Awesome Music

(NSFW) Album covers are something of a lost art these days, but the golden days of vinyl gave birth to many memorable designs. Jimbo Stephens compiled the ones that were memorable for being awful, and the equally cheesy music behind them.

A drummer and a bassist in a tiny box. The DigiTech Trio guitar pedal adds drums and bass lines that match your guitar playing. It has 7 music genres each with 12 styles, and it can save up to three sets at a time. Drops 3/15 for $225.

“It’s like a big orange box of joyful goodie and wonderment!” This Disney inspired video by DJ Chewy, Jordan Sovis, and Micayla Marks proves that the Home Depot is entirely staffed by Broadway hopefuls. It’s a bit long, but still fun.

“I annihilate all sensation, and with the glowing core exposed, head first into the frozen lake.” Phil Elverum dives through the spectrum of isolation and numbness in his latest release. You can stream the whole album on NPR.

Another offbeat cover version of Darude’s 1999 techno dance hit Sandstorm, but instead of using a toy trumpet or floppy drives, the musicians of Akkordeonorchester München play the tune on a quartet of accordions.

Jimmy Fallon and the Roots join an all-star lineup of vocalists including Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Ariana Grande, Sam Smith, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, Usher and the mighty Christina Aguilera to sing the Queen classic.

Marquese “Nonstop” Scott yet again proves that he can dance like a boss, regardless of the musical genre. Here shows off his superhuman balance and body control to an ethereal afro-electro-slow-jam by Thriftworks.

The pres is gonna give you some Uptown Funk, courtesy of BaracksDubs, who managed to chop up soundbytes of the world leader to make him sing the infectious pop hit from Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.

(NSFW: Lyrics) “Like who really run this? Like who really run that man that say he run this?” Killer Mike and El-P brag about how badass they are but admit that they’re peanuts compared to the thugs in the 1%.

News recently broke that the skies’ number one source for useless crap had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be liquidating itself. Here’s a little farewell ditty. It’s too bad that Conan couldn’t get the real Adele to sing this.

MelodySheep pays tribute to the Internet’s salad days, and goes back to the ’90s with this awesome auto-tuned track which will have you singing “Just click, click, click!” by the time it’s all over. Did we really look this dorky back then?

Rock star cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser connect with rock star pianist Lang Lang for an epic cover of Paul McCartney & Wings’ awesome James Bond theme, conjuring images of flaming skulls in the deepest recesses of our minds.

The hypnotic video for Never Knew by Irish musicians Sunken Foal and Si Schroeder was created by Kevin McGloughlin by capturing images while driving in a car, then manipulating them to distort our perceptions of time and space.

The latest track from Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox is a Jackson 5 inspired arrangement of The Postal Service’s classic electronic track Such Great Heights, led by the smooth and sultry vocals of Kiah Victoria.

Mylo the Cat took footage of The Muppets’ Rowlf the Dog and perfectly matched it with Biz Markie’s awesomely tone-deaf vocals from his 1989 hit track Just a Friend. Really, how can you not love Rowlf?

With country star Blake Shelton as its guest host, Saturday Night Live had the perfect opportunity to create this uplifting ditty. Listen y’all to this story of “hope in the form of a little ol’ dirty boot.”

At Georgia Tech, a group of robots play along with a human drummer, using sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques to turn in a truly improvised performance without skipping a beat. Yes, now robots can torture us with jazz fusion.

Alt-folk band The Decemberists played some new tunes during a recent appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. But instead of writing the lyrics themselves, they turned to YouTube’s idiotic commenters for the words.

(NSFW: Language) The Hood Internet turned Drake’s chill remix of ILoveMakonnen’s Tuesday into a fun neo-80s pop track, thanks to Penguin Prison’s Calling Out on uptempo (which by the way was an October release).

Teenage Engineering and Cheap Monday’s pint-sized synthesizers – a drum machine, a bass synth and a lead synth – are bare bones boards. They run on 2 AAA batteries and have 3.5mm line-in and line-out.

Musician Andy Rehfeldt transforms Black Sabbath’s metal classic Paranoid into an upbeat jazz tune, preserving Ozzy Osbourne’s original vocals, but forever lightening the mood of the track. Also, we prefer to remember Ozzy this way.

The music video for Dawn Richard’s hypnotic electro-R&B track Tide: the Paradox Effect. Despite its simple premise – a female warrior marching through a fiery interstellar backdrop – We Were Monkeys‘ visuals are truly spectacular.

Eclectic Method’s latest track combines numerous classic hip hop tracks, which themselves are known for sampling their sources, creating a sort of hiphopception track that’s one level further removed from its source tracks.