Awesome Music

The first Tomb Raider game came out on 10/25/96. Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics celebrate Lara Croft’s 20 years of adventuring with the help of PlayerPiano. The location shots are as impressive as the medley itself.

Romain Gavras’ video for Jamie XX’s electronica track Gosh leaves a whole lot open to interpretation, but it’s still one of the most visually powerful music videos we’ve seen, as a veritable army of followers flock to a mysterious man. From the album In Colour.

It’s been over a year since musician Hanbyul Kang last posted a song to his YouTube channel, but his back catalog of smooth and soulful covers is too good not to share. Here’s hoping we hear more from Hanbyul down the road.

(PG-13: Language) Daft Punk produced the music for The Weeknd’s latest hit Starboy. But what if it was the other way around and Daft Punk invited The Weeknd to sing on their terms? YouTuber samuraiguitarist might have the answer.

(PG-13: Language) Director Mattis Dovier’s animated music video for XXX’s dope track uses good old 1-bit images to paint a vivid picture of a flight on the world’s creepiest airline. Chicken or beef? More like bugs or snakes?

French rock duo Armand Penicaut and Ulysse Cottin aka Papooz play their soothing and sultry “tropical garage” music in the beautiful island of Cap Ferret. They performed Ann Wants to Dance and One of Those Days from their album Green Juice.

“Performance art” sounds like marketing speak – it seems both pretentious and useless. Yet there may be no better term for the Blue Man Group, whose music is just half of an entertaining celebration of creativity and craftsmanship. More on the video’s description.

All my friends are kitties, take it slow. Insane Cherry reworks yet another track, this time taking on Twenty One Pilots’ hit Heathens, and supplementing it with the barks, meows, squawks, and cries of animals.

“Who to call when no one obeys the law and there ain’t no Iron Man that could come and save us all?” Sweet Christmas. Method Man bodies other TV show themes with this slice from the soundtrack of Luke Cage. Produced by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

Given all of the intricacies of S U R V I V E’s original version of the Stranger Things theme song, we think that musician Wandertalk did a great job replicating the sound on his collection of retro and analog synthesizers.

Director Dima Terem’s psychoactive music video for Pixelord’s post-modern chiptune features a robotic protagonist covered in dozens of white LED panels which light up to the beat of the music. We haven’t wanted a light-up outfit this much since Daft Punk did it.

In the latest movie mashup from Antonio Maria Da Silva (Hell’s Club), characters from a variety of action and adventure flicks come together to perform Gene Kelly’s classic Singin’ in the Rain. There’s no scenes from A Clockwork Orange, but there’s plenty of good old ultraviolence.

Great Big Story takes a look an unusual group of musicians based in Vienna, Austria who play just like any other orchestra, except their instruments are perishable, and must be freshly harvested before each performance. Watch a complete concert here.

Folk band Federale is heavily inspired by the soundtracks of ’60s and ’70s European films, primarily spaghetti westerns and thrillers. Their latest album All the Colours of the Dark will be out on vinyl with a free digital download code included. Check out a sample of the album here.

A slightly more toned down and twangy version of Ozzy Osbourne’s metal classic, performed live by bluegrass band Iron Horse, accompanied by Orchestra Sul Ponticello. From the album Black & Bluegrass.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard Danny Elfman’s theme song from The Simpsons performed a capella, but it’s definitely the first time we’ve seen it performed in creepy yellow makeup and blue hairdos. Thanks for the nightmare fuel, The Warp Zone.

Elefante Sessions presents a wonderfully different cover version of David Bowie’s classic The Man Who Sold the World, performed by Orquesta Raiz, a dynamic group of musicians with roots around the globe, and a Brazilian influenced sound. More great music here.

A box set that contains the media in the Voyager Golden Record – a gold-plated copper phonograph record carried by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes as a message to extraterrestrial beings. It consists of 3 vinyl records, a hardcover book and a lithograph.

Roberto from stuffwhatidone discovered an oddly pleasant noise that his 2002 Audi makes whenever he opens its glove box. Of course, the Internet couldn’t leave that alone, and now it’s a complete song, courtesy of musician Duncan de Heusden.

Hélène Jeudy & Antoine Caëcke’s animated video for LORN’s retrofuturist track envisions a future in which overpopulation is “cured” by making humans terminate their bodies, and upload their souls into a social network. Let’s hope Facebook doesn’t get any funny ideas.

Objectification. Outrage. Depression. Director Keith Schofield’s gimmick within a gimmick music video for Jacob Plant and Stylo G’s dance track predicts how it will be received by the people, and how Schofield will feel about it.

“Oh how the gentle wind, beckons through the leaves, as autumn colors fall…” Mondo Music has published all 32 tracks created by The Blasting Company for Cartoon Network’s sublime miniseries Over the Garden Wall. Also coming to Bandcamp, Amazon and iTunes.

Musician and modder Paweł Zadrożniak’s electronic orchestra of 3.5″ floppy drives, hard drives, and flatbed scanners, aka The Floppotron performs a spot-on cover version of Europe’s cheesetastic synth-rock anthem The Final Countdown.