Whenever I hear someone talk about clearing a sample, I think back to the 2001 The Avalanches album Since I Left You. The Avalanches were was an Australian eletronic group that basically created an album almost entirely out of samples, not really thinking it would be an issue since they… Read More

It's a well-established fact that Zooey Deschanel is America's main exporter of charm. She charming things up in your movies (even your Christmas movies), your TV Shows, and even in your commercials. Additionally, ever since she and M Ward met on the set of the 2007 film The Go-Getter, she… Read More

It's kind of annoying when an old music video I know exists but just doesn't seem to be online. Many acts or labels that went defunct before the age of music videos may not really be motivated to put high quality versions online, and we get that. We have an… Read More

Here's something that might make you feel old: "Hey Ya!" came out a decade ago. "Hey Ya!" was released so long ago that Andre 3000 could reference polaroid pictures in his song and people generally said "oh yeah, I know what a polaroid picture is. I know you have to… Read More

Yesterday, Fastball released their first music video in more than a decade. This is notable to me because All the Pain Money Can Buy was the first CD I ever bought, and that is 100% because of their awesome music video for "The Way", directed by McG. McG's influence on… Read More

Being a Rufus Wainwright fan means always being somehow aware of what Rufus Wainwright wants in his career at any given time. The son of folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Rufus spent roughly a decade (1998 - 2007) alternately searching for mainstream chart success and entertaining more… Read More

Fred Durst did a reddit AMA yesterday afternoon. In the early hours of the AMA, the top comment was simply "lol" (this has since been deleted), so Durst faced a bit of an uphill battle for a while with the general reddit community. Durst pushed through, though, and it was… Read More

Doug(las) Klinger, Content Director for IMVDb, is a big Eminem fan, so I didn't tell him I was writing about Eminem today for our Music Video Relapse post because he'd probably tell me to pick "Toy Soldiers" or something super deep, but this is column so I'm going whole hog… Read More

Somewhere along the path of his career, Weird Al stopped really parodying music videos. I don't know why. If you'll recall, when Weird Al used to parody a song, he parodied the music video as well, as if the music video was so important to the identity of the song… Read More

I firmly believe that the only compact disc that was produced more than AOL discs in the mid-90s was Hootie and the Blowfish's 1994 album Cracked Rear View. It made Hootie and the Blowfish a household name, and is the 16th best selling album of all time in the USA.… Read More

I'm not a guy that can handle watching people perform in nerve-racking situations well, so when Lana Del Rey appeared on Saturday Night Live in January 2012, I had a hard time watching it. She was making her national TV debut on one of the biggest TV stages there is,… Read More

On Friday Karmin released a video for their first single off of their upcoming studio album, Pulses. The song is called "Acapella", and it's a definite departure from the duo's previous work in a lot of ways, not to mention the styling and use of toast. The video premiered on… Read More

Yesterday the video for "Ooh La La" by Britney Spears was released to promote Smurfs 2, featuring Spears and her children. She's in full Mom mode here - basically mugging for the camera with animated Smurfs to a theatre full of small children. It's a fun, colorful video and smurfs… Read More

Somewhere in the history of America, somebody decided that making fun of the French was not only okay, it was awesome and should be encouraged. What culture out there is more stereotyped here in the USA if not the French? It's not just baguettes and mimes, we're defintely down for… Read More

If you love ABBA, you are probably thinking that since they broke up in 1982, they probably don't have a lot of music videos for you to watch. Well, you'd be wrong. Very wrong. ABBA has music videos for pretty much their entire singles catalog - we have 32 videos… Read More

Beck just turned 43 yesterday, and for a guy who is still young, he's had a pretty varied career. From his early low-fi stuff, to being a 90s superstar, to sad acoustic albums, Beck has had a lot of career "eras" in a relatively short amount of time. My favorite… Read More

There's only a few things we're pretty sure humans were doing thousands of years that we still do today. Other than the classics like staying warm with fire and killing each other, watching other humans move around to music is gotta be on that list somewhere. That's what makes dance… Read More

Here's my confession: I was actually a little bummed with LMFAO announced they were taking a hiatus in 2012. There's always going to be artistic bands making great music and there will always be pop groups making party music, and as far as party music goes, LMFAO knew what they… Read More

July 4th is full of symbols like flags and fireworks, but what about all the other great American things out there that don't get any love? I'm not talking about the marquee items like baseball and NASCAR, but the things you may not even notice as being particularly American, like… Read More

At my Aunt & Uncle's house in Barrie, Ontario there is a CD rack with a copy of Alanis Morissette's 1991 debut album Alanis. It's a goofy, Debbie Gibson-eqsue record which spawned a few music videos, including the awesomely hilarious "Too Hot". Oddly enough, it does not show up on… Read More

In the later 1990s and early 2000s, Radiohead had a real talent for creating some folklore around their music videos. I'm thinking about the final moment of "Just" or the holding-your-breath stunt in "No Surprises". Somewhere in 2003 they decided all their videos were going to be dance and/or computer… Read More

I've always felt that the British band Keane is underrated as a fun band just to watch. I don't know why, but put them side by side with their old buddies Coldplay (Keane composer/pianst Tim Rice-Oxley was once invited to be a member of Coldplay in the band's early days… Read More

I miss the strut. It's been so long in the music video world since we've had a music video that showcases this seemingly lost art form, even while strut-worthy songs like Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" sit high on our Billboard charts. I'm not talking about swag, I'm taking about strut.… Read More

Director Jake Nava has a talent for directing really great dance videos (with the help of some talented choreographers and performers, of course). One of his videos, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" by Beyonce, was good enough to cause Kanye West to take the mic away from Taylor… Read More

TLC's song "Waterfalls" will be 20 years old in a few years, and for some reason the surviving members of the trio recently recorded a version for release in Japan with Japanese singer Namie Amuro in place of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who died in 2002 in a car crash.… Read More