Awesome Music

A site that makes it easy to create and share your own virtual mixtape. Search for music on YouTube, Soundcloud or Vimeo, arrange the tracks and then share the link or embed the mixtape. Demo here.

The music video for Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), a song about wanting to escape from the stale urban landscape and the stagnant cycle of life within it. Interactive version here.

Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec, the Glass Duo made Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies all the more dreamy with this impressive glass harp rendition.

It’s Fruit Ninja gone universal and existential in the music video for Pelican, the single from British indie rockers The Maccabees’ upcoming second album Given to the Wild. Making-of video here.

Fans of Kels, listen up! On Oct. 1-5, 2012, the King of R&B will hold the first of what will be an annual concert at sea, on a 5-day cruise from Miami to the Bahamas. A cool trip with a smooth, soulful voice.

Eclectic Method arms its beams and shines their blinding light on pop culture references to lasers in their latest musical megacut. Plus, it’s got a frickin’ good beat and you can dance to it. MP3 here.

Swedish pop star Robyn filled the Saturday Night Live stage with a passionate performance of her heartbreaking electro-dance single Dancing on My Own. Watch her other set here.

A icy smooth track from promising MC/battle rapper Dirtbag Dan and Anya, whose voice is as hypnotic and seductive as her beauty. The song is from Dirtbag Dan’s Selfhelp Tapes Vol. 4.

Producer/DJ raabMUZIK shows off his insane finger skills in this live dubstep performance. One Youtube commenter summed it up best: “this guy does a better Skrillex than Skrillex.”

Ithaca Audio and their trusty APC40 are back with another live mashup. It’s not as ambitious as their previous efforts, but it’s still an entertaining performance. Download the audio here.

Yes, this is an official music video. Yes, it stars the real life Napoleon Dynamite kids and their grandma. Yes, that is Diplo rocking the tucked in collared shirt. Yes, the Internet is awesome.

They Might Be Giants outs an updated version of their quirky Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – itself a cover of a 1950s tune. The new version is upgraded with Speak N’ Spell and Vocoder effects.

There’s one song from the Muppets movie that stands out in our minds. Here’s the official music video for the Flight of the Conchords-esque Man or Muppet? courtesy of FOTC’s own Bret McKenzie.

We can’t decide what’s best about this video. Is it the insane whistling skills? The guy’s hairdo? His mustache? Or the reaction of the children in the audience? Whatever you choose, it’s internet gold.

(NSFW:Nudity) Saam Farahmand’s promo animation for Radio Soulwax, with mind-infecting visuals too good not to showcase. Those offended by the female form should click elsewhere.

Who the hell is this guy, and why haven’t we heard of him before now? We’ve never seen a guy wearing a hat like that make so much sweet noise, all while sitting in an office chair.

Pogo returns with another musical mix, not using movies, but real life as his reference this time. Kadinchey (“thank you”) was created from sampled sights and sounds of the people of Bhutan.

A group of kids from the Sullivan School kindergarten in Seoul, South Korea unleash their nascent punk-rockers with a cover of The Ramones’ Judy is a Punk. They already know how to pogo.

Improv Everywhere spreads some holiday cheer, with the help of the Gregory Brothers and who has to be Home Alone-era Macaulay Culkin. Seriously we were waiting for him to make that face.

The Jedi and Sith whip out their lightsabers, and sit down(?) for an epic duel between light and dark, as they battle each other with… string instruments! Vader’s accordion = bonus points for the Dark Side.

YouTuber BD594 has a band. But this group eschews vocals, guitars, keyboards and drums for a flatbed scanner, 8-bit computers and a hard drive for this performance of House of the Rising Sun.

Hot off the heels of their Grammy-winning album Brothers, El Camino promises to be another long-deserved hit for The Black Keys. Click the image to stream 5 of the songs from the new album.

The music video for MGMT’s All We Ever Wanted Was Everything has a neat infinitely layering style. The single is one of the newest contributions to the critically-acclaimed Late Night Tales series.