North Carolina indie rock collective Annuals tap Terry Gilliam's storyboard artist and conceptual/special effects designer Daniel Auber to bring an adventurous treatment by the band's own Zack Oden to animated life. This cartoon clip is an old-fashioned medieval storybook tale with castles, mysterious omens, swordplay and even a Centaur. --> watch "Confessor" via MTV2 Subterranean Premiere
Cold War Kids return with an off the cuff rave-up and a fittingly loose video to match. There's some sort of fixation on the eyes as the CWK fellas perform and generally goof around in what looks to be an old school for the insane. --> watch "Something Is Not Right With Me"
"Gettin Up" is a vibrant song and video that could save hip-hop, if it wasn't already so far gone. Tribe Called Quest frontman Q-Tip makes a
passionate appeal to his woman over an engaging piano loop as he walks
through a sparse set, smoothly assuming different identities and
outfits. Ben Dickinson's direction is as smooth and seamless as the track, allowing
multiple Q-Tips interact and overlap in a natural manner. After a few
stalled projects, some people may have counted this veteran
This optimistic acoustic gem from Jakob Dylan serves as the perfect soundtrack to this meditative video about the underlying similarities in everyplace, everything and everyone. In this case, it's an unyielding and fixed horizon — be it natural, or artificial — forming a surprisingly straight horizontal line running through every shot captured in this ten day journey through America.
Nobody violates more copyrights than mashup king, Girl Talk. That is, until BunnyGreenHouse hit YouTube with his video magnum opus, an album length music video companion to Girl Talk's latest release, Feed the
With films like There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men, it appears that we're undergoing a bit of a rustic renaissance of sorts. Fitting snugly into this niche is the latest video for the Radar Bros., helmed by the directing trio The General Assembly. "Brother Rabbit" documents a day in the life of an roughneck oil rigger in deceptively simple detail.
