Two former and/or future lovers go about their almost synchronous lives in this artful and rather beautiful split-screen video for The Album Leaf. The two walk the same streets, visit the same bars and even read the same authors — Haruki Murakami, literature's current master of all that is offbeat, was a wise choice. "Always For You" also reaps dividends thanks to shooting in the band's San Diego hometown. Besides using their actual practice space as the performance location, the video also includes numerous well-known landmarks and hangouts — including The Turf Club, which is the city's, if not the country's finest grill-your-own-food bar.
Death Cab For Cutie"Shelter Song" (Atlantic)Aaron Stewart-Ahn, director | Bernadette Spear, producer | Otaku-House, production co | Tarin Anderson, DP | Rob Ryang, editor | Description:
Those who want downloadable versions of the Death Cab For Cutie Directions videos can now head to iTunes and purchase them all — including the one for "Stable Song" that won't officially debut online until next week. Buying all 11 videos as a $13.99 video album will not only save you money, but you'll also get a bonus interview and trailer. Would you rather even higher quality versions and more bonus features? A DVD version of Directions is due out on April 11 with lots of bonus content, including two more videos that weren't shown on the Death Cab website.
Death Cab For Cutie "Different Names For The Same Thing"(Atlantic)Autumn de Wilde, director | Ritu Paramesh & Lauren Dukoff, producers | Justin Mitchell, DP | Miky Wolf, editor
Death Cab For Cutie "Summer Skin" (Atlantic)Lightborne, directors | Amy Schaefer, producer | Lightborne, production co | Gary Bush, DP |Jeremiah Shuff, editor
The Decemberists "Sixteen Military Wives" was honored as Music Video of the Year at the 2006 Plug Awards, held last night in NYC. The clip was directed by Aaron Stewart-Ahn and can be viewed at his production company's site, otaku-house.com.
Other winners at the show included Bright Eyes, Sufjan Stevens and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A full list of winners is at plugawards.com.
Death Cab For Cutie's Directions — an ambitious music video accompaniment to their album Plans — gets off to an auspicious start with the unveiling of a full length video for "Marching Bands Of Manhattan" and a preview of the entire project on deathcabforcutie.com. The preview begins playing immediately on their homepage, while the video can be seen by clicking the "View Directions" link.
Death Cab For Cutie's latest CD Plans gets complex with the release of a series of videos under the name Directions. This anthology will collect 12 short films/music videos by 12 different filmmakers inspired by the 11 songs from Plans, plus one bonus cut. Songs that already have videos — "Soul Meets Body" and the next single, "Crooked Teeth" — will be represented by new videos by different directors.
