Seeing Hoboken’s finest Yo La Tengo play Ray Davies’s Meltdown in London last Sunday (June 12), has prompted this little tribute to a band that have never made too many memorable videos, but are nevertheless truly great – especially live. At the Festival Hall on Sunday they were brilliant, with their usual combination of haunting [...]

This feat of imagination and animation skills for Justice’s Civilization comes from the visionary Edouard Salier – he who also directed those astonishing Massive Attack vids for Splitting The Atom and Atlas Air. Like those, he’s conceived a complete, contained world – then turns it upside down… Edouard is up for a couple of yellow [...]

Japanese Voyeurs video for Cry Baby was shot among some seriously heavy weaponry. Directed by Lulu Elliott, their performance video was captured amid a constructed warzone near Portsmouth. With JV’s feisty yet coquettish lead singer, its very Tank Girl. Japanese Voyeurs Cry Baby (Fiction) Director: Lulu Elliott DoP: Dagmar Scheibenreif Prod co: Reel Angels and [...]

Kaz Ové captures the sentiment of the lyric in this performance promo with nicely-shot set pieces, for currently unsigned Outlier’s Everything U Love U Lose. “The song is about his real life experience” explains Ové “going through the tragic death of his then girlfriend, dealing with the haunting memories of her, but in some way [...]

Max & Michael shoot Charlie Simpson walking in time to new single Parachutes, carrying a sandwich board containing footage of himself. The action in the main frame is echoed (and somewhat changed) on the board to great effect, with some clever reversal in the latter half to maintain momentum. Charlie Simpson Parachutes (Search & Destroy) [...]