Music
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She’s Six. She Plays the Whole Band
A six-year-old from Nanjing covers the Eagles' "Hotel California" as a one-girl band — guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, every part played by her.
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A 13-Year-Old Bass Prodigy and Her Dad Made This
She started bass at eight after mistaking it for a guitar. At thirteen, she and her father's band dropped their debut album — this is a track from it.
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The Birds Were Sitting on a Wire. He Saw a Song.
A photo of birds on a wire became sheet music — and the melody they accidentally composed is genuinely beautiful.
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Frank Zappa – “Inca Roads” (Live, 1974)
Frank Zappa and the Mothers perform "Inca Roads" in a 1974 TV studio — a song about ancient aliens, sung in falsetto, with some of the most absurdly difficult ensemble playing ever broadcast.