Awesome Music

Journey lead singer Steve Perry hasn’t sung in front of an audience in decades, but for a very special encore at a recent EELS show in St. Paul, Minnesota, he decided the time was right and took to the stage. He’s still got a golden voice.

Philip Niemeyer made an infographic for The Boston Globe that charts the summer hit songs in the US for the past 100 years, with links to the songs or their videos. Waterfalls came out 19 years ago?! Man we’re old.

The teaser for the latest installment of Amerigo Gazaway’s sublime Yasiin Bey and Marvin Gaye mashup. You can get the single Travellin’Man Pt. II and the other Yasiin Gaye tracks on Amerigo’s Bandcamp page.

(NSFW: Language) Killa Cam spits over DJ A-Trak’s ill 70s movie montage beat in this single from their upcoming EP Federal Reserve. Featuring cameos from the Dipset crew including Juelz Santana, plus Dame Dash and Just Blaze.

For his 15 seconds of Internet fame, yodeler Mark Jackson chose to throat-warble out an unlikely tune – the ominous theme music from The Godfather. And just when we thought we were out, Mark pulls us back in.

A young girl is haunted by a trio of strange creatures. Or at least we think that’s the premise of this visual overload of a music video for Fake! Fake!, a single from the upcoming EP of Japanese band カラスは真っ白 (A Crow is White).

Ladies and gentlemen, the power of the Internet. One day you’re just sitting outside a store, jamming with a couple of folks. The next you’re on Jimmy Kimmel Live, performing with pros and pop stars. Skip to 2:35.

Electro beat maker MetroGnome used some of the iPhone’s stock ringtones (with Siri chiming in occasionally) to make this pop dubstep track. Want to make this your ringtone? You can download the track here.

Future Club is the debut single from Dangerous Days, the third album of James Kent aka Perturbator. The dark droning track from the “half-man, half-synthesizer” will have you thinking of a seedy cyberpunk joint.

(NSFW: Language) M.I.A. does her thing in The Partysquad’s remix of Beyoncé’s Flawless and Diva. Apparently Bey’s camp commissioned the track, but after months of no contact, Maya decided to leak part of the track.

Linsey Pollak, Ric Halstead and Brendan Hook may look like bicyclists, but they’re sitting on something unique. Each of their bikes transforms into a playable wind instrument. Frank Zappa did it first, but these guys perfected the technique.

Jaime Maldonado happened upon a guy singing outside a grocery store. A few minutes after Jaime started filming, another dude joined in the jam. Then a third guy pitched in as well. It’s no sax off, but it’s still fun to watch.

The music video for Moving On, a single from English rock band James’ new album La Petite Mort. Stop motion filmmaker Ainslie Henderson used nothing but yarn to weave – knit? – a heartbreaking tale.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) Canadians may be polite, but they can flip out too. The music video for the Toronto-based punk rock band’s single is a brutal origin story. It’s just a story, right guys?

Andy Samberg’s triumphant return to SNL was highlighted by this hilarious parody of today’s celebrity DJs and the mega-nightclub scene that’s risen to such ludicrous heights. The Raiders of the Lost Ark bit is priceless.

Australian artist Chelsea Wheatley aka Chela seems to have time traveled from the late 80s. Her brand of pop, style and dance goes from corny to earnest to awesome. Also check out her breakout song Romanticise.

The late, great Lou Reed may have built his reputation with The Velvet Underground – and later as a solo artist – singing edgy, and groundbreaking music, but he got his start singing much more mainstream tunes.

(NSFW: Language) Producer Jordy Asher aka Boots burst onto the music scene for his major contribution to Beyonce’s self-titled album. Now he’s showing off his skills as a performer with this R&B and chillwave mixtape.

(NSFW: Language) Eclectic Method manages to make an omelette from the broken eggs that are the Wolverine movies, with this intense, action-packed remix of sound bites and electronic beats. We hear he’s quite an animal.

Ken Turner of Southern gospel group Crystal River Boys can hit a deep bass note that sounds like he swallowed an Octobass. Skip to 3:30 for the good part. Say, wasn’t there a Mythbusters about this? Or was it South Park?

We’ve been watching Game of Thrones, so now we have that Rains of Castamere song stuck in our heads. We can bang our heads to it now, courtesy of Eric Calderone. As one commenter put it “A Lannister always slays his frets.”

A mariachi band plays a medley of catchy tunes from Super Mario Bros. at a wedding. We were disappointed to find out the bride and groom weren’t dressed like Princess Peach and Mario though. (Thanks Anwar!)

Get up close and personal with musician Thomas Leeb as he demonstrates his fingerstyle skills playing Pink Floyd’s classic, capturing the performance from unusual vantage points inside and outside his acoustic guitar.