Awesome Music

(NSFW: Language) ItsMetroGnome starts out playing a cover version of Dave Porter’s Breaking Bad theme song on his acoustic guitar, but quickly transitions into a wub-wub filled electronic remix, using samples from the show.

A karaoke machine that can make even people who can’t sing sound good, thanks to its various vocal effects. It can be used with any music player with a 3.5mm input, and its speaker can be used with other sound systems.

A musical number from Disney’s animated flick Frozen, in which a snowman named Olaf longs for summertime fun. A catchy, Broadway-quality tune by Kristen Anderson-Lopez (In Transit) and Robert Lopez (The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q).

Love’s Crushing Diamond is the brilliant album from Jordan Lee aka Mutual Benefit. Inspired by Lee’s life on the road, the album’s “lush, watery pop songs” feel like cold nights spent with loved ones. Watch him play live here. (Thanks Karlo!)

(NSFW: Language) ChokeOnFunny’s parody of Eminem’s Rap God is lyrical genius. It’s like the modern-day spiritual brother of Weird Al’s Fat. Performed flawlessly by Christopher Culosi. He really kills it starting at 4:26.

The gigantic iPhone/iPod dock just got bigger and louder. The Wall of Sound 2.0 is a 1,600W speaker that weighs 392lbs. To protect your ears, it will automatically stop playing if you set it to a high volume for more than five minutes.

IK Multimedia’s iLoud Bluetooth speaker was designed for professional musicians and audiophiles. It has four amplifiers with a total of 40W output, two 3” woofers, two 3/4” tweeters,  3.5mm input and guitar/mic input. More here.

Horse & Hammer are damn proud of their fave facial accessories: their beards and glasses, so they of course wrote a song about it. If it weren’t for the glasses and bow tie parts we might have had a No-Shave November anthem on our hands.

(NSFW: Lyrics) Rapper Liu seamlessly weaves between English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, German and Korean in a single song. The beats are a bit clichéd, but it’s Liu’s global flow that impresses. Hit YouTube for the translation.

The Glove and Boots gang busts out the Beatles classic All Together Now as they exercise their musical chops once again. Though they seem to lose their way somewhere along the way. We dare you not to bob your head from side to side.

Pop a capella group Pentatonix vocalize Daft Punk’s robot rock, including Technologic, One More Time and Harder Better Faster Stronger. The medley is from their new album PTX Vol. 2. The dude with cornrows is a human subwoofer.

Spike Jonze directed this music video for the inaugural YouTube Music Awards. While it starts out looking like a video shot on a soundstage, the whole thing was done live in front of an audience while Arcade Fire provided accompaniment.

We’ve been known to blow into our empty beer bottle to use it as an impromptu wind instrument, but the Bottle Boys do it for a living. Here, the human calliope blows out a lively performance of The Little Mermaid classic tune.

German pop rock band Rakede decided to put down their regular instruments and just use whatever they had lying around to put on a little concert around the dining table. We’re guessing the bass was created from electrical hum.

The M3-8 is a professional-quality powered 3-way monitor with a size, price, design and sound that even audiophiles will love. Each has an 8″ subwoofer, a 1″ tweeter and a 5″ midrange driver and 220W total power.

Puddles is a 7-foot-tall clown – with the voice of an angel. While we’re a bit perplexed by the concept, there’s no denying his musical talent, as he cranks out an awesome cover of Royals by Lorde – that dare we say it – bests the original.

The JBL Pulse is a portable Bluetooth and NFC speaker. It has 64 LEDs that light up in sync with the music in a variety of patterns. You can also download additional patterns from JBL. It has two 40mm drivers and two 6W amps.

It took vocalist Dan Buckley about five nights to record all of the 66 different voice tracks he used to create his cover of Danny Elfman’s spooky holiday classic This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Pay what you want for Full Moon, the third EP from Mansions on the Moon. If you like Phoenix, Cut Copy, Mike Snow and other 80s-infused indie pop, you’ll fall for the Los Angeles-based band’s chill and laidback sound.

Indie pop group San Fermin perform tracks from their self-titled debut on NPR Tiny Desk Concerts. Keyboardist and composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone loves to fill songs with stories and texture, and his touring band is up to the task.

The Deluxe Box Set of Random Access Memories contains both vinyl and digital editions of the songs, two USB drives, layered transparencies containing schematics – x-rays? – of the robot’s helmets and bodies and more.

(NSFW: Language) Shane Koyczan and Hannah Epperson deliver a rousing performance. A listener got so pumped up he probably fought for freedom or at least staged a comeback victory at a sporting event later that night.

Originally broadcast in August 2013, Darkside is a radio play that incorporates Pink Floyd’s magnum opus The Dark Side of the Moon. A luxury package that includes the play on CD and an insert of the script comes out on 11/25.