Awesome Music

Mustered Courage breathes new life into Seal’s hit track from… ehm… Batman Forever, and puts their own unique spin on it with a country twang, two acoustic guitars and a little banjo and mandolin on the side.

“Wave goodbye, wish me well, I’ve become something else.” Trent Reznor’s single is of a man who’s no longer waiting to get to the end of the tunnel because he’s filled it with his own light. From his upcoming LP Hesitation Marks.

Guitarist Sam Westphalen is wearing a hole in his acoustic six-string as he plays a rousing percussive rendition of Michael Jackson’s Black or White. More here. We’re particularly taken by White Wedding. Previously: U Can’t Touch This.

A soft groove combined with ghostly guitars, vocals and synths on Tiny Love by Amsterdam based Moss accentuates a compelling video that follows MMA fighter Marlos Coenen and all of the moments leading up to a fight.

As if Daft Punk needed any more publicity. LA-based Arrow Signs Spinners‘ best talent pull off their most impressive maneuvers in celebration of self expression to the appropriate soundtrack of Lose Yourself to Dance.

One of the new drops from up-and-coming R&B singer Solana Rowe aka SZA. The 23-year old’s sultry voice and her beatmakers combine to create a sound not unlike a female version of The Weeknd. More on her SoundCloud page.

Darren Foreman aka Beardyman is a beatboxing legend, but he’s still constrained by his body. So he’s working on the Beardytron 5000, a music production system that makes it easier for him to go from imagination to realization.

Ukulele hacking. Yes that’s a thing. Musician James Hill uses a pair of chopsticks and a cheap plastic comb to turn his uke into an analog drum machine and esoteric sound making machine. Skip to 3:45 to dive right in.

The latest in College Humor’s series of Music Videos without Music features Miley Cyrus’ redonkulous We Can’t Stop devoid of all melodies. All we can say is that it’s a real acid trip horror show twerkfest either way.

Sqwak.com takes two of the biggest things to happen this summer: the final season of Breaking Bad and the inescapable Blurred Lines and mashes them together in this song and video parody.

Musician Andrew Huang plays Dave Porter’s ethereal and haunting theme song from Breaking Bad on the most appropriate instruments he could find – a bunch of meth lab equipment.

It may be a few years old, but we just had to share this performance from a 2010 TED session with musician Jake Shimabukuro. It starts out mellow, but Jake quickly pulls us in with his hypnotic uke skills. Hear more from Jake here.

The music video for Supersoaker, a track from Kings of Leon’s upcoming sixth album Mechanical Bull. It’s not the Followill boys’ most memorable song, but it’s a fun summer track nonetheless.

(NSFW: Lyrics) Sit back, crank up your speakers to 11 and thrash your head to this masterful 22-song performance from Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails – the highlight of this past weekend’s Lollapalooza in Chicago. (Thanks Dave!)

The debut single from Repave, the upcoming second album of Volcano Choir. The band is a side project of Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and the members of Collections of Colonies of Bees. The album drops 9/3/13.

Jimmy Fallon and The Roots break out the children’s instruments to join Justin Timberlake Sr. Robin Thicke in singing the summer anthem of 2013, Blurred Lines. Black Thought swaggers in like he was on the original track.

(NSFW: Language) “Everybody’s somebody’s everything/Nobody’s nothing.” An uplifting track by 20-year old Chancelor Bennett aka Chance the Rapper. From his free mixtape Acid Rap. The video was made by Austin Vesely.

14-year-old electric guitar prodigy Tina S. returns to blow our minds and eardrums once more with a rendition of Patrick Rondat’s rock and roll tribute to Summer from Vivaldi’s classical opus The Four Seasons.

The music video for Fiona Apple’s passionate love song Hot Knife, from her excellent 2012 album The Idler Wheel… The video was directed by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love).

A Japanese matryomin ensemble plays a boogie rendition of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9. Who the what now? A matryomin is a theremin inside a matryoshka doll, aka a Russian nesting doll. Here’s a solo matryomin performance.

Plug in your music player, get this awesome compilation then grab your car keys (or start up your favorite racing game). Outrun Europa is a free compilation of new wave synth pop made by 27 artists from 13 different countries.

Earphones that are made to share what you’re listening to. They have magnetic connectors that link up to four earphones to one audio source. There’s also a 3.5mm connector that lets you share audio to other audio devices.

The music video for Moderat’s Bad Kingdom presents a story of corruption and greed told through a series of illustrations. Moderat is the side project of Modeselektor and Apparat. Video by Pfadfinderei.