Awesome Music

Massdrop and audio specialist NuForce collaborated on a pair of in-ear monitors that focus on affordability and comfort. The EDC3 has three balanced armatures per ear with a slight focus on the mids. It comes with two cables and five sets of ear tips.

(PG-13: Language) “I am Killmonger, no one’s perfect, but no one’s worthless. We ain’t deserving of everything Heaven and Earth is.” Kendrick Lamar enlisted both established and up-and-coming stars to create music for and inspired by the upcoming Black Panther film.

Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? Paweł Zadrożniak’s electronic orchestra cranks out a fun cover version of Men at Work’s unofficial Australian national anthem. The scanner handles the flute duties quite brilliantly.

Les Covers de Persiflette performs Parisian style covers of all kinds of popular songs on his accordion. Here, he cranks through one of our favorites – Alan Silvestri’s theme from Back to the Future. Be sure to check his YouTube channel for lots more great covers.

Turn up the treble, turn up the bass… cause i’m shoving guacamole all up into my face. Fans of The Regular Show will be thrilled with Chetreo’s songification of Mordecai and Rigby. The track was inspired by The Chimichanga Song, but takes things to a whole new level.

If there was one new sound that turned up more than any other back in ’80s music, it was the Yamaha DX7 and its cutting-edge FM synthesis. Polyphonic explores what made the DX7’s sound and tech unique, and some of the many artists who incorporated it in their music.

Musician Amy Turk turns in two excellent covers of Muse tracks, the powerful Plug in Baby and the emotional Falling Away with You, beautifully rendered on her harp. Be sure to check out her YouTube channel for more great performances.

(PG-13: Language) “I make mommy moves.” Twelve years ago, Natalie Portman and The Lonely Island warned us that she was not a role model. Now she’s a mother, and it has changed her perspective. She’s still not a role model though.

Musician Billie Eilish applies her resounding jazz vocals to Michael Jackson’s 1987 hit Bad, with this smooth and soulful reinterpretation. We have little doubt that this will turn up in a movie trailer as some character walks away from a giant explosion or some other badass move.

We never had a doubt that Freddie Mercury was the greatest rock vocalist ever, but if you need any convincing, listen to this isolated version of his lead vocals from Don’t Stop Me Now. It’s a much more somber track without the chorus and instruments, but still incredibly powerful.

Mathieu Terrade performs a wonderful cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here on a pair of unusual string instruments, the Marcodi Harpejji G16 and K24. His performances of Bohemian Rhapsody and While My Guitar Gently Weeps are worth a listen too.

DoodleChaos says he spent about 3 months painstakingly drawing a Line Rider track that syncs up perfectly with the oft-used ambient background track Fade by Alan Walker. Best played at 60fps for optimal synchronization.

“Sex, money, murder – our DNA.” King Kenny opened the 2018 Grammy Awards with a hell of a set. He used his verses from XXX., DNA, New Freezer and King’s Dead to talk about war, hip hop, the media, and the crowd admiring the messenger while missing his message.

We’re patiently waiting for The Flight of the Conchords to make their big return, but in the mean time, we’ve got musician Simon Panrucker, with the most tear-filled tune since I’m Not Crying. Simon scores bonus points for the epic Keytar action.

Puddles Pity Party belts out another couple of soul-stirring covers, this time performing a smoosh-up of the Styx classic Come Sail Away and Let It Go from the Disney animated flick Frozen. Crank the volume up to 11 for this one.

The Who’s 1971 classic Baba O’Riley has one of the most memorable synthesizer riffs of all time. Here, the guys from Those Darn Accordions! turn in a fun cover version of the track with the synths replaced by accordions. They need to do a version of Squeeze Box now.

Populele is a ukelele designed for total newbies. Its fretboard has 72 embedded LEDs. Together with its free companion app for iOS and Android, the LEDs will teach you chords and full songs. It also has mini-games that will teach you the basics.

Funk’s living legend George Clinton and his band the P-Funk All Stars spread good vibes and infectious energy at NPR Tiny Desk Concert. They performed a trio of classics: Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On, One Nation Under A Groove and Give Up the Funk.

Russian musician Vladimir Cauchemar pops up all over the place to warm the world with the soothing and hypnotic sounds of his recorder. Kudos to director Alice Kunisue for one of the most entertaining and WTF things we’ve watched today.

Musician Luke T Duffy aka “Microrator” presents a dialed-down, yet powerful arrangement of A-ha’s upbeat pop hit Take on Me. It’s amazing how different the song feels when played as an elegant and emotive ballad.

James Siewert’s intense and dizzying music video for Operator Music Band’s electro-industrial track was captured using a custom camera rig designed to endlessly rotate around its subject – in this case, choreographer Jordan Morley, as he writhed around on the carpet.

(Flashing lights) “If the car beside you moves ahead – as much as it feels as though you’re dead – you’re not going backwards.” James Blake returns to his experimental dub roots with his latest single. The music video perfectly captures the song’s message.

What happens when Marilyn Manson meets Shania Twain? Musical magic when put in the hands of the almighty DJ Cummerbund, who managed yet again to take two very disparate songs, and meld them seamlessly together into the guise of Shanilyn Twanson.