Live Performance: BADBADNOTGOOD at TEDxToronto

BADBADNOTGOOD is composed of musicians Matthew Tavares, Chester Hansen and Alex Sowinski, who first met in Humber College's Music Performance program. Since then, the group has released a series of critically acclaimed independent releases, and have performed at Coachella, the famed music and arts festival in California.
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[@TroutBoneless]

these kids make both Charlie Parker and J Dilla smile down from the great beyond

[@yaharr2]

what a comment!

[@deangur]

Amazing. 5:47 for Flying Lotus' Putty Boy Strut cover

[@AQGOAT24]

As much as I love Flying Lotus, I enjoyed BBNG's cover more.

[@forehandburrito]

Probably my favorite cover song ever respect to flylo and bbng

[@brain.in.a.body.]

Putty boy strut was very cool. Great job! Killin' it on the drums

[@congressmanweezy3011]

Leland playing some coltrane licks in there, sick!

[@mulpatiJi]

GANON'S THEME / MAIN THEME / PUTTY BOY STRUT

[@fsdafasdffvasdfvh2599]

Damn. Their drummer fucking kills it on Putty Boy Strut!

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

Like Organ Trio!

[@kayroo713]

YESSS I love Putty Boy Strut wow they did a great job!

[@alexkay6995]

you know you're doing something sick when you play at TED. this band needed to happen.

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

What an homer to these young MEN! "MEN"

[@sione_etc]

i wanna see them play the whole of Until the Quiet Comes

[@Fiyeroification]

Zelda AND FlyLo. Holy shit!

[@stephanodigiorgio1090]

+Jack Stenson zelda in what minute plsss??

[@Fiyeroification]

+Stephano Digiorgio It's an interpretation of it, but from the second minute

[@stephanodigiorgio1090]

Jack Stenson thanks buddy i have all his mixtapes i love storm song i wish they could re-interpretate the gerudo valley very flamenco spanish kinda vibe!!

[@adrianobarile497]

the first part is an improvisation over ganon's theme, from the second minute onwards they play "tal tal heights", which is a variation of the zelda theme found in "link's awakening"

[@danielalv7840]

Imagine more covers of Zelda from these guys...

[@erickgarcia6494]

and people say there isn't good music anymore...

[@jamesstewart811]

Thoes people are just too lazy to look.

[@lukeh9300]

@@jamesstewart811 facts

[@forehandburrito]

We’ll never run out of good music those people are stuck in the past

[@kevin_maxwell_smith]

this might be my favorite bbng live performance yet

[@briangasca6534]

The tiny desk concert performance is good good as well

[@briangasca6534]

*there

[@vinnimacedo]

amazing song

[@kvltwalter]

BBNG playing as a quintet! I thought that was great, but I wish the guitar was a little more prominent. Leland is getting better at the sax too. He didn't really impress me on BBNG2 but his performance here is decent.

[@MassimoDiIorio]

Shivers seriously fantastic

[@tyoung1122]

Nice job fellas!! Sweet sounds!!! :)

[@508anthony6]

great performance

[@SHADOWURLD]

damn i needed that

[@stevenbriggs784]

Leland Whitty STILL makes my legs weak and my mind turns to dust 8 years later.......just bloody marry me already :')

[@rorymcconachie8245]

Alex looks he's been possessed by some awesome drum playing demon. This is great

[@agustinajaurena9523]

los amo re fuerte!

[@iamalexroberts]

fantastic.

[@Streetgrandeur94]

cool, very cool.

[@pileofwater]

Neu! '75 shirt, obviously the superior album

[@maxry1420]

at around 9 minutes, the video in the background - does anyone know what that's from? I know it's from a electronica song, but I can't remember what. It might be the same label as Battles. totally bugging me that I can't remember.

[@hasaanp]

Finally someone playing the real music in this world :-)

[@ericmsandoval]

Check out Portico Quartet as well.

[@gjbsaxman94]

Some cool contemporary jazz man :)

[@swervenights]

talk about an experience

[@swervenights]

this feels like twilight to night fall into... a sky full of stars

[@franshus]

where i can download this in good quality?

[@bbaae1]

I anyone knows those chords in pretty boy strut on guitar for the break down that would be awesome.

[@kae2018]

oh dang he's using an mb200 i have one of those

[@guittoguitto970]

What keyboards is it? Looks like a junior rhodes :)

[@carlosu1021]

guitto guitto korg sv-1

[@SippyTango]

whats the song at 3:00? shits golden!

[@Taylonmordecai]

it's from Legend of Zelda, but i just can't remember which song it is

[@Taylonmordecai]

tal tal heights, beetch

[@antonioechazarreta2082]

Neu!

[@bitter1081]

Niceeee

[@qwerty511511]

dat sax line around 4:35...

[@TheTaskmaster]

It's awesome how it sounds like they're all playing different songs. Or is it......

[@EMMmaximino]

fucking epic

[@ericcruz7068]

Who is the guitarist

[@lucaspadulo8189]

+Eric Cruz Luan Phung

[@amyo]

freaking zelda ugghhnn

[@lemat1313]

esto suena a zelda.

[@Mateo2000G]

jazz?

[@Victorazop]

Acid Jazz

[@jimpickens4]

Do these guys even practice? This all felt like it came right out of the pocket.

[@saIvete]

goddamn these cats are bold

[@MaxLaFaci]

not like any guitar ive heard, but its all good

[@WiwaxiaSC]

It's a bass

[@WiwaxiaSC]

Jordan Kittrell oh wait I didn't realize it wasn't the original line up lol sorry.

[@willscott7191]

that guitar player looked so awkward

[@SBGames8]

What? No he didn't

[@aphelelevavi2227]

I think it has something to do with his foot stance

[@bernardw4842]

A lot of jazz guitarists look that way when they play. Not a player myself but I see a lot of gigs and IMO it's to do with the huge finger stretches they have to do for some of those jazz chords, they have to hold their left arm out differently and it tends to change their foot stance

[@alex-ue1xi]

I like Anat Cohen's cover more

[@soulpeacesam]

+Noah Stewart your sleep as fuck

[@alex-ue1xi]

+.SAMYUERU plus bbng is full of douches

[@soulpeacesam]

Noah Stewart what makes you say that

[@alex-ue1xi]

Their talented but when they released their first album, they had a description like " all of this was made by people under the age of 19" and that attitude just hasn't sat with me well

[@soulpeacesam]

Noah Stewart so the fact that they gave you their age and took pride in it , you didnt like that ? thats cool as fuck tbh . i can see why youd THINK its arrogant , but its not . they took pride in being young musicians going hard for toronto , about to tour the world playing amazing music, bringing people together