Philip Glass – "Knee 1" from Einstein on the Beach

Just the music, but if you're a Glass fan, who needs more?

Metric - "Sick Muse"

Just the music, although I hear there's an official video coming out at some point.

Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"

Vampire Weekend name-checks Peter Gabriel in this song, and he responded by recording a great cover with Hot Chip. Now that's one helluva compliment:

Ennio Morricone - Music from The Mission

As the YouTube poster relates, this is Morricone conducting the Roma Sinfonietta in 2007 at the United Nations. Carlo Romano is on oboe. The music is adapted from three pieces from The Mission score: Gabriel's Oboe, The Falls, and On Earth as It is in Heaven. I'll just add that Morricone is one of my favorite film composers, and "Gabriel's Oboe" is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard.

Sarah Vaughan - "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Live)

This is one of my favorite tracks from "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan, but odds are you haven't heard it. It's an audience request number from a Live in Tokyo album that seems to be out of print, but luckily, iTunes has it. Enjoy.

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Around the Bend"

Here's their March 2009 session at KCRW.

Great Northern - "Low is a Height"

Emiliana Torrini - "Me and Armini" and "Jungle Drum"

She recently recorded a live session at KCRW here in L.A.

Maurice Jarre - Overtures from Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago

R.I.P.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - "Black Dog" (Live)

Not on their album, unfortunately - maybe the next one. Via skippy.