When they finally retire, U2 will be remembered for a lot of things. For a band that has placed such a big emphasis on visuals, I think U2 will be more remembered for their live shows and their personas than their music videos. They've had some great ones, some good… Read More

If your music video reminds viewers a TV show, it's good news if it's a show that costs $6 million an episode to create. One of the most ambitious videos of the year so far, "Reload" by Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash, and John Martin, with its dragons, action sequences, and… Read More

An album called Yeezus comes out today, adding another chapter to the ongoing saga of Mr. Kanye West. You might remember that he's been projecting his face onto buildings lately in promotion of this album, but we have not seen a regular old YouTube music video coming down the pipes.… Read More

We've never been to a casting audition before, but we figure that if you need some odd characters for a music video, that'd be the first place you'd look. In the video for "No Bueno" by Angel Haze, director by Frank Borin has decided to cut out the middle man and feature people… Read More

Mykki Blanco has one of the most unique sounds and images in hip-hop music right now. His latest music video, "The Initiation," features Mykki crawling through the streets, rapping in Latin though a face on the top of his head. Known for his amazing use of visual effects and motion… Read More

Some music videos just seem to, for whatever reason, embody a time period from a whole decade to just a year. It's something about the ubiquity of a music video plus the added element of music which is always tied to a time and place. So today we're watching a… Read More

Tonight is the 8th annual Sprockets Music Video Festival in Athens, GA, put on by FilmAthens, and we're excited to announce the line up for the show, which is a great mix of international artists, national artists, and artists from Georgia. You can find them all below, as well as… Read More

It's Friday so you know what time it is - we're here to tally up all the top music videos that were released in in the last week so we can feed our crippling addiction to lists. Here we go! The Lonely Island has been hovering around our Top 10… Read More

For a while in the early 2000s, bands were releasing DVD collections of their music videos and including DVD commentary tracks. There were a lot of good ones, but my favorite is probably Barelaked Nadies from 2002 where the Barenaked Ladies watch all of their videos from 1992 onwards in… Read More

It’s the final weekend of Spectacle: The Music Video’s run in New York City, but if you haven’t made it out yet, there is still plenty of time and cool stuff for you to check out before it closes on Sunday, June 16th. Spectacle is a museum exhibit dedicated to music… Read More

Last week, we were all introduced to Ivy Levan through her music video for "Hot Damn," a video that generated a lot of attention, especially for a relatively new artist. Directed by Daniel Carberry, the video depicts Ivy as a powerful female figure and an expert level camera mugger, two things we… Read More

If you're going to put a sound system on a bike a ride it around, it feels right that it should be playing a cassette tape. Amplify Dot pops one in at the beginning of "I'm Good" and rides around the streets of Jamaica. Directed by Jeremy Rall, the video… Read More

When the same director makes a new version of an already good music video, it’s best to add something special to make sure it stands out. In this case, the director is Pete Lee, the music video is “The Magic Clap” by The Coup, and the something special is Patton… Read More

Once in a while a director just clicks with an artist for a certain period of that artist's output. Whatever the reason, the director and artist are on the same wavelength. We're really glad this happened to MGMT and director Ray Tintori in 2009 when MGMT released Oracular Spectacular. Of… Read More

The Wild Feathers don't have an album out yet (that's coming in August) but they've already released three great music videos just this year with director/musician Gus Black. Their latest, "Hard Wind", premiered Tuesday on CMT Pure. A take on a tour video, the video features shots of travel, shows, and… Read More

It’s rare that a video production creates a meme, but that’s exactly what happened when a photo from the set of “No New Friends” by DJ Khaled, showing Drake leanin’ in a Dada outfit, hit the internet. The image of Drake has been so popular, that it actually has it’s… Read More

One of our favorite features of this year’s Los Angeles Music Video Festival was their Life’s a Pitch contest, in which four directors (or director duos) were given the opportunity to pitch music video ideas to the band Five Knives for their song “The Rising.” Of the four directors who… Read More

Yesterday The Lonely Island released The Wack Album, their third studio album. If you're a fan of Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone, you know that they have several different song "themes" that they revisit regularly. For example, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg usually have a song on the album that is… Read More

This post is part of a series called "Music Video Relapse", where we revisit a released music video to see how it's doing. Weekdays at noon EST. Many an artist has tried their hand at the tour music video with mediocre results. We're talking about videos that are put together… Read More

Director NORTON knows a thing or two about dancing. His video "Killer Shoes" (an unofficial video for "Devotion" by Kap Bambino) features a pair of low top converse dancing aggressively throughout the city. For his latest video, “Dancing Out” by French Horn Rebellion, he hangs onto the dancing, but trades… Read More

If you're not familiar with him, Austin Mahone is a 17-year-old singer/dancer whose fans are known as "Mahomies". When your fanbase has a nickname, you know you've got to deliver the goods in your music videos, and Austin Mahone and director Colin Tilley do just that in "What About Love",… Read More

Shadow and dance are two of the oldest forms of performance, and in the video for "Cold Front" by Laura Welsh, choreographers Daniel "Cloud" Campos and Tamara Levinson-Campos bring it back to those basics to create a beautiful black and white performance piece. The video features a woman (Levinson-Campos) struggling with… Read More

All it takes is one music video to make an impact on the industry. Director Carmela Makela knows that first-hand, as her self-funded debut music video for “Ain't Nobody” by Atmosphere has caught the attention of labels, directors, and video commissioners alike. We talked to Carmela about getting to direct… Read More

This post is part of a series called "Music Video Relapse", where we revisit a released music video to see how it's doing. Weekdays at noon EST. Before we go any further - do you have a PC computer? DJ Hi-Tek has a PC Computer. South African group Die Antwoord… Read More

The last time we talked to director and animator Galen Pehrson, he told us he wanted to make music videos that are “outside of the really, really rigid box that music videos have been set in.” After creating videos for artists like Death Grips and screening his work in museum… Read More