Awesome Music

To promote the latest version of their virtual studio rack Reason, Propellerhead built a giant drum machine running on Reason 5’s Korg Drum Designer,  combining the DJ and the dance floor.

Alex Heller’s wonderful, poignant, memorable short animation, featuring the haunting version of Creep by the Scala & Kolacny Brothers Choir, is composed of 1554 pictures, shot with a Nikon D60.

Tom BetGeorge put together this incredible Halloween light show on the front of his house and perfectly synchronized the lights to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. His neighbors must either love or hate him.

Unicron too old school for you? Perhaps this will do the trick. Fredde Gredde breezes through acoustic versions of the jingles of good, bad and Swedish cartoons. “Denver! The last dinosaur!”

In this recent appearance on Sirius XM, comedian-musician Reggie Watts didn’t have any musical gear with him, so he busted out his iPhone and did a little improv using only his voice and his phone.

Pianist and Professor of Music Richard Grayson likes to improvise pieces when he performs. Here, he takes an unusual request from the audience – the Imperial March played ala Beethoven.

The latest TRON:Legacy trailer may repeat footage we’ve seen before, but it performs double-duty as a video for Daft Punk’s “Derezzed”, one of the tracks they composed for the film’s score.

(NSFW) Want to see K. West’s “noir piece”? Then prepare to sit your ass down for 34 minutes. The short film/long-ass music video is a visual feast, and of course, it’s full of awesome music as well.

Youtube phenom Mystery Guitar Man takes on The Simpsons theme song, playing the opening theme on a dozen kids toys. We miss the animation, but the clever instrumentation makes up for it.

Long before the era of the Internet mashup, there was a little novelty band known by the name of Little Roger and the Goosebumps, who figured out that Gilligan and Zeppelin were interchangeable.

Actually, don’t. Instead, watch this music video for Flying Lotus and maybe it will calm you before you do something so drastic. Afterwards, download all the 3D characters and make your own animations.

Directed by Eduoard Salier, the latest from the British trip-hop duo features incredible CGI imagery, with a flying bunny-monster-man and the most massive army of aircraft you’ve ever seen.

Ok, Radiohead’s video for House of Cards isn’t new, but did you know that you can manipulate the 3D plotting technologies they used to create it on Google code? Inspired, mindbending, cool stuff.

West Coast Seattle Boy contains 45 unreleased recordings by the late, great Jimi Hendrix, including alternate versions, all-new songs, demos, live performances and a documentary.

This music video from Holy F*ck has everything you want in a video – psychedelic animation, motorcycle crashes, and cats and dogs driving cars. It’s like Chemical Brothers meets Toonces.

If you ever wondered how you could move your digits fast enough to play Dick Dale’s Misirlou (aka the Pulp Fiction theme), here’s a clever way to keep those blisters off your fingers.

The kids from Staten Island’s PS22 chorus do the best cover we’ve heard of MGMT’s Kids since the ukulele version. When you’re done with that, hear ’em sing Phoenix and cut a record with Passion Pit.

Brooklyn band Atomic Tom kicks out a live performance of “Take Me Out” on the NYC B-train today, playing the tune on their iPhones instead of their normal instruments. Not half bad, we think.

It’s far from being comprehensive, but if you’re into music – especially hip hop – NPR’s short documentary about the origin and legacy of the attention-grabbing gadget is a fascinating watch.

Pogo mixed up chords, sound effects and vocals from the first four seasons of Dexter to make this gory, blood-spatter filled music video. The tune seems so soothing compared to the imagery.

Based on a table-sized tangible music sequencer synthesizer called the Reactable, this portable version lets you make your own electronica on the go with your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

David Riesenberg’s concept design for packaging promotional music is just too cool. It’s a single disc that combines a vinyl record, a CD, a USB flash drive and an iTunes store download code.

While we’re not big Linkin Park fans, this music video directed by DJ Joe Hahn is definitely worth a watch. Created using laser scanning techniques, the video’s a real stunner. The song… meh.