I got on Reddit.

Quarantunes is for... - sustaining the creation of (live) music throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. - providing a platform for artists + fans to connect, despite the cancellation of tours and shows in venues. - creating opportunities for artists to recoup lost earnings from cancelled dates through donations from fans via livestream. - encouraging new experiments in sound and music, using digital technologies and social media interfaces.

In the latest “Diary of a Song” episode, Lil Nas X is joined by the producer YoungKio — who didn’t even know he was a part of “Old Town Road” until he heard it in a video meme — and Billy Ray Cyrus, who lent the song another layer of novelty and outlaw credibility. The video also features cameos by the influencers @nicemichael and @elitelife_kd, who were crucial to the track’s early rise.

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. in case u nerds wanted to know what ur missin in able10

A video by Jordan Blackmon, bassist for Toro Y Moi.

“The whole joy of hearing Minaj swoop through a bunch of different registers, for me, in this verse, is that all of them are the same person making the same point. They’re not in dialogue with one another!”

How native-language subtitled music videos dramatically increased literacy in rural India. And there's a local professor here promoting the same SLS ('Same-language Subtitles') idea. Would be nice to talk to him.

A video by fiilmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis. "Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it."

This is absolutely beautiful. "Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."

"A collaborative music/spoken word project." A collection of YouTube videos of people playing various instruments all in the B-flat key. Start and stop and fade them each in any way at any time. This is awesome.

We do love trouble.

"Success is how many shining eyes I have around me." And that old chestnut about never saying anything to someone that you wouldn't want to be your last communication with them. Platitudes, yes, but very good ones. The second inspirational music-related video in as many days to have moved me to tears (yesterday's Sigur Rós MoMA concert being the first).

This is a fine, fine performance, and very well presented. Wish I could have been there.

This must be the best children's show ever.

This video is my favorite thing ever. This song is my favorite thing ever. I am not joking at the moment.

From New York/French architecture firm Planda, a house for the duo. Fictional, thankfully.

Hot and weird.

I love wind turbines.

A great, humanizing interview with the musician and fashion designer. He's eclectic, egotistical, but honest and aware of how self-absorbed he is.

"The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens."

About thirteen minutes of The Field doing his remix of The Honeydrips' "Fall from a Height" while !!! jam out over it. One of those times I want to say, "that's the best thing I've ever seen." Add this to the surefire-cheer-up list.

Explanatory stills from (and a link to) the fantastic new Spoon video.

Not just good.

"Make it a story, a poem, an experiment; just make make make it. It doesn't have to be slick, it doesn't have to have money in it, it just has to be beautiful, honest, great. The first and golden rule: make a video you love for a song that you love."

Friend Tom Wironen walks across in front of the stage around 0:35. Awesome! Not a bad song, either.

So far, my favorite of the "Takeaway Shows" series. This is why I love music, plain and simple. Absolutely amazing.

Impressive quadralingual freestyling.

New Sigur Rós side project. Ambient audio/visual projects. Awesome!!

A new song from the roof of a building in France.

Jena Malone's music videos.