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 the phrase "make my Bub-Bubs bounce" has any meaning to you, you probably get excited when Tim Heidecker makes an appearance in anything. We here at IMVDb get extra excited when Tim Heidecker makes an appearance in a music…
If you were ever afraid as a child of what happens in your room after you fall asleep, we highly recommend the video for Black Marble's "Cruel Summer." Set as a play, the black and white video manages to pack…
Cinematographer Marc Shap is someone with a sweet IMVDb page and a sweet IMDb page. In addition to working on music videos for Barenaked Ladies, Father John Misty, and Foxy Shazam, he has worked on everything from feature films, to commercials, to network television. We talked to Marc…
RZAs directorial film debut The Man with the Iron Fist is almost guaranteed to be awesome. It features martial arts, is co-written by Eli Roth, and stars Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, and RZA himself. The soundtrack seems just as awesome, with…
Cinematographer Kevin Hayden and director Isaac Ravishankara work together a lot, people sometimes even think theyre brothers. They also share an outlook on the process behind making music videos. They feel that the quality of time spent making the video is just as important…
At the beginning of this year, Joey BADA$$ and David M. Helman both individually caught our attention with great videos that seemed to have come out of nowhere. We started keeping up on Davids work when his music video for Blu Doin'…
You most likely know Idris Elba as Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's "The Wire". Starting today you can watch him put on a clinic in music video acting in the video for Mumford & Sons' new single "Lover of the…
Welcome to our new weekly feature, This Week In Music Videos, where your super good friends at IMVDb take you through some of the highlights of a week in music videos every Friday afternoon. We're going to be best friends!…
Last month, Sky Ferreira caught our attention when she released music videos for Everything is Embarrassing and Sad Dream, both directed by Grant Singer. Since we are The Music Video Database, it is literally our job to get excited about…
The videos by Cassandra Lee Hamilton have been described in a variety of ways. Stereogum calls them cute, Cassandra herself calls them demented pop, and at least one Vimeo user calls them the work of a DIY master. In her video for Break My…
Photo by ilovepaisley Halloween (or more accurately, normal people Cosplay day) is upon us! Just as there were a lot of ninja turtles walking in 1992, there are a lot of pop culture visuals in both adult and kid Halloween…
In his music video for Backlines by Stars, Hank Friedmann takes the already difficult task of directing a music video and makes it roughly a billion times harder on himself. In addition to writing, editing, and directing this video, Hank…
When Grant Singer directed the video for Sky Ferreira's previous single, "Everything is Embarassing", he put a basic premise to work: Sky Ferreira can hold our attention throughout a music video just by looking us in the eye. In "Sad…
Recording a good cover of a song from the 80's or early 90's is almost a sure-fire win for a band. They get to introduce themselves to a wider audience, as well as to pay homage to an old school jam. If…
In the new video for "Girl" by Das Racist, Fahim Anwar plays Lance Cantstopolis, a denim rocking, grooving dancing badass with a crush on a pretty girl. The only thing stronger than his roundhouse kick, is his game. Despite all that…
Weve all been bullied. No matter who you are, there was a time in your childhood when you encountered a shitty kid, and that shitty kid was mean to you. As an adult, your days of being bullied are likely…
One of the most technically complicated videos made at the 2012 OMG Everywhere summer camp finally came out today. This is the perfect opportunity for me to remind everyone that you can donate to OMG all year long, you dont…
In a Big City is the first single from the new Titus Andronicus album "Local Business." For the video, director Isaac Ravishankara creates a world where time appears to move around a beardless Patrick Stickles as he walks through New Jersey. We talked to…
Last week, director and RSM founder Robby Starbuck published an article called "The Problem with Music Videos." In it, he talks about how artists these days will often take over a music video, which can discourage the director and lead to an inferior product.…
Tom Banks is a prolific cinematographer who has worked with a variety of three-named directors, such as Carlos Lopez Estrada, Hannah Lux Davis, Chris Marrs Piliero, and Eli Gunn-Jones (he has also worked with several two-named directors). Tom has an awesome blog where he talks about a variety…
Both Fun and Anthony Mandler are kind of having banner years. For Fun, Some Nights was released in February and you know the rest. For Mandler, he's been releasing some of 2012's best work, including "National Anthem" for Lana del Rey…
Back in May of this year, the Museum of Contemporary Arts Los Angeles hosted Rebel, an exhibit produced by by James Franco and inspired by the motorcycle culture that James Dean was a part of during the making of Rebel Without a Cause.…
Sure, the President of the United State of America, the most powerful man in the world, has done a Reddit AMA, but that's old news. Today, KPop star and American obsession Psy did a Reddit AMA, and we got very…
Danny Brown, who is no stranger to sweet music videos, dropped the sweet music video for WitIt today, directed by Bijoux Altamirano. This video is full of retro-clipart and animated GIFs, which is a characteristic of the art by Bijoux Altamirano,…
There's a line in Taylor Swift's new song "Begin Again" that goes: On a Wednesday, in a cafe, I watched it begin again. And where's the cafe capital of the world? Paris, of course - and that's where we find…
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