Because ‘you should really get a hobby’ means different things to different people, this is a video of ‘Seven Nation Army’ by The White Stripes being performed by a small seven-member army of googly-eyed electric toothbrushes, printers, credit card receipt printers, and a clothes iron (which I mistook for a

This is a video of Algar the Bard performing a medieval bardcore cover of Metallica’s 1988 banger ‘One’. 1988? Good lord I feel old, and I’m not even the undead warlock I’m always pretended to be. You know, I was just listening to Algar’s version and reading the lyrics, “Darkness

This is a video of 12-year old British-Zulu drummer Nandi Bushell covering Neil Peart’s percussion on Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ like she can do this in her sleep. For reference, I can’t do anything in my sleep except have terrifyingly realistic nightmares and accidentally (but thankfully) farting myself awake. Per Nandi:

Because you don’t know until you try, the Trentham Monkey Forest in Stafford, England hired Marvin Gaye impersonator David Largie to sing to their endangered Barbary macaques in an attempt to get them in the mood for loving>/a>. I mean we are both primates, what works for humans must work

These are a bunch of very worthwhile videos of musician GLASYS (aka Gil Assayas) creating live MIDI art by pressing the corresponding keys on a keyboard to create different shapes as time passes, with a musical byproduct. It reminded me of the songs created by the MIDI shapes of the

Finally, somebody did it: comedian and filmmaker Matthew Highton made a mashup video of the Spice Girls in Dune. It’s every bit as fantastic as it sounds, and I would watch a full-length two and a half hours of this, no questions. Fifteen year old me? Fifteen year old me

The Meat Loaf has left the building. I remember listening to Bat Out Of Hell regularly growing up because my dad had it on a CD in the six-disc changer in the trunk of the Lincoln Town Car. I wasn’t particularly in love with it all at the time (although

This is a video of guitarist Andre Antunes (previously: adding heavy metal to a hog calling competition — also, great last name for a musician) providing a little heavy metal accompaniment to Gordon Ramsey absolutely laying into people on Hell’s Kitchen. That, uh, that seems like a really abusive work