Beach House, Ray Wise, fireworks, and horses: [SLYT] "Beach House have shared a very surreal video for their Bloom single "Wishes", directed by Eric Wareheim (of "Tim and Eric") and starring Ray Wise ("Twin Peaks", "Mad Men"). Wise peforms at what looks like a very, very strange half-time event during a football game."
[via: pitchfork]
posted by Fizz
on Mar 8, 2013 -
27 comments
Vincent Belorgey, known as Kavinsky (or KΔVINϟKY) is a producer who is fixated with a stylized version of 1986, from his first single and video,
Testarossa Autodrive, to his
new (and first) album,
Outrun (Grooveshark stream). If that's not enough of retro neon French electro-house, you can
stream his other four singles/EPs on Bandcamp, and see the videos for
Dead Cruiser (animated sequel to Testarossa Autodrive),
ProtoVision (live-action sequel to Dead Cruiser),
Nightcall (as heard on the Drive soundtrack, and
seen in the international version of the trailer).
posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 24, 2013 -
21 comments
Welcome to
mcbess, a land of
odd illustrations in black and white*, something of a
dark and dingy take on Merry Melodies, where
the men are bearded, and
the ladies are toothy, busty (and often topless, in a vaguely NSFW cartoony way). There are also some
large-scale illustrations with all those elements, and more. Matthieu Bessudo, aka mcbess, is also in a band,
The Dead Pirates, and his art and music met with the video
Wood (Vimeo;
also on YouTube; more info
here).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jan 28, 2013 -
8 comments
Mina Caputo began her career as Keith Caputo, founder of the heavy metal band
Life of Agony. In the early 1990s the band became huge in Europe, and the teenage Caputo found herself trapped in the life of a macho metal superstar when what she really wanted was to be a nice young lady attending Julliard. She performed as Keith for over 20 years, then in 2010
Niko Bikialo's quietly devastating music video for Caputo's song
Got Monsters [brief nudity] put the viewer inside the mind of a
transwoman as she struggles to find her place in the world and make a friend of the stranger she sees in the mirror. A year later, Caputo shocked metal fans when
she officially announced she was transitioning.
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posted by Ursula Hitler
on Jan 23, 2013 -
15 comments
It has been 30 years since it was first recorded, and almost that long since it was released as a
single and a
extra-long music video (alt. link:
YT), but
Thriller has remained at the top of lists for
best Halloween songs (
2,
3,
4,
5) and
best Halloween videos (
2,
3,
4,
5). You know
the dance, and you've read
Vanity Fair's extensive Thriller Diaries (
previously), or at least
Los Angeles Times' 25 Thriller facts, but have you seen
the almost hour long making of the video? Have you heard
the voice-over session with Michael and Vincent Price, with the bonus unreleased "rap" vocals by Price? You remember that
Vincent did Thriller just to make fun of himself, like he did when he
worked with Jack Benny and
Red Skelton, right? Or maybe you're in the mood for more of the comedic horror that Michael liked, such as
his collaboration with Stephen King,
Michale Jackson's Ghosts (HD, with Japanese subtitles and intro).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 30, 2012 -
19 comments
In 1999, 23-year-old singer-songwriter
Bree Sharp recorded "
David Duchovny," a fangirl ode to the male star of
The X-Files. After the demo tape proved popular in Duchovny's trailer, two
X-Files assistants created a celebrity-filled music video as a gag for the show Christmas party. A grainy bootleg of the video quickly went pre-Youtube-viral among X-Philes. Twelve years later, a high-definition version of the "David Duchovny" video sees daylight
for the first time.
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posted by nicebookrack
on Jun 10, 2012 -
67 comments
Hot Potato Style is a video by New Orleans rapper Nicky Da B made with a little help from Jean Luc Picard, Pee Wee Herman, John Stamos, and Charlie Chaplin (among others). Lyrics are probably slightly not safe for work.
posted by codacorolla
on Jun 3, 2012 -
35 comments
Russell Mulcahy is best known for directing
Highlander (as well as its...
less-popular...sequel) and is currently doing a
Teen Wolf series for MTV. But speaking of MTV, he got his start doing music videos. A
lot of music videos. In fact, if you remember a video from the early days of MTV, it's probably one of Mulcahy's.
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posted by Legomancer
on May 14, 2012 -
33 comments
The band "OK Go" are using their signature blend of pleasant indie pop and quirky, home-grown videos to teach kids about
primary colors in a new short for Sesame Street. - SLYT
posted by Slap*Happy
on Jan 31, 2012 -
37 comments
The cautionary tale of the shiny new device that's smarter than its users and ends up taking over is pretty much cliché... but it took Australian pop musicker
Gotye (prounced like Gaultier, if that helps) to apply it to a
Lowrey Organ (the
Cotillion D575, a vintage model he acquired for $100 and uses both in his recordings and concerts). Add retro-style animation, and you have something scary yet whimsical and truly
"State of the Art".
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posted by oneswellfoop
on Dec 11, 2011 -
19 comments
Here's a little musical journey. Let's start with
Sherlock's Daughter, a dream-pop group of Brooklyn-based
Aussies. From this, extract the keyboardist and electronics wizard Jonti Danilewitz, creating:
D'Animals, then simplified as Danimals. It started as a solo outing, but
turned into a group, who
produced an odd single (which spun off
an animated music video under the name Djanimals). The group also won the chance to
work with Mark Ronson and
a bunch of well-known musicians, producing
a single with a video. Spin out a bit further, and Jonti is on his own (again), releasing
a mixtape "album" from his private collection, and most recently signing with
Stones Throw Records, where he has finally released
his solo debut album (streaming online). Bonus tangents inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 20, 2011 -
6 comments
Starting in the summer of 2009, Southern Souls began by capturing unique performances by musicians that call southern Ontario home. Seeing musicians play in the places that they live and breathe, places they themselves have chosen—in the street, in a store, in a kitchen or bedroom—is almost a homecoming for the music itself, returning it to the places in which it started.
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posted by purephase
on Apr 30, 2011 -
5 comments
