CiiVE (pronounced like 'five' but with an 's') are an Australian duo fusing electronic and analog sounds to create their debut album "My Giraffe". A collaboration between Jacqui Hunt (Single Gun Theory) and Brian Conolly, the album has elements of pop, rock and ambient jazz undertones, combined with live drums and sampled sounds. From the pop guitar track of "Feather and Down", to the crescendo of rock-tronic track "Bleed Your Love" and the electrojazz title track "Giraffe", enveloped with the distinct vocals of Jacqui Hunt. "My Giraffe" is an album experience, transposing between moods from side A to B.

Shellac record number 16, The End of Radio, is comprised of two previously unreleased BBC Radio Peel Sessions.

Originally released in 1973, God Is in the House features live performances from the Jerry Newman collection of acetate discs and are fortunately in better technical quality than most of the music from Newman's archives. The remarkable Art Tatum is heard playing three brief, unaccompanied piano solos in 1940, three other numbers in which he is accompanied by Reuben Harris (beating out some quiet rhythms with whiskbrooms on a suitcase), and four duets with bassist-vocalist Chocolate Williams; Tatum has a brief vocal on "Knockin' Myself Out" and a more extensive one on "Toledo Blues," the only times he ever sang on record. In addition, Tatum and Williams back Ollie Potter (a pretty good if completely unknown singer) on "There'll Be Some Changes Made"…

David Munyon is a very complicated guy on the one hand, but an open book on the other. He is on a spiritual track, but not in any New Age way. His music is more than naked, he is more like a raw nerve. But if you wanna hear the real thing that goes right back to the spirit of Woody Guthrie, check out the music of David Munyon. David Munyon´s second studio album was released in May `96, a mere 5 years after his debut "Code Name: Jumper". This time his band consisted of Dave Pomery on bass (James McMurtry, Don Williams), Craig Krampf on drums (Melissa Etheridge) and the god-like Al Perkins on guitar, lap-steel and dobro (Emmylou Harris, Stephen Stills, Bob Dylan etc.).