But on this mysterious trip of mine, I discovered music that will blow your mind!!

FM Belfast

FM Belfast started out as a duo during Christmas 05 when Arni R Hlodversson and Loa Hjalmtysdottir made a song as a present for their friends. They planed to keep it in the studio, but that changed in 2006 when Arni and Loa performed an art opening in a cave in the Faeroe Islands. Later that year they played their first full concert at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik.

Underwear

Par Avion

Frequently

[via Veronica Gessa's facebook]

Lisztomania

1901

Armistice

Playground Love

I wanted to share a few of their videos and songs, first my favorite, Introducing Palace Players.

Introducing Palace Players

Repeaterbeater

Am I wry, No

Comforting sounds

Beach

make sure you check out their website and get on the mailing list!

Colouring of Pigeons

While listening to the song, I urge you to ponder how the hell it is we come from monkeys. You got about 11 minutes.

You can download the song and read more about the project here.

The Silent Years are straight out of Detroit, Rock City! The DIY band created all of their own artwork, website and they even hand made their stunning debut video clip for “Someone To Keep Us Warm.” Heavily influenced by Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley and the Flaming Lips.

The band has played previous dates with Mellowdrone, French Kicks, Sound Team, Akron Family, The Processions, Stars Track and Fields, Aqueduct and The Fields. My favorite song of theirs right now is Black hole.

Black hole

On our way home

Someone to keep us warm

The Silent Years – The Sun is Alive by Catherine Tai

Somewhere in Brooklyn, thousands of hipster’s heads exploded at the sound of the “way-too-cool-unless-you-dont-get-it-then-youre-the-one-thats-lame” song by Beck, Devendra Banhart and MGMT. A colaboration that is nothing short of friggin’ strange. I’ll be honest, I haven’t quite solidified my opinion on the song yet, but judging by my past experiences with the music of these artists individually, I’m willing to listen to the weirdness at least ten more times before I inevitably confirm my suspicion that I kinda don’t like it.

Your results may vary.

For reference, here is the original version of the song by Leonard Cohen

Bonus: Beck, Devendra and MGMT cover of Cohen’s Sisters of Mercy

And the original

Fleet Foxes are a five-piece Seattle-based band signed to Sub Pop and Bella Union. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes. Both Sun Giant and their eponymous debut album received much critical praise and reviewers often noted their use of refined lyrics and vocal harmonies.

In 2007 Fleet Foxes were becoming increasingly popular and had attracted over a quarter of a million song plays over two months on their Myspace site.

While the group enjoyed moderate success in the United States, Fleet Foxes was better received in Europe, selling over 200,000 copies in the first five months following its release.

White Winter Hymnal directed by Sean Pecknold, off the band’s self-titled Sub Pop 2008 release.

Your protector

Blue Ridge Mountains

He Doesn’t Know Why

Pogo is an Australian Electronic musician that started his career in a punk rock band founded in the 80’s in Moscow. In the 90’s, the members moved to Berlin, where they released the full length album “On the Yeast” on the German Label Impact Records. Now Pogo makes electronic remixes to the sound of films,  his biggest hit so far was ‘Alice’,

Alice – an electronic piece composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’.

Bangarang

This piece is composed of sounds from the Spielberg classic film ‘Hook’, a sine wave bass, and a few cymbals!

Scrumdiddlyumptious

The track is composed of a sine wave bass, original percussion, and sounds recorded from the candy man scene in ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’.

Expialidocious

The track is composed of a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’.

Magic Mary

‘Mary’s Magic’ is an ambient track composed entirely of small sounds recorded from ‘The Secret Garden’.

Download the MP3 here: http://rapidshare.com/files/243336804/MarysMagic.mp3

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

Start playing with it now!

The following is a list of interesting covers along with the original version of the song. Some of the songs do not have videos so you’ll have to forgive the cheesy user-generated montages.

Foo Fighters – Baker Street

While the song was originally performed by Gerry Rafferty, I didn’t even know who that was until 5 minutes ago.  What I like the most about the Foo Fighters cover of the song is the way they managed to make a pretty fruity sounding song into something that feels like a staple of 70’s rock music.

