Best casting ever.

From the album Come On Die Young, Mogwai provides a musical accompaniment to a great, classic interview with Iggy Pop talking about how people perceive punk music.

The first song performed in the film Once, starring Glen Hansard of the Irish band The Frames. Plot outline from IMDB: A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week,... more inside

Perhaps not the greatest or most innovative video, but a beautiful song worth sharing.

I have no idea why, but this new Beirut album has clicked for me in an a terrible way.

I figured with the other Reggie Watts videos that have done well on the sift, you guys were ready to actually hear him play some real music.

I didn't care for most of Beth Gibbons solo work, despite her amazing voice, but this is one of the songs off that album I really dug. Nothing at all like Portishead, aside from her voice.

From Wikipedia: 16 Horsepower was an alternative/traditional musical group based in Denver, Colorado. Their music was usually serious in tone with distinct Christian religious lyrics dealing with conflict... more inside

A interesting video for an great cover of a Hank Williams classic by Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) and Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian).

A friend turned me on to Peter Prince's band Moon Boot Lover a couple of years ago, but I don't really know anything worth relating here, and they're too obscure for a Wikipedia entry. So, here's his official site: http://www.peterprincemusic.com/

Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) performs Resurrection Song live. One of the great voices, IMO (give it a couple of minutes).

Live performance of The Resident's cover of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World." You can see their original recording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGknYx4sxQ Though it's not nearly as good, in my opinion.