Awesome Music

(NSFW: Language) Faheem Rasheed Najm aka T-Pain, Teddy Pain, Teddy Penderazzdown, Buyer of Dranks PhD dropped by NPR Music for a live performance… without Auto-Tune. He’ll still have shawtys snappin’ though. Dude’s for real.

Filmmaker Chris Shimojima and composer Ljova coordinated a group of nine street musicians, located in various wi-fi enabled subway stations in New York City, using computers and smartphones to lead their remote orchestra.

A music streaming subscription service for audiophiles. Available now in the US and UK, Tidal gives you unlimited and ad-free access to over 25 million tracks at 1411kbps via its iOS, Android and web players. RIP data cap.

Brett Domino follows up on his previous music lessons, this time giving us tips on how to create the funk of 40,000 years on his Keytar. And just like Michael Jackson, he’s got mini-movie music video coming out too.

(NSFW: Language) GWAR stopped by A.V. Club’s offices, and turned in an unexpected thrash metal version of Pet Shop Boys’ ’80s classic West End Boys. Stick around for an even more awesome cover of Jim Carroll’s People Who Died.

(NSFW: Language) Electro-trap producer Baauer admits that this sine wave of a club banger is a product of a happy accident, which he made by combining his collaborations with Rae Sremmurd and Aluna of AlunaGeorge.

(NSFW: Lyrics, Gore) Owing more than a little credit to The Stampede, Logic’s dizzying first-person music video drops us right smack dab in the middle of a diamond heist gone wrong. Too bad they couldn’t shoot it without edits.

Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser of 2CELLOS perform a head-banging medley which combines The William Tell Overture with Iron Maiden’s The Trooper. We’re surprised their bows have any hairs left on them by the time it’s over.

OK Go has a history of creating tricky music videos, and their latest clip doesn’t disappoint. This precisely coordinated ballet of self-balancing scooters, umbrellas, and dizzying camerawork will leave you scratching your head by the end.

A single from Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, the upcoming album from Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear. His trademark haunting voice and the warped melody create the perfect balance of light and dark.

NeoGeofanatic shreds a rockin’ new version of Michael Sembello’s cheesetastic classic Maniac from the 1983 film Flashdance. We’re picturing Jennifer Beals welding and pouring a huge bucket of water over herself – not at the same time.

“We speak in circles, we dance in code/Untame and hungry, on fire in the cold” Indie rock band Sleater-Kinney is back, and with a new album no less. You can also get Bury Our Friends for free if you sign up for the band’s mailing list.

Fafa the groundhog and Gorilla of Glove and Boots dust off their big hair and the Mr. Big ballad To Be with You and put their own simultaneously whimsical and apathetic spin on the 1991 track. Pretzel bun I know you feel it too…

Nick Proch’s epic arrangement of Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 anthem Killing in the Name played on flutes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, violins, cellos, piano and any other instrument the band never used. Want more? Hit Kickstarter.

Like TableDrum, the CLIPHIT lets you turn ordinary objects into a drum kit. It comes with three clips and a footswitch, with room for a second footswitch. It comes with 11 kits and runs on 4 AA batteries. Skip to 2:50 for the demo.

It’s official. Disney will release a limited edition replica of the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 cassette tape. It will be exclusive to Record Store Day outlets from 11/28 to 12/31 and will come with a digital copy of the album.

(NSFW: Language) Willie The Kid – the “crack, the smack, the gun, the rule, the gat, the strap, the gun, the tool” in Lil Wayne’s Cannon – teamed up with Wu-Tang producer Bronze Nazareth for this old school gangsta rap album. (Thanks Karlo!)

Flesh and Machine is the upcoming ambient album by producer Daniel Lanois, the man behind some of the 80’s best albums, including U2’s The Joshua Tree, Bob Dylan’s Time out of Mind and Peter Gabriel’s So. Stream the album on NPR.

You can already get Peter Quill’s Awesome Mix Vol. 1 on vinyl, but Mondo’s variant comes with Tyler Stout’s sweet sleeve art as well as a screen-printed handbill. Still have your Walkman? Wait for the literal mixtape.

The Flaming Lips (and friends) apply their unique low-fi fuzz sound to this track-for-track remake of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Stream the album at NPR, or buy it and support animal charity The Bella Foundation.

For a recent halftime show, the OSU Buckeyes marching band performed a medley of rock tunes from Van Halen to The Stones to The Who. The formations are great, though it’s really hard to rock without electric guitars.

Performer Roy Kafri’s quirky beatbox track Mayokero is handily upstaged by director Vania Heymann’s clever music video, in which classic vinyl album covers come to life and sing his track.

Goosebumps are coming. Cellocyl – a club of cello players in Castilla de Leon, Spain – covers the Game of Thrones opening theme. We’re not sure if this is just a practice run – there are hiccups here and there – but it’s still well done.