Band pays tribute to classic '80s music videos by re-creating them in their own
The Treble, an alt-rock band out of Winnipeg, has taken inspiration from iconic music videos from the 1980s. Their recently released music video, for the single "No Secrets (There For You)," features...
View ArticleIggy Pop's "The Passenger" gets a video after 43 years
On Thursday, on his Instagram account, Iggy Pop announced that, after a 43 year wait, his classic track, "The Passenger," has a video. “So ‘The Passenger’ finally has an official video. Thank you...
View ArticleListen: "My Life As A Weapon" is a power pop anthem about ADHD and Hawkeye...
When I'm not writing here on BoingBoing (or anywhere else, for that matter), I also play guitar and sing in a rock band called The Roland High Life. Today we announced our new record, Songs About...
View ArticleGlitchy fruits and people abound in Yello's "Out Of Sight" video
Yello's "Out Of Sight" will give you Max Headroom flashbacks if you're of a certain age. Or maybe Right Said Fred, or maybe, if you are a total 80s kid, you will know the Swiss duo by name for their...
View ArticleThe new Sad13 music video is a Lynchian social media horror film in the style...
Unfriended was that 2014 supernatural horror film that was set entirely on a computer screen, and was exactly both as fun and as dumb as you'd expect it to be. Sad13 is the dark dance-pop side project...
View ArticleIn "Color Me," anxiety feels like a Cronenberg film
Martin de Thurah blended sculpture, animation, and live action to amp up the dread in the video for Active Child's "Color Me." On the project's site, de Thurrah says, "I wanted to make something...
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Elvira humorously mourns loss of Halloween 2020 in song, "Don't Cancel...
Happy to report that the legendary Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (AND Queen of Halloween), is just as snarky as ever. Her new song, "Don't Cancel Halloween", expresses what we've all been thinking...
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The catchiest song ever written about library COVID-19 policies
"Library Takeout" is not only a fun little synthy treat about how to get library materials from Duke University during the pandemic, but the low-tech animation is also a perfect accompaniment. Here's...
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This website will generate 90s music festivals for you
With every refresh, Monkeon's 90s Festival Generator creates random music festival lineups and posters. Every artist name links to archive footage of a live performance (if they played live in the UK...
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Apple launches 24-hour streaming "music television" network that's definitely...
Variety reports: Apple has launched Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos that will also include "exclusive new music videos and premiers, special curated music...
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A wonderfully eerie stop-motion silent film about a ghost falling through the...
Hallelujah the Hills are kind of indie rock institution in Boston, always finding new ways to bring experimental artistry to their post-punk sound. Case-in-point: over the course of 4 months in...
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Humanoid pink poodles camp it up in Seth Bogart's 'Boys Who Don't Wanna Be...
Some things never go out of style, like pop music and being creeped out (turned on? I don't know your life) by prancing humanoid pink poodles. Hunx and his Punx frontman Seth Bogart teamed up with...
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Blast into outer space with this low budget music video
"Vocations" is the title track off the newest album from Brooklyn-based cello indie rock band Early Riser. As tricky as it's been for any DIY band to coordinate recording an album during this...
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George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord' gets its first music video and it's...
Ok, let me see if I can explain this one. For the 50th anniversary of George Harrison's solo album, All Things Must Pass, a bunch of famous folks, including Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, "Weird A"...
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Max Headroom had a Christmas song and special and they're both weird as hell
Max Headroom is certainly one of the strangest things to come out of the eighties. Take his 1986 song "Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy)," for instance. It starts: There's an old man...
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We Are Scientists break all the rules
As much as I hate to admit it, I have some pretty pronounced hipster tendencies. Few things cause my hair to experience piloerection like having the world get into a band I've loved for years....
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Stellar performances: Talking Heads'"Life During Wartime" live in Los...
I have watched this video by Talking Heads several times over the last few days, it is a fantastic performance. Image: Screen grab
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Ukrainian animators trace a century of human struggle in new music video
I'm a big fan of Flogging Molly (surprising absolutely no one who's spoken to me for more than 30 seconds). For the band's latest single, "A Song Of Liberty," they hired Ukrainian animation team Mad...
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New AI-based video from sci-fi prog metal heavyweights, Voïvod
Canadian prog metal heroes, Voïvod, released a new album earlier this year, Syncro Anarchy. The latest video for the track "Quest for Nothing" may look reminiscent of the band's distinctive art, done...
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New video release, "Wolf," from Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a new video out from their most recent record, Cool It Down. The track is called "Wolf" and the video stars Britt Lower, probably best known for her role in the sci-fi...
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Hijinks ensue as Macklemore's 7-year-old daughter Sloane directs 'No Bad...
I'm a Macklemore fan and follow him on Instagram. About two weeks ago, he shared a heartwarming video. In the video, he asks his 7-year-old daughter Sloane Haggerty to direct the music video for his...
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Jack Black's song about Peaches from the new Super Mario Bros movie gets the...
For several years, one YouTube channel and director has helped steer the hip-hop zeitgeist as the modern equivalent of MTV. Music video director Cole Bennett has become synonymous with contemporary...
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Indie artist and (former) Walmart worker Sugar Pit banned for filming music...
I recently stumbled upon a pair of TikTok videos by an indie artist named Sugar Pit. He managed to create a music video, which was split into two separate videos (1, 2), for his song "Customer...
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The White Stripes and Wartella create trippy AI-animated music video for...
The White Stripes have just premiered the music video for "Black Math," a 2003 fan-favorite song that never had its own video. Directed by underground animator Wartella, the video features a blend of...
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Watch Bebe Rexha & Snoop Dogg's Hanna-Barbera-inspired animated music video
Bebe Rexha got her start when her entry won her the Recording Academy's "Best Teen Songwriter" award, beating out 700 other entrants. She later penned Eminem's Grammy-winning "The Monster" and...
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Tenacious D's Video Games music video hits all the right notes
I'm starting to think that Tenacious D isn't a parody band after all. Please don't misconstrue my meaning here; I've always taken the band seriously. Part of Tenacious D's charm is how consistently...
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Joyner Lucas's new video Broski is jaw-droppingly beautiful
Hip-hop videos can be a little repetitive. We're all familiar with the tropes that 95% of rap videos possess, and while you can find expensive cars and beautiful women in music videos from genres...
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"Car Chase" is a new single and video from Public Image Ltd.
On June 22, PiL released their third video single from the forthcoming record, End of the World. Following "Penge" and "Hawaii" (Lydon's touching "love letter" to his recently-deceased wife, Nora),...
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The Rolling Stones are back — and they brought Sydney Sweeney along for the ride
Sydney Sweeney, star of The White Lotus and Euphoria, is featured in the video for a song on The Rolling Stones' first studio album since 2016. The song is called "Angry" and the album is called...
View ArticleDescartes a Kant's "After Destruction" could be the best video you watch today
I don't usually post music videos, at least not those released after 1978, but this new one from Guadalajara, Mexico's Descartes a Kant is too good to resist. The video is titled "After Destruction,"...
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