Music

MajorScaled TV digitally transposes sad songs to a major scale, replacing the melancholic mood with a strangely happy one. Listen to what they did to Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters.

The Lonely Island pokes fun at the world’s worst meme by moving it to the other extreme. YOLO, so be carefo-LO. Featuring Adam Levine and K-Dot. The song samples The Joy Formidable’s Whirring.

The latest single from New York garage rock band The Strokes. The song will be part of their new album that will be released later this year. You can download it for free from the band’s website.

An “everlasting chain of convulsing memories.” Such is the music video for Shugo Tokumaru’s song Katachi. Kijek/Adamski made the jaw-dropping stop-motion using about 2,000 pieces of PVC plates.

What is it about dogs and socks? We may never know, but at least we can now enjoy a metal song on the topic thanks to Psychostick. Buy the song to give your pup a sock massacre soundtrack.

An avid skier and trombonist, YouTuber Explosean unloads an avalanche of awesome down the mountainside in this short clip. There’s a finale if you are in need of some more t-bone.

A soothing love song written and performed by Australian Celia Pavey. She chose the perfect time and place to shoot the video; the sunlight and the sound of the breeze complement her voice.

Moog’s new analog synth has variable waveshape oscillators, a square wave sub ocillator, a noise generator and lots of ways to tweak them, including Moog’s classic ladder filter. Hear it in action at 4:30.

This clip of German composer Hauschka improvising on NPR isn’t new, but the sound he makes by outfitting piano strings and mallets with objects like bottle caps and ping-pong balls is still fascinating.

The trombone quartet known as the Maniacal 4 cover the quintessential prog track Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas. The trombone on a guitar effects processor was a neat surprise.

If you haven’t heard Animals as Leaders, you’re missing out on some seriously face-melting shreds. The ridiculous technicality of a song like Cafo is what makes Chino M’s cello cover so awesome.

Shiva opened her arms and Al Rose opened his vault to grace us with this tape of the lost pilot for Jon Brion’s show featuring brilliant performances by the late Elliott Smith and other guests.

(NSFW: Language) Have you ever stopped to wonder if unicorns aren’t the magical creatures you always thought they were, but in fact hellspawn? Yeah, us neither. Now check out this crazy video.

The twangy Bohemian Guitar line will offer choice of 3 oil can styles, maple necks with rosewood fingerboards and bridge, adjustable truss rods and chrome tuning machines. (Thanks Bryan!)

(NSFW: Language) Dizzee Rascal has got a message for the kids. You don’t need no stinkin’ drugs when you got bass. Big. Dirty. Stinkin’ Bass. Check out his mixtapes if you need more low end.

Boys bow down, raise your hands up and sweat to Santi White’s ill single, filled with her trademark tribal drums and fierce flow. Girls is included in the soundtrack of the eponymous hit HBO series.

Jordan Landers’ older sister took this candid video of him performing an impressive cover of Ray Charles’ Hit the Road Jack. We’d go so far as to say he’s got soul to spare with a voice like that.

After John Cale’s stop at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, he wowed us with this soulful rendition of Venus in Furs with Deantoni Parks on the drum kit.

Freak folk hero Devendra Banhart will be releasing his new album Mala on March 12. We’re already digging the soothing story of sacrilege for the track Für Hildegard von Bingen (Thanks Shogun C.)