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"Music and humor are for the healing of the nations"
This post started as a single video of veteran musicmaker Leonard Solomon performing Skrillex's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" on a homemade "Squijeeblion."
That led to discovering his YouTube channel @Bellowphone, full of similarly whimsical covers on a collection of bespoke instruments hand-built in his Wimmelbildian workshop, from the Emphatic Chromatic Callioforte to the Oomphalapompatronium to the original Majestic Bellowphone.
Searching for more videos led to his performance in the Lonesome Pine One-Man Band Extravaganza special from 1991, where he co-starred with whizbang vaudevillians like Hokum W. Jeebs and Professor Gizmo.
But what was Lonesome Pine? Just an extraordinary, award-winning concert series by the Kentucky Center for the Arts that ran for 16 years on public radio and television -- an "all things considered" showcase for "new artists, underappreciated veterans and those with unique new voices" featuring such luminaries as Buddy Guy, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, k.d. lang, Koko Taylor, and hundreds more. You can get a broad overview of this televisual marvel from this excellent half-hour retrospective, see a supercut of director Clark Santee's favorite moments, browse the program directory from the Smithsonian exhibit, or watch select shows in their entirety: Lonesome Pine Blues - All-star Bluegrass Band - Nashville All-stars - Bass Instincts - Zydeco Rockers - Walter "Wolfman" Washington - Mark O'Connor - Alison Krauss & Union Station - Sam Bush & John Cowan - Maura O'Connell - Nanci Griffith - A Musical Visit from Africa [more inside]
Whatt icc wolde nū don, an forrþward wiþþ Godd
A bardcore take on Kate Bush's legendary track, here is "Running Up That Hill" in Early Middle English (credits to the many collaborators for that track in the yt description).
Blank Space (Johnny's Version)
Blank Space (Johnny's Version) [SLTikTok]
The Way We Love Now: What Does a Romance Novel Look Like?
"So what’s featured on [romance novel] covers today? We looked at over 1,400 covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 to find out.....The specificity of stories offered by a glance of today’s covers broadens the world of who and what we consider to be part of romance." What Does A Happily Ever After Look Like? By Alice Liang. [more inside]
Dolly Parton - What's Up? (feat. Linda Perry)
A Mystery That Should Not Exist
Sarah Elizabeth, author of the upcoming book The Art of Fantasy, posted in May that she'd been searching for years for the name of the artist who painted the cover for the 1976 Dell Laurel Leaf edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Four months of dead ends from various internet sleuths later, the folks at WBUR's Endless Thread podcast have announced the mystery is solved and described how they did it. (Full transcript available at the link.)
Get on your bikes and ride!
WAH WAH WAH! [wah wah wah wah waaaaaaah]
Bring Me To Life but it's Otamatones
Somehow, Fall Out Boy made an all-time bad song even worse
The latest salvo in the internecine let-them-fight war between millennials and boomers comes from Fall Out Boy, who just covered Billy Joel’s headache-inducing earworm “We Didn’t Start the Fire” with an update of events that have transpired in the decades since the song’s release in 1989. Where Joel’s day-zero cringegasm (take it from me, folks — I was in high school at the time) at least makes its references chronologically, Fall Out Boy’s update is all over the map. John Wayne Bobbitt (1993) gets coupled with the Boston Marathon bombing that happened 20 years later. I can’t tell if “Keaton Batman/Bush v. Gore” means the 1989 Tim Burton movie or The Flash, but either way, they’re at least a decade apart. Even worse is the tastelessness in lyrics like “Shinzo Abe blown away,” then rhyming George Floyd with Metroid. Listening to this made me feel as unhappy as Hank Hill in the King of the Hill episode about religious rock: “You’re not making Christianity any better, you’re just making rock ’n’ roll worse!” Anyway, the single is available now. Listen if you dare; we really don’t recommend it. [via: Polygon]
i'm in a pipe / i cannot gripe
Nirvana's Nevermind but with the Super Mario 64 soundfont
take it easy bro, uh--alright, i need a ride, do i need a ride?
