Anyone who was upset about the Miley Cyrus VMA performance last month might as well just look away now (this means you Mika Brzezinski) because it was nothing compared to Miley’s new video for "Wrecking Ball," directed by Terry Richardson. Throughout the video, Miley is seen wielding a sledgehammer, laying… Read More

Do you ever wish you could go back to the horror section of a 1995 Blockbuster Video and find wall-to-wall VHS copies of campy horror films that you’ve never heard of? Well with "Evil Eye" by Franz Ferdinand, directed by Diane Martel, you can get pretty close. The video is… Read More

"Graceless," The National and director Sophia Peer's second collaboration from the excellent Trouble Will Find Me album, features the band members drinking lots of beer and ruining their nice suits at a sweet pool party. It was shot at The National frontman Matt Berninger’s parent’s house, and features the band jumping in the pool, sliding down a slip and slide,… Read More

If there's one thing we don't really ever need to see more of in music videos, it's people listening to a song on headphones and reacting. Probably the most famous example of this is 2001's "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" by Cake, and there are many, many less well-known examples. It's a… Read More

The Ladies of G.R.L. are in a tough spot in "Vacation", their new music video. Some dudes are staying at the G.R.L. house, and these dudes are anything but good housemates. They are the messiest cereal pourers ever, shave and leave hairs all over the bathroom sink, and just play… Read More

Here we are, gang, at the end of another week of music videos. As predicted by Nostradamus, Katy Perry’s "Roar," directed by Grady Hall and Mark Kudsi, was the most popular video released this week, with more than 5 and a half million views in 24 hours. "The Fox," the… Read More

Coming off their massively successful song and video for "Safe And Sound," Capital Cities turned to Carlos Lopez Estrada to co-direct their newest video for the song "Kangaroo Court." The band came up with the idea of a nerdy Zebra trying to get into a club that doesn’t allow his… Read More

When I think of lucky musicians, nobody sticks out in my mind more than the two dudes from Los del Río, a Spanish musical duo formed in 1962. You probably know them as the two guys who sing the song "Macarena", which held the world hostage for most of 1996.… Read More

Ass and rap videos go together like Simon and Garfunkel, but there are stuff fun and unique ways to approach the pairing, and director Benny Boom proves that with the video for "Clappers" by Wale ft. Nicki Minaj and Juicy J. Interestingly enough, the video features people actually clapping their… Read More

Back to Black is the album that Amy Winehouse will obviously be remembered for, as it's her first album that was a major hit before she died at the age of 27 in 2011. It's definitely one of the classic albums of the 00s, but I don't think Back to… Read More

In "Kangaroo Court" by Capital Cities, a nerdy zebra takes some serious measures to get into an exclusive club that doesn’t allow his species. Co-directed by the band and Carlos Lopez Estrada, the video has a pretty massive cast of people dressed as animals (including Darren Criss of Glee), some… Read More

"Let It Rain" by Eliza Doolittle is a performance based video which features beautiful shots and some really effective VFX. The Elliott Sellers directed video begins inside a dimly lit house, but the walls soon are ripped away and Eliza is found in the middle of the desert, looking gorgeous… Read More

I am frequently asked (by no one) who I'd like to hang out with if I could hang out with anyone at all. It's a great question, thanks! The answer for me is easy - Princess Beatrice of York, hands down. She's famous for the hat she wore during the… Read More

In the last two years, director Phil Mucci has established a distinct style in the music video world, to the point where he has written his own rules on how things get done. Starting with "The Devil's Orchard" by Opeth in 2011, Phil has released a string of dark and… Read More

A few days ago we had a submission to the database that was a sort of remake of "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy. We weren't able to add it to the database, unfortunately, since its an unofficial video, but here it is if you would like to check… Read More

It’s not easy to get a music video audience emotionally attached to a singing tree and animated bird, but in the video for "You & I" by Crystal Fighters, director Elliott Sellers pulls it off. Shot the same weekend that Elliott and the band also shot the video for "Separator,"… Read More

Happy labor day everyone. We would be on the couching watching "Summer Eleven" on Netflix, but seeing as the crew here at IMVDb basically have fake jobs we made up, we figured we might as well be doing those fake jobs. Speaking of doing things, did you guys ever watch… Read More

What a week for music videos, you guys, clap it out. You guys still feeling your VMA hangover? Well snap out of it, we’ve got some popular-ass music videos to discuss! At the top of the list is "Loco" by Enrique Iglesias, directed by Yasha Malekzad and featuring Danny Trejo.… Read More

Today's music video relapse is going to be a weird one. Earlier this morning I was reading about Hyon Song-wol, one of the performers reportedly executed by firing squad a few days ago in North Korea. This is of course terrible and sad, just like most things in North Korea.… Read More

Facebook isn't really known as a video site, but today Jay Z and Justin Timberlake made music video history by premiering the video for "Holy Grail" on Jay Z's Facebook page. It was directed by Anthony Mandler and it's a beautifully shot and directed video. It will be available exclusively on… Read More

Portugal. The Man lead singer John Gourley and director of photography Michael Ragen have a pretty close relationship. So close, that Michael has actually worked on all of the Portugal. The Man videos as either a DP, or as a director. Their latest collaboration, "Modern Jesus" directed by AG Rojas,… Read More

One thing I hear a lot is people are bored of performance music videos. "Performance video" is almost a derogatory term, like store brand. The thing is, performance videos can be amazing videos, your artist just needs to be worthy of being looked at. Get a bunch of teenagers together… Read More

The beautiful and dramatic animated music video for "Daydream/Wetdream/Nightmare" by Saint Motel centers around a Danish fisherman and his wife’s troubled and unfaithful relationship. Director and animator Sidsel Wittendorff Sørensen landed on this narrative after listening to the song and getting images of the sea stuck in her head. We… Read More

I don't think you really lived through the late 90s/early 00s unless you attended some sort of gathering where someone made a video montage of pictures to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day. They of course didn't edit out the beginning of the song, so you had… Read More

Remember the band in Step Brothers that was playing at the Catalina Wine Mixer? Uptown Girl? Horatio Sanz, playing the lead singer of the band, claims they only play 80s Billy Joel songs as the crowd calls for obstensibly non-80s songs like "We Didn't Start The Fire". If we want… Read More