Debut album: Telltale Signs by Sobs, released 22 June 2018
Shot in Los Angeles by Gus Bendinelli and directed by Will Merrick.
And one more melodic song from this “Bedroom pop” trio from Singapore:
Footage by Lee Jing Wei, Joshua Loh, Christopher Sim, Dave Wong, JLE Music, PFvideoworks.
An emotive orchestration of Soundgarden’s 1994 hit track performed by Break of Reality, with three cellos providing the melody and harmonies, and a djembe on the rhythm track. While no string instrument can replace Chris Cornell’s vocals, you will still get the feels.
Break of Reality is regarded as one of the world’s premiere alt-classical chamber ensembles, and in 2015, the members of Break of Reality were appointed music ambassadors by the U.S. State Department.
‘Meateater’ is described by vocalist Lucinda John-Duarte as “about how frustrating it is to be categorised or stereotyped. We’re always in competition with each other or ourselves, trying to sell ourselves like meat and hiding parts of our being in the process.”
ALASKALASKA is a six-piece based in London, with roots from Scotland and Portugal and history working in jazz. This diverse array of influences came to bear on their debut EP last year, and seems only to be growing into a more potent force on their new single ‘Meateater’. Follow ALASKALASKA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
This is a real catchy song. Love it! Directed by the French duo Bif, the video features Shy Luv falling in an endless skydive amidst gigantic women in swimsuits:
“CGI allowed us to create impossible camera shots, animate the duo and populate each scene the way we wanted,” says Bif. “We used the photogrammetry scanning system in order to recreate a perfect 3D model of each character.” “The animation was mostly created using simulation,” they add. “By applying physics and dynamics forces we manage to get very interesting results. The band inflated like balloons were alive, diving in the sky in a very organic way.”
Footage compiled from a bunch of brilliant vintage monster flicks:
Video edited by David Dean Burkhart.
PRINCE himself endorsed the Los Angeles-based R&B trio, KING, upon release of their debut album, inviting them to open during one of his “21 Nights” shows. This is a great song in its own right that I should have posted months ago, but it just seems fitting now given the recent news. KING have a brilliant 8-bit visual for their single “The Greatest“; an homage to the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali:
“That one [“The Greatest,” a Muhammad Ali tribute] was really important to us,” says Paris of the lead single. “There’s a lot going on in the world. There’s a lot out there that if you turn on the news, you can see how little people value your personhood. It’s a fun and uptempo, upbeat song, but underneath is the message, ‘You are great’, especially speaking to young people of color … and Muhammad Ali, with his unwavering confidence and not being afraid of anybody, his politics and his statement … that was really inspiring to us. We hope that any young person listening would just internalize that like, ‘I am the greatest’ no matter what anybody says, no matter what is happening.”
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Who wants a run with the number one? Though my heart it beats like crazy Who wants a run with the number one? Fight of the night |
Riddle and rhyme Though my heart it beats like crazy Oh, Ali the amazing Though my heart it beats like crazy It’ll be me, Muhammad the greatest great |
Love it! A little girl with slick dance moves, lives out her superhero fantasies as she goes on a wild journey through the haunted halls of her school and beyond:
Dancer Laika Takasu as little girl. Directed by Taichi Kimura, with animations by Rapparu. Producer Takuma Hiramatsu / DOP Kohou Kotake / 1st AD Ryosuke Asano / 2nd AD Anam Sekiguchi / Choreographer Sayuki Kobayashi / Make up Rie Furuya / Runner Takumi Kidokou.
How I feel almost all day everyday. Dance like nobody is watching:
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Baby I love you, Be there in seconds flat That means he don’t need to know |
Give me a second chance That means he don’t need to know Baby I love you, |
Pure dream logic. There’s something special about hand-drawn animation that I really admire, in tandem with a great soundtrack, — in this case, Cuushe — something beautiful is created; ‘Airy Me’ is something special indeed. The beautifully intricate and haunting video for ‘Airy Me’ was made by artist Yoko Kuno who hand-drew 3000 individual illustrations as the basis for her University graduation piece.
Dream-pop songstress, Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi aka Cuushe, accepted Yoko Kuno’s request to use ‘Airy Me’ — from Cuushe’s 2009 debut album “Red Rocket Telepathy” — and Voilà, synergy. The story tells of a hospital that carries out experiments on its patients, with one metamorphosing into a chimera:
Yoko Kuno has since contributed her artwork for “Butterfly Case” Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her sweet debut “Red Rocket Telepathy”:
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British indie-pop singer Polly Scattergood’s “Wanderlust” further proves that a good song and a neat & simple concept executed-well is all a music video needs — A girl behaves seemingly randomly caught in a mesmerizing, immutable loop-cycle, before new elements are introduced giving meaning to her movements:
Her second album release “Arrows” is available on iTunes:
Directed by CANADA; Trying To Be Cool is one of the most ambitious music videos I’ve seen in a long time — it certainly helps that the song sounds great too!