Weezer's Blue Album but it's me and my friend trying to sing everything from memory
A slow burn cover of Lose Yourself (SLYT)
RIYL Radiohead, big chunky cartridges
To celebrate the pioneering electronic music experimentation of Radiohead
and the roughly 15-and-a-half birthday of their pioneering pay-what-you want release of their album In Rainbows
please enjoy this pioneering (and surprisingly upbeat) pay-what-you-want release of In Rainbows covered using samples from N64 games (mostly Mario 64)
and the roughly 15-and-a-half birthday of their pioneering pay-what-you want release of their album In Rainbows
please enjoy this pioneering (and surprisingly upbeat) pay-what-you-want release of In Rainbows covered using samples from N64 games (mostly Mario 64)
triple j's Like A Version, a collection of in-studio covers
Baker Boy covers Blur 'Song 2'. Baker Boy is a Yolngu artist, and uses both English and Yolŋu Matha, and sometimes a yiḏaki (didgeridoo). Baker Boy's 'Funk Wit Us'. [more inside]
Weird covers for weird people
RAMMSTEIN - Amerika (WAY TOO AMERICAN Cover) This is what happens when it two Italian multi-instrumentalist musicians decide to cover big hits in often very unsuitable styles. [more inside]
i would make a pun here but the track titles already did them all
Nine Inch Nails via Eight Bit Architecture: Pretty Eight Machine, by prolific chiptune musician Inverse Phase, is a reinterpretation of the classic NIN album on a variety of different 8-bit hardware configurations, ranging from the C64 and Atari 800 to special onboard sound chips from the Famicom Castlevania 3 cartridge. [more inside]
Our site is far from comprehensive and doesn't claim to be.
Second Hand Songs is a project that collects information about covers of recorded music. They also have a radio show featuring curated covers. [more inside]
SONDHEIM, In The Style Of…
On March 3, Justin Friello and Andrew Fox released the first of six videos they produced to honor Stephen Sondheim, covering his songs in a variety of styles. Five are currently available. Youtube playlist, individual links inside [more inside]
I bless the rains down in Kokiri
Africa, by Toto, played entirely on in-game instruments in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
The series that brought women to the front lines
"hey what's going on?" we're covering DMB "oh heck yes"
May all your days be merry
The Christmas Blues by ChimyTina. ChimyTina are
bassist Dan Chmielinski and vocalist Martina DaSilva
You'd have me down, down, down, down on my articulation points
A Couple Having Fun And Succeeding At Youtube
It started with a DIY rendition of Swan Lake, and Toyah Wilcox’s desire to keep her spouse Robert Fripp from getting sedentary during lockdown.
Now, the two do a recurring series of agony aunts videos, sunday-brunch electric covers of classic rock songs like “School’s Out”, “Welcome To The Jungle”, “Paranoid”,“Rebel Yell” and “Enter Sandman”, and wear many, many outfits.
Writing for The Quietus, Patrick Clarke has a puff-piece interview about this sweet li’l channel: “Couple Goals: Toyah’s Lockdown”
Now, the two do a recurring series of agony aunts videos, sunday-brunch electric covers of classic rock songs like “School’s Out”, “Welcome To The Jungle”, “Paranoid”,“Rebel Yell” and “Enter Sandman”, and wear many, many outfits.
Writing for The Quietus, Patrick Clarke has a puff-piece interview about this sweet li’l channel: “Couple Goals: Toyah’s Lockdown”
NIN-ish Fashion
Trent, Mariqueen, and Atticus unite with Mike Garson, Carlos Alomar, Gerry Leonard, Mark Plati, and Sterling Campbell (Bowie band alumni) to create a new version of David Bowie's Fashion.
Wild, white horses
Mr. Frank Watkinson makes beautiful guitar covers. He also posts original music on his channel. I highly recommend listening to his rendition of I Will Follow You Into The Dark.
i hugged my dog & cried while listening to this
Twoonty covers popular songs as K.K. Slider, a famous canine musician in Animal Crossing, including The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! (Sufjan Stevens), No Surprises (Radiohead), and This Charming Man (The Smiths). [more inside]
And I'm so confused, about what to do
Another Dark Side of the Moon
Martin Miller Session Band perform live in studio a cover of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
Gotta Collect 'Em All!
Poké Lids are Japanese utility covers with colorful mouldings of Pokémon characters. They are often in lesser known regions of Japan. Link goes to to browsable map; scroll down for possibly addictive merch.
Renata Flores' Quechua covers and original Quechua + trap songs
"¿Qué motiva a una joven de 17 años a cantar en su idioma ancestral? Renata Flores, cantante, compositora y activista del idioma quechua revaloriza y promueve la lengua natal de sus antepasados a través de la música, mezclando sonidos andinos con géneros modernos." Quien Soy (Who I am) is a short Spanish documentary about Renata Flores, who started singing in Quechua covers, first House of the Rising Sun (original; subtitled) and went viral with The Way You Make Me Feel, and now blends other styles like trap and electric/dance to promote Quechua while also bringing attention to issues of femicide and the treatment of rural people. Renata Flores Brought Quechua to YouTube, and Then Everything Changed (Vice) [more inside]
Irish Women in Harmony
40 Irish women artists collaborate on Dreams by The Cranberries to raise funds for Safe Ireland. (SLYT)
love smile dream RAGE
This Killing in the Name cover by audrey will fuck up your day with utter authority-smashing cuteness. Autocrats beware.
