The Brothers Brick

Jeremy van Bedijk built and photographed the scene above to use as album art for Life Against Us a band in The Netherlands.

You can also compare Woordenaar’s creation to the original album art.

Classic-Castler Maedhros may not listen to the same music I listen to, but the minifig versions of his favorite bands are really rather cool.
The mohawk on this guy in Diary of Dreams is awesome:

Goth rockers Bauhaus:

Fields of the Nephilim:

And finally, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes:

See all of Maedhros’ musical minifigs in his Brickshelf gallery.

I love building musical minifigs, but my taste in music generally runs to indie and alternative rock, and those bands pretty much all look alike in minifig form (white guys in T-shirts and blue jeans). Thankfully, I was chatting with Nelson Yrizarry and he suggested using Voldemort’s face for Alice Cooper. Hurray!

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I’ve featured LEGO album art by Digger Digger Dogstar and minifig, I don’t think I’ve ever highlighted Taka Hamada’s extensive collection.
Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell (1994):

Mr. Big’s self-titled debut (1989):

Björk’s Medúlla (2004):

Digger Digger Dogstar does it again! Here’s his version of Please Please Me:

Thus said Paul McCartney on take 1 of “I’m Down” — the phrase that inspired the album title Rubber Soul, here recreated through the genius that is Digger Digger Dogstar:

Plastic soul indeed.

I love music. I love LEGO. For at least the last couple of years, the “Interactive Playpen” at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas has featured LEGO.
Here’s a cool shot from last year by Flickr user alykat:

And the Flickr new user icon, built and photographed by naelyn:

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I don’t know about you, but I feel fine:

Thanks to Flickrite crissycri for the heads-up that my R.E.M. minifigs have appeared on the home page of the official R.E.M. Web site. Sweet!
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My latest musical minifig is the late, great Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock:

minifig and I share a deep appreciation for music and minifigs. His latest band is a group from Montreal, Canada called Arcade Fire:

Indie-rockers TV on the Radio:

Singer Cee-Lo Green and DJ Danger Mouse as the dynamic duo Gnarls Barkley (rhymes with “Charles Barkley”):

My gallery of musical minifigs on Brickshelf was recently featured on THE 9 on Yahoo! (they’re at number 8):

Check out the gallery on Brickshelf, but I’ve been keeping the photoset on Flickr a bit more up to date. Sweet!
Thanks to Azaghal from Classic-Castle.com for letting me know! I totally missed this, and didn’t even notice [...]

I’m a huge fan of minifig. As if he didn’t already have the best user name ever, he makes awesome vignettes and, of course, minifigs.
It’s been a while since his last series of figs, but his latest includes the boys from New York, the Beastie Boys from their “Intergalactic” video:

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Some love him, others hate him. Either way, Gary Brolsma became an internet icon when he did his Numa Numa Dance in 2004. When browsing YouTube, I came across — of all things — a LEGO version of the dance. It’s not really brickfilming, but it’s still cool. Check it out!
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Well, the real Tool lyrics say “rebuild,” but that was too perfect for a LEGO post not to tweak. I managed to skip Izzo’s Maynard James Keenan, but when Steve Vargo uploaded minifigs of the whole band, a Tool post was unavoidable.
Izzo’s Maynard James Keenan (the lead singer of Tool):

Steve Vargo’s Tool:

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Nearly six months ago I blogged Brickshelfer arvo’s LEGO Nord Lead synthesizer — so realistic it fits right in with a collection of real synthesizers.
A full-size version of a synthesizer is all well and good, but arvo proves he can reduce the same concept down to a much smaller scale (which I argue is harder) [...]