This is a video of musician and Youtuber Deden Noy performing Rush’s 1981 banger ‘Tom Sawyer’ on his homemade drum kit, which he crafted out of paint cans and water jugs and scrap metal. I also included his cover of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, because what Deden lacks in
This is a video of Japanese finger tutting (aka finger dancing) group XTRAP performing ‘Piano Fingers’, a very impressive synchronized tutting routine featuring their hands clad in glow-in-the-dark gloves. And you know how I feel about glow-in-the-dark gloves. “They make it easier to see what pieces are in the handful
This is a video of precious angel Mitzi performing a little impromptu horror movie soundtrack as she strolls across an electronic keyboard. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the effects active on the synthesizer really lend themselves to a horror movie atmosphere. Did her owner set her up for this
Because music is everywhere, this is a video of Spanish musician Xavier Lozano performing a lovely melody on a metal street barricade. Are there cars going down a street they aren’t supposed to right now thanks to Xavier? Quite possibly. Should you go around blowing into everything you come across
Because the human voice is the most powerful instrument in the world, this is a video of South Korean a capella quintet Maytree performing the opening intro for a lot of the major US movie production companies, including (in order) 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal, Columbia, Warner Bros., Paramount, Pixar,
To celebrate Mario Day (Mar10), this is a video of classically trained pianist/starer Lord Vinheteiro performing the Super Mario Bros overworld theme on a baroque harpsichord while dressed as Mozart. Towards the end he also does a little underworld theme, and the starman theme (when Mario gets an invincibility star).
This is a video of lover of unusual instruments Nicolas Bras (previously) constructing and playing a mouth violin based on the k’ni (aka Vietnamese mouth violin) used by the Jarai people of Vietnam. The instrument uses the player’s mouth as a resonator, “which enables the instrument to imitate certain qualities
This is some surprisingly decent quality handheld footage (complete with mosh pit and crowd surfing!) from a 1994 No Doubt concert at Cal State’s Fullerton campus, about a year prior to the release of the band’s ‘Tragic Kingdom’ album. Granted a tripod for this camera would have been nice, but