It started memorably with the Johnny Cash Project, and then progressed with The Wilderness Downtown for Arcade Fire and 3 Dreams of Black for the Danger Mouse project Rome. Now Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin’s quest to reach new frontiers in interactive, crowd-sourced creativity has taken them outside the realm of the music promo, and [...]

Shot on a nature reserve just outside Edinburgh, David Lemm’s promo for Zed Penguin’s debut single Heathens is a hazy, dreamlike affair with some interesting transparency and plenty of scope for interpretation. David describes it as a “symbolic battle between creativity and a force trying to block it.” A great accompaniment to Zed Penguins fuzzy [...]

Natasha Khan – aka Bat For Lashes – teams up with FRIEND director Noel Paul for the video to new piano ballad Laura. Moving from dressing room to stage, the video features violinist/singer Marques Toliver and Lavinia Co-op as the ageing theatre star. Noel perfectly compliments the drama and intensity of the soundtrack with this [...]

There’s just three days left to enter work in most of the awards categories at the UK Music Video Awards 2011 – the premiere awards show for music video creativity in Britain and beyond, and the big party of the year for UK music videos. This includes eight Technical Achievement awards which will honour the [...]

Lee Bamsey, director and VFX artist at Loco, does a cracking job with the video for Tamara Schlesinger’s Again, telling the charming and really quite gripping story of a paper cutout figure who falls out of a book that Tamara opens in a bookshop – and then goes through hell and high water to get [...]

There’s something else going on in Weymouth in Dorset right now, apart from (but very much linked to) the Olympic sailing. Here’s the first of two 360° music films that are being premiered at the ICCI360 Arena on Weymouth Beach during the Olympic and Paralympic games as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Its now being [...]

Ronan Keating gets back to his solo career with the release of new single Fires, aided by a Phil Griffin-directed promo. The video sees two versions of the singer running and driving to the same location – ending with the Bentley-driving Keating meeting up with his ‘other self’. Ronan Keating Fires (Polydor) Director: Phil Griffin [...]

Here are the nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards 2012, which will be held on September 6th in Los Angeles. Drake and Rihanna lead the pack with five nods each at the awards show. More on the VMAs here. Video of the Year Katy Perry – “Wide Awake” Gotye – “Somebody That I Used [...]