This is a video of musician Joe Porter covering several iconic rock and metal songs with percussion instruments, including “Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ on the hammered dulcimer, Guns ‘n’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ on the steel pan, AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ on the slapophone, Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ on the flairdrum, the

This is a video from engineer and tesla coil band conductor Fabricio H. Franzoli of three of his homemade Tesla coils performing the Super Mario Bros. theme. LOVE THAT THEME. As far as themes go, it’s right up there with the original Legend Of Zelda theme (video of that one

Because apparently the internet is rife with songs in the style of Blink-182, this is a multi-track cover of Smash Mouth’s 1999 banger ‘All-Star’ in the band’s style as performed by musician Evan Sherman. Evan was actually inspired by the Blink-182 covers performed by Alex Menton (previously) before deciding to

This is ‘It’s Not Unusual, Dammit’, a mashup created by DJ Cummerbund of panty wetter Tom Jones’ ‘It’s Not Unusual’ and Blink-182’s teenage angsty ‘Dammit’. It works surprisingly well. You know, ‘Dammit’ will always hold a special place in my sooty, coal black heart because I used to listen to

This is a video of university students from Utrechts Conservatorium in the Netherlands performing a beautiful orchestral cover of Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ (aren’t they all?) at graduation. Each student arranged their own parts individually, then came together to combine them all into the piece you see here. Most impressive. For

This is a video of Danny Elfman performing at Coachella over the weekend, and covering The Simpsons theme he composed all the way back in 1989. That was 33 years ago. Danny looks great for 68 too — very sprightly. I only hope I have as much vim and vigor

Warm on the heels of their cover of Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya’, this is another video from Harvard’s cooler-than-cool THUD percussion ensemble performing Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ on boomwhackers. I like all the sunglasses and blindfolds, real slick. Now you can send this video to a friend and

To honor the late, great Eddie Van Halen, this is a video of the Buckeyes’ Spring Athletic Band performing a medley of Van Halen songs during a halftime show on April 16th. The medley includes “Runnin’ With the Devil,” “Dreams,” “Panama,” and “Jump,” all performed while the band forms synchronized