Cavalcade for December 7

Jeff Tweedy's new song, "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," inspires a "foggy notion" of digging through Reed-associated things to get "Cavalcade" up to steam on this December eve. But it doesn't stop at the end of the D train (Coney Island, baby) as the ramble loops Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, Suzanne Vega and the Cowboy Junkies in a free-association hour that takes its cue from the freestyle French new wave cinema movement started by Jean Luc Godard's "Breathless."

The homage Netflix film "Nouvelle Vauge" was the real culprit there, steering the show in an art-flick frame of mind. It's also the fine excuse to dig up the French band of the same name whose spécialité was infusing 1980s New Wave rock classics with a bossa nova groove.

These curiosities set the stage for "Cavalcade"'s 8 p.m. "Golden Anniversary LP Crate Dig" to December 1975, where reggae by Bob Marley and Burning Spear meets intergalactic funk from Parliament, and a one-off chart-topper by the Staple Singers. 

That's "Cavalcade," Sundays from 6-9 p.m., on 90.7FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.