Awesome Music

The trailer for The Fancer Fencer, a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a serial killer who targets hipsters who can’t dance. Just kidding. This is the music video for Time to Dance by The Shoes.

Adele’s Rolling in the Deep played on the Guzheng, an ancient Chinese variant of the zither. It’s a refreshing departure from the usual covers made with modern instruments and technology.

(NSFW: Gore/Lyrics) If you can handle 15 minutes of non-stop dubstep, you’ll enjoy Khameleon808’s massive mega-edit of action sequences from countless action-packed flicks. (Thanks Doran!)

While they have a way to go before Carnegie Hall, we’re still impressed that these two dogs can play the proper notes on their custom doggie piano keyboard. Plus, way more skills than this guy.

While iPads are all the rage with electronic musicians, the Kontrol Surface 1974 is a real pro tool, with a 22-inch multitouch glass screen and software for controlling Windows or Mac MIDI apps.

Director Ninian Doff composited video clips contributed from 85 fans in 22 countries to create this music video for Graham Coxon (of Blur). Thumbs up for the track too, out April 2nd.

Industrial designer Greg Opatik “set out to design a guitar that made sense.” The result is a guitar that conforms to the player’s body. The frets, pickups and colors of orders can be customized.

Usher lays off the auto-tuned club bangers and returns to his sad-but-still-suave crooning ways with the help of a straight up dope beat from producer Diplo. We hope the two collab again.

Packed with more pop culture references than a 24 hour Family Guy marathon, the video for The Death Set’s They Come to Get Us will send geeks into utopia – right before they have an epileptic fit.

Musician Arthur van Poppel has invented a variety of odd vehicles for his one-man-band act, but our favorite has to be The Nautilus, a steampunk craft inspired by Jules Verne. Plus, it shoots flames.

Dan Bull hyped up Skyrim with his verses. This time he refreshes our memory with rhyme, retelling the story of Mass Effect 1 & 2 while dropping references from all over the galaxy. Mass Respect.

It’s a catchy little tune with a good beat, but what really has us digging Dave Meinert’s music video for Johnny Neon’s Hearts is the fact that it was shot entirely with a GoPro doggie-cam.

We already know Jimmy Fallon does a mean Neil Young impression, but we never would have thought that he could pull off such a perfect LMFAO cover. Plus, Springsteen.

Although they’re reuniting with At the Drive-In, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala will also be releasing their sixth album as The Mars Volta on 3/27. Preview the first single here.

Japanese beatboxer Hikakin has gotten his hands on an RC-50 Loop Station, and with its help, cranks out a mad vocalization of the music from the SNES classic Donkey Kong Country.

Musician THePETEBOX previously wowed us with some amazing covers, but this time its an original track that we’re digging – another live performance with an infectious beat and moving lyrics.

Like to play drums by tapping your fingers on the desk? This piezo microphone and software converts your impromptu riffs into MIDI messages, readable by music software. Post sponsored by LEXUS.

Pop Chart Lab took their ballin’ Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names to the next level and freshened it up with bling. The 39″x27″ Magnificent Map of Rap Names contains a whopping 636 rapper names.

The music video for Love Is Making Its Way Back Home, a track from Josh Ritter’s new EP Bringing in the Darlings. The video was made by Prominent Figures using photographs of 12,000 paper cutouts.

The music video for Must Be The Feeling, a single from Welcome Reality, the latest album by electronic duo Nero, but the real star here is the gorgeously restored DeTomaso Pantera GT5.

The Inside Knowledge Project took random lab equiment and turned it into instrumentation for the classic White Stripes tune – though it would have been cooler as a live performance.

Justin Vernon and Sean Carey of Bon Iver play pared-down versions of their songs, plus a cover of Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me. We can hardly believe we got to watch that for free.

Graphic designer and artist David Marsh uses Pantone swatch graphics in Adobe Illustrator to produce these nifty looking recreations of classic album covers. Follow the link for more.