Awesome Music

As we all know, Al Gore invented the internet solely for the purpose of viewing cat videos. In this video, Eclectic Method serve up a heaping helping of YouTube cat vids the only way they know how – as a groovy electronic tune.

Musician Michell Kwan plays a brilliant cover of Guns N’ Roses classic Sweet Child o’ Mine on her Guzheng – a traditional Chinese string instrument that dates back to the 5th century BC. We can almost hear Axl’s singing along.

In celebration of Tokyo’s selection for the 2020 Summer Olympics, World Order continues to work their slow-mo choreography, while giving us a brief tour of Japan’s biggest city in their trademark blue business suits.

A portable speaker with a bamboo case and hemp speaker cloths. Its two 3W 1.75″ drivers, two 1.75″ passive bass radiators and aptX Bluetooth audio promise high quality sound. Available in various color combinations.

Take a look at Japanese musician Mitsuhiro Mori. You’ll notice he has no musical instrument in his hands. Instead, he uses his hands to simulate flute playing at Skill Level Asian. Instruments? He don’t need no steenkin’ instruments!!!

Come for the animation, stay for the song in the official music video for Massimo Giangrande’s alt-folk Paper Plane, brilliantly animated by Gianluca Maruotti, with paper-cut illustrations by Felicita Sala. Go behind the scenes here.

Ever imagined what Brooklyn country music would sound like? NPR described it best: “Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they’ve always been there.” Wonderful music to sleep or wake up to.

The Danish band Mew and B&O Play created an app that lets you hunt for and string together sounds to form a new song by the group. Sensory Spaces is a must if you’re already a frenger but fun for new listeners too.

Arcade Fire perform three energetic songs from their upcoming album Reflektor in an 80s bar with lots of celebrity cameos. It’s a musical performance and an underhanded – albeit severely belated – retaliation to a meme.

The special edition of Bob Dylan: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 is a USB drive housed in a harmonica case. The flash drive contains all of Dylan’s 41 albums in both mp3 and FLAC formats. Also available as a CD box set.

One of two new songs included in Direct Hits, the upcoming greatest hits compilation by Vegas alt-rockers The Killers. If it sounds familiar, you must be a fan of M83: Shot at the Night was produced by Anthony Gonzalez.

After a concert in Wuppertal, Germany, the vocalists of Icelandic folk band Árstíðir stopped into the nearby train station after they discovered its incredible acoustic properties. We can only imagine how this sounded in person.

The music video made by crcr for Delta, a track from French electro hip hop group C2C. Flabbergasted? Pause the video at around 0:41. Still don’t get it? Take a good look at the people and see what they have in common.

Pop band Patent Pending makes a pretty convincing argument for why the love of Mario’s multiple lives doesn’t really deserve him. We could say the same about Bowser and his incessant attempts to nab Princess Peach.

(NSFW: Language) The Music of Grand Theft Auto V is a compilation of some of the original songs, the score and the soundtrack from the game. There are also user-created playlists that have more of the music from the game.

Music instructor Aaron Okeefe lets some of his young students show off the skills he’s imparted in this impressive cover of Forty Six & 2 by Tool. As one YouTube commenter put it: “the drummer and bassist are just killing it!!!!!!!!”

Raise a cool – albeit troubled – child with Animal New York’s compilation of children’s songs sung by indie rock bands and post-hip hop rappers. Or not. The songs were all performed by Adam Horne. His impressions are hilariously spot on.

Ever listened to Johnny Cash’s take of I’ve Been Everywhere and pondered just how far the man in black’s travels took him? This site provides a great visualization of the far-flung places he wandered to from that dusty Winnemucca Road.

If the Hanwell is too pricey or bulky for your taste, check out the Stanmore. It has the same classic Marshall cabinet, and inside is a 5.25″ woofer and two 0.75″ tweeters. Play music via Bluetooth, 3.5mm, RCA or optical cables.

Rocksmith 2014 is serious about teaching you to play the guitar, but it also knows how to have fun. Its Guitarcade mode has platformers, shooters and other retro mini-games that teach guitar basics in an informal setting.

(NSFW: Language) Musical mashup artists Eclectic Method fill our ears with sounds sampled from films and TV series in which aliens invade – and sometimes destroy Earth. Check out their tributes to robots and zombies too.

Remember Big? The classic 1988 Tom Hanks flick immortalized those giant pianos you can play with your feet. Here, a group of classically-trained singers has been programmed to make the notes instead of an electronic circuit.

For some reason, Drizzy can keep us entertained by complaining about the same things over and over. Perhaps it’s the sincerity that radiates from his self-obsession. Whatever his magic is, it’s still with him in his new album.