Music

The music video for Colour & Movement, a track from beatmaker Ryan Hemsworth’s Last Words EP. The video is forgettable; leave it on another tab and let the song work its way into your brain.

The music video for Meow. It’s the first single from Endless Fantasy, the upcoming album of chiptune band Anamanaguchi. A nod to arcades and teenage cliques backed by the insanely addictive track.

A soothing tune made from the start-up music of Windows XP. The remix was made by Niconico user Unagi. Incidentally the icon shown in this 4-year old video turned out to be Microsoft’s new logo.

Heart and Jon Bonham’s son Jason play Stairway to Heaven at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors, in front of Led Zeppelin and other awardees. It left us with cold hands and goosebumps.

Shout Out Louds previewed the single Blue Ice off of their latest album to a select few fans and critics by sending them a kit for making a record out of ice. What a cool idea. (Thanks James P.!)

Just in case that monster holiday LP didn’t satisfy, Sufjan Stevens posted an outtake track from the Brooklyn Queens Expressway era on his Tumblr. “Weird rubbish” it most certainly is not.

What happens when you attach a GoPro action camera to the slide of a trombone, face it towards the musician, who then starts playing a tune? Magic. Sheer magic. (Thanks Timothy!)

Before SNL and Portlandia, Fred Armisen drummed for the post-hardcore band Trenchmouth. After a taping of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, he proved that he still had it in this drumoff with ?uestlove.

Check out Compressorhead kicking out the robot jams in their cover of Motörhead’s Ace of Spades. When the Country Bear Jamboree is in ashes, you have my permission to rock. (Thanks everyone!)

Unlike high end self-tuning guitars that have motors on their tuning pegs, the AT-200 uses pitch correcting software to digitally adjust the sound coming from its strings. A great kit for beginners.

(NSFW: Language) We want to know why Mystikal kicked off his first album in more than a decade with some same ol’ same ol’ when he already had a freakin’ gold mine in this James Brown-inspired dig.

Walk Off the Earth, the talent behind the one guitar Gotye song, is back with an acapella rendition of Taylor Swift’s pop ditty. KRNFX’s beatboxing complements it nicely. (Thanks Christopher!)

(NSFW: Lyrics) Looking for some music for your post-New Year party party? Azealia Banks helps us pop the top off of 2013 with her new single BBD, co-produced by Apple Juice Kid & Sup Doodle.

Invented by Jun Fujiwara of Tama Art University, Re:Sound Bottle is a concept device that records everyday sounds and automatically mixes them together upon playback to create original music.

This 10-year-old percussionist transforms his family’s washing machine into a complete drum kit with nothing more than his hands and an excellent sense of rhythm. (Thanks Dan!)

Multitalented artist Jocelyn Pelichet pays tribute to 15 musicians we lost too soon – from a wide variety of genres ranging from jazz to metal to rap, from Ravi Shankar to MCA to the Trololo guy.

Watch the pancake-rapping, grammar-correcting, crowd-feeding rapper play Beatbox + iPhone + Guitar + Fast Rap = Win using Everyday Looper. Come for the gimmick, but stay for his lyrics.

Another potential star from England, the Brighton duo known as IYES is making heads bop all around the Web with their first single, an intimate track injected with bangin’ electronica.

James Lecker’s website contains sound bites of the Metallica front man’s distinctive singing growl. Yeai-yeaaaaah!!! Yoo-oo-ohwa!!! Anthony Kiedis deserves one too. (Image credit: Zoiudozoiao)