BAT FOR LASHES – DANIEL

Posted on 2009-03-30

Daniel’, the new single from Bat For Lashes was directed in Sweden by Johan Renck, he has previously directed videos for Madonna, Kylie, The Knife and New Order. Typically, his videos are dramatic stories filmed with a crisp eye and sharply edited. They are most distinctive, though, for their melancholic blue-green tint and strongly-lit chiaroscuro. Currently Renck is in pre-production for his first feature. Titled Downloading Nancy, it is a very dark story of a woman about to have herself killed by a man she meets on the Internet, but has doubts when she finds herself attracted to him. It stars Holly Hunter, William Hurt and Stellan Skarsgård.

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LA ROUX – IN FOR THE KILL

Posted on 2009-03-30

Directed by Kinga Burza who since 2006 has shot videos for Katy Perry, Ladyhawke, Noisettes, Kate Nash, Calvin Harris and The Teenagers. Kinga’s first foray into the american market, for Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed a Girl’, scored her a huge number one video in the US, as well as FIVE nominations at the 2008 MTV VMA Awards. Her work has been featured in i-D and Dazed.

www.laroux.co.uk

  

YEAH YEAH YEAHS – ZERO

Posted on 2009-03-23

This new single, “Zero,” puts Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ old stuff to shame with its effortless confidence and deadly melody. I can throw every adjective I know at you, but I’d just be complicating the simple fact that this song is really, really good. Crazy catchy. You’re gonna listen to it 100 times before you realize you’re not breathing. The video is just as gripping. A surreal nighttime Tokyo — or is it NYC? Hong Kong? Any city… The world is your stage! — adventure, it starts with kung-fu movie overdubs and escalates through grocery cart races, street dancing and car stomping to its explosive ticker tape finish. Step past the red curtain and know that you’re never coming back.

www.yeahyeahyeahs.com

  

UNKLE – HEAVEN

Posted on 2009-03-23

Heaven was used in the acclaimed skate film Fully Flared directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The collaboration inspired the directors to take footage and re-edit a sequence of shots that shows the Lakai skateboarding team demonstrating their considerable skills as they navigate through and around various exploding obstacles. With ‘Heaven’ as the musical backdrop, the resulting marriage of sound to picture is quite extraordinary.

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A BLACK HEARTED LOVE

Posted on 2009-03-23

The first video from PJ Harvey and John Parish’s ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’ has been lensed by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. The single ‘Black Hearted Love’ will be released on April 13th through Island Records. “We were both very excited that Jake and Dinos Chapman wanted to make a video for ‘Black Hearted Love’. The result is beautiful, mysterious, surreal and enhances the song wonderfully,” said PJ Harvey and John Parish of the video.

Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003, The Chapman Brothers came to prominence as part of Charles Saatchi’s Young British Artists, they exhibited at White Cube in 2008. The Chapman Brothers presented a suitably surreal treatment for the song, “We decided ‘Black Hearted Love’ deserved something haunting and enigmatic – yet brazen and colourful. Hence, a collision between an ominous forest and a garish bouncy castle seemed entirely appropriate… Working with Polly and John was an absolute pleasure.”

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15 STEP

Posted on 2009-03-16

After an impressive performance at this year’s Grammy Awards with Radiohead and a marching band teaming up to perform ‘15 Step’ from Radiohead’s latest album ‘In Rainbows’. USC Marching Band have now released a video of the rehearsals Check out more than 8 minutes of footage from Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and USC Marching Band rehearsing at Sony Studios in Los Angeles and you can see the excited band members taking the stage at the Staples Center in LA.