We’ve all tried to exude coolness around someone we liked at some point in our lives:
Would you believe that this performance video was shot live! Though there were cuts between two separate film crews, the music video took place in real-time from start to finish, alternating between cameras. The giant countdown clock visible in the background of many of the shots was used as a practical device for the two crews, telling them how long they had to film their scene while the other prepared to capture the next — Extremely smooth:
I’m going to do that thing I try avoiding when I blog and mix things into one post — I’m reminded of Death Cab For Cutie’s “You Are A Tourist,” which was directed by Tim Nackashi who also directed another favourite of mine, Neon Indian’s “Polish Girl.” This one-take-performance-video isn’t exactly a new concept, but when it is pulled off well the results are undeniably engaging.
A music video homage to Sega arcade games of the 1980s. Neat track too; this probably won’t be the last time you hear of Nero, unless you follow them through closed doors…
I’ve been digging this video since the day it induced a smile on my face. Thanks Chris “Guerrilla Monkey” Tan for screening this for me, it’s awesome!
Totally loving the universalness of the lyrics.
From what I’ve gathered; this mesmerizing face morphing experiment is composed of photos taken in 1983 from “Summer Weather,” a portrait series of would-be weather reporters, unearthed just this year.
I love how unique and stand-alone a piece of work this is; French animator and photographer Micaël Reynaud (check-out his Go-Bots collection) has given these forgotten stills movement and life again:
Photographer Micaël Reynaud took a large number of black & white head shots by photographer Michael Jang and turned them into this super trippy video showing the faces morph through a ripple effect.
Perfect walk in the rain music, as I discovered earlier this morning 😀
I have to put my wet foot down and say to the masses that Warpaint is my new band love at the moment. Have to share. Great name too. I’m obsessed with their sound and ethereal three-part harmony vocals, thanks to their newest single “Undertow”
This be the first video from ‘The Fool,’ Warpaint’s mesmeric debut full-length album. I didn’t stumble on Warpaint accidentally; I happen to be a David Bowie fan (who isn’t!), and released late last year was a tribute album in his honour called ‘We Were So Turned On’, a two-disc compilation featuring the likes of Duran Duran, The Polyamorous Affair, Vivian Girls, and of course Warpaint doing an amazing cover of the classic “Ashes To Ashes” (hands down the best track on the album)
Warpaint are a female rock group from Los Angeles (and one Australian), Stella Mozgawa on the sticks/keyboards, Emily Kokal vocals/guitar, Theresa Wayman vocals/guitar and Jenny Lee Lindberg bassist/vocals. They’re a classic rock band success story.
Initially, L.A. lady quartet Warpaint was known more for its actress drummer, Shannyn Sossamon (she played Jocelyn in ‘A Knight’s Tale’ 2001 and featured in The Goo Goo Dolls “Dizzy” video), than for its musical chops.
All that changed last year, when acting commitments yanked Sossamon – whose sister, Jenny Lindberg, is the group’s bassist-vocalist – from behind the kit, and Warpaint went on to release its debut EP, Exquisite Corpse.
It’s quite a fast rise for such a languid group, whose breathy, dusky desert songs (most of which stretch past the five-minute mark) move like slowly rolling clouds.
This band defies stereotypes and “The Fool” is no LA blast of summer fun like the joyous recent product of their contemporaries Best Coast, indeed you sense that P. J. Harvey LPs may have been strewn around the recording studio.
Your kind of sound? Great! I’ll just leave these here for you, and thanks for reading:
“11th Dimension”, the first music video off Julian Casablancas’s (lead singer from The Strokes) debut solo album, Phrazes For The Young:
Lovely lyrics and great sounds
This music video was commissioned by Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami and was filmed by Hollywood director McG, the Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation guy. Originally a hit song from the 1980s by The Vapors, Turning Japanese has been covered by none other than 27-year-old actress Kirsten Dunst:
NOTE: Video is NSFW due to anime rudness at 0:25, 0:52, 1:25, 2:39 and 3:25, so skip those parts. You’re not going to skip those parts are you? OK. And just to clarify, Turning Japanese is a love song addressing the feeling of loneliness and not about masturbation:
I sort of dig the Dunst/Murakami/McG rendition — blue hair is a good look — but this 8-BIT cover appeals to me more:
I love this video but can’t put my finger on why — A would-be drudgery drive made beautiful:
An experimental take on driving turns multiple trips on the same road into a transcendant experience. Music by Supreme Fiction
I’ve waited two years to see the full version finally online again. Thanks Ahree Lee.
Colours, Lights and Imagination. How can this not be one of the coolest things on the planet! Great track too: “The Bird And The Bee – Again & Again“
I love the Elephant!
I love love love Bird and the the Bee. They have such a cool sound:
Since the runaway success of their recent album Nights Out, Metronomy are back with their next single, A Thing For Me. Underpinned by perfectly arranged guitar chords, drum machines and general electric trickery.
