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Hava Nagila: Surf Style

Hava Nagila: Surf Style

Musician Bjoern Angermann gives the folk classic Hava Nagila a fresh coat of paint by mashing it up with the 1960s surf rock sound of Dick Dale. If Pulp Fiction took place in Israel, this would have been on the soundtrack.

Eclectic Method: Transformers

Eclectic Method: Transformers

Using only sounds found in Michael Bay’s bombastic Transformers’ flicks, Eclectic Method created an EDM track that will have you gyrating your hips on the dance floor to the beat of giant robots beating the crap out of each other.

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Radiohead Piano Covers

Radiohead Piano Covers

Musician Josh Cohen has a thing for performing cover versions of Radiohead tunes on his grand piano. Each and every one of the tracks will pull you in and won’t let go with its quiet intensity. We can’t decide if Everything In Its Right Place or Daydreaming is our favorite.

Fret Zeppelin

Fret Zeppelin

Fret Zeppelin uses a row of removable and non-intrusive LEDs together with a mobile app to teach new and intermediate guitar players. It shows notes, chords, scales and styles. It can also use MIDI files to show the chords for songs and act as decorative lighting.

Theremin Crazy

Theremin Crazy

Musician Randy George created this clip more than a decade ago, performing the most unusual cover version we’ve ever heard of Gnarls Barkley’s hit tune Crazy – using a theremin in place of the lead vocals. Given the title and subject matter of the song, it’s somehow fitting.

Young Thug : Wyclef Jean

Young Thug : Wyclef Jean

(PG-13) Apparently rapper Young Thug has a tendency to blow off his commitments. For instance, he was supposed to show up to shoot a music video, but never did. Instead, his co-director and production crew improvised, and made a video regardless.

Sven Helbig: Abendglühen

Sven Helbig: Abendglühen

Director Sebastian Linda’s video for Sven Helbig’s ethereal track Abendglühen (Evening Glow) bends time as its subjects seemingly defy gravity through the use of slow-motion and other visual trickery. From the album I Eat the Sun and Drink the Rain.

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Ed Sheeran: The Fresh Prince

Ed Sheeran: The Fresh Prince

The original theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air stands on its own, but we’ve gotta hand it to musician Ed Sheeran for putting a fresh coat of his smooth acoustic folk-pop style on the ’90s rap track during a recent appearance on Capital FM.

Weird Al: Squeeze Box

Weird Al: Squeeze Box

The ultimate collection for fans of the ultimate parody songwriter. Get all 14 of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s studio albumns on CD or Vinyl, packed inside of an accordion case along with a 100-page collector’s book. Upgraded sets include lots of extra goodies.

Billy Jean: Fingerstyle Cover

Billy Jean: Fingerstyle Cover

Musician Alexandr Misko performs a wonderful fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the King of Pop’s massive hit, infusing new life into the 1982 track. His covers of The Cranberries’ Zombie and System of a Down’s Chop Suey! are equally sublime. (Thanks Nathan!)

2CELLOS: Game of Thrones

2CELLOS: Game of Thrones

We’re gonna be waiting a really long time for the final episodes of Game of Thrones to arrive. For now, we’ll have to satisfy our craving with Stjepan and Luka’s powerful and emotionally-charged arrangement of The Rains of Castamere and the Game of Thrones theme.

First Drafts of Rock: Lola

First Drafts of Rock: Lola

Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Bacon channel Ray and Dave Davies with their interpretation the hit track Lola might have sounded like before they worked out all the kinks. Oh yea, we went there. Whaddya want? It’s Friday here.

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VSQ: True Love Waits

VSQ: True Love Waits

Another great cover by the Vitamin String Quartet. This time we’ve got Radiohead’s True Love Waits, which they recorded as well as Burn the Witch. If they sound familiar, that’s because they also recorded Motion Picture Soundtrack for Westworld.

FKA Twigs x Nike

FKA Twigs x Nike

Trip hop artist FKA Twigs conceptualized Nike’s Do You Believe in More? ad campaign for its Zonal Strength women’s training gear. The music video sees Twigs performing alongside 12 professional athletes.

Classical Music Mashup II

Classical Music Mashup II

YouTuber Grant Woolard is back with another classical mashup cover. Featuring 52 of your great-great-grandpappy’s jams from the OGiest of OG beatmakers such as Beethoven, Liszt, Strauss and Sousa.

Somebody I Used to Know in the ’80s

Somebody I Used to Know in the ’80s

Bring out the hairspray and leather jackets. We’re hitting the club with the latest mix from aural time traveler Tronicbox. It’s Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know, a ’90s song that came out in 2011, remixed to sound like it’s from 1984.

Lamont Landers: Funk Medley

Lamont Landers: Funk Medley

Lamont Landers and his bandmates Bowen Robertson, Jaraven Moe Hill, and Kevin Canada turn in an awesome medley of Earth, Wind & Fire, Sly and the Family Stone, and a dash of funky love makin’ tossed in for good measure. Want some mo? Try on some Bill Withers.

Live Band Alarm Clock

Live Band Alarm Clock

(PG-13: Language) At the end of a gig in Harrisburg, PA, Brooklyn-based jazz band Moon Hooch told the crowd that they didn’t have a place to stay that night. They ended up staying with a couple who took them in because of a silly thought. The track is Number 1.

Theremin Metal

Theremin Metal

The 1950’s sci-fi B-movie squeals of the theremin are probably the last thing that we’d associate with heavy metal music. But that didn’t stop musician Rob Scallon from giving it the old college try.

David Bowie: No Plan

David Bowie: No Plan

“Here, there’s no music here. I’m lost in streams of sound. Here, am I nowhere now? No plan.” Tom Hingston’s music video for one of Bowie’s final tracks will pierce you to the core, its static-filled screens where Ziggy, the Thin White Duke, and Bowie’s other personas once appeared.

Blank Tape: Electronic Cassette Culture

Blank Tape: Electronic Cassette Culture

Along with vinyl, cassette tapes are staging their own comeback, with ongoing interest from electronic musicians who find the analog sound and hiss complements rather than detracts from their music. The Vinyl Factory explores this growing movement. (Thanks Paul!)

Kawehi: Time Is Running Out

Kawehi: Time Is Running Out

Multitalented musician Kawehi reminds us why we love her so much, as she turns in an awesome one-woman performance of the Muse track Time is Running Out during a live performance. We’re looking forward to her recently crowdfunded new album EVE.

Stranger Boy

Stranger Boy

(PG-13: Language) DJ Flipboitamidles mashed up C418’s remix of the Stranger Things title theme with The Weeknd and Daft Punk’s megahit Starboy, resulting in a more textured darkwave track. The lyric video is dope too.

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