Are you ready for the truly random music video? The Creators Project premiered a unique experiment that fits the song title "Pandora's Box" — Each time you go to watch the video, you get a different mix of 600 stock options slotted into 1,500 edit points. Like what you see? Then you better share it with your friends since otherwise you need to dip back into Pandora's Bow where it's virtually impossible to get the same exact combination.
Proselytizing indie rock is a tough racket, even when you're knocking on the doors of such notables as Kim Gordon, Weezer's Scott Shriner, Mike Viola, Money Mark and actor Jeff Goldblum (with poodle). One person who does take the bait? Stephen Malkmus, who wrote the tuneful "Gold Soundz" for his classic band Pavement.
Strange things happen when Passenger gets wheeled through the office: A painting starts run with water like a river, leaves blow out of a file cabinet and that sterile cubicle farm becomes a wild woodland.
An abandoned city, a faceless gang and a man running for his life. Welcome to the latest dose of glorious triphop gloom from The Roots, who remind us that there's always a ray of hope in the end.
It's a Color Run explosion as Andy Grammer races from isolation to comunity — in the form of a performance to a massive crowd of exuberant fans — in this first video off the singer's sophomore release, Magazines or Novels.
Justin Baldoni, director: "We wanted to create a video that made you feel as happy as the song. Turns out that means 10,000 of your closest friends throwing color in the air at the biggest party of the summer!"
Remeber kids, don't play with fire. And that extends from setting Jim Belushi's sportscar on fire (yes), relying on romantic candlelight for your bedroom escapades, or revving up rap phrases to Godlike speeds.
Linkin Park return with a complicated double exposure technique that underscores and obscures what looks like a crumbling relationship in a crumbling, future world.
Game of Thrones = Awesome. Pretending you are in Game Of Thrones with your LARPer friends = not awesome. Getting your ass kicked at said Nerdfest - Totally not awesome. Making a music video about that distinction with a nerdy hesher who learns to toughen up = Awesome, once again.
How does Sia top her unique performance on The Ellen Show, where she had dancer Maddie Ziegler recreate her amazing "Chandelier" video routine? The answer involves Lena Durham.
I hate to get lazy and just call a video "trippy," but so it goes with this largely animated and highly effective dose from Zeds Dead and Twin Shadow. It's trippy, face-meltingly so.
Hip Hop as nothing more than a Game Of Thrones? Welcome to The North, where the artist formally known as Puff Daddy and then Diddy and now Puff Daddy again stakes out his throne with the help of Meek Mill.
PS: Between Diddy rewinding his name back to Puff Daddy, and this video's obvious callback to the "Hypnotize" video intro, I think we can safely say that the Bad Boy swagger is mounting a comeback.
Can a music video still be unofficial if it's posted by the band? Can a lyric video do away with all the lyrics in one introductory title screen and then move onto silhouetted performance footage?
The answer is yes; You can do whatever the hell you want, especially if you're Spoon.
Silly Rabbit, don't you know tricks aren't just for Miley Cyrus? Nicki Minaj has been pushing out transgressive videos since jump, but "Pills N Potions" carves out territory that seems custom-made for Tumblr (or sad MDMA trip). There's out-there animation, some revenge at her lover — gamely played by The Game (no pun intended) — and tears that fall like metallic sheets of rain, all in a 4x3 set-up to accentuate the occasional lo-fi, but always hi-impact visuals.
Gia Coppolla directs an old-school TV performance — from the control room, no less — that breaks down the fourth wall with a concept that is equally Behind The Scenes as it is Traditional Broadcast.
