Awesome Music

This is actually a comedy classic mashup: Jack Black and Kyle Gass aka Tenacious D singing Friendship in puppet form on the hilarious but now defunct Crank Yankers television show.

Weird-wonderful combo: a secret live performance in Tokyo from Japanese breakbeat maestros Hifana. In the video they’re playing music with Nike Free Run+ shoes. Dig those shoebox speakers.

Jazz musician Pat Metheny is currently touring with a robotically controlled orchestra called the Orchestrion Project – a wide range of instruments with whom he can freely improvise and control.

Artist/Musician/Renaissance-man Beck Hansen puts his own inimitable spin on INXS’ classics New Sensation and Devil Inside as part of his oh-so-awesome Record Club studio project.

The Walker This Way T-shirt by Scott Robinson is doubly old school, an epic mash up of 80s rap stars and, well, AT-ATs. The shirt design is available today (4/12) only, so go run and grab one.

Listen up as Brett Domino and Steven Peavis crank out some awesome Justin Timberlake tunes using a variety of wacky musical instruments. Crank up your speakers and get your sexy on right now.

Gummy bear shot glasses? The fact that it took 30,000 gummy bears to make the brick wall and that the glasses apparently are “freakin’ delicious” is reason enough to check out Vat19’s goofy video.

NSFW: College Humor pounces on the Black Eyed Peas’ now classic party anthem. The morning after, one (un)lucky fellow struggles to remember if last night was indeed a good good night.

Remember De La Soul? The seminal alterna-hip-hop act broke out with 3 Feet High and Rising. Now they’re 3-inches high thanks to Kidrobot and Myong Kurily’s nifty vinyl figures of the group.

Cute. Cuddly. Cannibalistic. The Muppets take on Ben E. King’s classic Stand By Me with fuzzy bunny rabbits and a hungry monster. …and I thought Steven King’s version was dark.

This is the best (or worst?) music video you’ll see today. Does the guy even know the camera was turned on? What’s really strange is how much better his vocoder skills are in comparison.

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. Two guys named Fredde (actually just one guy, split-screened) sing television’s greatest hits. See if you can spot all of your favorites.

Our favorite bleepin’ light-controlled audio synth is back with Thingamagoop 2; it adds analog and digital oscillators, an improved speaker, and an Arduino Programmer jack.

Available 5/2010: Korg’s Monotron is a pocketable Analogue Ribbon Synth that runs on two AAA batteries yet is a fully featured with VCO, VCF, and LFO controls and a ribbon keyboard.

Ben Folds and 2,000 people in Charlotte, North Carolina sing live to unsuspecting Chatroulette users (and even slips in a Next) with his hilarious, off-the-cuff Ode to Merton above.

Diego Stocco proves that you don’t need a full-size tree to make big sound with this trippy (and leafy) Musical Bonsai video; it’s created without the use of any synthesizer or samplers.

Don’t Disconnect Us slams the UK’s proposal against filesharing with a parody of an earlier proposal: Home Taping is Killing Music “stars” George Michael, Madonna, and Adam Ant.

Get your day off to a rockin’ start both energy-level and music-wise with this Get Amped Mug by GAMA-GO; a must for music fans, it features a full-color wraparound amplifier design.

Consider us bitten and smitten with DBZ’s ultra-swank Venom Guitar; it features a faux snakeskin airbrushed texture, Floyd Rose bridge, gold hardware, and trademark DBZ shape.

Even if you don’t understand Portuguese, Brazilian band Skank’s Noites de um Verão Qualquer sings a universal language: it’s a quirky mix of stop-motion and regular video.

GGRP Sound’s flatpacking puts Ikea to shame: their Cardboard Record Player starts off as a folded envelope, but unpacks into a functioning turntable that is spun using a pencil.

The Beatles have had an extremely long musical half-life, but Mega64 injects a little extra steam into the fab four in The Beatles Rock Band thanks to a special guest star.

Groove 80s style at country clubs and old folks homes to Lonely Island’s Boombox; if only all of life’s problems could be solved with red LED sunglasses, turbo bass, and the Bart Man.