Awesome Music

Charles Yang, Michael Thurber and Eddie Barbash hang out on the street, accepting tips for playing a tune of your choice as quickly as you can pay up, though they don’t know What’s New Pussycat.

An impressive performance using a mixture of samples from 15 different tracks, performed live using the Novation Launchpad controller by electronic artist M4SONIC.

Violinist Lindsey Stirling and her band rock out this energetic and emotionally-charged rendition of Phantom of the Opera in this video by Devin Supertramp, Chris McClain and Jace Leroy.

An imposing speaker dock for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The FWP3200D has two turntable docks, 300W speakers, a USB port, 3.5mm in and out and two mic sockets. Mini speaker version too.

(NSFW: Language) Snoop Dogg went to Jamaica to record a new album with Diplo, but he ended up doing much more, rebooting his style from the experience. Hear Snoop Lion’s first single here.

Holy collaboration, Batman! Feist and Mastodon are releasing their split single online. The video for Mastodon’s take of A Commotion features the songstress making, well, a commotion.

(NSFW: Language) A documentary about the wild and short-lived career of one of the pioneers of punk rock. Features unseen footage of the band and interviews with its members.

Collective Cadenza tracks the changes in man’s courtship by way of popular love songs. The song selection was obviously biased and done for laughs, but it’s not entirely inaccurate either.

Mike Massé and his band are known for their neat covers of popular songs. Sadly, Mike’s baby Noah was just diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Donate and you get Mike’s cover of Let it Be.

Multitrack master Nick McKaig returns with another one of his vocalizations, this time combining 62 individual tracks to replicate the classic theme song from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Assembly produced this live performance which combines music, dance, computers and animation, controlled through a Microsoft Kinect. And yes, the audio is at least partially controlled by the dancer.

Gwen Stefani and the boys from No Doubt are back (to remind us of how old we’ve become). Their new single Settle Down is classic No Doubt: troubled lyrics drowned in pop reggae punk.

The prodigies of indie pop are back. Angels is the first track from The xx’s second album, Coexist, which drops 9/11/12. Angels stays true to The xx vibe: quiet, intimate and with lots of reverb.

Runaways is the lead single The Killers’ upcoming album Battle Born. From the crashing guitars and cymbals to the lyrics, the Springsteen influence is strong in this one. Battle Born drops 9/18/12.

The music video for Justice’s song New Lands. The video has a retro-futuristic B-flick vibe (with shades of Rollerball) that fits the song perfectly. Directed by Barcelona-based studio Canada.

If you’re going to be visiting Montreal soon we have good news: the city has a motorbike band with a sidecar cow on drums. The bad news? They only know how to play Sweet Home Alabama.

Lee Ha Lim, Kim Yong Duk and Kang Woon Jin came up with a strange yet timely way of making music. They used scanners and barcodes that correspond to sounds from musical instruments.

We’re not only impressed with six-year-old Jaxon Smith’s self-taught drumming abilities, but his taste in music is impeccable, as he jams along with Foo Fighters’ Pretender.

Mike Tompkins used only samples and live looping of his own vocal sounds to create an amazingly dynamic performance based on Skrillex’s Cinema and Santigold’s Disparate Youth. (Thanks Ben!)

From George Lewis Jr. aka Twin Shadow’s new album Confess, the follow up to his flawless debut Forget. Lewis mixes his haunting delivery and new wave influence with a dash of arena rock.

Perfect editing from waxandherbalt turned baby Max’s play session into a pretty legit jam session. The song’s available on iTunes if you like it enough to want to get your sip on to it later.

The Brooklyn indie rockers are back with a new album – Warp229 – and a world tour. Sleeping Ute is the lead single from Warp229, and it’s classic Grizzly Bear – rock and roll you can drown in.

Banco Sabadell celebrated its 130th anniversary by treating the locals to a surprise performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy by the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès and various local choirs.