Awesome Music

Lotsen is the newest, smallest and most affordable member of Urbanears’ connected speakers. It has an output of 20W, a 4″ woofer and a 1″ tweeter. Like its bigger siblings, it supports all popular wireless streaming solutions and also has a 3.5mm input.

Just in time to get us in the mood for Season 2 to debut, musicians Brooklyn Duo and Cicely Parnas turn in an amazing live performance of Ramin Djawadi’s intense main theme from HBO’s Westworld. Be sure to check out their Bach Cello Suite No. 1, if you get a chance.

Think your neighbors are noisy? They guys from Apartment Sessions managed to cram 100 musicians into an apartment building where they performed a cover version of Arcade Fire’s classic Wake Up. Still, we’re pretty sure they have fewer members than the real Arcade Fire.

During the UK launch event for the Mazda MX-5 RF, THePETEBOX teamed up with The Pisces Rising’s talented string players and vocalists to perform a handful of unique covers, including MGMT’s Kids, Nirvana’s Lithium, and Pixies’ Where Is My Mind.

YouTuber Alef presents a truly unusual cover version of The White Stripes’ hit track Seven Nation Army, using a rubber band, a toy frog, a kid’s maraca, and a vacuum cleaner as his primary instruments of choice. A squeaky frog army couldn’t hold us back.

Postmodern Jukebox and vocalist Jennie Lena turn in a swinging ’60s style cover version of Ozzy Osbourne’s rock classic Crazy Train. We can say with a high degree of certainty that Jennie won’t be biting the head off any bats any time soon.

Ivy Hill AllStars‘ toned-down cover version of OutKast’s hit Hey Ya! might seem pretty normal if it weren’t for the fact that the guys are all lounging around a small bathroom in their birthday suits while performing the tune.

YouTuber BroccoliBoys condensed the plot of Stanley Kubrick’s 161-minute opus 2001: A Space Odyssey down to just under 8 minutes, and transformed it into an unofficial music video for Tame Impala’s track Let It Happen. The result is shockingly good.

While most of us appreciate “Weird Al” Yankovic for his novelty song prowess, he’s actually quite a talented musician by all standards. Listen to what we mean with his excellent live cover of Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell during a recent concert.

“The worlds colliding, unreal dividing. The colors missing upon the dark spring.” Dream pop duo Beach House opt for a faster tempo to talk about beauty emerging from darkness. Dark Spring is a single from their upcoming album 7, which drops on 5/11/18.

We can say with certainty that we’ve never heard Blue Öyster Cult’s (Don’t Fear) The Reaper like this before. But we’re impressed with the surf rock treatment that musician Bruce Lindquist gave to the 1976 smash prog rock hit, even if it could use more cowbell.

Tim from Gud Nuse presents a surprising stripped down performance of Bruno Mars and Cardi B’s hit song Finesse, featuring only his layered vocals, recorded in an echo chamber for added impact. Don’t they look good together?

The guys from Pomplamoose perform an excellent mashup of pop hits with the word “Bad” in the title – Michael Jackson’s Bad, Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood, and Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, with a little bit of Inner Circle’s Bad Boys tossed in for good measure.

Musician Andy Rehfeldt loves to turn metal songs into jazz tunes. His latest makeover? Transforming Metallica’s magnum opus Master of Puppets into something even dear old Mom and Dad would enjoy. Though at 5:00, we thought it was gonna segue into Get Lucky.

Elton John and Bernie Taupin are widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriting duos of all time. 13 pop, rock, and alt artists come together in this new album to bring their own flavors to everything from Your Song to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road to Tiny Dancer.

Spinal Tap bass player Derek Smalls says goodbye to his bandmates, contemplates his old age, and does whatever he needs to do to pay the bills as he heads back on the road for a tour to promote his new solo album.

Mylo the Cat presents another Muppet mashup, this time giving Miss Piggy the perfect song to sing, Rihanna’s 2012 megahit Diamonds. We’re pretty sure that Piggy would throw a major hissy fit if she found out her tiara was made from Cubic Zirconia.

Musician John Tracey presents a medley of some theme songs from classic kids TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s, performed with a smooth fingerstyle vibe on his acoustic guitar. We can still never get enough of those DuckTales and Inspector Gadget themes.

Long before rap music existed, Theodore Geisel (aka “Dr. Seuss”) was a true master of rhymes. But could his words be used in a rap? Win Nevaluze proves just that, as he recites There’s a Wocket in My Pocket to the tune of Walk It Talk It by Migos f/Drake.

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli presents another fantastic fingerstyle cover arrangement – taking on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2002 hit Can’t Stop on his triple-necked acoustic guitbass. The endlessly spinning camera made us a little queasy, but the music is worth a little dizziness.

A cool take on the 1964 Gloria Jones track Tainted Love – later made famous by Soft Cell, with a smooth and jazzy vibe from vocalist Nataly Dawn, and the production chops of Jack Conte, who expanded the duo of Pomplamoose to a full band for this live performance.

The appropriately-named Ska Tune Network presents a wonderfully upbeat cover version of the background music found in the Mii Channel on the Nintendo Wii. We’re pretty sure its impossible not to move and groove while listening to this.

A very different arrangement of Daft Punk’s hit Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, performed by the women of Four Play, a four-part clarinet ensemble, who we think could also do a mean cover of Cantina Band from Star Wars.