)
NEKO CASE People Got a Lotta Nerve (Middle Cyclone, Anti- 2009)
THE SMITHS Hand In Glove (The Smiths, Rough Trade 1984)

LAUGHING CLOWNS Eternally Yours (12″, Hot 1984)
X We’re Desperate (B-Side, Dangerhouse 1978)
JIM WHITE The Wound That Never Heals (No Such Place, Luaka Bop 2001)

BO DIDDLEY I’m a Man (B-Side, Chess 1955)
CHARLES SHEFFIELD Isabella (Dr. Boogie presents Shim Sham Shimmy, Sub Rosa)
PORGY JONES The Dap (7″, Great Southern 1972)

BUNZU SOUNDS Zinabu (Bunzu Soundz, Afrodisia 1976)

DIED PRETTY Life to Go (Landsakes) (Free Dirt, Citadel 1986)
LAUGHING CLOWNS Holy Joe (Laughing Clowns, Missing Link 1980)
ARCHIE SHEPP Money Blues (Things Have Got to Change, Impulse! 1971)

TONY ALLEN Road Safety (No Discrimination, Shanu Olu 1979)
THE MEBUSAS Son of Mr Bull Dog (Blood Brothers, Afrodisia 1973)
THE IMPRESSIONS They Don’t Know (This Is My Country, Curtom 1968)
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS Inspiration Information (Dark Was the Night, 4AD 2009)

SHUGGIE OTIS Oxford Gray (Here Comes Shuggie Otis, Epic 1970)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Gypsy Eyes (Electric Ladyland, MCA 1968)
SAM COOKE Summertime (B-Side, Keen 1957)

NEKO CASE Middle Cyclone (Middle Cyclone, Anti- 2009)
JIM WHITE Jailbird (Transnormal Skiperoo, Luaka Bop 2007)
BON IVER Babys (Blood Bank, Jagjaguar 2009)
REALPEOPLE Venice (Holland, Pompeii 2009)

YEASAYER Tightrope (Dark Was the Night, 4AD 2009)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Also Frightened (Merriweather Post Pavillion, Domino 2009)
BRIAN ENO + DAVID BYRNE Regiment (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Sire 1981)
TALKING HEADS New Feeling (Live) (The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, Sire 1982)

GARY NUMAN Metal (The Pleasure Principle, Beggars Banquet 1979)
PHOENIX 1901 (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, V2 2009)

BEASTIE BOYS Egg Man (Paul’s Boutique, Capitol 1989)

AMOS MILBURN Chicken Shack Boogie (7″, Aladdin 1956)
CHAMPION JACK DUPREE Shim Sham Shimmy (7″, Red Robin 1953)
OL’ DIRTY BASTARD Shimmy Shimmy Ya (Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, Elektra 1995)

23 SKIDOO Last Words (12″, Fetish 1981)
WORLD’S END PRESS Sleepless No. 4 (CD-R, 2007) MySpace
DAVID BOWIE Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) (Aladdin Sane, RCA 1973)
NATHAN DAVIS Stick Buddy (If, Tomorrow International 1976)

BOLA JOHNSON Lagos Sisi (7″, Philips Nigeria 1973)
T.P. ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO Gendamou Na Wii We Gnannin (10″, Albarika Store 1974)
BEIRUT The Akara (March of the Zapotec, Pompeii 2009)
ANDREW BIRD The Giant of Illinois (Dark Was the Night, 4AD 2009)

THE HANDSOME FAMILY Darling, My Darling (Honey Moon, Carrot Top 2009)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Dream Baby Dream (10″, Blast First 2008)
M. WARD Outro (aka I’m a Fool to Want You) (Hold Time, Spunk 2009)

LEONARD COHEN The Letters (Dear Heather, Columbia 2004)
J. TILLMAN Firstborn (Vacilando Territory Blues, Bella Union 2009)
PIKELET Accordion to the Accordion (Not So Still, Special Award 2009)
FOUR TET Ringer (Ringer, Domino 2008)

JEAN CLAUDE VANNIER Le Roi Des Mouches Et La Confiture De Rouse (L’enfant Assassin Des Mouches, Suzelle 1972)
SERGE GAINSBOURG Cargo Culte (Histoire De Melody Nelson, Philips 1971)

ART FARMER Soulsides (Gentle Eyes, Mainstream 1972)

SEASICK STEVE Just Like A King (I Started Out with Nothin’ and I Still Got Most Of It Left, Warner 2008)
LITTLE WILLIE JOHN Suffering with the Blues (Nineteen Sixty Six: The David Axelrod & HB Barnum Sessions, Ace 2008)
CAMILLE YARBROUGH Take Yo’ Praise (The Iron Pot Cooker, Vanguard 1975)

MISSY ELLIOT The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (Supa Dupa Fly, Elektra 1997)
JJ FAD Ya Goin’ Down (B-Side, Ruthless 1988)
PUBLIC ENEMY Cold Lampin’ with Flavor (It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Def Jam 1988)
BUCK 65 Blood Pt. 2 (Buck 65 Remix featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti) (Dark Was the Night, 4AD 2009)

RICEBOY SLEEPS Happiness (Dark Was the Night, 4AD 2009)
TENNISCOATS Baibaba Bimba (Tan-Tan Therapy, Häpna 2007)
ANDREW BIRD Tenuousness (Noble Beast, Spunk 2009)

THE HANDSOME FAMILY Your Great Journey (Last Days of Wonder, Spunk 2006)
J. TILLMAN Steel on Steel (Vacilando Territory Blues, Bella Union 2009)
NED COLLETTE Race (Future Suture, Dot Dash 2007)

JOY DIVISION Exercise One (Still, Factory 1981)
WORLD’S END PRESS Witness (CD-R, 2008)
R.E.M. Radio Free Europe (Murmur, I.R.S. 1983)

