Awesome Music

(PG-13: Language) “You’re not gonna make a profit coming out here. But you’re gonna have something better: you’re gonna feed your soul.” A brief documentary about Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s recent DJ gig in and tour of Cuba.

The amazing music video for the lead single from Son Lux’s upcoming album Bones. The Made Shop’s Nathan Johnson and Katie Chastain used foam boards, pins and rubberized thread to mimic primitive polygonal graphics.

Belarusan folk band Stary Olsa performs truly unusual cover versions of popular rock tracks using medieval instruments, including lute, zither, bagpipes, and recorder. Here, they perform the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication.

Game developer Harry101UK (Portal Stories: Mel) auto-tuned GLaDOS’ Song and made this music video. The song was made by GLaDOS’ voice actress Ellen McLain with John Lowrie for Portal 2, but never made it into the game.

Beatmaker Shawn Wasabi performs Marble Soda, an original track made of 153 songs and sounds and performed on a custom made version of DJ Tech Tools’ MIDI Fighter. Sign here if you want a production version of the controller.

Lucero Tena is a dancer and castanet player. She has performed in various orchestral performances around the world and even has several compositions written solely for her. Here she is performing with Voces Para La Paz.

Jimmy Fallon and Jack Black cover Extreme’s ballad More than Words in this shot-for-shot remake of the song’s music video. Well, mostly shot-for-shot. They got Gary Cherone’s perm right, but Jack overdid the hand gestures a bit.

The breakbeat masters reteam with director Michel Gondry for a decidedly less complex video than Let Forever Be, but the minimal imagery lets this awesome track shine that much more. From the forthcoming album Born in the Echoes.

While backstage at The Tonight Show, recently reunited UK mega-band Blur turned in a heartfelt performance of Tender, accompanied by Jimmy Fallon and way more people than should comfortably fit in the Green Room.

In celebration of May-tallica, Rob Scallon performed this trippy rendition of Enter Sandman, playing the whole song backwards, including the vocals, then reversing the video. Here’s the forward version.

Indie musicians Pomplamoose turn in a modern and ethereal version of Madonna’s classic Like a Prayer, accompanied by a sci-fi music video, in which an autonomous drone takes center stage. Also, is that a cloud or a spaceship at 0:00?

The music video for beatmaker Jamie XX’s trip hop single Gosh takes you on an extraterrestrial tour of a fictional moon and planet, courtesy of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. From his upcoming album In Colour.

Chiptuner Fredrik Segerfalk takes on David Hasselhoff’s already amazing ’80s inspired track for Kung Fury, and turns it into the soundtrack for an imaginary 8-bit video game, using the upcoming iPad music app SidTracker 64.

Before they turned in their stellar performance of classic Led Zeppelin, the kids of Louisville Leopard Percussionists played this charming rendition of Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train, played on a variety of instruments you hit with hammers and sticks.

Beatmaker Ross Birchard aka Hudson Mohawke turned D.J. Rogers’ soul track about good-for-nothing moochers into an anthemic burst that’ll make you feel like your Escort is an Escalade. From Hud Mo’s upcoming album Lantern.

A crowd of curious bovines gathers to take in a performance of Butterfly Landscape on the odd native Australian instrument, played impeccably by musician Andrea Furlan. We guess cows really like wind instruments.

Musician Banjo Guy Ollie turns in an understated performance of the Game of Thrones opening theme song played on banjo, mandolin and other string instruments, bringing an appropriately medieval sound to the typically orchestral track.

Grammy-winning Jazz and R&B musician Robert Glasper turns in a brilliant instrumental rendition of Radiohead’s track Reckoner. The track appears on his upcoming live album Covered, to be released June 16th.

(PG-13 Lyrics) Vocalist Anthony Vincent performs Eminem’s hit Rap God in the style of 40 different musical acts, from Snoop Dogg to Frank Sinatra. While they’re not all perfect, his Die Antwoord impression is priceless.

Director Kosai Sekine uses motion control and trippy VFX to mess with our heads by messing with the head of lead vocalist Yuki, as she warms our ears with her smooth vocals, backed by the ethereal electronic sounds of Animation.

AIAIAI follows up the TMA-1 with not one, not two, but 360 headphones. The TMA-2 has 3 headbands, 4 speakers, 5 earpads and 6 cables. Choose a pre-built pair or configure your own. Either way you’ll be able to swap its parts later.

Our favorite Mac music player is now on iOS. Vox plays MP3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WMA and CUE files. It also has built-in iTunes Radio and SoundCloud streaming. It’s completely free; the only in-app purchase is an optional cloud service.

Retro TV icon David Hasselhoff performs the pitch-perfect lead track for the upcoming short film Kung Fury, embracing his cheesy 1980’s past long enough that we might just look past his 21st century foibles. (Thanks Sunhwa!)