Does anyone remember "The Mellow Show" on Saturday Night Live? It was one of SNL's numerous talk shows that are set up for people to do impressions, and this talk show featured interviews with musicians who are decidedly mellow, including Dave Matthews and John Mayer. It was hosted by Andy… Read More

FRINGE MUSIC FIX’s selections for the week’s most exceptional music videos include themes of science, recovery, idiosyncratic dancing, lovestruck fangirls, self-aware biting pop commentary, and, of course, cats. So many cats. We’ll also take a moment to highlight a video that snuck past our radar late last week that’s truly… Read More

Music videos aren’t measured by weight, but if they were, you could easily say that a ton of awesome music videos were released this week. And of that ton of music videos, these 10 were the most popular 200 pounds of the week (that’s pretty gross, and now you know… Read More

As the number of pure performance videos continues to fall, it’s always a treat when a really great one, like "Modern Jesus" by Portugal. The Man, comes across our radar. Directed by Elliott Sellers, the video was shot on October 28, 2013, using the live audio track from the performance,… Read More

There's been a fair bit of talk about women in music videos lately with Katy Perry calling out pop stars who show too much skin and Lily Allen pretty much starting off her comeback with a song and video about how she is above what people think of her as… Read More

In the world of music videos, you have your narrative stuff, your high-concept stuff, your performance stuff, and so on. Then you have your videos that center around a novel visual concept and just run with it. This is really a format that came into its own in the 2000s… Read More

Atlanta rapper and auto-tune master Future, whose 2011 mixtape was entitled Astronaut Kid, takes the astronaut comparisons to a new level in his video for  "Real And True," featuring Miley Cyrus and Mr. Hudson. The Rankin-directed video features Future and Mr. Hudson traveling to outer space to rescue an unconscious,… Read More

ARTPOP, Lady Gaga's third studio album, came out yesterday, and with it we are sure to get a slew of new music videos. (Lady Gaga likes making music videos a lot, and we already know that Terry Richardson is directing her next video for "Do What U Want".) Her music… Read More

Finding a hardcore rock video is pretty rare these days. With the Best Rock Video category at the MTV VMAs featuring bands like Mumford & Sons and Vampire Weekend, the definition of a rock video is much different than it used to be. That’s why we’re really glad that bands… Read More

Most insanely popular music videos don't hide the reason they are insanely popular. They are either by an insanely popular artist, or feature twerking butts, or feature any number of things people want to see. Some insanely popular music videos, for one reason or another, don't really wear the reason… Read More

There are many different ways to approach music videos as a medium. Directors may opt for intricate dance choreography, flashy animation, high fashion displays, non-narrative visual accompaniment, comedic satire, controversial NSFW videos featuring explicit sexuality and violence or some may choose to tell a short story in a more cinematic… Read More

If you weren’t one of the 250 thousand people to watch the inaugural YouTube Music Awards live (or the 1.5 million to have watched it since it aired), you missed one wacky show full of improvisation, babies, and live music videos. And of those live music videos, five of them… Read More

"Gold" by Sir Sly is one of those stories that can only really be told in music video format. It features a man who wakes up outside an abandoned house and goes looking for a mysterious person inside, culminating in an ending that, according to director Ellis Bahl, should make you… Read More

One feature that we've had on IMVDb for a long time is the random video feature. You can go to imvdb.com/random or go to "Random Video" underneath the "Video" menu, and it'll take you to one of the many videos in the database. This morning I hit it and it… Read More

Back in early August, we were out in LA doing all sorts of cool LA things like eating Jack In The Box, sitting in traffic, and shooting photos on sets of music videos. One of those music videos we were lucky enough to shoot photos on (thanks to RW Media) was "Never Never" by… Read More

Most music video directors aspire to one day move on to feature films, following in the footsteps of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, David Fincher, or even Michael Bay. It turns out, however, that this is a pretty difficult transition to make. This is why we were particularly excited when we… Read More

Remember the Sexy Sax Man video featuring a shirtless man that showed up in random places and played the melody line from "Careless Whisper" by George Michael? Mike Diva, who directed the video, has a pretty ridiculous YouTube channel featuring videos like a banned 90s Lunchables commercial aimed at "urban youths" and a Japanese Furby commercial.… Read More

"Rescue" by Yuna is an empowering song about a woman overcoming a difficult situation on her own, without needing any outside help. The video, directed by Elliott Sellers, follows Yuna as she performs in beautiful outdoor locations, some with more natural surroundings and others in much more developed areas. Yuna… Read More

OMG Everywhere! had a pretty awesome summer. The LA-based nonprofit run by music video directors has been hosting week-long summer workshops for kids in the LA area for three years now. This year, they also took the camp to New York and London, and capped off the summer by having… Read More

  Accepting the job to direct the video for some songs must be nerve-racking. If the song is amazing itself, it needs an amazing video to go with it. So I can only imagine that director Joseph Kahn must've felt a sense of duty as he took the job to… Read More

Capturing the energy and vibrant colors of a street market, "Light Me Up" by Birdy is a fun and mischievous video directed by Sophie Muller. 17-year-old singer/songwriter continues her sting of collaborations with the music video legend, and the video builds on the style and thematic elements established in their… Read More

Averaging at least two music video releases a month in 2013, director Colin Tilley is one of the most active directors in the industry. All of Colin’s videos from this year have been massive, cinematic efforts, and "No Games" by Rick Ross ft. Future is no different. We open on… Read More

Last night's YouTube Music Awards were, uh, interesting. While hosts Reggie Watts and Jason Schwartzman were pretty terrible, the live music videos were a lot of fun, and for that we can thank the show's creative director, Spike Jonze. Hopefully he had nothing to do with the cake thing, though.… Read More

It didn't take long before the first annual YouTube Music Awards went completely off the rails. Approximately 15 minutes in, hosts Reggie Watts and Jason Schwartzman delivered the first award of the night to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Rashida Jones' crying babies in their arms. It was awkward and… Read More

Do you guys remember in that movie Friday when Chris Tucker convinced Ice Cube to smoke weed because he didn’t have a job? What a great movie. Well, that movie is a lot like this list of the most popular music videos released this week. Not so much in content… Read More