Awesome Music

Maybe the whole Pied Piper story had a bit of truth to it, as is evidenced by the crowd of bovines who gather round for a Dixieland jazz performance by The New Hot 5. Next time, start marching.

The funny thing about this video is that we never really do learn how to convert our PDFs to JPGs, but at least we learn what Keyboard Cat would look like as a robot. (Thanks, Gabriella!)

“Finger-drumming phenomenon” Jeremy Ellis works his blistering-fast digits across the 16 pads of the Maschine Mikro, a new computer-based system for cranking out electronic grooves.

The other world-famous French electronic duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay aka Justice are freakin’ back. The EP will be available on Sept. 19 while the full album drops on Oct. 24.

With a single drum and four drumsticks, Wayne Oien takes snare drumming to new heights with this award-winning solo performance. Our ears are still ringing, but it was worth it.

Here’s a dose of looptastic fun courtesy of Josie Charlwood. She uses her amazing coordination to perform live loopstation covers like this one of Gorillaz’ “Feel Good Inc.” More here.

While we were more than a little distracted by the silly WinAmp backgrounds (and headband) in Ewan Dobson’s music video, his acoustic guitar shredding completely blew our minds. More music here.

Today would have been the 65th birthday of Queen frontman and vocal genius Freddie Mercury. Google pays tribute to his artistry and showmanship with this awesome animated Google Doodle tribute.

We didn’t think Madeon’s dance song mashup could become any more enjoyable, until we saw it complemented by the nifty dancing by Nathan Barnatt and Jenny Fine in this video. (Thanks Dan!)

(NSFW: Language) BadLipReading dramatically improves upon Michael Bublé’s yawn-inducing Haven’t Met You Yet with their nonsensical video re-dub. At least he has a sense of humor about it.

Jane Lui and Paul Dateh play snippets of cartoon theme songs, including those of The Pink Panther, Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with bonus trivia about the origin of the songs.

Brainbow pays homage to the Governator with three hand drawn animated shorts – a montage of explosions, a scene from Terminator 2 and a song that uses Ahnold’s lines from his movies.

Need to hit the refresh button in your brain today? Watch this four minute synth pop lovely music video, created with ink, water color, and a really, really long piece of paper. It’ll help. (Thanks Neil!)

Old school made new: the talented Peter Bull’s latest musical mashup has Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ as its foundation; this version is enhanced by Shakira, Bruno Mars and a few other folks.

We already know there’s a new Muppets album and Muppets movie coming out. Now we’ve got OK Go’s quirky new rendition of The Muppet Show theme, and a Muppet-laden video. (Thanks, Everyone!)

This little rocker is watching Queen’s epic Live Aid performance and gamely joins the crowd in following Freddie Mercury’s lead. Good thing he wasn’t watching an Iggy Pop concert.

The quirky and creepy music video of Whiskey Shivers’ single Gimme All Your Lovin’. Good old-time music too. If the video left you scratching your head, pay more attention to the lyrics.

Contemporary musicians including OK Go, Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Sondre Lerche, and Andrew Bird take on classic Muppet tunes. Preview the entire album over at NPR Music: First Listen.

Make a drum set out of anything with TableDrum. Map an object to a drum sample and when you hit the object, it will trigger the sample in real time, as if you were playing an actual drum set.

Check out the demure Anne Hathaway smoking the paparazzi in her hilarious Lil’ Wayne style rap song when she recently was a guest on Conan. We think we like her even more now. (Thanks, everyone!)

Mariachi Rock-O takes on a variety of rock and alternative tunes. This clip shows off their Radiohead, but also check out The Cure, Coldplay, The Killers and Bowie. Buy the MP3s here.

Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic aka 2Cellos continue their rockin’ streak. Watch the crazy duo perform a cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit live on the studio of Sirius XM Radio.

While Conan O’Brien won’t win any Grammys for his vocal prowess, we’re still entertained by his bits-and-pieces rendition of Creep, backed by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.