Awesome Music

(NSFW) Leonard Nimoy has lived long and prospered, now watch him act like a grouchy recluse and just be chillin’ like a Vulcan in the alternate music video for Bruno Mars’ Lazy Song.

Check out the beats in this video made only with the sounds from a Specialized bike. The only processing effects used were compressor, distortion, delay and EQ. (Thanks Roger!)

This 18″ x 24″ poster offers 282 sobriquets from the world of rap music, arranged according to semantics. Each poster is signed by the artists and numbered from the master edition.

Jimmy Fallon donned his Neil Young alter ego once again, wrangling some irony out of Miley Cyrus’ bland pop tune Party in the U.S.A., with no less than the real Neil’s bandmates Crosby & Nash.

New York’s //kneeon produced this rather lovely looking stop-motion video for the song Flower by Amos Lee; it takes place in a delicate world, crafted almost entirely out of white paper.

Animated steampunk music video of Lovett’s song Eye of the Storm, from his debut album Highway Collection. Written and directed by Christopher Alender. Watch the making of video here.

Jack Conte remixes Daft Punk’s Derezzed with Hans Zimmer’s Inception soundtrack, filming the process to make a “video song” – what you hear is what you get, no dubs and no hidden sounds.

To paraphrase one of his commenters, Andrew Huang’s latest effort is the playful twist of his musical alter ego Songs To Wear Pants To – this time he does Pants to Make Songs With.

Beat is a gesture controlled concept watch/ring music player that tracks performance while running; simply move your hand back and forth to adjust volume, skip songs and check your stats.

This music video for Goldfish is full of win. Not only does it have an awesome retro video game motif, the tune is totally groovin’. See if you can spot all the pop culture and gaming references in the clip.

For Disney’s Star Wars Weekends 2011, Chewbacca lets loose on stage with a little Axl Rose, while one of the Ewoks does his best Slash impression. Welcome to the jungle (of Endor.)

We wouldn’t usually use the word “Epic” to describe a grand piano, but Robert Majkut’s Roland-powered digital grand piano, inspired by the beauty of the sea-faring mammals is truly deserving of the word.

Director Chris Milk created this interactive music video for ROME, a project by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. Using WebGL tech, it plays best in Chrome Canary.

Turn your old credit cards into guitar picks with this easy to use punch. Your picks may not be as glamorous as ones made from ivory or wood, but “recycling” is music to Mother Nature’s ears.

The Imaginary Marching Band project is creating open-source wearable musical instruments, which let you pretend to play trumpets, trombones, drums and more with apps like Garage Band.

Teacarina? Ok, sign us up for 10. From Legend of Zelda inspired to more inventive and artful options, look no further than the quality craftsmanship of St. Louis Ocarina for all your earthen-flute needs.

Google beats Apple to the punch with their cloud music service, letting you upload your tunes to the Internet, playing them from all your computers and Android-based gadgets. Request a beta invite here.

YouTube musical phenoms Pomplamoose take on the song that’s been droning in our minds for the last year and a half, the Angry Birds theme song, putting their own unique spin on the track.

Kid Rock and other savvy musicians are fans of Memphis blues musician Johnny Lowe, who forges collectible handmade guitars out of cigar boxes, pool sticks and other repurposed objects.

We’re lucky if we can play Chopsticks on our toy piano, but this girl manages to play a violin, piano, and an exotic string instrument at the same time. We wonder if she’s playing two more with her feet.

Made by Bloom Studio, Planetary makes browsing through your music collection intuitive and engaging. Artists are visualized as stars, their albums as planets, and the songs within as moons.

Weird Al’s latest single, a spoof of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, was not initially approved, but it’s a go now – good thing, since any song immortalized by Weird Al is classic. (Thanks Daniel!)

MC Mr Napkins has put together an entertaining vid about a mean and annoying bee who used to dive-bomb him outside his residence; too bad he doesn’t know he inspired a song. (Thanks Martin!)