What should I listen to? Give me a link of something you'd recommend and tell me a bit about it.

Are you talking about all music... or just instrumental music?

Anything.

Brandenburg Concerto #5, or Tocata and Fugue in D minor, both by Bach, of course.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won an Oscar for their song "Falling Slowly," from the 2007 film Once. Written and directed by John Carney, Hansard's onetime bandmate, it's a movie about two musicians in Dublin, writing songs about past romances and exploring the love growing between them.

It was art imitating life, and perhaps the other way around: Hansard, who plays a Dublin street busker, spent years on the city's streets in real life, earning his keep with his the same battered guitar he plays in the film.

And he and the Czech-born Irglova, who plays an immigrant songwriter, found themselves falling in love in much the way their characters do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nJmvVvopQ&feature=related

Thanks! I'll check them out.

Tough question if we don't know what type of music you're most into.

I like alt/indie rock best myself so if you're into that at all, check out The Shins new album, Port of Morrow. It comes out next Tuesday but if you have iTunes, they will let you stream the full album free.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewFeature?id=509945657&s=143441


Poetic, sometimes cryptic lyrics and James Mercer has a great voice. This album has a lot more upbeat tunes and is less folksy then their previous with more focus on keyboards and synths. A fun and chill listen. Pretty solid album in my opinion.