This is a video of the Rockin’ 1000 performing Blur’s ‘Song 2’ in Paris. Do they do it justice? I don’t know, I feel like having ALL those instruments and voices performing simultaneously kind of washed the song out and left it without its original zest. Also, everybody looks really
Proof (albeit not definitive) that tasty jams are tasty no matter what language they’re performed in, this is a video from vocalist Ja Khole Thaisii, who teamed up with bardcore musician Stantough to perform Nirvana’s 1991 banger ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with lyrics translated into classical Latin. It still hits.
This is a video of musician Christian Nolen strumming his guitar while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor growing near the hand/motor area of his brain. Doctors needed Christian to be awake and using his hands in order to monitor Christian’s motor control during the operation, and playing the
This is a video of the banjo strumming trio of Foggy Mountain Spaceship performing their take on the original Super Mario Bros. overworld and underworld themes. They do a fantastic job. Me? I would have butchered those songs, then smashed my banjo on stage and asked the nonexistent audience who
These are a couple videos from psychologist Edgar Ciancio, who attached the business end of a garden hose to the cone of a subwoofer to vibrate the water coming out in sync with the sound waves produced. Pretty cool, and I can’t wait to demonstrate this at my next BBQ
Because the power of the internet offers us an unbridled look into other people’s lives that we otherwise wouldn’t (and probably shouldn’t) have, these are several videos from Youtuber MrPanFace featuring anthropomorphic crepes with googly eyes lip-syncing to songs on the stove. Admittedly, I did not expect much, and was
Because this is the internet and the internet never stops tossing things in a blender and mixing them up to see how it tastes, this is an edit created by DJ Cummerbund featuring the vocals from Rage Against the Machine’s angsty political ‘Testify’ with the beat from Pitbull’s dancy ‘Fireball’.
Darude’s ‘Sandstorm’, best known for being THE TRACK to listen to in my buddy’s Saab in college way back in the 2000’s, is a trance classic. Probably THE trance classic. And this is is a video of musician Alexander Uhl performing the track on a church’s massive pipe organ. It