Awesome Music

Angel Nene takes a look back at the career of The Rolling Stones by playing a medley of their songs, accompanied by morphing images of the groups primary members as they have aged since 1962 through 2018. He previously did the same for The Beatles.

Brock “The Man of a Kajillion Voices” Baker uses just 29 of his available impressions to follow in the footsteps Toto, Weezer, and everyone else on the Internet with his cartoon character version of the 1982 hit track Africa. Mostly he just made us miss Zoidberg and Brak.

A charming and thoroughly entertaining cover version of Florence + The Machine’s 2010 hit track Dog Days Are Over, arranged by Michael Charles Smith and performed by the students of his Marimba Lab. Their cover of Portugal. The Man’s Feel It Still is wonderful too.

“I wonder where you are tonight, if the one you’re with was a compromise.” In Thank You for Today, Death Cab for Cutie talk about loss, heartbreaks, disillusion and general sadness the way only Ben Gibbard can, while pairing his words with new and refreshing pop sounds.

We like to imagine David Hasselhoff pulling up in a rusted out old jalopy (with an LED light bar on front) as the visual accompaniment to Banjo Guy Ollie’s awesomely bluegrassified cover of the familiar theme from Knight Rider.

Eclectic Method’s latest remix uses chopped up footage and sounds from Avengers: Infinity War, and manages to capture and amplify the intensity of Marvel’s grandest and darkest film, with a driving backbeat comprised of some of the film’s biggest beatdowns.

Rapper, actor, and comedian Shama “Llama” Mrema teams up with Andrew “drû” Simmons for the best remake of the theme song from the kids series Veggie Tales ever. Add it to your playlist on Apple Music or Spotify to keep it in heavy rotation.

(PG-13: Language) Dave Grohl may be a veteran at his craft, but he still recognizes that he can always improve. That’s what he celebrates in Play, which culminates – at 8:16 in the video – in a 23-minute performance in which he performs all of the instruments.

“We’re just two slow dancers, last ones out.” Mitski wishes for the thrill, simplicity and honesty of adolescent love in her single Two Slow Dancers. The song’s tempo and her voice breathes life into her nostalgia. The song is from her upcoming album Be the Cowboy.

(Gore/Violence) Director Jonathan “Jodeb” Desbiens and cinematographer Kristof Brandl’s music video for Jack White’s garage funk instrumental track Corporation doubles as an intense crime drama, as an investigator tries to deconstruct a grizzly murder.

Come for another enveloping tune by alt-folk singer/songwriter Tom Rosenthal, stay for the fantastic and eyecatching visuals by animator/illustrator Chloe Jackson, who blends a sort of 1970s Yellow Submarine sensibility with something uniquely her own.

We’ve got chills, they’re multiplyin’… and you will too with this great group performance of the classic track The One That I Want from the 1970s musical Grease by the members of Toronto’s Choir! Choir! Choir! Danny and Sandy would be so proud.

(PG-13: Language) Mac Miller shows how much he’s grown both as a rapper and as a person in his sweet visit to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert. He performed Small Worlds, What’s the Use and 2009, the latter two from his new album Swimming.

(Flashing Images) The trippy texture-mapped environments of the video for Aphex Twin’s latest track is the perfect accompaniment to the driving, syncopated, electrofunk beats that seem at once both chaotic and meticulously planned. From the upcoming EP Collapse.

Pianist Vinheteiro offers up another great compilation, as he performs a variety of classic themes from video games throughout the last 30+ years. There’s something about the sustain and resonance of the piano that makes all of the chiptunes sound so much richer.

The guys from Pomplamoose are back with another great mashup, this time combining Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling, and The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face into a single seamless track. It’s basically the live equivalent of a dance mix.

For his latest heavy metal cover, musician Leo Moracchioli dusts off a little ditty that blew up the internet back in 2013, Ylvis’ megahit The Fox. We’re guessing Leo will be covering Chocolate Rain and Numa Numa any day now.

We saw Weezer and Pixies in concert this summer, and they were both amazing. Seattle band Tiger Rider thought so too, and decided to pay tribute to this epic double bill with their own seamless mashup of Where Is My Mind and Say It Ain’t So.

Who’s that casting devious stares in our direction? Musician Allen Stone revamps the 1997 Marcy Playground alt-pop tune Sex and Candy, transforming it into soulful acoustic R&B track, dripping with the kind of sex the vocals allude to.

Lou Bega takes Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Sandra, Mary, Jessica, and the rest of his ladies on vacation with Billy Joe, Tré Cool and the gang, courtesy of the musical mashup master DJ Cummerbund. Seems like a pretty wild trip.

While its robotic “fingers” aren’t nearly as agile as Jake Shimabukuro’s, beginner ukulele players now have some robotic competition, thanks to this desktop machine that can play whatever tune you feed it. Listen as it plays the theme from The Godfather, and more.

After Weezer’s massively popular cover version of Toto’s Africa, the 1980s pop group decided to return the volley, with a very solid rendition of Weezer’s track Hash Pipe during a performance in Vancouver, BC. Weezer, it’s your turn. We suggest Rosanna.

Musician Luna Lee’s latest cover track is an arrangement of The Doors’ 1967 classic People Are Strange. The evocative style of the original lends itself perfectly to the twangy sounds of her gayageum.