Ryan PangilinanDuring a Seattle stop, April Smith and the Great Picture Show invited Sarah Shay of The Mongrel Jews to play suitcase on their song, “Colors.” The album is out now.
Vee Hua 華婷婷Black Mountain always have some subtly creative videos. In this glitchy, sun-baked video for “Old Fangs”, psychedelic witches meet trashy road film. This amazing video was directed by Mike Bruce and produced by Zoe Bower and Russell...
With his sophomore disc, Into The Great Wide Yonder, Danish musician Anders Trentemøller explores a great wide yonder of dark and powerful proportions. The album single, “Sycamore Feeling”, is a good indicator of Trentemøller’s...
Take a close look at Helen Earth Band while they perform “(We All) Talk With Knives”. The video follows a simple idea of splitting up the screen into four distinct quandrants, with each quandrant focused on a different band member. Helen...
Interpol’s new video is classy in its use of black and white. It somehow makes mysterious medical equipment seems sexy, and shot after shot looks like it could’ve been lifted from the pages of Surface Magazine or Zink Magazine.
Dan Sartain creates lo-fi rockabilly and sings about things like voodoo. He’s from Birmingham, Alabama, and he absolutely hates the place (in part due to the religious right coordinating an event during which The Beatles records were burned...
This video is like a modern take on Oregon Trail or something, complete with frame-by-frame side-scrolling! A fantastic video for “The Body Without Any Eyes”, off of the husband-wife duo’s album, I’ve Been Watching A Lot Of...
It’s not the best quality video, but it seems intentionally campy, like a stop-motion animation founded on webcams or point-and-shoot cameras. The resulting video for “Brett Easton Ellis Novel” (one has to wonder, did they really...