Blog Archives: June 2009

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Music Video Director Spotlight: Timothy McConville

 This week's featured music video director is Timothy McConville. His website says he's is a "Director, Producer, Maker of Things" and that's not just lipservice. He's got  quite a bit to show for himself and this week's Music Video proves just that. He's not only in the Brooklyn band Dutchess

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Rest In Peace King Of Pop

As I'm sure you've heard, yesterday marked the passing of an era. Michael Jackson's contributions to the world of music and music videos will undoubtedly continue to influence the work of musicians and directors for generations to come. With a sad heart, let's have a moment of music and watch some o

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How We Watch Music Videos: The Movie

 Deerhoof, ever purveyors of fine music videos, recently released a new video for their song My Purple Past. Instead of taking a song, taping themselves singing with it and then synching audio over it, they took a different approach. One I haven't seen before. The music video displays different way

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BAND SPOTLIGHT: Hoarsebox

This week's Music Video band is Hoarsebox, a high-energy 4-piece band from Dublin (yes, IRELAND!). Once you listen to these guys, beware: they WILL own a bit of your ear and brain. Between the four of them, their songs are infecutous, danceable and are habit forming.  Their last release was Ma

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Music Video Director Spotlight: Mad Dog Digital

When faced with new equipment and a desire to have more to show for yourself, David Jackson of Mad Dog Digital did what any sensible filmmaker would do: made a music video. If you’re curious to hear more on the process and inspiration behind this week’s upcoming music video, watch Rob’s interv

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Appreciating The Depreciation Guild

8-bit wonderband The Depreciation Guild and our very own Music Videos creator Jack Ferry put out a brand new music video today for Dream About Me, debuted on Pitchfork.tv. It’s so The Depreciation Guild, it almost feels like their last album cover and website came to life. I can’t remember t

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Invasion of the Hipster Bodysnatchers

Cool in the Cool Way - Invasion of the Hipster Bodysnatchers by My First Earthquake, directed by Katie Gillum Crazy fun song, great concept, well done! Loving the heck out of this brand new My First Earthquake jam. If you’re a San Francisco local, come to their album release show for DOWNSTAIRS at

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Moby Makes Animated Blips

Moby ‘Study War’ Blip How cool! Moby is doing 16 30-second animated “blips” while ramping up to release his new album. He’s got quite a few up already, so mosey on over and check them out on his YouTube page. when i was 19 years old i worked in an independent record-store/head-shop in da

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Let There Be Light

Dominik Eulberg SANSULA (Filmed and edited by Dirk Rauscher) Thought we’d switch it up today and share with you  guys a very chill, very pretty music video from Dominik Eulberg. Toying with light, nature and a lovely song, this music video is beautiful without being stylistically overwhelming. Oh

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What are you filming today?

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New! Improved! Just for You!

  Besides just a wee tweet this morning, the hard work of many people deserves a least a full blog post dedicated to the newest Music Videos and Next New Networks development: new website design! Across all Next New Networks networks, there's a new site layout. It's cleaner, has bette

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More Berzerk Robots: This Time with Kids

Busdriver - Me-Time The thing I love most about this music video (besides the berzerk robot puppet) is how much it feels like a short film. If you’re a fan of how it looks, you should check out director Hiro Murai’s other work which includes the intense and potentially NSFW (big ?!? for this on

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Sonic Youth's Music Video Playlist on P4k

Ever a fan of the music video playlist, we’ve gotta post this one created by uber-rockers Sonic Youth. It’s trippy for sure. So head on over if you’re into that kind of thing. Playlist includes: Samara Lubelski-Road To MisFortuneExcepter-Any and EveryTeenage Jesus And The Jerks-OrphansErase Er

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There's No Such Thing as a Music Video Cover

The best covers are often ones that reimagine the original song in the particular style of the musician who is re-recording it. Such is the case with this Nite Club version of Good Life (from Kanye West). Not only is it a great standalone song but they teamed up with talented director Yuichi Uchida

