Awesome Music

Wowza. Props to Youtube user (and TA fan) AaronicStuff  who made this acapella cover of Flux Pavillion’s I Can’t Stop without the use of any professional microphones or recording gear.

If you love Final Fight, Valkyrie Profile or video games in general, watch – nay, experience this. Let YouTuber and modern-day bard Hortyort regale you with the tale of Metro City’s great mayor.

The Mariachi Connecticut play a song for an appreciative Beluga whale at the Mystic Aquarium. It spends its days being watched by people, so it’s only fair that we return the favor once in a while.

Another educational video from Glove and Boots. The puppet duo track the lineage of the hipster and attempt to define those whose very goal is to not be defined. Oversimplified yet completely accurate.

YouTuber fish31171 spotted Gary Russo, a subway construction worker from Queens, singing Frank Sinatra’s Summer Wind as effortlessly as Ol’ Blue Eyes did. Only in New York, folks.

Michael Hearst plays a tune using unique instruments, including a stylophone, theremin and quirkier ones like the otamatone and the daxophone. He should’ve used a waterphone too.

(NSFW?) This video is for French DJ duo Mustard Pimp’s new single ZHM, but we’re thinking it should be called WTF. Here’s a hint: yeah that’s a puppet, but it isn’t being controlled with a hand.

Guitarist Julien Brasart kicked out one of the best renditions of the Star Wars theme we ever heard. Now he’s back, playing tribute to more classic Hollywood themes on his axe. BTTF-FTW!

The directors of this music video for Japanese band Androp wired up 250 Canon cameras so that their flashes could act as pixels for an animated backdrop. Make your own version here.

A one-man score medley of all the theme songs from Pixar’s movies (except for Cars, but that’s okay because that’s not a classic anyway) performed by Chaz Anthony dela Cruz.

(NSFW: Language) Ah, the Portal gun. We’ve spent many hours daydreaming about having one in real life. We’d never think of what this high-pitched rapper wants to pull off at the end though.

Weird Al plays the lead musician on a sinking ship in this video from College Humor; the medley of songs he delivers when the captain requests him to play on is definitely not what anyone is expecting.

How many times have you had a lyric in your head, but only wished that you had the appropriate backing beat? We only wish this guy offered his free beatboxing services all the time.

The Boss BR-80 is a multi-track recorder – up to 8 tracks, with a variety of effects – a field recorder – records up to 550 hrs. – and a virtual jam buddy in a very portable form factor.

A Kinect, a laptop, an LED projector and a program called FaceTracker were used to project the visuals on the face of BELL vocalist Olga Bell in real time in this video for their single Chase No Face.

Sit back, mellow out for seven minutes and enjoy the minimal, Brady Bunch stylings of this a capella video from Local Vocal, featuring all our favorite cheesy tunes from the 90’s. (Thanks IceBone!)

The Sesame Street gang busts out some classic Beastie Boys rhymes with their muppet-ized rendition of Sure Shot. We had no idea that Grover could handle the flute so adeptly.

And we thought we had mad dance moves. These kids bust out their best OutKast on their Wii. And while Justin and Jeremy are twins, the boy on the left seems to have a better grasp on the lyrics.

Drummer Baard Kolstad can really kick out the jams without need for any additional musical accompaniment. Listen as he rips up a 7 minute rhythm solo on the streets of Norway.

Spike Jonze directs an army of action figure surrogates for Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock in the Beastie Boys’ latest video Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win, with special guest stars Santigold.

Comprised mostly of solenoids, relays, wires, and other gizmos, the robotic EOL Band takes on Marilyn Manson’s The Beautiful People, proving that robots are as capable of rocking out as any of us.

Where it’s at, they’ve got two turntables and a microphone – and three orange tabby kittens who apparently have latent dj talent. We’re canine lovers but let’s face it – dogs couldn’t do this.

Lots of folks are sad that the Harry Potter series is coming to an end, like Maccadole here. This goofy song from Rhett and Link uses the words from her vlog to describe how she feels. (Thanks Jimmy!)