Although they've been around for a few years, I only recently stumbled across the Yoshida Brothers, two shamisen players from Japan who play the traditional 3-stringed folk instrument while mixing it with modern percussion and other influences from outside Japan.
An original song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RERXiliJfdI
And their cover of a Radiohead song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqj6Tgm6Ms
And here I've been using youtube to watch funny cat videos....