Awesome Music

Blitzkrieg bot! This is StickBoy, a robot drummer built by Frank Barnes. He has 4 arms, 2 legs and a head with bad-ass metal mohawk spikes. He should use his wrists more though.

Empty your mind and listen to this Bruce Leemix by John D. Boswell aka melodysheep. Made using the martial artist’s 1971 interview as well as his movies Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon.

(NSFW: Language) Ben Haggerty aka Macklemore isn’t one to talk about cash money. While Yeezy & Hovah boast about being in Paris, Mack & Ryan Lewis brag about stepping their cheap game up.

Moreno De Turco and Mirco Pagano spent over 200 hours making portraits of 6 dead musicians using 6,500 CDs of the musicians’ greatest hits. The portraits were made for an anti-piracy exhibit.

Experience the surreal energy of Jamaica in the video for Get Free, the lead single from Major Lazer’s upcoming album Free the Universe. With Amber Coffman (Dirty Projectors) on vocals.

Old Spice hooks Terry Crews up to a bunch of electrodes, and makes music with his muscles, flaming saxes and sausages. At the end of the video, be sure to jam out on your keyboard.

The best part of televised talent shows is at the beginning, when ordinary people share what they can do, expecting nothing in return. Here’s 20-year old Lucy with her song about “beer fear.”

It took Marc Donahue and Sean Michael Williams a total of 6 months to film this medley music video. That’s about 6 to 8 hours of work for 3 to 4 seconds of footage. Watch Part 1 here.

Chiptuner Oliver (aka Superpowerless) overlays 8-bit tracks played live on his Nintendo Game Boy with popular tunes – in this case Bangarang by Skrillex. He even makes Call Me Maybe listenable.

The first single off of Muse’s new album The 2nd Law features Matthew Bellamy’s larger-than-life vocals, backed by an infectious electronic chorus. Pre-order the album to get the single now.

The Flight of the Conchords meet with kids to come up with some fundraising ideas for New Zealand’s Cure Kids charity. They also recorded a new song to help out. Buy the track here. Longer clip here.

Fans of LCD Soundsystem who purchase the DVD or Blu-Ray editions will be treated to a 3-disc package with a 90-minute documentary, and almost 4 hours of concerts, photos, and outtakes.

(NSFW: Language) Mashup artists Eclectic Method use their own unique musical style to pay tribute to the almighty Bill Murray as he shows his range in a variety of comedic and dramatic roles.

The Maccabees take us on a dreamy musical and visual journey in this three-track live performance, augmented by real-time Kinect 3D animation of the band and audience (starts around 3:30).

DAYUM DAYUM DAAAAYUM! The Gregory Brothers’ latest hit is a remix of YouTuber Daym Drops’ glowing and hilariously passionate review of Five Guys Burger and Fries. Available on iTunes.

Here’s 3 minutes of boredom-busting fun: lots and lots of familiar movie clips (295 to be exact) spliced together to recreate Sir Mix-A-Lot’s ubiquitous ditty Baby Got Back. (Thanks everyone!)

A montage of footage from gigs makes up the video for The House That Heaven Built, a song from Canadian punk rock duo Japandroids’ critically acclaimed sophomore album, Celebration Rock.

The cycle is complete. A remix of using YouTube covers and parodies of Somebody That I Used to Know, made by none other than the man who started it all: Wally De Backer aka Gotye himself.

Made by Johan Rijpma, the music video for Nobody Beats The Drum’s Natural Thing features the potent viral video formula: cats plus laser pointers. Add a dog and a weasel and you’ve got a winner.

Mystery Guitar Man and his friends used motion capture to create pixelated images of him dancing around, then they replicated those images in OpenOffice and Excel. Cell by cell. Go BtS here.

While most dubstep music requires the use of heavily-processed electronic instruments, guitarist Fracionado proves you can totally improve upon the genre with a good old-fashioned electric guitar.

Heaps Decent recorded this song with the help of 5 to 8 yr. old students of St. Therese School. The video was made by Georgia Perry and Toby & Pete. It’s like the kid version of The Neptunes.

Sigur Rós gave 12 filmmakers a small budget and total freedom to create videos based on songs from their newest album Valtari. This is Ryan McGinley’s video for Varúð. Watch the others here.