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Arkivet (the Archive) is a podcast about underground music from the 60s and 70s - focusing on psychedelia, progressive and folk.

Dec 24, 2016

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 that we like the most, with many being all-time favorites, from each of the episodes to include here. The set of songs will...


Dec 17, 2016

We haven’t focused much on pop oriented songs lately so we thought we needed a psychedelic pop episode in this season. This sub-genre of psychedelic music is to our minds strongly linked to major label and with that also a bigger production and more commercial appeal compared to many private press releases. We don’t...


Dec 3, 2016

In this episode we focus on the very end of the first psychedelic period, namely the early 1980s. This period still links to the mindset of the late 60s but without becoming retro. Today’s selection is a mixed bag of DIY and later-phase hippie music. Genres in this episode includes folk-rock, singer-songwriters,...


Nov 20, 2016

Here we continue to explore some more obscure heavy psych and hard rock singles. Except for the US artists in the episode, we also included two rare Swedish singles by Alexander Lucas and Zane as well as the UK band, Wolfrilla. There are a lot of new favorites for us in this episode and we hope you'll find some too. 


Nov 5, 2016

This is the first part in our short exposé of heavy psychedelia and hard rock in the late 60s and early 70s. This is a subject we haven’t discussed previously so therefore we’re going to dedicate two episodes on this.  The focus of today’s episode is on private pressed singles from the US while the second part...