Awesome Music

Made from a bunch of bent metal rods and a wooden soundbox, the kalimba is one of the more rudimentary musical instruments. But Acoustic Trench shows how it can still make some sweet sounds, with a soothing cover of the 1999 Blink-182 hit on the little music box.

We’ve featured several videos of musician Luna Lee playing modern tracks on her gayageum, but this cover of Gorillaz’ Feel Good Inc. might be the most natural fit yet, thanks to the abstract and complex rhythms of Damon Albarn’s original track.

Jon Sudano has built a name for himself by creating a series of videos in which replaces the lyrics to popular songs with those from the Smash Mouth hit All-Star. We can’t decide if we like his RHCP, Foster the People or Radiohead best. He also knows some Nickelback.

DJ Earworm returns with his annual mashup of the year’s most popular tunes, offering up your daily dose of The Weeknd, The Chainsmokers, Sia, DNCE, Rihanna, and lots of Twenty One Pilots woven in between.

Happy Cat Disco put together this awesome mashup track which combines some of the 1980’s most memorable tunes with Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling. The result is truly the ultimate ’80s dance track.

You’d never think that Mariah Carey would blend so seamlessly with My Chemical Romance but oneboerdjeu’s holiday mashup proves that sometimes the whole is better than the sum of its parts.

Musician Tyler Tholl visited four Minnesota state parks – one for each season – and recorded nature sounds to form the basis for this piece. His brother, Justin captured the stunning visual accompaniment. Go fullscreen and put your headphones on for this one.

We’ve heard plenty of cover versions of the music from Mario games, but Samuraiguitarist knocked it out of the park with this one, which not only perfectly lines up with the gameplay in the top left corner, but includes appropriate sound effects produced with his guitar.

Musician 331Erock cranks out an energetic electric guitar cover version of Ramin Djawadi’s hypnotic opening theme from the hit HBO series Westworld. We can’t get the image of a freshly-printed host being bathed in milky white liquid out of our minds now.

Sesame Street goes trap with its trippy remix of sounds from everyone’s favorite cookie-addicted muppet and Eclectic Method. If your computer can handle it, try opening this video in four windows, then hitting play on each one. MP3 available here.

“Run Run Run Jump. I can be a backpack while you run!” Bad Lip Reading follows up on it’s nonsensical, but catchy Bushes of Love and Not the Future with another song from the Star Wars universe, as Yoda teaches Luke Skywalker how to control The Force on Dagobah.

The latest from video maestros OK Go starts off with a bang, making a destructive mess in its first 4.2 seconds. The rest of the video is simply those same 4.2 seconds shown in super slow-motion, revealing numerous details you surely missed the first time around. BTS here.

Wake up! Grab a brush and put a little make-up. YouTuber Tocen presents an incredibly well-done mashup of footage from the SpongeBob Squarepants episode Band Geeks with System of a Down’s 2001 classic Chop Suey!

Postmodern Jukebox performs a Burt Bacharach inspired, rainy day jazz version of one of our all time favorite tracks, fronted by the smooth vocal stylings and ukulele strumming of Sarah Marie Young.

This one’s going to hurt. Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things‘ Mike Wheeler) plays a struggling musician who befriends an old stray dog in the music video for Sleep in the Heat, a single from the latest album of Canadian punk rock band Pup.

La Blogothèque generously shares Alicia Keys’ intimate set in Le Comptoir Général. She sang She Don’t Really Care, Hallelujah, In Common and The Gospel, all from her new album Here, as well as You Don’t Know My Name.

“Paper or plastic?” It’s a simple question we thought we knew the right answer to. But Rhett & Link’s latest tune points out that not every decision we make is as straight forward as it seems. Bottom line: A whale is gonna die.

Jimmy Fallon and The Roots teamed up with Metallica to turn in a low-fi performance of the 1991 classic Enter Sandman played on kazoo, xylophone, and other other toy instruments, the result of which sounded like a marching band from Hades.

The Foo Fighters can already rock pretty damned hard, so we were kind of surprised to see Leo Moracchioli turn in a metal version of one of their tracks. Regardless, Leo knocked it out of the park with his latest cover.

John Carpenter created some of the best horror flicks ever. He’s also responsible for their soundtracks, which he created in collaboration with Alan Howarth. This amazing hour-long mix was created by Howarth for the Resident Advisor podcast, and is well worth your time.

Musician Luna Lee rocks out another awesome cover version on her classic Korean string instrument, this time taking on Pink Floyd’s 1979 classic Another Brick in the Wall. While Lee is from the South, the tune seems especially apropos of North Korea’s confomist society.

Please don’t make any sudden moves. Instead, sit back and enjoy this literally grand piano version of Twenty One Pilots’ big hit as arranged and performed by Costantino Carrara. Sheet music available for purchase here.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the warped, yet highly talented minds behind South Park, The Book of Mormon, and Team America. Films&Stuff looks at how the duo has infused their work with music to enhance the humor, and to make scenes even more memorable.