Awesome Music

Gang of Youths covers LCD Soundsystem’s 2007 track All My Friends with incredible finesse, with a brilliantly gradual escalation from a quiet and mellow start to an explosive wall of sound by the end. We’re not sure they beat the original, but they came damned close.

We think Drake and Future’s combo mixtape would’ve been better off without the online hype. It’s no Compton, but it’s a solid effort. Drake’s doing his angry Kanye impression and Future’s still mumbling. Nice beats though.

Daft Punk Unchained is a BBC France documentary about Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. The electronic music duo cleverly turned their desire for control and anonymity from an off-putting barrier into a weapon of creativity.

Mystery Guitar Man covers Dick Dale’s surf rock rendition of Misirlou (aka the Pulp Fiction song) by playing – or at least pretending to play – 90 different instruments at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. (Thanks Tony!)

Who y’all think y’all frontin’ on? For their latest cover, Jimmy Fallon’s barbershop quartet The Ragtime Gals are joined by Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a wholesomely harmonized version of Rihanna’s hit Bitch Better Have My Money.

And here we thought the polka version of Rammstein’s 1997 metal track Du Hast was the wackiest version we’d ever hear. But this is the internet, and where there’s a will there’s a way. So sit back and enjoy this silly interpretation of the track as performed by Viva Vox.

Raven Kwok created this mesmerizing music video for the track Skyline by Karma Fields. The visuals were created using code that is based in part on Voronoi tessellation, a geometric model first used by René Descartes back in 1644.

The prolific rock and folk singer came through with his promises, releasing a full cover of Taylor Swift’s hit album 1989. Adams’ gloom and Springsteenian baggage doesn’t always work – his Bad Blood should just be titled Bad – but it’s a good effort overall.

Performer Ruben “Lucky” Hall aka “Flat Top” adds his unique spin to Daft Punk’s Voyager, embellishing the track with sweet vocals and robotic dance moves. Come for the outfit and hairdo, stay for the talent.

Composer and arranger Nick Proch and his band of merry musicians turn in an exceptional arrangement of Rage Against the Machine’s 1996 classic Bulls on Parade, played on traditional orchestral instruments. We have to say we miss the wah-wah a bit though.

Danny Greenwald’s ambient music album is made up entirely of sounds that he secretly recorded from two Guitar Center branches. Amazingly, Noah Wall had the exact same idea, but he chose to make something more literal.

(PG-13) True to the song’s message – about being a cheapskate – Lil Dicky begged rich folks in Los Angeles to lend them their time, house, yacht, cars and establishments for free to make this low budget music video.

Benjamin “Animal Robot” Roberts mashed up footage from Wes Anderson’s stop-motion classic Fantastic Mr. Fox with The Blowup by Blackalicious. The end result is a surprisingly perfect music video for the hip hop track.

Timbaland meets Thom Yorke in Golden, Blinding, the second single from Alek Fin’s upcoming EP Án Mynda. Fellow beatmaker Galun assembled the addictive beatbox percussions over which Alek croons.

James Corden invited Stevie Wonder for a ride in his Range Rover, first as a driver – but quickly switching gears to perform a number of his tunes from the passenger seat. Stevie’s comedic chops are as brilliant as his vocals.

We can only imagine how many attempts it took to get this right, as a line of 43 people tossed coins into liquid-filled beakers to play back a passage from one of Mozart’s minuets. Though you can only hear the notes when played back in slow motion.

Musicians Laurier Lachance and Mathieu Paquin turn in a head-nodding acoustic version of Eminem’s massive hit The Real Slim Shady with three fewer people playing the guitar than Walk off the Earth.

Musician Valentin Guérin has a very special brass instrument – a trombone that doubles as a flamethrower. Here, he turns in a performance of Arthur Pryor’s Fantastic Polka, with Valérie Guérin-Descouturelle on piano. We think his nickname should be “hot lips.”

Redditor _its_ya_boy_ stumbled onto this classic track from an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba, packed with smooth flows and a catchy hook that will have you singing along in no time. Coincidentally, all our friends are insects.

Musician Chase Holfelder has done it again – taking a perfectly upbeat song and turning it sad . His latest arrangement – American Authors’ hit Best Day of My Life, which is so good that ESPN plans on playing it during Sunday NFL Countdown this week.

A portable MIDI controller-only version of the touch- and pressure-sensitive Seaboard Grand piano. The Seaboard Rise has 25 keys, connects via USB or Bluetooth and has an internal battery. It also comes with Roli’s Equator software synth.

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake’s crazy eyes run through hip hop hits once again, featuring Whodini, Public Enemy, Fetty Wap, Ace Hood and more. The best part is when they go up to the audience and you try to imagine some of those folks trying to rap along.

In many ways, they’ll miss the good old days. Vocalist Cristina Gatti and Postmodern Jukebox turn in a sultry Casablanca-inspired version of The Strokes’ Someday, transforming it into a completely new, but just as wonderful song.