Awesome Music

While we were looking for something entirely different, we stumbled onto this incredible cover version of the Tom Jones classic I (Who Have Nothing) as performed by the always incredible Puddles the Clown, captured in studio by Paste Magazine.

Jonathan Chong and Clem Stamation’s music video for Husky’s catchy alt-pop track Ghost has the look of an animated cross-stitch. We’re guessing that it was done with computers, because we can’t imagine that anyone’s grandma could have sewn this much.

The fidgetspinnerpocalypse is upon us, and these kinetic toys are everywhere now. Musician Davie504 thought he’d try something different than just wasting time with his fidget spinner, and used it to strum the strings on his bass guitar. Turns out it’s perfect for surf rock.

Take a trip back nearly 40 years for an early performance from The Cure – as they played A Forest on a live TV broadcast from Paris’ Theatre de l’Empire. We still can’t get over how young and cleancut Robert Smith was. Compare and contrast with this 2016 performance.

Christopher “C3” Cardone of Kalium Strings shows off “Godzilla” – a custom-built bass guitar which has 24 of his company’s strings. Stick around, and you’ll also be treated to a demo of their .266 gauge strings, which produce ridiculously deep bass notes.

(PG-13: Language) Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike managed to score a one-on-one interview with legendary funk musician and producer George Clinton, and hung out in one of his barbershops to chew the fat about hip-hop, doo-wop, haircuts, counterfeit cash, and more.

Musician and video maker Andy Rehfeldt took the Rick James hit Super Freak and reworked its backing track from disco funk to hard rock. It works shockingly well, and to a certain extent seems more appropriate for the bad girl James describes in the lyrics.

At this year’s Rolling Loud Festival, viral star Brian Imanuel aka Rich Chigga surprised fellow young rapper Post Malone with a mariachi band, who played an acoustic version of Post’s Congratulations. This needs a properly arranged version stat.

If you haven’t seen Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 yet, get yourself to a theatre now. It’s awesome. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy this 3-minute medley of a few of the classic ’70s tunes from the soundtrack, performed by The Warp Zone and Chad Neidt.

Musician Gud Nuse clones himself, then takes us back in the rewind machine to 1999 with this so-wrong-it’s-right a capella version of The Bloodhound Gang’s lewd, crude, yet ridiculously catchy pop hit The Bad Touch.

Rather than using sound bites from another movie or TV show, this Eclectic Method track is made primarily from weaponfire and reloading sounds from first-person shooters. As long as it doesn’t include the incessant microphone chatter of 10-year-olds, we’re good.

Fender’s new digital amplifiers have thousands of presets and effects that you can operate through a built-in display, and you’ll get even more thanks to their Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. The Mustang GT amps also have a speaker function and USB and XLR outputs.

Chris Stapleton, Kevin Bacon, and Jimmy Fallon donned their best long beards and furry guitars to turn in a cover of the ZZ Top hit Legs, but with the “original” lyrics that didn’t make it into the final cut. We’re guessing the song’s working title was Anatomy Lesson.

La Blogotheque unearths one of their pocket concerts from 2009 – when people still used digital cameras instead of phones to take pictures – featuring world rockers Vampire Weekend. Watch them play songs from their debut album and the then-unreleased Contra.

We’re going to go out on a limb and say that a musician with the bold theatricality of Puddles the Clown owes a great debt to David Bowie, so it’s only fitting that he should take one of The Thin White Duke’s greatest tunes, and knock it out of the park.

We’ve had no luck finding out the name of this Korean musician that Mo Elnadi recorded while performing on the street in London, but we were duly impressed by his minimal cover of Coldplay’s Fix You on his MicroKorgXL synth. His cover of Oasis’ Stand by Me ain’t bad either.

5 years after their first appearance on NPR music’s excellent concert series, alt-J returns to their offices to perform with a string trio. The set list includes 3WW and In Cold Blood, from their upcoming album RELAXER, as well as Warm Foothills, and Taro.

A remastered version of the Radiohead classic OK Computer. It will also come with three unreleased tracks and eight B-sides. The boxed edition comes with a hardcover artbook, a notebook with copies of Thom Yorke’s notes from the time of recording, and more.

This guy on a Chinese TV show turns in what is arguably the strangest performance of Adele’s Rolling in the Deep that we’ve ever heard. We don’t know whether to give him a standing ovation, or just stare at the screen like a deer caught in the headlights.

Scandroid performs an awesome synthwave arrangement of John Williams’ classic Force Theme from the Star Wars saga. While it might not suit the timeless feel of the films, it certainly captures the essence of the era during which they achieved their greatest fame – the 1980s.

We’re not sure if we’re more impressed by Flea’s ability to nail Giorgio Moroder’s synth bassline, or former RHCP guitarist John Frusciante’s falsetto in this 2006 cover of Donna Summer’s disco classic. Anthony Kiedis’ dance moves, on the other hand…

Horror synthwave artist Pentagram Home Video ups the macabre for their latest EP. Named after the German term for April 30, Walpurgisnacht (“witches’ night”) will have you looking over your shoulder for tendrils of steam. Or chokeslams.

(Gross) It’s an age old story of a girl falling in love with her one true soulmate – except in this case, her significant other just happens to be creepy alien creature. Oh Yeah Wow’s video for Millington’s jangly love song starts out silly, and ends like a horror film.