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

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

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

Because dream it and you can achieve it (unless you’re painfully unqualified like most of the people I meet and try to inspire in real life), this is a video of musician Charles Berthoud covering Scott Joplin’s classic of all ragtime classics ‘The Entertainer’, with a fingerstyle performance on electric

This is a supercut of musician Luke Pickman performing The Lick on 111 different instruments in 111 seconds. That’s one instrument every second. I know because I just crunched the numbers. It wasn’t easy using the new common core math, and things got pretty hairy there for a bit with

This is a clip of The Juilliard School small ensemble professor and jazz drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. improvising drums for Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’ after hearing the song for the first time. They provide him with a drumless cut of the song, and the rest is up to him. He does

This is a video of percussionist El Estepario Siberiano (aka The Groovefather) discussing his homemade tubulum PVC pipe drum kit, and performing AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ on it, just 24 hours after constructing it and playing it for the first time. I assume that’s where his percussion background comes in handy. You