June 2008

WATCH IT: Darker My Love "Two Ways Out"

Despite the song title "Two Ways Out," there seems to be no exit from the black void that serves as the setting for this creepy little clip   for psychedelic West Coast rockers, Darker My Love. The tone is way more surreal than existential, thanks to a clever trick in which director Toben Seymour portrays the band as a collection of disembodied heads and hands and instruments that float about and get all mixed up in various ways. The video is debuting today as an all day premiere on mtvU.

WATCH IT: Steel Train "I Feel Weird"

Director Spence Nicholson delivers a solid and sharp performance video for buzzed-about Drive-Thru signing Steel Train. No B-roll or storyline or anything here to distract from the band rocking out in front of a corrugated metal backdrop festooned with a simple lighting pattern that looms near another backdrop that looks like red dawn on Mars. --> watch "I Feel Weird" (MySpace.com)

MTV ALERT: VMAs Set For Sept 7 in L.A.

The MTV Video Music Awards will return to Los Angeles for the 25th anniversary broadcast of this annual video/celebrity bash. The show will be broadcast live from the Paramount Pictures Studio on September 7, making use of the various soundstages and backlots on the premises.

More details (tho not many more at this early date) at AP News...

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