233 viral video clips in 6 non-stop minutes. How many can you recognize? Editing by Zapatou (Luc Bergeron), whose annual “Best of Web” compilation is now in its seventh year. I can’t wait to see what treasures 2015 will bring!
This guy’s an actual drummer but he can’t have a drum kit at home because of the noise. So he makes do with an iPad and the GarageBand app and he’s pretty awesome on it. Rock on!
Cymatics is the feature single off of Nigel Stanford’s latest instrumental album Solar Echoes. The music video consists of a number of interesting sound visualization experiments. If you have a good screen be sure to watch this in stunning 4K!
Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew perform their rendition of “Let It Snow” written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne (1945). How engaging.
Watch this little kid rock out to a great rendition of the Grateful Dead’s cover of “Me & My Uncle”. The musicians are Coyote & Crow and the impromptu dance party took place on the subway platform of Bedford Avenue station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York city.
DJ Earworm is back with his annual mashup of the most popular pop songs of the year. The musician has become famous for his pop mashups and he’s been creating the annual track, which he calls the United States of Pop, since 2007. The most popular songs chosen each year are based on Billboard’s…
David Attenborough travels to south Australia to listen to the incredible sounds of the Lyrebird. The birds are most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. Listen as this lyrebird not only mimics the sounds of surrounding birds but chainsaws, car alarms and camera shutters. The clip…
Yaybahar is an electric-free, completely acoustic instrument designed by Görkem Şen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in a unique listening experience with hypnotizing surround…
Musician Paul Barton took his piano to the mountains of Kanchanaburi, Thailand to play for some very old, injured and handicapped elephants, especially a blind elephant named Plara (immediately behind the piano). For those curious, all the keys are made from synthetic plastic material. The song is Slow movement (2) from Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata…
Jimmy challenges hip-hop lover Daniel Radcliffe to rap Blackalicious’ tongue-twisting “Alphabet Aerobics,” and he nails it. You’re a lyrical wizard Harry! You can hear the original song below (released in 1999) with motion typography added to highlight the tongue-twisting lyrics.