Awesome Music

Malinda Kathleen Reese decided to take the lyrics of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, then poured them through Google Translate several times, and sang the nonsensical new words. We’re guessing this is how Bad Lip Reading makes up their scripts.

The accordion may not have the range of an Electone, but accordion virtuoso Alexandr Hrustevich shows us that it’s enough to stand in for a string section in this 2013 performance of Vivaldi’s Summer and Borodin’s Petite Suite.

Anthony Vincent sings Biebs’ Sorry in the style of Ja Rule, Five Finger Death Punch, Milli Vanilli and more in one of his funniest cover medleys yet. Man, that Boy George. Anthony’s been stepping up his props and make up game.

Joel “Rathergood” Veitch and his pals present a musical tribute to the spiky herbivore with a little ditty that is at once a catchy kid’s song, a track adults can enjoy, and surprisingly educational. Lyrics here.

In the late ’40s, the USSR’s citizens were forbidden from listening to foreign-made music. This gave birth to a black market of “bones records” or “ribs” – bootlegs copied on used X-ray film. This documentary is a spinoff of Stephen Coates’ eponymous book.

Nerdwriter1 wonderfully breaks down Howard Shore’s The Fellowship theme from the first The Lord of the Rings movie, showing how Shore varies the track to accentuate, foreshadow and familiarize the audience with the characters.

“Routine day with a dirt cheap brush, then a week goes by and it goes untouched. Then two, then three, then a month, then the rest of your life you beat yourself up.” Aesop Rock raps about regret at letting one’s creativity rot in this single from his album The Impossible Kid.

Learn how OK Go made their zero-gravity music video, precisely choreographing actions as the airplane was thrown into a series of vomit-inducing parabolas which alternately doubled, then zeroed gravity, along with some well-placed edits, and a little time trickery.

(PG-13 Language) Wubba lubba dub dub! Eclectic Method is here to regale us with his musical take on the beloved Adult Swim cartoon, in a super catchy remix packed with some of our favorite catchphrases from the duo.

James Corden picks up another very talented passenger for a ride, with vocalist, songwriter and producer Sia singing like a badass, and providing insight into her mysterious and quirky persona.

“If you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.” Tanya Davis performs her poem How To Be Alone in this short film directed by Andrea Dorfman. It’s also available as a book.

There’s no question the ethereal, theatrical, enigmatic style of The Flaming Lips owe quite a bit to the fertile ground sowed by David Bowie. At Belly Up, Aspen, they repaid the favor with an eight-song tribute to the Thin White Duke. We only wish we had a direct audio feed.

(Flashing lights) Kendrick Lamar continues to use his medium as a bell for change and a mirror for society. His explosive performance at the 2016 Grammys is a medley of The Blacker the Berry, Alright and a final verse lamenting the death of Trayvon Martin.

Remix masters Entyme vs. Party Ben perfectly melded Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams with Adele’s Hello, then tossed in a bit of Oasis and Aerosmith for good measure. Download this mashup and others here.

Bon Iver recorded Haven, Mass. for their second album but it didn’t make the cut. The song was then unceremoniously released in a mixtape sent to early bird ticket buyers of the 2016 Eaux Claires Music Fest, which Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon co-organized.

(PG-13: Language) “Three beers and I’m so messed up, get drunk and I can’t shut up!” The fun music video for Toronto-based punk rock band PUP’s new single DVP inserts the lyrics into classic video games.

(PG-13 Language) Get pumped for this weekend’s return of The Walking Dead with Mike Relm’s edgy remix of sound bites and Bear McCreary’s familiar theme from AMC’s zombie soap opera. And no, we don’t advise looking at the flowers.

After wooing us with their track Bushes of Love, Bad Lip Reading are back with another Star Wars track – this time expounding on their The Empire Strikes Back reading. Since when were C-3PO and Jabba outsourced to Bangalore?

Given the lyric “gravity’s just a habit,” it only makes sense that OK Go would shoot its latest video aboard one of those anti-gravity airplanes. The only thing that would have made it better would have been treadmills. Flight gymnastics by S7 Airlines.

Funk bassist Davie504 visited Google Translate and nabbed a couple of its mechanical sounding voice samples, then turned them into the backbeat for one of his impressive slap bass solos. Sing along! “bschk z pv! zk pv zk!”

One of the more emotionally powerful David Bowie tributes we’ve heard, as Toronto’s open choir of more than 500 singers convened to perform a wonderful cover of Bowie’s 1969 classic. Their rendition of The Man Who Sold the World is excellent as well.

Branson, Missouri performers Paul Harris and The Cleverlys turn in a twangy bluegrass cover version of Beck’s 1994 alternative anthem Loser. Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz.

Pianist D Wave mashed up two seemingly mismatched tunes, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee and John Williams’ Imperial March from Star Wars into a single cohesive track. There’s a hint of ragtime jazz in there for good measure too.