Zooey Deschanel of LA duo She & Him directs her own band’s video for the upcoming summery pop of I Could’ve Been Your Girl. With some lovely choreography from Sophie Olson, Zooey tries in vain to get the attention of her bandmate M.Ward, maybe an ad-hoc dance routine with her mates will get things going… [...]
Returning with the country blues of Feel It All, KT Tunstall heads out into the Californian desert with director Isaac Ravishankara for the promo. Taken from the 37 year-old’s fourth studio album Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (June 10), the video sees KT balancing precariously on a a cliff edge under the blazing sun… KT [...]
Azealia Banks comes on like a screaming banshee in Jam Sutton’s video for Yung Rapunxel, which wouldn’t be half as enjoyable if Azealia didn’t look like so amazing in the video. That’s even before Jam’s FX work that turns her eyes into little mouths, transforming her less into a Daliesque portrait (like Madonna in Bedtime [...]
Newly signed to Doomsday Entertainment, director Jesse Fleece creates an involving Wild West-style drama, with more than a hint of the supernatural, for Bay area girl/boy duo Ghost And Gale’s Take Me To The Fire. Jesse Fleece employs a convincing cast – with particularly fine performance by Denna Thomsen as the mother in peril – [...]
A man has a portable cassette player growing inside of him which is constantly playing Duke Dumont’s Need U (100%) in Ian Robertson’s brilliant video for the UK DJ/Producer. Everywhere the man goes, as the track plays, people around him break out into a dance – his fellow shopper at the local store, his girlfriend, [...]
Director Bryan Schlam constructs a violent ‘punk roller derby’ around a performance from Nashville rockers Five Knives in his promo for All Fall Down. Shot in a dusty, abandoned building strewn with graffiti, the band are at the centre of the action as members of each team succumb to fall after fall until just two [...]
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 [...]
Following his starring role in Carlos Lopez Estrada’s promo for El Sportivo & The Blooz Isaac Ravishankara gets back to his day job delivering this simple and charming promo for Denver trio The Lumineers. Filmed entirely from the perspective of inside a car, a young girl (played by Talula Paulson) embarks on a road trip [...]
Brooklyn-based producer Chrome Canyon (aka Morgan Z) teams up with director Ace Norton for this gorgeously cinematic seven minute film to his 80s film soundtrack-inspired Generations. Beautifully shot by Jackson Hunt, the video finds dancer Amanada Wells in a state of despair following a tense, furniture-throwing argument with her lover. “My goal wasn’t to make [...]
In his ridiculous but amazing promo for Passion Pit’s Carried Away, Carlos Lopez Estrada charts a group of party animals as they try out some new multicoloured drug – one with startling results. Once ingested and then ignited with a match, the user literally explodes into clones of himself – to brilliant effect… How did [...]
