SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG ALL ICELANDIC MUSIC EPISODE! First up, straight out of Reykjavik in the 1960's the band Flowers did "Glugginn" (in English, that's "The Window") from a cd called Undarlegt Með Unga Menn (buy online). Next Iceland's answer to Daft Punk, Apparat Organ Quartet doing "Global Capital" from their selt-titled 2003 debut album (Amazon). You can watch a PBS Frontline World segment that features Apparat Organ Quartet here. Then Rúnk did "Wall Street" from their 2003 album Ghengi Dahls (online import, buy online). Next was the pairing of Magga Stína and Valgeir Guðjóns for the song "Aðeins Eina Nótt" (in english "Only One Night") from a compilation album from 1997 called Megasarlög (buy online). Then you couldn't have an all Icelandic music episode of TSiMH without playing Bjork, so we heard "Amphibian (The Film Mix)" from the excelent soundtrack to Being John Malkovich (Amazon). And finally, we finished this episode with another song from the 60's, this one sounds almost indistinguishable from Combustible Edison, but is 100% Icelandic. It's by Ellý Vilhjálms and it's called "Sveitin Milli Sanda" and it can be found on a two disc "best of" collection spanning 35 years called Allt Mitt Líf: Úrval Dœgursöngva Frá Árunum '60-'95 (buy online) which came out in 2004.This episode contains a clips from March 17th episoded of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio, addressing the U.S. military's pull out of Iceland, as well as other stuff.

First up, in celebration of the concert of theirs I'm going to tonight, we heard the UK's The Go! Team, with "The Wrath of Mikey" from their import single for Ladyflash (Amazon). Then Brooklyn's The Essex Green hooked us up with "Uniform" from their brand new (if sub-par) album Cannibal Sea (iTunes, Amazon). Next was Toronto's Meryn Cadell with an old song (that totally holds up) called "The Sweater" from her 1991 album Angel Food for Thought (Amazon, iTunes has the (dated) video). Then a couple of songs by Michigan's Wally Pleasant, first "I'm Nice" then "Wonderful Sex" both from his 1994 album Houses of the Holy Moly (online store). This episode featured a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher which you can watch all of at One Good Move. UPDATE: This episode was clipped until Tuesday at 3pm eastern. If your file doesn't have an end, please redownload. Sorry!

First up, a great indie pop group from Baton Rouge, Louisiana The Eames Era did "Go To Sleep" from their recent debut album Double Dutch (iTunes, Amazon). Next was the great New Zealand indie band The Bats, we heard "Bells" from their most recent album At the National Grid (iTunes, Amazon). Then from the dancefloors of the UK to your ears we heard the awesom mash-up of The Doors' "Riders on the Storm" and Blondie's "Rapture" in the outstanding track "Rapture Riders" by DJ Mark Vidler from the new Blondie best of album Sight & Sound (iTunes, Amazon). And finally we heard Portland's Reclinerland and their song "Alphabet, An" which will presumably be put on a record at some point in the future, but for now can be found on the best deal in the iTunes music store, the Hush Records 50 track sampler Mile - A Hush Compilation which costs a mere $9.99 (iTunes (better deal), Amazon).

First up, the one, the only, the irrepressible Stereolab are back with a new, totally good, album called Fab Four Suture (iTunes, Amazon) which comes out tomorrow and is just as good as anything they've done. We heard one of my three favorite songs called "I Was a Sunny Rainphase." Next was an oldie-but-goodie from The Halo Benders called "Don't Touch My Bikini" from their 1994 record God Don't Make No Junk (iTunes, Amazon). Then Florida's Electric President did "Snow on Dead Neighborhoods" from their debut self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon) which sounds kinda like a lot of other things such as The Postal Service or The Incredible Moses Leroy. Next was California's Kevin Blechdom (who is really Kristen Erickson) doing "Interspecies Love" from both her I Love Presets EP (iTunes, Amazon) and also a later album, but c'mon, it's not THAT good, so just stick with the EP. And finally we finished up this episode with Blanket Music (which is also basically the same band as Toothfairy, who has been on The Sounds in My Head before) doing a great Nouvelle Vague-esque cover of Bjork's "Hyper-Ballad" from the Read - Interpreting Bjork album (iTunes, Amazon). This episode features a clip with Stephen Colbert preditcts the Oscar winners with 100% accuracy on his show The Colbert Report. You can watch the whole clip at One Good Move.

First up, Minneapolis' Walker Kong did his excellent song "Executioner Song" from his 2001 album There Goes the Sun (iTunes, Amazon), which sounds almost like it could have come out a decade earlier. Next was Portland's Optiganally Yours (like Thingy and Pinback another Rob Crow band) doing their song "Geppetto" from their 2002 album Exclusively Talentmaker (iTunes, Amazon). Then New York City's rocktronica™ band Ratatat did "Everest" from their 2004 self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon). Next was North Carolina's best little indie-bluegrass outfit i've heard in ages, The Avett Brothers, did "Talk on Indolence" from their brand new album Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions (iTunes, Amazon). And we finished off this episode with a fantastic new song by the indispensable Willie Nelson who just put out a cover of "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" on Valentines Day (iTunes). You may remember the song from a much earlier episode of The Sounds in My Head where it was performed by San Francisco's punk queercore band Pansy Division.This episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about the war spending, and also about. Watch the whole clip at Crooks and Liars.

First up, New York City's own DJ Rx doing an awesome cover John Lennon's "Imagine" mixed with Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" featuring George W. Bush on lead vocals. Sound unnusual? Oh, it is. But it's also totally awesome. You can download this song as well as DJ Rx's whole The Party Party album from which it came from his website without paying, but I would reccomend paying. Next was New York City's better-than-most-bands-kinda-like-them The National with "Secret Meeting" from thier most recent album Aligator (iTunes, Amazon). Then indie-folk pioneer Sam Beam aka Iron & Wine did a great cover of one of my favorite New Order songs, "Love Vigilanties," from a new iTunes exclusive Live Session EP (iTunes). Then alter-ego of DJ Rx known as Me™ did a great song called "Dv Luvva" from his website. And finally we close this episode of the show with another DJ Rx song from The Party Party, called, appropriately enough "Dick is a Killer" (his site). Does it seem like this episode was a bit heavy on the DJ Rx? That's cause it was. But hey, this show is The Sounds in MY Head, and I've been listening to a LOT of DJ Rx. So there it is. More variety next week! This episode features a clip of Bill Maher on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno which you can see on One Good Move.

First up, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins (who are also from Los Angeles) collaborated for a new album called Rabbit Fur Coat (iTunes, Amazon) from which we heard one of my favorite songs, "Rise Up with Fists!!". Next was WFMU dj Ed Shepp and his song "Partydance" from his most recent release Five (iTunes, Amazon). Then Britain's ever-producing Saint Etienne did "Side Streets" from their new album (which, sadly, just isn't very good) Tales from Turnpike House (iTunes, Amazon). And we finished up with a couple of tracks from the awesome and underrated R&B legend Billy Paul. First a great cover of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", then "Am I Black Enough for You?" both of which can be found on Me and Mrs. Jones: The Best of Billy Paul (iTunes, Amazon).This episode features a clip from The Rachel Maddow Show from Air America Radio, as well as snippet from Bill Maher's I'm Swiss (Netflix, Amazon) standup comedy routine. His show, Real Time, will be back with a new season on HBO starting this Friday, the 17th!