Awesome Music

Ian Pons Jewell’s awesome bad trip music video perfectly matches the imagery with the deep down beats of Valentino Khan’s dance floor banger, as faces are contorted to the beat of the music. And then there’s the chick with the tentacle eyeballs. Your nightmares miss you.

Members of the Canadian Brass let their fingers go flying at breakneck speeds in this classic footage from one of their performances of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s high-speed orchestral interlude. A more recent incarnation of the group shows off their chops here.

YouTuber Grant Woolard performed and then arranged 57 classical pieces from 33 different composers. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to have a nibble of caviar on blini while briséing on our way to pick up our doctorate in Serial Killing.

Director Ninian Doff reveals the true feelings of a James Bond style villain in the quirky music video for Miike Snow’s catchy new track. We always thought Bond and Blofeld shared a deeper connection, and now we know why.

During this week’s episode of SNL, we were reminded of this amazing, captivating, and enigmatic performance of the late David Bowie, along with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias, back in the heyday of NBC’s late night show. After that, watch him on The Tonight Show.

A flowing and passionate cover of Bob Dylan’s song from the late Jeff Buckley. The track is part of You And I, an upcoming 10-song album of Buckley’s previously unreleased studio recordings from the ’90s.

Adam Ben Ezra turns in an awesome cover version of David Bowie’s classic, highlighted by his deft upright bass skills, and a fuzzed-out rhythm that breathes new life into the 1970 track. And if you never heard it before, be sure to check out his version of the Dexter theme.

James Corden’s popular bit may have well reached its peak with its latest episode. Watch him and Adele sing her hits and slay Nicki Minaj’s Monster verse while riding around England. The casualness with which she wields her power makes her all the more incredible.

Among the many David Bowie musical tributes that have popped up in recent days, here’s one we weren’t expecting – his seminal 1969 classic Space Oddity played on bells at the 634-year-old Dom Tower in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

(Flashing lights) “I found myself there a collagin’ with all of the human race, a dancer from Ghana smiling in Tijuana.” The dancing baby is back, and he brought his family with him in the colorful music video for Animal Collective’s fun single from their new album Painting With.

David Robert Jones aka David Bowie passed away on 1/10/16 from cancer, two days after he turned 69, and released a new album. Though he didn’t always hit paydirt, Bowie always pushed the limits of music and style, and expanded our hearts, souls, and minds.

An powerful and heartfelt rendition of Nirvana’s 1991 classic, performed soulfully by Washington, D.C. vocalist Comanaut. You’d never guess he could sing like this from the sound of his dope track Why I’m Not Where You Are.

(PG-13 Language) Eclectic Method takes a break from his own musical creations with this brilliantly dubbed footage from Nick Park’s Aardman classic Creature Comforts, so the animals are singing London MC Skepta’s banging grime track Shutdown.

(PG-13: Language) “I hit the bank today and tell them color me bad, Blue faces, get that new money, and it’s breaking me down to the top.” Kendrick Lamar raps about resisting materialism and the power of money then ends with a fiery shoutout to his label.

Elliot Lim created this animated homage to the HBO drama The Wire set to the of Way Down in the Hole, the show’s theme – as performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama. We still prefer the Tom Waits version, but that does nothing to diminish Lim’s brilliant motion artwork.

Back in 2012, percussion group ЭТНОБИТ (Ethnobeat) transformed the sheets of ice on Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal into a wondrous natural musical instrument. The recording engineer for this clip deserves just as much praise as the musicians.

Blind Covers is a new YouTube show where bands are given only one hour to make a cover for a song that they’ve never heard before. Here psych rock band The Mosaics (formerly Town in the City) covers country star Martina McBride’s Independence Day. Performance at 5:30.

“Every day I worry all day, about what’s waiting in the bushes of love.” Bad Lip Reading rewrites the story of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker as a song, saying that the latter was killed by a chicken-duck-woman thing.

Japanese musician 826aska demonstrates her impressive electronic keyboard skills with performances from Back to the Future, Star Wars, Mission Impossible III, and other famous movie themes with a rich and orchestral texture atypical of a single musical instrument.

We’ve heard music from Star Wars playfully performed on a piano and rocked out on an electric guitar. Here’s Rafael Aguirre’s lively rendition, which he performed at Alhambra Guitars’ 50th anniversary. Damas y caballeros, La Guitarra de Las Galaxias.

The 73-year old soul queen Aretha Franklin performed her 1967 single (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors as part of the event’s tribute to singer and songwriter Carole King, who co-wrote the song. See the entire show on CBS.

(PG-13 Language) Alex Lewis, Chris Reinacher, and Eugene Lee Yang of BuzzFeed Video look back at some of the biggest pop hits of 2015, and the words only they heard when listening to them. We’re surprised they didn’t include any Uptown Funk though.

Before they decided to go with Sam Smith, it seems that the theme song for James Bond’s Spectre was going to be sung by Radiohead. As a holiday gift, the band released the track for free. It’s an awesome Radiohead song, but Thom Yorke is still no Adele or Shirley Bassey.