Awesome Music

Nope, not the guy from Beach Boys, but this Hawaiian reggae artist is an equally talented musician. This live performance of his song Permanent Holiday may not seem much at first, until you realize what he’s doing. Skip to 4:22.

SubOverHype’s action-packed music video for Malakai’s pop-rap track Queens & Kings mashes up the worlds of Furious 7 with Mario Kart and a dash of Mad Max for an explosive shopping cart chase through L.A.’s iconic viaducts.

Listen to the second coming of Bob Marley in this clip from the 2013 Holland edition of The Voice. We take that back – Mitchell Bruning’s voice is even smoother than Marley’s. Hear more of Mitchell’s incredible talent here.

Musician Banjo Guy Ollie decided to go with more of a rock and roll arrangement than Iron Horse did, but he also played the whole Metallica classic on bluegrass instruments including banjo and mandolin.

The latest track from digital entertainer Neil Cicierega spices up Ray Parker Jr.’s classic Ghostbusters updating it with a new dance hook and silliness a plenty. Download the track here. Be sure to stick around for the final five seconds.

After making a dance track with an airplane, Mashd N Kutcher collaborated with a pizza delivery guy. At this rate they’ll be able to release an album once a week. That bouncing camera is going to get old, but right now it still cracks us up.

Just when you think you’ve heard every possible musical genre, someone comes around to shake things up. Mongolian throat singer Zorigoo performs this unique rap track, accompanied by Zaya. The closest thing we can think of is Shaggy.

The latest single off of tUnE-yArDs’ 2014 electro-harmonic album Nikki Nack features a music video packed with retro-style visual effects which perfectly reflect the group’s low-fi, avant garde, ’80s-tinged sound.

During a recent appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Will Ferrell reminisced about his early standup career, which included a bit where he emulated the operatic howl of the opening theme of Star Trek.

An ice-cold single from Michigan-based doomwave band Badass Wolf Shirt. In case the band’s name didn’t give away that they’re goofballs, the song’s “music video” is a scene from the infamous short film Coven.

EDM duo Mashd N Kutcher got bored while waiting for their plane to leave. So they fired up their equipment and their imagination and made a stereotypical dance track using the sounds around them.

The 20-year old YouTube sensation Hugo Pierre Leclercq aka Madeon has gone big time. To promote his upcoming album Adventure, he set up a simple online mixer that lets you make music using samples from his album.

A trap track about drug addiction. Fiend is a collaboration between Troy Samuela and Monsoonsiren. It’s published by the Foreign Family Collective, the new music and visual arts label founded by electronica duo Odesza.

Forgive us in advance for posting anything related to Miley Cyrus, but couldn’t help but be drawn in by David Tipton’s performance of Wrecking Ball played on an instrument called a Chapman Stick. We also dig his Floyd.

This melancholic instrumental’s title says it all. Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy made We Used to Dance as part of the soundtrack to Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts’ movie While We’re Young.

The Piano Guys mash up the sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Jackson 5’s I Want You Back – which is now permanently intertwined in our minds with Dancing Baby Groot – who should now be wearing a powdered wig.

(NSFW: Language) Kendrick Lamar’s new album To Pimp a Butterfly is now on Spotify. You can already get his singles i and The Blacker The Berry on iTunes; the rest of the tracks will be available for purchase on 3/23.

You can buy the digital tracks from Junk Science’s dope hip-hop album, but you really want the physical edition – two slices of CD “bread” which sandwich together “ingredients” printed with lyrics, and packed in a resealable freezer bag.

“All this running around, I can’t fight it much longer. Something’s trying to get out, and it’s never been closer.” The new single from the psychedelic rock band grows bolder as it progresses, eventually turning into a stolid drone.

(NSFW: Language) Honey, Biggie’s home! Benjamin Roberts spent three days creating the best mashup he could think of: Dinosaurs’ Earl Sinclair performing Hypnotize. Put your hands up Baby! Next we want Biggie singing I’m the Baby.

Milwaukee garage trio Violent Femmes’ first new original song in 15 years. We’re bummed original drummer Victor DeLorenzo is gone, but singer Gordon Gano’s distinctive voice has always been the hook for us. From the EP Happy New Year.

Vocalist Robyn Adele Anderson and Postmodern Jukebox crank out a jazzy rendition of Coolio’s classic Gangsta’s Paradise, set in the heart of the prohibition era. We kept expecting Nucky Thompson to make an appearance.

For his latest edit, sample-master Eclectic Method took sound bites from the Terminator universe, and mashed them up into an edgy electronic track loaded with the sounds of weaponry and futuristic killing machines.