This is a cool group and I really like their sound [Electro-synth-pop] Very minimalistic and effective. Here is another one of their songs I like, “Heartbreaker” which I feel I can only describe as being kindhearted:
Website: Metronomy.co.uk / MySpace: Metronomy
Directed by: Megaforce
New album, “Private Music”, coming august 22, 2025
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This man knows how to squeeze a trigger and shed a damn fine tear. Bruce Willis will be stepping away from acting for good after a recent diagnosis of aphasia — a disorder that affects the brain’s language center and a person’s ability to understand or express speech.
This tribute-music-video is to you, Bruce Willis:
“I’m Bruce Willis” performed by Jeep Cherokee.
He’d probably hate that so much lol.
The video contained clips from every single movie Bruce Willis has ever appeared in…pre 2010… None as iconic as The Fifth Element, or Die Hard, or Twelve Monkeys, or Pulp Fiction, or The Last Boy Scout, or Unbreakable, of course, and I just watched Last Man Standing for the first time with bae and it was good, thank you Walter Hill. (I’m thinking Armageddon or Sin City next)
Be proud Mr. Willis, be Yippee Ki Yay motherfucking prou-😢-proud 😭
Come for the DrAmA, stay for the memeable event.
Personally, I don’t think these two brothers needed to engage themselves in low blow mockery and humiliation. That being said, comedy is disarming for a reason and Chris Rock is a professional comedian. Hollyweird must be a strange and alienating place to keep it together in, but damned if that wasn’t the most passionate live televised outburst not produced on an MTV reality show. …Or was it!?! (#ratings #sponsoredbylookoverherenow)
Like Chris Rock’s professionalism and Will Smith’s West Philly passion, the world responded in memes:
As drummer for the Foo Fighters for over 20 years, Taylor Hawkins has drummed his way through everything from Reading & Leeds Festival, to Radio 1 Live Lounges to sell out stadium shows.
But what does it take to become a drummer? What inspires someone to pick up a pair of drumsticks in the first place? And just how important is the drummer to a band?
In this programme, Taylor gives us a guided tour of his drum kit, talking to Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq about his childhood, his influences, his favourite drum loops, and what it’s like drumming with both Alanis Morissette & Dave Grohl.
In 1999 the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their seventh studio album Californication.
In 2000 the album’s title track was released as a single, and along with it came one of the coolest 3D rendered animated music videos ever to grace the music scene. It certainly stirred emotions and imaginations, and for obvious reason captured the hearts of young gamers around the world. I was one of those dopey kids who had wishful daydreams of what the sixth generation of video game consoles may bring. I remember thinking at the time how Crazy Taxi was the closest actual game to it (today, I think Fortnite comes closest).
Now, some twenty-three years later, developer Miquel Camps Ortezaa took it upon himself to create a free to download video game based on that sweet music video. What began as a two-day challenge to re-create the spirit of those delirious game logic scenes, ended up as seven levels, allowing you to experience the super graphical environments as if you were the shirtless band-mate confronting those crazy hyper heart-pounding dangers.
So… The graphics leave a hell of a lot to be desired 😂 it is janky, but fun, and did I mention, freeeeeeeeee. Download the game for free on Itch.io for Windows PC and macOS to relive the glory days of 2000’s RHCP. Alternatively, you can just watch the MV below.
Although Otherside had the hook I hummed the loudest down the school hallways (and a German Expressionism, Cubism, and M.C. Escher music video aesthetic I could’t get out of my brain), Californication is definitely one of those era defining songs. People will still be finding and enjoying it many years from now. Much like today.
… waddaminute … Fortnite, of course! Epic Games are RHCP fans, for sure.
This ongoing saga unfolding in an unnerving plain of existence was first uploaded January 7 2022. That is all I want to know. I mean know, that is all I know 😨
Kane Parsons a.k.a. Kane Pixels, the director and VFX artist responsible for this well put together series of shorts, is 16-years-old. Dude is bound to be offered to make a movie one day, or he’ll just do it himself. https://www.instagram.com/kanepixels/ / https://ko-fi.com/kanepixels / https://soundcloud.com/kane-pixels
YouTuber, film buff, and meticulous editor Duncan Robson (featured on DitB before) was commissioned by the Columbus Museum of Art for one of his celebratory montages. After watching this, you will never not notice a tumbling tumbleweed ever again:
Columbus Museum of Art http://www.columbusmuseum.org/ Music by Joel Robson http://joelrobson.bandcamp.com/music / Sources are listed in closed captions.
The last time I showered was last year…… 🥁 🤡 🤹
(Any other day of the year and that joke just doesn’t land. I have waited decades for the opportunity to drop that line, months spent toiling my time away until the final minute when I would fulfill the sweetest promise of landing that time specific guffaw!, only to forget for another year and another year… BUT I finally did it! Yup. ……I-I’m not stinky, just using a stink joke.)
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