Awesome Music

Musician Josie Charlwood returns with another extraordinary cover version – this time doing a minimal, but nonetheless awesome take on Adele’s theme to the latest and greatest Bond flick.

An incredible and unlikely performance of the electro-rave sounds of Insomnia by Faithless, as this elderly man accompanies the track with the fastest spoons in London. (Thanks JJ!)

The official video for Tame Impala’s Feels Like We Only Go Backwards was made with 1000+ plasticine clay collages by Becky & Joe. Rather than dump the frames in the trash, the animators are selling them.

Made by AKAI for Ableton, the Push is as much an instrument as it is a MIDI controller. Use its 64 pads and user-friendly display and buttons to create, tweak and experiment with music from scratch.

Logan McWilliams loves chicken even more than Jed Brown and has a heavenly voice. So this moment was inevitable. What we would give to have R. Kelly sing this song. Chicken chicken chickeeeen.

Alessandro Grespan made a spot-on mashup of LCD Soundsystem’s New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down and Miles Davis improvising for a movie soundtrack using nothing but YouTube.

(NSFW: Language) LAMAR+NIK’s video for Lushlife’s catchy track Magnolia features the persistent element of lyrics formed from cardboard boxes and hot glue, helping keep its budget to under $80.

The music video for Mutual Core, a single from Bjork’s latest album, Biophilia. Director Andrew Thomas Huang made a colorful and explosive video in keeping with the nature theme of the album.

When we were 5-years-old we congratulated ourselves if we woke up early enough to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Meanwhile Tsung Tsung here is beasting on the piano. Here he is on Ellen.

(NSFW: Language) A compilation of The Weeknd’s three previous mixtapes – House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence – for the price of one album. This thing should be sold with a condom.

The addictive single from L.A.-based Haim, composed of sisters Danielle, Alana and Este Haim, plus Dash Hutton. 80’s style pop at its finest. Listen to their new single as well to appreciate their range.

You don’t have to be a pro to enjoy enjoy playing with Google Chrome’s latest experiment. It lets you select from 19 instruments to jam with up to three friends in real time using your Chrome browser.

A hypnotic track from Swiss artist Fabio Friedli aka Pablo Nouvelle, who sampled a line from Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t That Peculiar and turned it into a haunting mantra of a depressed lover.

Deftones had more time to experiment with their seventh studio album Koi No Yokan. Check out the first single Leathers or follow the link to stream the whole album before its 11/13 release.

With Skyfall fresh in our minds, vocalists Nick McKaig and Trudbol connected to produce this catchy and infectious a capella rendition of 007’s theme. We had to hit play more than once.

Greg Johnson of Acoustic Labs plays a haunting, minimal interpretation of 007’s theme, just in time for the release of Skyfall. Check more of Greg’s smooth guitar covers here and here, and here.

Moritz Simon Geist paid homage to the legendary Roland TR-808 drum machine by recreating the sounds it makes using real percussion instruments, with the help of custom made robots and Arduino.

If the original soundtrack isn’t epic enough for you, kick back and get swept away, as violin artist Lindsey Stirling takes it up a notch in her poetic ode to the Assassin’s Creed III music. (Thanks, Kevin!)

The music video for the single from Former Lives, the new solo album Death Cab for Cutie & Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard. Hundreds of 90’s kids just rushed out to get a new tattoo.

Zachariah Scott mashed up Kanye West’s video for Power with Left 4 Dead. JP Neufeld provided the custom remix of the L4D theme song Midnight Ride. This is Scott’s entry to Valve’s Saxxy Awards.

Musician Diwa de Leon dresses up as Mario, taking on every instrument and conducting himself in this brilliantly-played medley of classic RPG themes. Needs some more Paper Mario though.

Gabrielle Union swoons like it is her sweet 16 as the Fresh Prince lays down a freestyle with the aid of Doug E. Fresh and then goes on to treat her birthday crowd to some of his old school hits.

(Gore) The bloody music video for Vengeance Rhythm, a single by Two Fingers, a side project of electronic musician Amon Tobin. Say goodbye – or is it hello? – to your childhood memories.