This is a video of Brazilian pianist Glaucio Cristelo of Youtube channel Piano Rock performing a cover of Foo Fighters’ ‘Everlong’ for shoppers at a mall outside of a clothing store. It’s nice, and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if that clothing store had a record sales day
This is a video of the Maytree Acapella Quintet (previously) performing the soundtrack and sound effects of Street Fighter II ENTIRELY WITH THEIR MOUTHS. Me? I only use my mouth for eating and yelling at people. They do an amazing job, and the faces they make were definitely value-add as
Because people are weird, this is a video of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa based Heartland Brass Quintet hanging out by the tracks and attempting to communicate with a passing train using the same notes the train blows. Was it a success? I’m not sure, I don’t understand traintalk all that
This is a video from the appropriately named Instrument Maniac performing the same 7-note lick on an impressive 91 different instruments, including the train whistle, ocarina, and conch shell. That is a lot of different instruments! For reference, I only play one instrument — the heartstrings. Still, if you’re the
This is a video of talented gayageum musician Luna Lee (who I’ve had the pleasure of seeing live) delivering an improvised performance of Bob Marley’s ‘I Shot The Sheriff’. I’m into it. Of course I already liked the song and enjoy Luna’s music, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise
These are two videos of a pair of robotic arms programmed by Swedish composer Frederik Gran to play stringed instruments — in this case, the cello and double base. One arm and hand does the fretting, while the other operates the bow. And while their performance didn’t really tug at
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
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