I like to share some live performances as I find them online.

Here’s Ryan Adams doing a solo version of his song, “If I Am a Stranger” that’s been around a while but I’d never seen.

There’s this cover of Toto’s song “Africa” by Mike Masse and Jeff Hall. These are just two musicians performing in a Utah pizza parlor. It apparently goes semi-viral every once in a while in its decade of existence because it’s mind-blowing. As one commenter put it, if I heard a performance this good, I would conclude that I could not afford the pizza being served.

About 20 years ago, Swedish rock band The Hives broke out with their hit single “Hate to Say I Told You So.” They seem to be coming back as middle-aged men in “Countdown to Shutdown.” I love the gimmick of using a fake band that’s even older than them in the video.

The new Queens of the Stone Age album, In Times New Roman, is out. It’s great. Lead single rocks. If you like that sort of thing. Also, if you’re really into them, check out lead singer Josh Homme’s podcast interview with comedian Neil Brennan. Homme normally avoids exposing himself in interviews, but he just pours it all out in this one, including talking half-nostagically about his 16 years of snorting crystal meth. He does, however, reserve the subject of the Bataclan massacre (he’s also the drummer for Eagles of Death Metal) as one about which he can’t really talk to this day.