Doug Klinger and Jason Baum talk about the notable music videos from 2021.
Interviews with music video directors and industry professionals, new release highlights, and IMVDb site news.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the music video for KV Crimes by Kurt Vile, director Tom Scharpling imagines a world where Kurt is a king with a taste for fast food hoagies, swing sets, and listening to other people play his music. Like most…
It has been an interesting week for music videos, you guys. The most popular videos from this week include a dude smoking weed out of an instrument, aggressive kidnappers in animal masks, and easily the most annoying Lonely Island song…
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. Late last month, Eric Wareheim released his video for "Bubble Butt" by Major…
The dating world is difficult, you guys. So difficult, that even if youre Brian Dales, lead singer of The Summer Set, you might have to turn to speed dating to find the one for you. This all plays out for…
Yesterday, we released an interview with director Amos LeBlanc about his video Asphyxiation by Autoerotique. We felt we needed to have more coverage on this video. We were stumped as to what to post, until we realized that this video…
A few weeks ago, we headed over to Running Rebel Studios in Brooklyn to check out Jason Ano and Aaron Cohen on set of My Mother And My Music. While the shoot itself was pretty simple, with Jason shooting Aaron…
Welcome to Music Video Relapse, a series where we revisit a classic music video at lunchtime every day. You're welcome. After Earth, a science fiction film starring Will Smith and his son, 14 year-old Jaden Smith, came out last Friday.…
Sometimes, its a challenge to find the meaning of a music video. It takes several viewing and maybe even some deep discussion with a friend to figure it all out. Other times, there are videos like Asphyxiation by Autoerotique, directed…
The goal at IMVDb has not just been to build a database of music videos, but to use that database to create new ways to find and watch music videos. There was a time when discovering new music videos meant…
Last month, Pro Era released the music video for School High, directed by Fredo Tovar and Scott Fleishman of Aplus Filmz. Fredo and Scott, who are based out of LA, traveled to New York to shoot the video with Joey…
Sometimes a video is so weird, that it begins to make perfect sense. That is what happens with Aunt Betty by Middle Class Rut, directed by Lance Drake a video that is so out there from start to finish…
BANKS has followed up her dark and stormy debut video for "Fall Over" with an equally emotional music video for "Warm Water." The similarities are understandable as she has again collaborated with Dylan Knight, who we got to know after…
Church and music aren't that far apart, especially when it's the kind of church that encourages spontaneous physical outbursts when meeting in a small room. In the the new video for "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic, music and church are truly…
A few months ago, we introduced the IMVDb Moderator Program, where we somehow convinced a bunch of awesome folks to help us check your music videos credits in exchange for nothing but Thanks, guys! comments over Google+. Because of their…
When a good editor gets their hands on some raw footage, they're not only able to cut together that footage into something that makes sense, they're able to add something unique to the project. Mandy Brown is an editor who…
One day after Joel Compasss music video for Back To Me won two MVPA Awards (for Best International Video and Best Directorial Debut for directors Ian & Cooper), Joel releases the equally dark video for Fucked Up, directed by Ryan Patrick. This video…
It was a short week for a lot of us, but not for music videos. They didnt need a fifth day to fit in a week's worth of twerking, camera mugging, and sexy dodgeball. Jessie J's "WILD," directed by Emil Nava,…
Combining time lapse with stop-motion, the video for Analog Or Digital by Wildlife Control required band members Neil and Sumul Shah to perform in a complicated, full-day shoot on San Francisco's Ocean Beach. Most complicated shoots like this might require…
In the video for Cindy + Me by Caged Animals, director by Carlos Lopez Estrada brings us to a world where a group of baboon scientists run a series of tests on Caged Animals singer Vincent Cacchione - creating likely…
Tyga and Chris Brown are finding themsleves in a comptemplative mood, so they've headed to their giant hideaway in the mountains where everything - incuding the dogs - is pure white. This is the scene in the music video for…
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