The Cover

The Original

Iron & Wine – Such Great Heights

These two versions of the Postal Serivece’s original, Such great Heights seem to compliment each other rather well.

The Cover

The Original

The Flaming Lips – Borderline

This is a cool remake of Madonnas song Borderline, nice video too.

The Cover

The Original

Weezer – Kids (live)

This is a pretty cool performance of MGMT’s original Kids. It’s not mind-blowing, but it is interesting to see older musicians pay tribute to new comers.

The Cover

The Original

Fiona Apple – Across The Universe

It takes some serious balls to cover a Beatles song, and the fact that she didn’t completely ruin this song for me deserves a spot on this list based on that principle alone.

The Cover

The Original

Nirvana – Man who sold the world

Personally, I like both versions of this song. The original Bowie version had it’s creepy charm and Nirvanas version had Kurt eff’ing Corbain. Enough said…

The Cover

The Original

Gary Jules – Mad World

Tears for Fears fans may get upset about the Gary Jules version of Mad World, but if you are a Tears for Fears fan, you have bigger problems then a simple cover. Nonetheless, it’s a pretty good song for those times you feel like contemplating in detail  just how fucked up the world is.

The Cover

The Original

Smashing Pumpkins – Landslide

Writen by Stevie Nicks and performed by Fleetwood Mac, Landslide is one of those songs that makes me nostalgic of a time I didnt even live. Weird how music can have that effect. Couldnt find the studio version of the original, so a live version from 1976 will have to do.

The Cover

The Original

Mammút is yet another band from Iceland that’s doing it good, featuring amazing vocals and innovative music that’s moving the life.is/music team these days. The band consists of three girls and two boys, around the age of 20, but was founded in late 2003 when they were only 14 to 16 years old. In March of 2004 Mammút won the annual battle of the bands (Músíktilraunir) in Iceland.

These talented kids are inspiring the shit out of the youth in Iceland and making a very impressive impact on the rest of Europe and the states and I’m sure they will please the rest of you, specially if they start writing English lyrics; not that I think they’re doing it wrong by singing in Icelandic – not at all! I love that. The amount of hopes and believes I have for this band is beyond any success an Icelandic artist has yet conquered.

…including Björk… shit can I say that? ok, maybe not but we´ll see.. just keep an eye on them.. or an ear (Sorry Björk, ef þú skildir lesa þetta.. ég elska þig)

I hope I wont get denied citizenship when I go back home… But I’m not alone, Magazines like Rolling Stone and Music Week have named Mammút as a band to watch for the future, and most people that have listened to them seem to agree.

check out theses videos!

Svefnsýkt – Music video for the  number one hit song  Svefnsýkt. The music video was directed by Hilmir Berg Ragnarsson and produced by David Cross. The video was a tribute to the the groundbreaking film The Exorcist.

Geymþrá, This song was remixed by my dear friends Ingi Mar & Joe at the Redd Light, who are now working on some music for a commercial I directed. very kool cats from the land of Ice!!

Redd Lights remix of the song Geimþrá by Mammút.

Raudilaekur – Here is a video of them performing somewhere underground in downtown Reykjavik, I really dig this song! I hope they’re working on a video for it! If not I’m doing it! :P

Hope you dig them…   if you do, check out their myspace and their Official website

Ingi Lar.

Here are a few stories and videos from around the internet. We ‘ll learn how Mozart keeps dropping singles from the dead, how Legos help nerds kill time, we’ll get further evidence that Coldplay sucks and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trent Reznor is kind of a douche. All in a days work!

- Trent Reznor Quits Twitter (rollingstone.com)

- 23 Songs that lived twice (avclub.com)

- 30 Album covers recreated in Legos (speckyboy.com)

- Coldplay fails at Billie Jean (uproxx.com)

- Two new Mozart pieces discovered (AFP)

- 10 Things The ‘iPod Generation’ Will Never Experience (downtuned.net)