I received an email a long time back from photographer Gabriel Jones sharing his photographs taken for the cover of Arcade Fire’s recent album ‘The Suburbs‘. Why I never posted it, I honestly have no idea. My interest in the subject was renewed after purchasing the album the week before. last. I honestly cannot stop listening to it. It’s one of the best albums I have purchased all year and it works as an entire album which is a rare thing to find these days. The songs combine to tell a story, relay an emotion and there is an arc in the storytelling if you stick with the album. It’s their best album yet and I didn’t think they could outdo their first but ‘The Suburbs’ is fantastic in my opinion.
So with that in mind, you can check out Gabriel’s photography for the album and also the artwork produced for the album by Caroline Robert. And when you are done viewing the art that went into the album you should consider purchasing a copy as well. You won’t be disappointed.
This is the video for Chromeo’s current single “Don’t Turn The Lights On”. The video was directed by Keith Schofield. The single is from Chromeo’s forthcoming album “Business Casual” which is set to release on September 27th.
It’s time to get crunk and burn this motherf*cker down in this video directed by Daniels for the single ‘Pidgeons’ off of the upcoming self-titled album by The Hundred in the Hands. I have felt like this before but I usually puke fire the morning after. It’s always been my curse, I am a next day puker.
Directed by DANIELS (danieldaniel.us)
Producer: Gaetano Crupi
Director of Photography: Jackson Hunt
Moresoon devised this promo for Ratatat’s single ‘Drugs’ produced by Blink Art and Colonel Blimp. It makes an interesting use of what seems like stock imagery that slowly but surely begins to go awry over the coarse of the video. I’d avoid any mushrooms or LSD while watching this one.
Everyone knows I am a huge MGMT fan so I just have to post this recent video for the single “It’s Working” off of their recent album directed by So Me. I went to see them last week at Red Rocks and it started raining cats and dogs. I was seriously worried about my wife’s health and proving that chivalry is not dead decided we needed to bolt. So unfortunately I did not even get to see them play a single lick on their guitars. It was a huge disappointment. I had tickets the same weekend to U2 and that show was canceled because of Bono’s back surgery. Bummer of a weekend for music but my admiration for MGMT remains strong and I will see them perform sometime in the future.
This video by Arni and Kinski for the Sigur Rós single ‘Glósóli’ is just simply beautiful. The song and the video are beautiful. Apparently it’s been online for 4 months and I don’t know how I missed it but it’s oh-so-nice. It’s art. Plain and simple. I really like Sigur Rós. And that’s all I have to say about that.
This is the official music video for the single ‘What I Like’ by Parisian DJ/Producer Knuckles (now known as Sovnger). The video was shot on the Paris Metropolitain in association with the International Theater School Jacques Lecoq. I believe the video was produced by Paul Bryan.
Is Charlotte Gainsbourg the new and even more hipster version of Bjork (in a sort of folk more down to Earth sort of way at least)? Whatever she is, I like her a lot and keep finding new reasons like both this song and video to be a fan. She is really multi-talented and I think we are only hitting the tip of the iceberg as to what she is capable of as an actress, musician and artist.
Nexus Productions sent me this video today and it scared me a little because I was starting to wonder if they killed the musician in the making of the video. It’s not exactly the most terribly exciting video ever but it is a simple and effective concept which I appreciate.
For some odd reason, every time I travel through Miami Airport on my way to Brasil, I am always intrigued and bemused by how many Brazilians like to shrink wrap their luggage. I can’t say how many times I have stared at that machine and wondered what it would be like to shrink wrap a person. At least now I know.
Artist: Adam Brat feat. Dazzled Kid
Record Label: Dazzled Kid / Universal
Director: Roel Wouters
Make-up Artist: Nicolette Brondsted
D.O.P: Sal Kroonenberg
Gaffer: Nicholas Burrough
Producer: Vincent Lindeboom
Construction: Paul Beuk
On Premise Specialist: Rob Wouters
Set Photography: Katerina Plevkova
Location: DARE!! Consultancy
French directing duo Jonas & François (who are now repped by El Niño) directed this video for Audio Bullys latest single ‘Only Man’ off of their latest album ‘Higher Than Eiffel’.
Olivia Newton John meets satanic cult (with a pinch of KISS for good measure) in this 70’s throwback directed by Geremy Jasper and Georgie Greville of Legs for Goldfrapp’s latest single ‘Alive’. I love those metallic tights. You can read the rest of the credits for the video here and get some questions answered on the making of.
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“‘What’s In It For?’ is off Avi Buffalo’s debut self-titled full-length (4/27/10) as well as the 7′ ‘What’s In It For’ single that we released back in December 2009. The version of “Jessica” on the album is altogether different from the version that is the b-side of that same single.”
This video is the latest work from Andrew Huang. You can download a free MP3 of the song here as well.
Visual Effects: Andrew Cook
Flame Artist & Color Correction: Seb Caudron
Head of Post Production: Guillaume Raffi
Roto Artists: Derek Hansen & Maggie Balaco
Art Director: Peter Klein
Wardrobe: Diana Contreras & Mindy Le Brock
Hair & Makeup: Erin Nichols & William Lemon III
I don’t speak Spanish (sorry I am still a dumb American [but I am making a concentrated effort]) so I can’t tell you precisely what is going on here or if this is an authorized video for Delorean or not. I can tell you that I like what Arts and Crafts Mexico is creating though.
