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Music videos, performances, and creative audio experiments that stand out from the noise. Expect inventive covers, unusual instruments, and artists pushing boundaries in sound and style.
It’s an epic collision of 1970s and 1980s rock sub-genres courtesy of remixer Bill McClintock. This fantastic mashup combines ELO’s “Evil Woman,” Dokken’s “Dream Warriors,” Def Leppard’s “Foolin’”, and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution” into one surprisingly seamless song. Lynyrd Skynyrd fans the flames with a little of “That Smell.”
When you want automatically to play notes on a synthesizer, you use something called a sequencer. Composer Dill Yujinoue shows how they turned an antique sewing machine into an analog sequencer. By placing a MIDI controller pad under its tip, it produces a note each time it strikes a button. Sometimes they let a typewriter
The last time we saw Blue Man Group, Tobias Fünke blue himself on Arrested Development. But we have to say we were entertained by this performance from the real Blue Men, who performed a percussive medley of themes from Ghostbusters, Stranger Things, The Last of Us, and Severance, plus This Is Halloween and Mussorgsky’s Night on
(Violence) The stop-motion animated video for Lex Amanri’s track “The KiLL 2,” follows a duo of dolls looking for a good time. But as their night progresses, so does their descent into madness. And after an intense scrolling session, they head out on the town for a brutal killing spree. And it ends just like
You’re not supposed to stick things inside a piano. But if there’s one thing we know about Vinheteiro, it’s that he’s a rule breaker. In this video, he shows how placing marbles on the strings of a grand piano affects its sound. They add a strange rattle that roughens out its normally smooth notes. We wonder
Marking the 50th anniversary of the punk rock movement, Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976-86 is the Skirball Cultural Center’s latest original museum show to walk on the wild side of pop culture. The collection displays photography, posters, flyers, clothing, buttons and other artifacts from the punk scenes in London, NY, DC and
Musician Diego Dias offers a fresh and unexpected take on alternative tunes by performing them on accordion. His covers of The Strokes “Take It or Leave It“, Radiohead’s “No Surprises“, Blur’s “The Universal“, and Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know the Better” are wonderful, giving each track a warm, lively sound that works surprisingly well
Musician Kent Nishimura takes on Michael Jackson’s creepy classic, “Thriller” with another captivating acoustic guitar performance. The original’s infectious bassline, funky rhythms, and haunting melody translate beautifully to Kent’s intricate fingerstyle arrangement. His ability to blend bass, rhythm, and lead parts simultaneously is a joy to behold.
After digging into some of the most reused sound samples in music, Synthet, narrows his focus to vocals in hip-hop, pop, and dance tracks. If you’ve ever wondered where that familiar “Hey,” “Woah,” “Aw, Yeah,” or “Ahhh” sound came from, this video has got answers for you. A music-only version is also available.
The Unusual Suspect brings The Killers’ indie rock classic “Mr. Brightside” to life by assembling its lyrics from 144 movie scenes. The clever edit features everyone from Barbara Streisand to Batman singing the words made famous by frontman Brandon Flowers. Switch the audio track to Klingon, and you can hear the movie lines without the
It’s the 16th anniversary of OK Go’s “White Knuckles” music video in which the band is upstaged by 14 rescue dogs and a goat. To learn the choreography, the mutts trained for 3 months. “We had to learn the dance, too,” says guitarist Damian Kulash, whose own pup, Bunny Carlos, appears in the vid. “You
Apparently tired of printing things, Skirk 3D decided it was time to give his 3D printer a second purpose by turning it into a musical instrument. By modulating its stepper motors at just the right frequency, it can produce musical notes. But getting his Bambu Lab A1 printer to play the insanely fast tune “Rush
