Joe Gordon Folk Four

Now here's a priceless performance circa 1960. The Joe Gordon Folk Four often played on the great Andy Stewart's Scottish TV program The White Heather Club, and in the video below they perform one of my favorite songs, The Bonnie Lass O`Fyvie.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: Gardenia

This is Steven Malkmus' other band, as he is better known as a member of the band Pavement. The song below is off the 2008 album Real Emotional Trash.

Eric Whitacre: I Thank You God For This Most Amazing Day

Brilliant! Putting E. E. Cummings'(1894 -1962) poetry to music. Off Whitacre's 2010 album Light and Gold, performed by the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chamber Choir.

Bossasaurus

This Oakland, California-based DJ/Production crew is consistently coming up with some tremendous remixes. To me, a good remix is musical innovation that stays true to the spirit of the original work (or works). Here, Bossasaurus takes what many would call a classic hip hop song and does exactly that. It's off their 2009 album, STFUYMCA.

Learn more about them here. They have a new EP on the way called Lacerta, due to be released in a week or so.

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Maybe it's because where I live we're expecting ten inches of snow this weekend, but The Sound of Sunshine, title track of Franti's 2010 album, seemed like the perfect song to post today. I hope you agree.

LCD Sound System: This is Happening

This time of the year is fun for the music enthusiast because the media starts to produce their "best of" lists. Paste Magazine just came out with their 50 best albums of 2010 with LCD Sound System's album This is Happening at number one.

Now, I'm too indecisive to come up with this kind of list, but this is a pretty good choice, don't you think?

James Vincent McMorrow: This Old Dark Machine

Off his 2010 album Early in the Morning, the song below really didn't grab me until I heard the chorus a few times. It's such a great pop chorus, isn't it?! Overall, McMorrow's music is probably too moody for me, but it's hard not to enjoy this tune.

McMorrow had nothing to do with the video.