Awesome Music

The song Cascavel is a collaboration between AIAIAI, DJ Branko, design studio OWOW and dancer Twerk Queen Louise. In a funny twist to the club scene, sensors attached to Louise let her trigger sounds by shaking her booty.

We’ve seen five people play one guitar, but before that ever happened, a dozen pianists shared duties at a single grand piano. When all of their hands get going at once, it looks some sort of crazy centipede. (Thanks Orion!)

Go Out is the first single from Blur’s new album, The Magic Whip (out 4/27/15) marks a return to the band’s original lineup after a 16 year break. The cooking video is just goofy, but the track is spot on. Pre-order the album on iTunes or here.

Vocalist Mr Dooves of Triforce Films recreates tunes from saturday morning cartoons and video games using only his voice and multi-track layering. We’ve posted our favorites here, and you can buy some of his cartoon tunes on LOUDR.

Vinheteiro plays a medley of 13 tracks from the Super Mario series on a synthesizer he’s loaded up with 8-bit sounds. While we’ve heard lots of covers before, there’s just something about hearing them played with the original sounds.

(NSFW: Language) Sufjan Stevens’ latest single foreshadows the somber and pared down sound of his upcoming album Carrie & Lowell. You can find out more about the album in Pitchfork’s recent interview with Stevens.

“An empty spacecraft. A paranoid vacuum cleaner robot. Some strange invaders. Jeremy Clapin’s animated short film serves as the music video for Hundred Waters‘ dreamlike track Innocent, and also is a great little science fiction story.

(NSFW: Language) Drake pulled a Beyoncé and dropped a new EP without prior hype. Whatever his reasons, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is classic Drizzy: equal parts bite and bark. Check out the extended video for Jungle here.

The music video for Siska’s Unconditional Rebel is about 3.5 min long, but all of the action in the background was actually captured in just 5 seconds. La Planète Rouge filmed it at 1000fps to create a “living mural” effect.

YouTuber Redtank took video elements from rapper Rick Ross (er RO$$), and replaced the music with Paul Simon’s Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, which should make absolutely no sense, but somehow it works brilliantly.

(NSFW: Lyrics) “This plot is bigger than me, it’s generational hatred.” The counter-point to the inspirational and Grammy-award winning track i. Like the eponymous novel, the song is about hating one’s own race.

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs celebrates Valentines Day with some classic love songs and ballads, doing impressions of different vocalists than originally sang them. Where else can you hear Type O Negative singing Boyz II Men?

EDM wunderkind Hugo Leclercq aka Madeon connected with electro-pop masters Passion Pit for this earworm of a track you won’t soon get out of your head. From Madeon’s debut album ADVENTURE, out 3/31/15.

Our friend Greg Johnson of Acoustic Labs finally shows his face, turning in a hypnotic, asian-tinged rendition of Beck’s track Wave, off of the artist’s Grammy winning album Morning Phase. He was approached by Beck’s people to create the cover.

Musician Andre Antunes shows off his skills while demonstrating the distinctive playing styles of 10 iconic guitarists, performing a cover version of Daft Punk’s hit Get Lucky with each axe man’s individual flair.

To commemorate the recent 70th anniversary of Bob Marley’s birth, the guys from Reggaeville put together this wonderful a capella arrangement of the classic Could You Be Loved. Guaranteed to make you bob your head.

Jimmy Fallon keeps on living other people’s childhood dreams. When Will Smith dropped by his show, Jimmy grabbed the opportunity to beatbox and rap the 1988 classic with the Fresh Prince. Are you sure you wanna hear this man?

One man band Henry Kohen aka Mylets is quickly making a name for himself. Trembling Hands is the lead single from his upcoming album Arizona. It’s a far cry from his emo-punk EP and should hit the mark for Nine Inch Nails fans.

Isosine created this unlikely, yet absolutely brilliant remix of Taylor Swift’s pop hit Shake it Off and Nine Inch Nails’ dark soliloquy The Perfect Drug. It’s the musical equivalent of Black Swan. Download the MP3 here.

Victor Jardel’s wonderfully animated music video for Senbeï’s genre-defying track Rain features three strange but endearing characters who leave the forest and explore Paris during a downpour.

Neil Young is joined on stage by Jimmy Fallon, or is it the other way around, as the doppelgängers turn in a great performance of Young’s classic track Old Man. It’s well worth watching Young’s performance when the track was new too.

Let’s go back to nineteen nine-trizzay with The Tonight Show‘s Brian Williams rap remix of one of Snoop Dogg’s first hits, Who Am I. Brian Williams is Snoop Dogg, and Snoop Dogg is Brian Williams.

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