Kids Rock

If only something this entertaining happened at every primary school band concert. Usually it's just kids blowing half-heartedly into recorders while the audience longs for the sweet release of death. But not this time. This time there is a xylophone bashing maniac onstage, and it is the most glorious thing we've ever seen.

Remember the Balloon Boy? That would be Falcon Henne, who for a few moments had the nation on edge after his parents claimed the-then six-year-old had sailed away unaccompanied in a hot air balloon.

Admit it-- you’ve definitely been caught once or twice passionately lip-synching in the car with awesome dance moves to match. In between drum solos, you catch the guy in the car next to you laughing his pants off at your antics, and you not-so-casually look away, pretending you were just swatting at the non-existent fly that’s hindering your driving skills. Rocking out in the car doesn’t have to

Anyone who thinks heavy metal is strictly for adults has never heard Murp, a young brother-sister duo who bashes out intense deathcore that would make any headbanger proud.

There's always something amusing when a child picks up an instrument and attempts to play it. Usually, we stomach through their performance trying to hide our judgmental faces, the ones that have "please let this be over soon" written all over them. But six-year-old Jaxon Smith, who nails a cover of Foo Fighters' 'Pretender,' is much different.

It's always exciting to see a young prodigy rock out on a musical instrument (especially since we can barely carry a tune ourselves). But six-year-old pianist Ethan Walmark is all the more impressive since he has Autism Spectrum Disorder and has been playing songs by ear since the tender age of four.

Jack Black was walking around Cathedral Square in Christchurch, NZ the day before his band Tenacious D was set to play. That's when he noticed a pair of 10-year-old buskers playing a rocking version of Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower.' But he didn't just give them money-- Black offered them the opening slot in his show.

German industrial rock is hardly music suitable for children, so this video of a family band performing a cover of a Rammstein hit was bound to attract attention. With over a million views already on YouTube, the Children Medieval Band are being praised, and criticized (their parents mostly), for their musical inspiration.

Although this video was uploaded a little over a year ago, it recently made the front page of Reddit and thus garnered way more exposure. Rightfully so, as what you are about to see is a young boy play the banjo, accompanied by his brothers on violin and guitar, who all play some mean bluegrass music. And if you don't care for bluegrass much, you will after this performance.

The Adele song 'Someone Like You' is about heartbreak and loss.  But these adult themes don't stop 8-year-old Fitri Cerado from absolutely nailing the emotional ballad in a YouTube performance that is beginning to go viral.

Move over Jonas Brothers. Take a powder, One Direction. There's a new youthful musical group getting a lot of buzz on the Web-- and they're a family.

Score one for the argument that great musicians are born and not made. This drummer is just a year old and he already seems to be able to keep perfect time on an adult drum kit. Watch out, Neil Peart.

In one of the most impressive displays of drumming we've ever seen, 17-year-old Baard Kolstad bangs out an incredible beat on the streets of Oslo, Norway. Nobody -- and we mean nobody -- pounds the skins like this kid.

In our continuing efforts to bring you video of kids that rock, here are Milah and Korben Schrader. Along with their father, Colombian-American visual artist Dicken Schrader, the youngsters have made some pretty nifty covers of Depeche Mode songs.

Just about everybody would like to be a rock star, but these kids have a much better chance of eventually achieving that lofty goal than most.