Tag Archives: Music

Just like many other artists, LEGO builders find inspiration in the music they listen to as they create the wonderful models you see here on The Brothers Brick. It’s no surprise, then, that music inspires many LEGO models more directly, from minifig musicians to album art recreated with bricks.

Lunatic on a Pogo Stick

Well, he might not actually be crazy, but he sure does bounce around a lot. It’s Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers (by Izzo)!


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A murder of silhouette crows...

I don’t know yet if this is a trend, but another builder making musical minifigs can’t be a bad thing! Matt Zitron joins Izzo by creating two singer/actors — Tom Waits and Andre 3000:

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I can’t stand it...

I know you planned it…


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Everybody’s looking for something...

Izzo wanted to build Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics in “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” Who am I to disagree?

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I will kill you!

Izzo melds music and movies with his most recent minifig, with Sting as the evil Feyd-Rautha in David Lynch’s Dune (1984):

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Men from Mars and an Unusual Girl

Izzo has great taste in music. Oh, and he makes nice minifigs too.

The Mars Volta demonstrate that they’re not in the least mute:

Cyndi Lauper shows her true colors:


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Minifig Headbangers!

The latest batch of Izzo’s musical minifigs brings us heavy metal superstars.

Rob Halford from Judas Priest:

Ozzy Osbourne (with a very doomed rodent):

Heavy metal promoter and producer Masa Ito:

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I’ll start this off without any words...


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Yeah Boyyyyeeeee!!!

It’s time for Flava Flav!


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A Hard Day’s LEGO

More Beatles album art from Digger Digger Dogstar. Need I say more? I think not.


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All you need is LEGO! LEGO is all you need!

Flickrite Digger Digger Dogstar has fantastic Photoshop skills, as he demonstrates by incorporating minifigs into Beatles album art.

His latest is With the Beatles:

Since I haven’t blogged them before, here’s Abbey Road:

…and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:


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Musically inclined minifigs – Soundgarden, the Decemberists, and more

In today’s batch of tuneful minifigs, I present gods of grunge, costume-wearing indie-rockers, Edward Scissorhands, musical innovators, and Aussie rockers. Confused? Read on.

First up, the incomparable Soundgarden:

Soundgarden

Next, some minifigs to go with Jonesy’s Leslie Anne Levine, Portland indie-rockers The Decemberists:

The Decemberists

Venerable innovators Sonic Youth:

Sonic Youth

Robert Smith, pasty lead singer of The Cure:

Robert Smith

Finally, up-and-coming Australian power trio Wolfmother:

Wolfmother

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