May 2010

WATCH IT: Three Days Grace "The Good Life" (Michael Maxxis, dir.)

Archival footage of The Good Life — childhood, family, showgirls, etc — gets mixed with snippets of war and order in this performance video for Three Days Grace directed by Michael Maxxis. --> watch "The Good Life"

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WATCH IT: Coheed & Cambria "Here We Are..." (Josh Forbes, dir.)

Director Josh Forbes gives life to The Black Rainbow, a sci-fi comic book conceit that's the centerpiece of the new Coheed & Cambria concept album, Year Of The Black Rainbow. Band performance takes place on a rooftop as a black swath gets torn in the sky and threatens to pull all of humanity into its orbit. --> watch "Here We Are Juggernaut"

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WATCH IT: Jon Hope "Better" (Walu, dir.)

The words may be directed at America (and hip-hop), but director Walu trains his camera on the people of Malawi to provide an inspirational match to this positive cut from up-and-comer Jon Hope. It's a simple twist, but one that helps the video rise above the political miasma and hip-hop flossin' that "Better" seeks to be better than.   --> watch "Better"

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WATCH IT: Against Me! "I Was A Teenage Anarchist" (Marc Klasfeld, dir.)

Every anarchist has his day, I guess. And that day for Against Me! singer Tom Gabel is presented in this simple, yet inspired video directed by Marc Klasfeld. Gabel tries to outdistance a baton-wielding cop, but he gets nabbed, and pummeled — as apparently happened to Gabel years ago — but clearly retains some sense of victory in how it inspires the many onlookers to start setting the world on fire. --> watch "I Was A Teenage Anarchist" and a Making-Of

WATCH IT: Beyonce "Why Don't You Love Me" (Melina Matsoukas, dir.)

June Cleaver? Consider yourself served. This send-up of '50s TV domesticity casts Beyonce as BB Homemaker, a stay-at-home vixen who's not afraid to get dirty (both in terms of fixing the car, and putting on a Betty Page outfit). --> watch "Why Don't You Love Me"

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