Rowan Lipkovits

My #StupidAccordionTricks quest to celebrate IWD all month long has led me to some strange places, perhaps none odder than here: #ShaniaTwain's 1997 anthem #ManIFeelLikeAWoman: youtube.com/watch?v=G-tT8t…

A bolder foray into my #StupidAccordionTricks campaign of songs by kick-ass women for IWD all month long, here's last year's #Manchild by #SabrinaCarpenter: youtube.com/watch?v=aavDvd…

As the start of my spree of IWD-inspired #StupidAccordionTricks cover songs this month, I kick it off with #Jax's #VictoriasSecret song. (Why? Epstein, sadly.) youtube.com/watch?v=vQG1X2…

For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's something a little more romantic than the song I shared for Valentine's day earlier this month - #BrandiCarlile's #TheStory. (sorry about the clams in the solo!) youtu.be/01kaPmmj8kI

Valentine's Day kind of snuck up on me, but I should be sharing more #StupidAccordionTricks love songs in February, and they start with this improbable 2003 #Goldfrapp banger, #StrictMachine: youtube.com/watch?v=FZLcS1…

I couldn't do Superbowl headliner Bad Bunny justice with my Duolingo Spanish, so today's #StupidAccordionTrick celebrates the openers #GreenDay with 2004's #AmericanIdiot: youtube.com/watch?v=NUknd6…

For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick -- RIP to Catherine O'Hara, who famously lip-synched to this calypso standard while possessed in a kitchy retro moment of indulgence in Beetlejuice. youtube.com/watch?v=DG4yfp…

Either #JesseWelles is really going against the stream with his recent composition #JoinICE or possibly it is not intended in complete sincerity.  youtu.be/DxcwDDPph0c

When things started spiraling the drain I queued up this song in my to-cover list and hoped I wouldn't have cause to record it, but here we are today with #NeilYoung's 1970 Kent State shooting protest song #Ohio. youtu.be/zCrkyAoKlYI

And one final #StupidAccordionTrick for 2025, to ring out the stupid old year and ring in the stupid new year, here's my very unlikely squeezy take on #KoolAndTheGang's 1980 occasion-agnostic groove #Celebration. Come on! youtube.com/watch?v=T4IBci…

The last Dionne sister died on Christmas Eve, so I pay tribute to those five Canadian heroes by recording this song from 90 years ago in which they are name-checked, #ILikeBananas (Because They Have No Bones). youtu.be/l3ui_BrGPOs

And in case you find you somehow can't get enough of this stuff, I have a playlist of all the wintery songs I've made videos of over the years over at youtube.com/watch?v=VOyDpJ…

With 13 hours left on the clock before the winter solstice, I finally record a winter song for 2025 with The #LegendaryPinkDots' bizarre and sarcastic 1984 #GovernmentHealthWarning at youtube.com/watch?v=WvRVH_…

Watch them perform an 8-bit version of BOLÉRO by Maurice Ravel:

It's been maybe a month since I got any new #StupidAccordionTricks recordings together -- but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate #DickVanDyke's 100th birthday with #FidelityFiduciaryBank from 1964's #MaryPoppins: youtube.com/watch?v=FsghgS…

A big day for old #Zork fans like me - not only did Microsoft open-source the first three games from nearly 50 years ago, but I also received a sweet little book from @ACMI about the game, including a scan from my #PixelPompeii blog a dozen years ago! pixelpompeii.blogspot.com/2025/11/zork-t…

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn't cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck", but Bobby Sands' song "Back Home In Derry" which shares its melody: youtube.com/watch?v=8wlIvj…

As part of my #RemembranceDay duties, I have diligently recorded an antiwar song for last week's #StupidAccordionTrick: #ElvisCostello's 1984 #Shipbuilding, a look at the Falklands War. youtu.be/ZWxtEPTYPNs

Greetings, everyone!  Musically speaking, other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement every week I'm practically retired.  However: bizarrely, I have a squeezy gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @AccordionNoir's parent radio station #CFRO @CoopRadio

To preserve the great balance of things, after I record a seasonally-appropriate experimental electronic anthem by Aphex Twin, I have to compensate for it by sharing a tenuously relevant Backstreet Boys hit. youtube.com/watch?v=C2JhV8…