I’ll go ahead and assume this is a Nike commercial, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.

Capitol Records has just released a DVD of all of R.E.M.’s IRS-era videos, which is pretty awesome, and they’ve added some great archival bonus video to make it well worth the purchase. Here’s a video-by-video breakdown of the DVD, in order:
“Wolves, Lower” (Youtube) This video had to either be a favor from a guy with [...]

First things first–greatest video of the 1980s, hands down. Hands up, too. Our man Herbie, who never shied away from trying something new (which unfortunately led to this), dipped his toe, and Godley and Creme dipped some prosthetic limbs, into the nascent realm of electronic industrial hip-hop, to stunning result. The music [...]

Eagles of Death Metal is a side project’s side project–longtime pals Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme coming together under the rubric of playing riffy, cartoonish Motorhead biker-metal with all of the deadly seriousness and blatant irony that comes with such an endeavor. Mainstream rock hasn’t been even remotely threatening for about 25 years, and Hughes [...]

Yeah, I know, another list. This one was a lot easier to compile (especially the top 10) than the albums list. It was a decent year for videos overall (and for David Cross, who appears in 1/3 of them), one in which Gondry held serve for me as the G.O.A.T., Spoon showed that they still [...]

There’s no better way to start off a week, my mother used to say, than with some lifelike dismembered limbs contrasted starkly against crude computer animation. That, and a hearty stack of pancakes. Mmmm…pancakes. The video is for Xiu Xiu’s “Muppetface” (mov), and it’s easily one of the most memorable I’ve seen this year. It’s [...]

Bill Callahan, like his contemporary Will Oldham, has resurrected, or perhaps even created, a style of intensely personal, starkly delivered music in the vein of Townes Van Zandt that never manages to give way to the bleakness that underscores its creation (which would make them Jandek). Callahan in particular places his quirky baritone at the [...]

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Monday Morning Music Videos today is devoted to just one–the “leaked” video for the hotly debated single from the Strokes’ impending release First Impressions of Earth. And by “leaked,” I mean a strategically released high-quality version (complete with timecode burn in lower left corner) of “Juicebox“ to get bloggers salivating [...]

Devendra Banhart’s new record Cripple Crow is fantastic–unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his new video for the great song “Heard Somebody Say” (.mov). It’s not bad–far from it–but I suppose I expected much more bizarre rural chicanery, and got bizarre urban chicanery instead. It’s polished, but amateurish at the same time. And I’m [...]

I’m not a huge fan of the Eels–I’ve always found Mark Everett to be the premiere sufferer of that young, male disorder that disallows non-clunky expressions of angst, despair, and relationship problems (see Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie). However, the band’s videos have always pleased me, from the floating in the air clip for [...]