Awesome Music

NPR Music is streaming the entirety of Wonderland, the second album from Eric Berglund aka CEO. As with his debut effort White Magic, Eric deftly delves into pop without draining his music dry.

Part of DJ Amerigo Gazaway’s Soul Mates series, Yasiin Gaye combines the complex flow of Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) with samples from Marvin Gaye’s songs. This track is called Inner City Travelin’ Man. The full album drops 2/25/14.

Fred Scott professes that Trent Reznor is one of his musical heroes but that doesn’t keep him from playfully but perfectly calling out the Nine Inch Nails frontman on his rather reliable songwriting process. (Thanks G. Pelabras!)

(NSFW) While we’re hoping that The Red Hot Chili Peppers save us from Bruno Mars’ Super Bowl appearance, we can also understand that there’s a certain redundancy to some of their songs, as illustrated by this parody by Jon Daly.

Musician Elijah Aaron looped and layered his voice and other instruments to cover TLC’s classic No Scrubs, with a bit of Big Pun’s Still Not a Player mixed in. Hear more of his music here.

Made by Sean Anderson, Streamus is a free browser extension for Chrome that lets you stream music – or any audio – from YouTube. It has its own popup window and lets you save playlists and find related music.

While we’ve seen robotic musicians before, Z-MACHINES seem a lot less stiff, cranking out music that seems more improvised than robotic. In this clip, their 78-fingered guitarist and 22 drum percussionist worked with Squarepusher.

The music video for Forever, a track from Painted Palms’ eponymous debut album. If you’re a fan of Tame Impala, Best Coast, Panda Bear and other psychedelic surfer pop (yes, that’s a genre) then give these guys a listen.

Baby’s first Korg. The tinyPiano has 25 keys, 25 different sounds and 50 built-in songs, so you can use it as a music box as well. It has a 3.5mm output jack and can be powered via its adapter or with 6 AA batteries.

Hands down the best part of the 2014 Grammy Awards. Trophy haulers Daft Punk performed a goosebump-inducing remix of Get Lucky with legends Stevie Wonder and Nile Rodgers, as well as the potentially immortal Pharrell Williams.

Line 6’s AmpliFi is a solid state guitar amp and a Bluetooth speaker. Use the AmpliFi Remote iOS app to access nearly 200 tones and effects. You can chain up to eight effects and save and share your configurations. Available in 75W or 150W.

Because everything is a remix. Samplify is a meta-Shazam: it can identify the origin – both the original song and its artist – of samples used in a song (if any). Pick from your library or have it listen to the song playing around you.

Powerful dual-channel Bluetooth-enabled bookshelf speakers. Each speaker has a 4″ woofer, a 1″ dome, and a 2x50W amp. The set comes with detachable grills, 3.5mm and optical inputs, a remote plus all the cables you need.

The music video for Doing the Most, a single from Red Gold Green, the debut album from alternative rap group RDGLDGRN. The song was co-written by super producer Pharrell Williams and features Dave Grohl on drums.

The cast of Workaholics stopped by Conan to promote their new season but things came to a head when Adam was given extra attention and Blake threatened to leave. Luckily the power of music and true friendship overcomes all.

We enjoyed the version of Space Oddity that astronaut Chris Hadfield created; somehow, though, Mario and Fafa have made it even sweeter by including themselves – and a Rocket Man cover – in it. (Thanks John!)

The music video for Boggie’s single Nouveau Parfum presents post-production in real time. Hungarian video collective The Soup used a combination of makeup, lighting and digital effects to create the fictional editing software.

Jabra Rox earphones use Bluetooth or NFC to connect to media players. They have a built-in mic and playback buttons. Embedded magnets let you attach the earbuds to each other, prompting Rox to enter a power-saving mode.

Comedian Fred Armisen interviewed The Clash’s Paul Simonon and Mick Jones as a bloke named Ian Rubbish, Paul and Mick’s contemporary and former frontman of a The Clash copycat band. Let that concept sink in for a bit.

TimberCraft offers guitar cabinets and speakers with a rustic aesthetic. The hand-built cabinets come in a variety of sizes and finishes, and use electronics from Warehouse Guitar Speakers or Celestion Speakers.

As if the music video for The Prodigy’s Firestarter wasn’t intense enough for you with the music, this version that’s had the music removed will either make you laugh hysterically, or give you nightmares for days.

DJ Steve Porter took samples of Alex Trebek and his Jeopardy contestants, and remixed them into an awesome hip hop track which pays tribute from everyone from to Grandmaster Flash to Biggie to Snoop Doggy Lion Zilla to Dre.

(NSFW) The music video for Pixies’ Blue Eyed Hexe, from their latest four-song release EP2. Black Francis and his bandmates – sans Kim Deal – show that old dogs can learn new tricks, but this is still unmistakably Pixies.