“All around me are familiar faces...”
Curt Smith of Tears for Fears and his daughter duet on “Mad World” while in quarantine. (SLYT) [more inside]
Arts in the age of Social Distancing, Accordion Edition
When the night falls, my loneliness calls. Here in Houston, we claim one of our best-kept secrets is our vibrant arts community.
This is still true even when we’re all socially distant. Houston’s A.S.S., a local band comprised of three accordions and a drummer, decided to view the isolation rules as an inspiring limit, and this is what came of it: a video for a cover of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," shot individually by the members of the band more or less improvisationally, and then assembled by one of the band members. [more inside]
The Joy Of Lizzo
[Lizzo] has become a new kind of pop superstar, full of relentless positivity. But it took a long time and a lot of heartache [medium length read] Rolling Stone profiles the top Grammy nominee, also a minor MetaFilter favorite. [NSFW for artful naked/near-naked photography]
“I ain't the sharpest fruit in the shed...”
Smash Mouth’s “All Star” played with melons and Toto’s “Africa” played with sweet potato and squash by YouTuber Pupsi.
I Wanna Be Sedated
...because you don't know what you ask of me.
Jacky 0 + Mumi have an excellent cover of NIN's Right Where It Belongs complemented by video [SLYT]
If you build it, we will break it, bricks and mortar can't separate us
The "fronterizo indie-pop fusion band" (their words) The Chamanas (official site) come from the El Paso, Texas/Juárez , Mexico part of the border and the music the members create is fueled by the intense history and human drama of their hometowns. The band's name is a alternative vocalization of "shaman," a spiritual person with healing energies. The Chamanas (NPR, 2017) is definitely living up to the name.... [The band] has released a series of impressively creative videos (YT channel) with imaginative visual stories and stellar photography. "If You Build It, We Will Break It," however, breaks with tradition and shows the band performing in a rehearsal space. The Chamanas new single confronts the U.S. immigration debate (NPR, April 2018)
On a Roll
A recent episode of the near future sci-fi anthology show Black Mirror depicted a story involving pop icon Ashley O (played by Miley Cyrus). With Trent Reznor's blessing, the NIN classic Head Like a Hole was turned into an alternate universe version of itself: the high energy electro-pop chart topper On a Roll.
The original lyrics about cruelty and corruption in modern society have been replaced with affirmations of success:
I'm stoked on ambition and verve / I'm gonna get what I deserve
Enter Starman
"Me knew it was a bouillon spoon!"
The Downton Abbey theme (seen in the Downton Abbey intro), but played only on piano; but played on classical guitar; but played on twin harps; but it's the metal version (set to the show intro, with the longer version on Bandcamp); but it's Bill Bailey's Jamaican Dub Reggae version (with a bit on different sirens first, from Michael McIntyre's Easter Night at the Coliseum -- IMDb; BBC One; Daily Motion).
Transporting Fabrics.
The Good, Bad, and Ugly Public Transit Seat Covers of the World. It can’t be easy creating a good textile for public transit. Bus, train, and subway seats must do far more than look attractive. They have to stay fresh-looking as thousands of people sit on them daily, all the while trying to deter or mask the attentions of vandals. With all these boxes to tick, it’s no wonder that so many of the fabrics used on public transit are, quite frankly, pretty damned weird.
[COVERS] AGAINST THE MACHINE
• “Bulls on Parade” • “Wake Up” • “Killing in the Name” • “Maggie's Farm” • “Testify” • “Guerilla Radio” • “Bullet in the Head” • “Know Your Enemy” • “Sleep Now in the Fire” • “Freedom” • “Bombtrack”
If you have the notes to sling, you can buy 'most anything
"That dead fly just makes me want to look away. And wash my hands."
La la la la la la la la la la (Halloween! Halloween!)
This is Halloween by Danny Elfman [YouTube] • This is Halloween by Panic at the Disco [YouTube] • This is Halloween by Marilyn Manson [YouTube] • This is Halloween by Broken Peach [YouTube] • This is Halloween (Violin Cover) [YouTube] • This is Halloween (Piano Cover) [YouTube] • This is Halloween (Music Box Cover) [YouTube] • This is Halloween (A Cappella) [YouTube] • This is Halloween (Spanish Cover) by Creepypastas [YouTube]