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25 Bass Solo

25 Bass Solo

Musician Davie504 strung together footage of him playing 25 different bass guitars from his collection to form a single, cohesive bass solo. We love ourselves a good slap bass funk riff – though we’re feeling the strange urge to play some ToeJam and Earl now.

Wild West Rick Roll

Wild West Rick Roll

We can say with 100% certainty that when you click “play” that you’re going to be subjected to Rick Astley’s way overplayed Never Gonna Give You Up. But Samurai Guitarist has breathed new life into the track by revamping it in the style of old spaghetti western soundtracks.

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Bigman: I Don’t Love You

Bigman: I Don’t Love You

South Korean beatboxer Bigman presents his entry for the Grand Beatbox Battle Wildcard 2018, a fantastic mix of fat, tongue-twisting beats, musicality, and a sweet, smooth lead vocal mixed in for good measure.

Animoji Karaoke

Animoji Karaoke

With the release of the iPhone X, we were pretty sure that Animoji were just going to be a dumb gimmick. However, videos of creative uses for the silly avatars are starting to prove us wrong, like this amazing version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Head to YouTube for much more.

Metal Summer of ’69

Metal Summer of ’69

Musician Leo Moracchioli simultaneously goes back to the ’80s and the ’60s as applies his trademark metal edge to Bryan Adams’ classic remembrance of youth. What was the best year of your life?

Lamont Landers x Amy Winehouse

Lamont Landers x Amy Winehouse

Musician Lamont Landers turns in yet another amazing cover, this time taking on the Amy Winehouse hit You Know I’m No Good. Seriously, this guy should be on top of the charts already with a voice like that.

Antoine Debarge: Dolly.Zero

Antoine Debarge: Dolly.Zero

A beautiful couple drive to a secluded house, following an instruction manual to the letter. Director and animator Ugo Bienvenu lends his slick retro comic book style to the music video for Dolly.Zero, an electronic ballad by Antoine Debarge.

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Jim James Covers The Beach Boys

Jim James Covers The Beach Boys

My Morning Jacket’s frontman Jim James’ fantastic cover of The Beach Boys’ I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times sounds more like an alternate recording, only with the psych vibe amped up. It’s from James’ upcoming album of covers Tribute To 2.

Kill The Lights

Kill The Lights

Photographer Darren “Darius Twin” Pearson created this eye-catching video which uses long-exposures and Night-Writer light paintings to bring skeletons to life as they dance to the jazzy track Tarova by Snarky Puppy (not to be confused with Skinny Puppy.)

Gorillaz: Garage Palace

Gorillaz: Garage Palace

Enigmatic, ever-changing virtual group Gorillaz teamed up with vocalist Little Simz on this banger of a track, which is accompanied by a brilliantly animated pixel art music video visualized by Noah Harris and Nicos Livesey of Blinkink, along with illustrator Mckay Felt.

NASA: Spooky Space Sounds

NASA: Spooky Space Sounds

NASA’s Halloween treat is a set of short eerie audio clips. These celestial whistles, moans and screams were converted from radio emissions captured by various spacecraft from across the Solar System. Cassini’s beats are legit nice.

Andrew Huang: Modular Synthesizers

Andrew Huang: Modular Synthesizers

YouTube star Andrew Huang made this wonderful introductory video about modular synthesizers – both the software and hardware kind. He not only simplifies and shows how they work, he also shares what he loves about them.

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Hallelustar

Hallelustar

What happens when you take Smash Mouth’s memetastic hit All-Star and set it to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s classic ballad Hallelujah? In the hands of musician Josh Jackson and his mighty beard, you get Internet magic.

Gud Nuse: This Is Halloween

Gud Nuse: This Is Halloween

Just in time for trick-or-treating, our church-bound pal Gud Nuse presents a fantastically dark and spine-chilling cover version of Danny Elfman’s classic This Is Halloween from Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s stop-motion masterpiece The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Korean Riders on the Storm

Korean Riders on the Storm

Musician Luna Lee’s latest gayageum arrangement transforms The Doors 1970 classic Riders on the Storm into a wonderfully nuanced, mystical experience which suits the nature of the original track beautifully.

Stranger Things Acoustic Cover

Stranger Things Acoustic Cover

Musician Isaac May celebrates his excitement for season two of Stranger Things with a cool acoustic cover version of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s enveloping, synthwave theme song, performed on the kinds of instruments typically played in bluegrass music.

Imperial March Guitar Orchestra

Imperial March Guitar Orchestra

Musician Cooper Carter shreds like a boss as he replicates the rich orchestral sounds of John Williams’ Imperial March by playing all 28 of its instrumental parts on various electric guitars and basses. He previously used the same technique with Star Wars’ main theme.

Spoon: Do I Have To Talk You Into It?

Spoon: Do I Have To Talk You Into It?

The music video for Spoon’s latest single takes place entirely inside of the interface for Adobe Photoshop. But rather than retouching lead singer Britt Daniel to spruce up his look, things go totally off the rails.

Metal Umbrella

Metal Umbrella

Leo Moracchioli applies his his trademark blend of angry guitar and hoarse-voiced scream-singing to Rihanna’s 2007 megahit Umbrella. We like to think that Leo’s umbrella has a razor-sharpened steel tip.

All Dead, All Dead (Hybrid Version)

All Dead, All Dead (Hybrid Version)

A fantastic new remix of the classic Queen track All Dead, All Dead, created from a raw session of Freddie Mercury’s lead vocals – which didn’t appear on the album – and the instrumentation from 1977’s News of the World. Pre-order the amazing 40th anniversary box set now.

Thundercat: Tiny Desk Concert

Thundercat: Tiny Desk Concert

“Don’t call me, don’t text me after 2 AM, unless you give me some. Because I got enough friends.” Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner may not be the wittiest of lyricists, but you barely need words with pop jazz fusion this good. Watch him perform tracks from his latest album Drunk.

Spectrasonics Keyscape

Spectrasonics Keyscape

Spectrasonics spent 10 years refurbishing, tuning, and capturing the sounds of some of the world’s greatest pianos, organs, and synths, and collected them into a digital library you can play with a MIDI keyboard and a computer. If it’s good enough for Stevie Wonder

New York I Love You A Capella

New York I Love You A Capella

The Trinity College Accidentals perform an outstanding a capella cover version of LCD Soundsystem’s classic ode to the Big Apple, New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, with senior soloist Connor Kennedy bringing on the lead vocals.

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