In April 2012 Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) surprised the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro by playing Griegs Peer Gynt.

The acoustic is said to be “surprisingly good.”

Imagine a full orchestra with all instruments boarding a train trying to be completely inconspicuous.

She has quite a voice.

Hosanna - Hillsong. Surprisingly few pictures of crosses in the sunset in this one.

– "Embedding disabled by request" seems to be the newest trend in YouTube videos. That's definitely not Two Point Oh, folks.

Elektrochemie LK's "When I Rock" which is not embeddable.

More here. (thx Tim)

BallDroppings instructions: Turn your sound up. Draw lines on the black screen to bounce the balls. Enjoy the music.

BallDroppings is like a mashup of Line Rider, a flipper, a pool table and a xylophone. (JS version can be played online.) (via rockitbaby)

99Matters asks more or less indie musicians about what is important to them in life. (The intro jingle at the beginning of every video is starting to get on my nerves, though.)

I don't know whether the new Free Music Archive is any good, but what can possibly go wrong with "free" and "music" and "archive"?

This boy is Tocotronic.

Update (2009-05-12): Unfortunately, they took it down. Here’s the original. I liked the cover much better, though.

Update (2012-05-11): They removed the linked original, too. Here’s another version:

This is another version sung by the girl from the video I wanted to embed in the first place:

The quality isn’t great but I like it a lot nevertheless.

• Alanis Morissette – Hands Clean. "We'll forward to a few years later." What is wrong with me?
• Razorlight – Wire to Wire. "What is love but the strangest of feelings? / A sin you swallow for the rest of your life? / You've been looking for someone to believe in / To love you, until your eyes run dry."
• Coldplay – Fix You. Sane people like those at Pitchfork say: "'Lights will guide you home / And ignite your bones / And I will try to fix you,' sang Martin on X&Y's "Fix You", a gag-inducing bit of motivational flotsam that came off like self-parody." Coldplay might be the musical equivalent to a chick flick, but you know what? Don't worry about it.
• Morrissey – First of the Gang to Die. "You have never been in love, / Until you've seen the stars, / reflect in the resevoirs. // And you have never been in love, / Until you've seen the dawn rise, / behind the home for the blind."
• Milow – Ayo Technology. This is a cover of a song by 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake, so expect a certain amount of metaphorical explicitness. The "I'm tired of using technology" line is great.
• Bob Dylan – Girl from the North Country. "I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all. / Many times I've often prayed / In the darkness of my night, / In the brightness of my day."
• David Bowie – Heroes. "Though nothing, nothing will keep us together / We can beat them, forever and ever / Oh, we can be heroes just for one day."
• Virginie Ledoyen – Mon Amour, Mon Ami. "Toi mon amour, mon ami / Quand je rêve c'est de toi / Mon amour, mon ami / Quand je chante c'est pour toi".

It would have been more comfortable to create a playlist at YouTube, but I just don't believe in registering accounts and managing passwords any more (there's OpenID, you know).

Paul Ford reviews 1302 songs by bands playing at this year's South by Southwest Festival. (That's 539 songs more than last year.) All MP3s on the list are available for free (unofficial torrent).

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: an annotated discography. With videos.

Some time ago, Muxtape, a minimalistic site where users could upload playlists with their favourite songs for others to enjoy, was shut down because The Music Industry didn't like the idea and they haven't been able to work out some kind of deal. Now Muxtape is back with a new concept:

[W]e're recreating the site as a platform for bands to promote and market themselves. The goal of Muxtape remains facilitating the discovery of new music, and anyone can still create a mix from the music available on the site.

There's not a lot of content yet, but of Montreal's cover of "Jimmy" is quite nice. (I couldn't figure out how to link to the song on Muxtape, so YouTube it is: cover by of Montreal, original by M.I.A. Good stuff.)

I'm a bit sceptical whether there's enough hype for Muxtape to make the new approach a success.

A stream of the complete album "The Crying Light" by Antony and the Johnsons.

The Hood Internet Mixtape Volume Three contains song mashups like "Jay-Z (feat. Lil Wayne) vs Xiu Xiu - I Do Brooklyn When I Want". I am so going to like this. (via kottke)

While you're at it, listen to this Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. A Place To Bury Strangers mix: "Thou Shalt Always Fix The Gash In Your Head". Oh yeah.

And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.

"Bergwein" by Efdemin. (via tat)

Editors – Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors.

Enjoy this YouTube playlist of Kanye West's "808s & Heartbreak" while you can.

Iron & Wine with Calexico – He Lays in the Reins.

A playlist of Mozart's Requiem on YouTube.

An impressive guitar performance by Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela.

A site about Edwin Morgan, a Scottish poet of the 20th century. Morgan wrote and performed the poem "Scottish Fiction" on the song "In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction" by Idlewild. Support your local poet.

Daytrotter invites (mostly) indie rock bands to play a session of four songs which can be downloaded for free from the site afterwards. The concept is simple but works very well. "They are all live, no overdubs, straight to tape. What you hear is what happened in the room that day." The site's around since march 2006 and they've collected an impressive archive of 1500+ songs which grows at a rate of 20 a week.

How did I manage to miss this for so long? Listen to Maritime, they're good.