this is music.

Third Eye Blind - Darkness (Live @ Electric Factory)

Bat For Lashes - Daniel (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix) (via.)

Travis - Driftwood

Wale - Warwick Avenue (feat. Duffy)

Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect

Oasis - Slide Away No one on the corner has swagger like them.

The Sugarcubes - Birthday Before Bjork was Bjork, she was in this band. No surprise her singing took her solo, but I'll never forget how beautiful this song is.

Tor / Sufjan Stevens - That Dress Looks Nice On You / Make You Feel That Way (feat. Gift of Gab) So much drippy goodness. Download the Illinoize mashup mixtape here.

The Very Best - Will You Be There The sample is from Michael Jackson's track of the same name, the one from Free Willy. It's one of the best sort of presently unappreciated MJ songs I think, and The Very Best just makes it better. Hop on this gravy train and riiiiiiiiiiiide. (I think I might start posting MJ every Monday until the London show in September.)

Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset

Zwicker - Who You Are (featuring Heidi Happy) Sometimes you just want to hit a groove on a Saturday afternoon. I'm like that now...listen to the track and you likely will be too.

Toto - Stop Loving You Another incredible example of the band's knack for soaring vocal harmonies and technical (non-scaling) guitar work. Really, though. This band fucking rules.