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Boise, Idaho's Youth Lagoon (whose mom knows him as Trevor Powers) crafts dreamy piano pop from the confines of his bedroom. After generating a bunch of Internet buzz with his first self-released tunes, he landed himself a two-album deal with Fat Possum, dropped out of Boise State University, and is now set to head on the road for a prolonged North American tour. From Vancouver......read more
In their self-directed video for "Stalker Humanoid," Finnish electro duo Renaissance Man offer up a fun-filled interpretation of Michael Jackson’s famed dance scene in the "Thriller" video, with giant leafy creatures in lieu of terrifying zombies. It's nothing short of awesome. Pretty sick moves too. The Renaissance Man Project is out now on Turbo Recordings. ...read more
Stuck as we are in the middle of winter's cold, dark heart, most of us could use some relief from the cool-weather drudgery. This sunny new video for "Godless Brother in Love," from Iron & Wine's year-old Kiss Each Other Clean LP, is just the respite we've been looking for. The Claire Marie Vogel-directed clip follows a group of attractive young people hanging out in the beaming......read more
With 36,000 photos, 40 blocks of ice, and 40 timelapses of 4 hours each, French filmmaker Christophe Thockler manages to make the humdrum process of ice melting look rather incredible. The poetic clip, made for the Mimi Goese & Ben Neill song, "Cusp," features ice-blocked objects melting and, er, unmelting in stop motion. The objects are taken from the special edition......read more
It's no overstatement to use words like "trailblazing" and "pioneers" to describe the work of British brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll, aka Orbital. Now, after a long sabbatical, the brothers are getting ready to drop their first album in eight years -- called Wonky -- and hit the road for summer festival season. In advance of the release, Orbital put out this video for "Straight......read more
There's no sense denying the fact that live performance music videos are generally hum-drum affairs. In fact, many of them are straight B-O-R-I-N-G. Oh neat, you're playing your instruments. Cool. I think I'll press stop now. Toronto outfit The Wooden Sky breaks the mold with Grace On A Hill, a five-part video series shot in the city's Grace On A Hill Church. Like the first couple episodes, the......read more
What's your idea of a perfect day? For LA duo Tashaki Miyaki, it would appear to involve driving lazily through rural California in a throwback Benz, and messing around with a handgun. Ours might be slightly different, but director Juan Iglesias -- in his third video collaboration with the band -- knows what fits the band's neo-Velvet Underground, new wave sound. In any case, if that doesn't......read more
The new video for "Drifting In and Out" from Mauro Remiddi -- aka Italian electro-pop maestro Porcelain Raft -- goes heavy with the smoke machine, harkening late nights at the club when your favorite song comes on. A bit of found footage and translucent dissolves of the singer round out the visuals. Honestly, the track itself is buzzy and dissonant enough on its own, so the hazy dry ice effects......read more
With this clip for "Blessing" by Felix, London-based filmmaker Andrew Telling makes the move from short docs to music videos, and the results are gorgeous. Starring Marisa Beck as a lone girl wandering the woods and hills of rural England, the beautifully-shot video is nicely paired with the heavy and moving ballad. Not that we needed it, but Telling's piece offers more proof that you don't......read more
Director Sophie Gateau teamed up with Dublin-based electro-pop duo Last Days of 1984 to deliver this surrealistic video for "River’s Edge." With some seriously mindblowing shape-shifting effects applied to the bandmembers' profiles as they perform the track, Gateau manages to make something really special out of a simple performance clip. Is the face-morphing clip a comment about man......read more
