March 2012

WATCH IT: Wise Blood "Loud Mouths" (Young Replicant, dir.)

A corkscrew car crash certainly makes for a great video opening — even if it instantly reminds you of "Simple Math" — but directors Alex Takacs and Joe Nanki aka Young Replicant keep delivering surprises and memorable images throughout this postmodern noir. The key scenes actually involves a dead body, naked except for the white roses that sprout along her body, and our hero who probably shouldn't have picked up that gun. --> watch "Loud Mouths"

Best Music Videos of February 2012

Maybe it's due to the extra Leap Day, but there were a ridiculous amount of really good videos for February. 

So, with only a bit more hemming/hawing, here are the 24 best videos from February 2012 presented as a playlist — that you can embed or watch like it's a video show — and as individual links below if you'd like to see the video credits and/or read capsule reviews by me and fellow Vstatic writer Doug Stern.

Please use the comments section to add everything I missed, or to take umbrage with my taste (or to point out that only jackasses use words like "umbrage").

WATCH IT: Yuksek "Off the Wall" (Romain Segaud, dir.)

The man behind the electronics for Yuksek is Pierre-Alexandre Busson, but this clip never gives us a glimpse of the Great Oz (unless those are his hands). Instead we get a playful mix of mirror image gags that keeps upping the ante, even creating a reasonable lip-synching face out of unexpected props. We've seen this reflection gag before in a classic Escape Club clip for 'Wild Wild West' but it also made me think of a certain super celebrity's leg at the recent Oscars.

WATCH IT: D-Why "Macchiato Music" (Rex Arrow Films, dir.)

Debonaire rapper D-Why takes us along on a trip to super-picturesque Italy for his first single "Macchiato Music." A journey to Italia is traditional for cultural institutions like The Sopranos, Mad Men and Jersey Shore , so why not the latest face on the hip-hop scene? When a rapper is in an Italian ride, it usually means a Ferrari or a Lambo, but D-Why glides through the canals of Venice in a gondola looking oh-so sharp.

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