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Inspiration: Peaches and the Projector

Ah Peaches! You whose music and music videos are frequently too racy for us to post. You’ve nailed it with a PG song and a PG video that finally we can rejoice in your creativity. And some great ideas to takeaway from this video as well. Not that we know anything about using projectors for music v

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Stop Motion Mania

We Have Band - You Came Out “The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members

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In the Spirit of Music Videos: Guest Post Part 3

Today marks the latest and last update from Colin, of the Ourobouros podcast and the Weekly Music Video Podcast fame, during his 3 part guest blog stint with us here at Music Videos! You can read the first HERE, and the second HERE. He's done a GREAT job spotlighting awesome music videos and we

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In the Spirit of Music Videos: Guest Post Part 2

As promised yesterday, today we have part 2 of a series of guest blogs by Colin, from the Ourobouros podcast and the Weekly Music Video Podcast! Read and watch yesterday's Part 1 HERE. And here's more from Colin! One thing that really frustrates me about the low-budget and no-budget end of the musi

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In the Spirit of Music Videos: Guest Post

We've got something special cooking today. We're starting with a series of guest blog posts by long time music and music video junkie Colin, from the Ourobouros podcast and the Weekly Music Video Podcast! Over the next three days, he'll be sharing music videos that capture the spirit behind Musi

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In the Spirit of Music Videos: Dance Sucka

Speaking of public archive footage (last week), today I saw a wonderful music video for UK band Fenech-Soler called I Need Love. The slow motion ballet dancing looks modern and fits the airy electro dance sound well, emphasising the emotion of the music. Despite looking quite modern, the footage is

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Kevin Devine’s video for “I Could Be With Anyone" It rocks!

Check out Kevin Devine’s video for “I Could Be With Anyone”  it premiered today and was directed by Music Videos’ Sherng-Lee Huang. The song rocks, Kevin rocks and the video rocks. We also might have had a little something to do with it. (Wink)  U can buy Kevin’s album “Brother’s

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Attention New Yorkers! Your Sunday Night Plans Are Here

Making plans for your weekend? Well don’t even think about Sunday night. We’ve got that covered. You are offically invited to the Next New Networks Music Videos Season 1 Wrap Party! Starting at 7pm, Sunday June 7th, come hang at M1-5 with Jack, Melissa, Kit, and April (all the way from San F

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Check it out. Brian Bonz’s video for “Dee the Dinosaur."

Brian Bonz’s video premiere for the track “Dee the Dinosaur” is on Spinner.com today. Our good buddy Tim Duff directed this amazing music video. (And we also might have had a little something to do with it) We are huge fans of Brian and the crew and think you should definitely check this video

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In the Spirit of Music Videos: Basic Package

Beautiful landscape, clear audio, a fog machine, some costumed friends, a pinch more of nature and you have yourself a simple, yet effective music video. The musician is Jenny Wilson and this is her video for Like A Faiding Rainbow. (the really high quality version of this video is here, go peep it)

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In the Spirit of Music Videos: Nuclear Archives

As will happen when something is public domain, good things happen. When not restriced by intellectual property, arts are free to play with someon else's work and new life is given to older work.  Case-in-point is this strangely coordinated music video for John Dufilho's "I'm Gonna Stay Under These

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Micachu Gets ish with Golden Phone

While perhaps not imagining Micachu as the type to use a little choreographed dancing in a music video, it works. Loving the new DIY-feel of Micachu’s Golden Phone. I only wish there was more information about it! Le sigh: I can only find the video and not music additional info. Verdict: totally b

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"Patrick had strong ideas about the look of the eyes and skin and how the faces should glow from..."

“Patrick had strong ideas about the look of the eyes and skin and how the faces should glow from within. The eyes were not only enlarged but the left and right eyes were composited together from different takes to add to the surreal nature of the video. We tried several looks of glow: experimentin