Comprehensive one hour interview with Björk on her new album Medulla at BBC-Radio 3-Mixing It (starting around 1'15''). The way she rolls the "r" is awesome. Sounds almost Scottish to my ears. Lots of songs from Medulla (Latin for marrow = innermost) as well.

ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

ILM Top 100 2000-2004: TRACKS

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Volume 005 is out. With tracks by Xiu Xiu, Text, The Brilliant Green, Ephemera, New Wet Kojak and Alias with Markus Acher plus some excellent writing on the music (via totally fuzzy).

Lots of interesting threads on ILM right now. The kids are on vacation and the real music lovers (just joking) are among themselves?

• Eno and Byrne MY LIFE with the bush of GHOSTS. c or d?
• Frippertronics-era Robert Fripp: Let's Discuss
• Comsat Angels - Better than Joy Division?
• does anyone still like Belle and Sebastian?
• New Order - Technique
• Talking Heads : Only Pick One (Album)
• "Builds the Bone" by the Hidden Cameras (Where can I find the mp3 online? Music for Robots had it, but that was more than a week ago! :-()
• Lloyd Cole And The Commotions: Classic Or Dud
• The Sundays : C or D
• Remove one song from an almost perfect album to make it a perfect album
• John Prine vs Randy Newman

The Morning News - Roundtable: Mp3 Bloggers with the guys behind Mystical Beast, Largehearted Boy, Said the Gramophone and Tofu Hut amongst others.

Dirty Duck singing The Gift plus five other weird VU covers from the 2nd album: Ego Phizmiz & his Orchestra - White Light White Heat (via Ligne Claire).

Nick Edwards from Gutterbreakz has a longish article on noise which culminates in a glowing review of a 4 CD set of Pan Sonic, a Finnish band I had never heard of. It all sounds extremely exciting.

It must be winter in Brazil now though it's probably not too cold on the Copacabana. In Germany summer seems to have arrived to stay for a couple of days and it's time for a caipirinha and some relaxed music from the other side of the equator.

For a start there is the stunningly beautiful Cibelle from Sao Paulo who released a bossanova album with an electronic touch and a lounge jazz atmosphere last year (npr audio review). Christopher from The Suburbs Are Killing Us offered two mp3s on the 26th July. On Waiting her voice is even sexier than in the Portuguese songs. The track uses noises of beeping cash-registers in the middle.

Another release covering similar ground is by Nouvelle Vague (=new wave), a French project taking new wave and punk classics and performing them in bossa nova (=new wave) style. The additional charm is coming from the fact that the female singers (most of them being French) did not know about the originals before the recording. Copy, right? has the Dead Kennedys cover Too Drunk to Fuck online today. One of the more upbeat songs (with laughing and screaming) of the album.

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My favourite is the light version of the dark wave classic A Forest by The Cure. There are tropical birds singing in this forest full of sunshine. It's a rain forest on the beach with African percussions. Never have The Cure sounded so uplifting and easy going. God I need a Blue Lagoon right now.

Excellent mp3 blog focussing on indie rock: Spoilt Victorian Child (discovered via the mp3 blog aggregator). Recent offerings included a rare early version of New Order's Ceremony, tracks by Jesus & Mary Chain, Pavement, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Creation, Slowdive and the Talking Heads.