TELEVISION See No Evil (Marquee Moon, Elektra 1977)
THE P.K.14 The Other Side (City Weather Sailing, Tenzenmen 2008)
PAVEMENT Stereo (Brighten the Corners, Matador 1997)
THE SEA AND CAKE Fuller Moon (Car Alarm, Popfrenzy 2008)

WELCOME WAGON Half a Person (Welcome to the Welcome Wagon, Asthmatic Kitty 2008)
MORRISSEY I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris (Years of Refusal, Decca 2009)

MULATU ASTATKE Emnete (10″, Soundway 2005)

MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA You Know You Know (The Inner Mounting Flame, Columbia 1971)
ANDREW BIRD You Woke Me Up! (Useless Creatures, Fat Possum 2009)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE My Girl (Merriweather Post Pavillion, Domino 2009)
FOUR TET She Moves She (Rounds, Domino 2003)

TONY ALLEN No Discrimination (No Discrimination, Shanu Olu 1979)
FUGEES Fu-Gee-La (The Score, Columbia 1996)
BRAND NUBIAN All For One (One for All, Elektra 1990)
Q-TIP We Fight / We Love feat. Raphael Saadiq (The Renaissance, Universal 2008)

THE PHARCYDE Passing Me By (Bizarre Ride II, Delicious Vinyl 1992)
JUNIE Suzie Thundertussy (Suzie Super Groupie, Westbound 1976)
LOLA Wax the Van (Single, Jump Street 1987)
DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO I Feel My Stuff (Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Todomundo 2008)

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS One Dove (The Crying Light, Spunk 2009)
HIRASAKANA OYOGU A White Car (Hirasakana Oyogu, Brothersister 2009) MySpace
BILL CALLAHAN From the Rivers to the Ocean (Woke on a Whaleheart, Spunk 2007)

JEREMY JAY Escape to Aspen (A Place Where We Could Go, Popfrenzy 2008)
BOB DYLAN Isis (Desire, Columbia 1975)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND Diddy Wah Diddy (Single, A&M 1966)
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING Precious Rose (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Dropkick 2006)

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Big Time in the Jungle (O.C.M.S., Nettwerk 2005)

The Drift is currently on leave. Throughout January, the Saturday night slot will be presented by Steve Harris. During January, Brad Nguyen and Kim Jirik will be presenting ACROSS THE WIRE, filling in for Spoke on a Tuesday morning. You can catch ACROSS THE WIRE every Tuesday from 9am-midday. The program will feature arts, politics and music.

The Drift will return February 7.

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON The Great God Pan Is Dead (Fordlandia, 4AD 2008)
GRAND SALVO Hunters Remorse (Death, Spunk 2008)
BON IVER Flume (For Emma, Forever Ago, Rogue 2008)

LULUC Warm One (Dear Hamlyn, Shock 2008)
THE RECTIFIERS Flocking in a Modal Field (Part 1) (Playtime for John Mountain, Sensory Projects 2008)
WOMEN Black Rice (Women, Flemish Eye 2008)
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION Ring Colour Television (Primary Colours, Aarght 2008)

JUANA MOLINA ¿Quien?(Suite) (Un Dia, Domino 2008)
QUA Goodmorning Sun (Q&A, Love & Mercy 2008)
RATATAT Mi Viejo (LP3, XL 2008)
CUT COPY Strangers in the Wind (In Ghost Colours, Modular 2008)

THE PRESETS A New Sky (Apocalypso, Modular 2008)
DEERHOOF Snoopy Waves (Offend Maggie, Spunk 2008)
THE BLACK KEYS Psychotic Girl (Attack and Release, Shock 2008)

GIANT SAND Stranded Pearl (Provisions, Yep Roc 2008)
CHARLIE PARR 1922 Blues (1922, Level Two 2008)
FLEET FOXES Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Fleet Foxes, Sub Pop 2008)

THE DRONES I Am The Supercargo (Havilah, ATP 2008)
FUCKED UP Crooked Head (The Chemistry of Common Life, Matador 2008)
PORTISHEAD Nylon Smile (Third, Island 2008)

THE DODOS Fools (Visiter, Wichita 2008)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk (Vampire Weekend, XL 2008)
THE SEA AND CAKE New Schools (Car Alarm, Popfrenzy 2008)

GUY BLACKMAN Unsteady (Adult Baby, Unstable Ape 2008)

LOW Santa’s Coming Over

PATTI SMITH We Three Kings
SUFJAN STEVENS Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!
BODIES OF WATER with NO LITTLE KINDLESS O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

THE RAVEONETTES Come on Santa
THE BLACK LIPS Christmas in Baghdad
EDDY ARNOLD Will Santy Come to Shanty Town

JOHNNY CASH I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
ELVIS PRESLEY Blue Christmas
WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Mistletoe

YEAH YEAH YEAHS All I Want for Christmas
DAVID McCOMB I’ve Heard Things Turn Out This Way
ROSS McLENNAN He Seems to Think We’re His Family

BLITZEN TRAPPER Christmas Is Coming Soon
BUTTERBEANS AND SUSIE Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus, Mama Ain’t No Christmas Tree
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS Merry Christmas

OTIS REDDING White Christmas
THE POGUES Fairytale of New York
BRIGHT EYES O Little Town of Bethlehem
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE Old Waits Carol

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Suddenly It’s Christmas
MILES DAVIS AND BOB DOROUGH Blue Christmas (To Whom It May Concern)
Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas [Excerpt]

VINCE GUARALDI TRIO Christmas Time Is Here
A Charlie Brown Christmas [Excerpt]
MEL TORMÉ The Christmas Song

FRANK SINATRA Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas