Nobody can argue there’s a more Christmasy song than A-Ha’s 1985 classic ‘Take On Me’. You just can’t. And this is a video of Magical Light Shows owner Tom BetGeorge’s own annual Christmas lightshow, choreographed to the song. Really gets you in the holiday spirit, doesn’t it? Tom’s show only

Living the dream: some people are out there doing it. Living the nightmare: how much longer can I do it? This is a video of musician Paul Barton playing the piano for the crab-eating macaques (aka long-tailed macaques) that live at the 13th century Phra Prang Sam Yot temple in

This is a video of Japanese Buddhist monk and musician Kossan1108 covering Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ with traditional percussion instruments. He also sings, which I was not expecting. The video is almost ten minutes long, but the song is only the first five. After that is five minutes of Kossan meditating.

This is a video of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Etude in B-flat minor for piano being performed instead on glass harp by Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec and theremin by Grégoire Blanc. It’s got a real other-worldly sound to it, like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear when being

The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’: a troubling song about an obsessive ex-lover that’s sung like a much sweeter love song (and Sting wonders why people misinterpret it). Well now there’s a honky tonk version recorded by Youtuber There I Ruined It (previously). Is it any good? No clue, my

From musician Jeremy Messersmith’s Mixtape For The Milky Way, this is the music video for ‘Video Games’, a song about growing up playing video games, and still playing video games, and what they meant to him then, and mean now. The music video created by Eric Power is fantastic, featuring

This is a video of musician Gunhild Carling piping out a swing song on the bagpipes in Central Park. Apparently she had asked the audience if they wanted to hear a swing song performed on the bagpipes and received an underwhelming response. Thankfully, she performed it anyways AND FACES WERE

Because the king demands entertainment and demands it now, this is a video of Algal the Bard performing bardcore covers of Metallica’s ‘The Unforgiven’ and ‘Nothing Else Matters’ with real instruments not just MIDI files. I’m not sure if these songs particularly lend themselves to being performed in a medieval