Currently on a free Vercel server, MTVRewind is a passion project operating on the edge of capacity; a guerilla archival project built by the developer Flex (@flexasaurusrex), this fan-made “time machine” has resurrected the channel’s original spirit.
MTVRewind is a staggering database of 33,931 music videos spanning six decades (1970s–2020s), presented without the glossy sheen of modern streaming services — enjoy:
The manifesto on the splash screen is a direct indictment of the modern web:
No ads. No algorithm. No login. Just pure random discovery.
The link will send you to another blog, a new (✨secret✨) writing project. Wherever
you are in the World, remember to have fun, and take care of yourself.
Let’s make 2026 a special kind of year 💪 (P.S. f*ck A.I. ✍️)
(A.I. be damned!!) I love this frenetic, kaleidoscopic video, in no small part because of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin’s awesome music; gives me future hope, & Y2K vibes:
Director: Felix Geen / AI Artist: Max Kreis /
Camera & Lighting: Josha Eiffel / MUA: Georgia Hope
“‘Dreamcatching’ is about all the places you want to know and all the places you’ll never go,” the band said in a statement. “The video uses AI neural networks to create the landscapes and worlds we long for in the lyrics, a computer’s interpretation of our dreams.”
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.”
Kawaii! I was skeptical, but it got funky good from 2:38 on, right to the fade out:
Producer Takashi Murakami / Director Mr. and Fantasista Utamaro / Animation Production NAZ
Not sure about the bikini clad anime girls, but this is a great marriage of funk driven, synth-tastic melodies and hyper-vibrant colours and imaginings courtesy of Japanese artist, TakashiMurakami. In case his name rings any bells, Murakami was producer for “Akihabara Majokko Princess” — the infamous Kirstin Dunst music video made in 2010:
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 YokoKuno 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:
YokoKuno 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”:
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:
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 Warpaintis 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:
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:
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:
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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 TheFifth 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 Yaymotherfuckingprou-😢-proud 😭
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.
The manifesto on the splash screen is a direct indictment of the modern web:
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