With a starring role for Eddie Murphy’s daughter Bria, Alexandre Moors TV drama-style promo for Wale and Tiara Thomas’ Bad tells the tale of relationship woes. Taken from his album The Gifted (June 25), the narrative reveals Wale is hooked on a girl who sleeps around due to intimacy issues – she is basically ‘bad’ [...]
Directed by Daniel Cloud Campos and shot in Los Angeles, this epic fast-paced promo for Paramore’s Now sees singer Hayley Williams lying in the middle of a battlefield, waiting for soldiers to end her life. Amid the smoke-filled field, Hayley’s flame-orange hair contrasts with her grim surroundings, and just as the leader is about to [...]
For the jaunty alt-pop of Dog Is Dead’s Do The Right Thing, director Franklyn Banks invites you to a bit of a happening/band party full of interesting and odd characters. Banks takes us on a tour of the band’s house – actually production company Shameless’ office – with some excellent work by DP Thonke and [...]
For Plan B’s next single Playing With Fire, Ben Drew turns to Paul Fraser to bring another cutting-edge lyric to life. Paul marries the dark nature of the subject matter with a gritty, violent but nevertheless hugely cinematic promo filmed on a London council estate which sees Ben, and a lot of other things, being [...]
Shot in the heart of Los Angeles in the area known as Koreatown where all the signage is in Kanji and the predominant language is Korean, Jordan Bahat delivers this unusual and beautiful promo for Dog Is Dead’s Teenage Daughter. With an exquisite performance from Nao Minami in the lead role, Jordan had this to [...]
In between finishing up their work for the new Monty Python animated feature, which has its World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival today, Tundra* found time in their busy schedule to make this inter-galactic, hallucinogenic promo for Doctor P’s Galaxies And Stars. Doctor P ft Ce’cile Galaxies And Stars (Atlantic) Director/Producer: TUNDRA* Executive Producer: Soup [...]
The things you do to get laid… Shot at the Planet Hollywood hotel in Vegas, two fellas compete for the attention of a pretty lady in Isaac Ravishankara’s tongue-in-cheek promo to 3OH!3′s You’re Gonna Love This. In a series of ever-escalating tasks, the lads show off their prowess with dice, balls, coins and frisbees and [...]
In the first of two promos for the UK singer, Paul Caslin delivers this provocative, intense and hard-hitting promo for Plan B’s Deepest Shame – from the new album Ill Manors – telling the story of abused kid Michelle with sensitivity and drama. Performances by Ben Drew aka Plan B and Anouska Mond are intercut [...]
Following a five year break, US pop rockers Matchbox Twenty return with new single She’s So Mean and a Rich Lee-directed video – subject to a daily teaser campaign on Twitter pre-release. In the promo a manic woman does her best to disrupt the band’s performance – knocking over mic stands, grabbing guitars and setting [...]
Dog Is Dead glide through sunny suburban streets in Dani Deville’s bright, shiny promo for their single Glockenspiel Song, culminating in an impromptu rave-up. “With this project I went back to my teenage years where I’d stay up watching Spike Lee movies, pondering on how he did the dolly shot,” explains Dani. “I always knew [...]
