April 2010

WATCH IT: LCD Soundsystem "Drunk Girls" (Spike Jonze/James Murphy, dir.)

Substituting Drunk Pandas for Drunk Girls might not make a whole lot of sense, but this off-the-wall one-take video directed by Spike Jonze is surely way more interesting than the Girls Gone Wild treatment that must have pitched at some point. And, you gotta appreciate the Zen like concentration of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy and pals as they disregard the gaggle of lushes in panda suits who try to lure them into debauchery. --> watch "Drunk Girls"

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WATCH IT: The Apples In Stereo "Dance Floor" (Greg Gilpatrick, dir.)

The Apples In Stereo mastermind Robert Schneider has already discovered a non-pythagorean musical scale, so who's to say the brainiest man in indie rock can't make a breakthrough when it comes to time and space? This homage to public access programming stars actor and chief Apples supporter Elijah Wood as a middle school teacher and amateur TV host who gets beamed by the good doctor back/forward to a retro-futuro performance of this disco-dance track off new album Travellers In Space And Time. --> watch "Dance Floor"

WATCH IT: The Bigger Lights "Hey Summer"

What seems to be a basic post-coital moment is revealed to be something more sinister in this video for The Bigger Lights "Hey Summer."  Director Bryan Reisberg lets the viewer in slowly, slowly as he reveals that band frontman Topher Talley and his femme fatale are actually a modern-day suburban versions of Bonnie & Clyde, but with a feminist slant (ie: She's got the gun in her garter). In fact, there are several allusions to the 1967 Beatty/Dunaway version of Bonnie & Clyde, including a pear scene that lets you know that things probably won't end happily for these two lovers/criminals.

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