From the "If it worked for Danger Mouse, then it should work for me" department comes Nightlife in Illinoise, a mash-up helmed by NYC hip-hop duo Metermaids that combines their recent album, Nightlife, with Sufjan Stevens' 2005 epic, Illinois.

In the music world, the term "experimental" is used loosely; it's often applied to anything outside of traditional drums, bass, and guitar. But the Happiness Project, Broken Social Scene, and Do Make Say Think musician Charles Spearin's new endeavor, just may restore the term's clout.

If all libraries were like the Team Love library, the Dewey Decimal System would be everybody's best friend.

Are Swedish mothers mixing magic mushrooms with their meatballs? Is Volvo lacquering shift knobs with LSD?

Fan-made music videos are in no short supply on the Internet. And for the majority of this clip of Kermit the Frog lip-synching to dance-rock mavens LCD Soundsystem's "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," it seems like another inspired creation from an online admirer.

By stripping electronic dream-pop to its core and rebuilding it with lo-fi guitars, drums, bass, and vintage keyboards, Olympia, WA's Desolation Wilderness have tapped into a new sound -- one that's truly transcendent.