Awesome Music

(NSFW: Language) Todrick Hall remakes Belle’s song Little Town from Beauty and the Beast and gives it a ghetto flavor. Hide yo’ kids, because they got no business watching this tale.

It’s official: LMFAO would be great songwriters for other people. The Brett Domino Trio teamed up with Korg to cover Sexy And I Know It with an irony that’s sorely missing in the original.

A fan music video of John Mayer’s song Queen of California made using only the Draw Something app. Jimmy Thompson made the drawings while Ed Cardenas edited the video. The Mayer approves.

The video for Disparate Youth, the lead single from Santigold’s much-awaited second album Master of My Make-Believe. A steady getaway song for the young and the young at heart.

A track from Sun, the latest album from folk rock singer Chan Marshall aka Cat Power. In case you were counting, this is her first compilation of original material in six years. We’re getting old.

You may know Stevie Wonder as the ever-smiling guy with cornrows content to sit behind a piano and sing, but an even more lively, funky soul resides in that man. Here he is wilding out on a drum set.

From Michael John Blake, the man who brought us the soothing sounds of Pi and Tau comes another musical arithmetic interpretation. The mathematical constant in focus this time is the golden ratio phi.

Brooklyn band Eytan & The Embassy set out to break a record by changing through 18 different costumes in a single take. You’re welcome to outdo them if you’ve got 19 costumes lying around.

Check out the modern 8-bit artists and chiptune musicians who have elevated the beloved form to new levels of creativity and cultural reflection in PBS Off Book’s Evolution of 8-Bit Art.

Conan’s late night show was in Chicago this week. The host gave props to the city’s music scene by making Chicago blues songs from the (relatively) sad stories of the city’s young residents.

Jimmy Fallon, The Roots and Carly Rae Jepsen play an acoustic version of the unstoppable force of pop music that is Call Me Maybe using children’s musical instruments and a Casio synthesizer.

Mathew Schneider’s redesign of the Fender Telecaster. The pickup is a nod to the acoustic guitar, the knobs and switches are now buttons and the body is swathed in textiles and leather.

“Oral legend” Beardyman purses his lips and puts on an entertaining and amazingly diverse vocal performance at the BBC Comedy Proms in front of a crowd at Britain’s Royal Albert Hall.

Youtuber FamishedMammal gives some new life to the epicly clichéd O Fortuna in this animation of misheard lyrics. They must really be famished with all the food references they were hearing.

John D. Boswell of Symphony of Science takes a break from making Carl Sagan sound (more) amazing to set his auto-tune sights on Mr. Rogers for PBS Digital Studios (Thanks Dave W.!)

The video for If You Ever Need Someone by The Family Bones was made by Image Flux using over 25,000 Post-it notes. Watch the making-of video here. The song is available for free this week.

Let YouTuber Jocelyn Pelichet warp you back to the 90s with this medley composed of fifty familiar guitar riffs from that decade, including some from Nirvana, Metallica, Guns n’ Roses and Radiohead.

Legendary hip hop artist MF Doom guest stars in the mind-blowing 3 Dollars, the lead single from Oh No’s album Ohnomite, which samples heavily from the blaxploitation flick Dolemite.

Ellie Goulding covers High For This with help from Xaphoon Jones. Nothing beats The Weeknd’s energy, but we’ve always wondered what it would be like if a woman sang this song. It. Is. Awesome.

(NSFW: Language) Garfunkel and Oates sing a song about two different versions of the same woman. Insert your gender, naive age and cynical age and it’ll probably be a caricature of you.

Mike Massé and his bandmates might be playing at a pizza parlor, but that doesn’t mean they can’t blow our minds with this amazing spot-on cover of Blind Melon’s moving classic No Rain. More here.

Injured? Broke your gadget? Killed someone? Rhett & Link have the universal cure… just rub some bacon on it. Nope, it makes absolutely no sense, but it’s a catchy tune… and now we’re hungry.

Brett Domino of the Brett Domino Trio covers Daft Punk’s Aerodynamic on the playable Google Doodle synthesizer. It’s not as awesome as the original track, but come on. He did it on a Doodle.