Arkivet (the Archive) is a podcast about underground music from the 60s and 70s - focusing on psychedelia, progressive and folk.
We’re so glad to have Lance Barresi of Permanent Records joining the show again. Last time we spoke was more than a year ago and a lot has happen since. In this episode we focus on the newly released…
This episode doesn’t follow a particular theme but instead focus around some recently acquired 45s. Although the theme is not clear it turned out to be a pretty heavy episode with some hard rock-soun…
Reine Fiske is well-known as a musician in various bands and musical constellations, most notable as the guitarist of Dungen, Träden and The Amazing. Besides his own musicianship, Reine has long been…
The concept album format really started to evolve during the psychedelic era of the late ‘60s, and reached its height in the progressive scene of the early ‘70s, where the album became the main artis…
We’re continuing our series of episodes of cheap quality records. In this episode, we’re mainly focusing on psych 45s but we also included a few full length LPs, which all coast around $10 and are ea…
For this episode we’ve put together a selection of lesser-known or possibly unknown (?) records. It’s a strange mix of strange music with all possible genres, including real people, lounge-psych, dre…
In this episode, we celebrate the guitar and highlight some of our favorite guitarists. It’s not only through epic guitar solos and technical skill that make you a great guitarist, instead it’s about…
Summer is here (and is almost over in Sweden) so we put together a special episode with some favorite summer tunes. The selection in today’s show is not only sunshine pop and breezy vibes but instead…
This is an interview with the Canadian singer-songwriter Michal Hasek, who did several privately pressed albums and performed all over Canada and the US during the ‘70s and ‘80s. In this interview, h…
We’ve put together a new mix of mind-manifesting music, including some singer-songwriter tunes, communal folk, hippie idealism and plenty of hand drums.
Thrower, Spillane and McFarland – Crow (Rang…
Our friend Rodney Pate sits in with us on this episode to talk about Michigan area bands from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Rod is a DJ and collector from Ann Arbor Michigan, and has been focusing on collecting…
In this episode Viktor take a stand for the cheap record and have picked out some affordable but still great singer-songwriter and folk albums for the show. In this age of high-bidding eBay auctions,…
In this episode we talk to Douglas Mcgowan of Numero Group about the misunderstood genre of New Age music. Douglas is the curator of the New Age compilations, “I Am the Center” and “The Microcosm” an…
Folk music played an important role in the development of psychedelic rock and folk musicians were part of introducing psychedelics to mainstream popular culture in the mid-‘60s, which until then had…
We are proud to have Lance Barresi from Permanent Records as our special guest editor in this episode and he has put together a great tracklist for us with a lot of rare hard rock and heavy psych ban…
This episode we dedicate to Lounge music and due to the vastness of Lounge albums being released we have invited the expert Stefan Kéry for a proper introduction to this brand of music. Lounge differ…
In the last part of our two episodes with Måns P Månsson we focus more on the music and keep the talking to a minimum, as this is jam-packed with great garage-psych singles that Måns have picked out …
In this episode we’re joined by the psychedelic expert Måns P Månsson and he brought some amazing garage-psych 45s from his exceptional collection to play for us. We also took the chance to ask him a…
Paul Major is one of the originators to obscure psych and private press collecting and many of the records he found and documented are now seen as classics, such as Fraction, Peter Grudzien and Marcu…
In this extra-long Christmas special episode, we do a recap of the first season (which we did in Swedish) and highlight some of our favorite music from the episodes. We have picked one or two songs t…