May 2012

A few days late and a few videos short? We shall see...

The April crop of videos that struck me as keepers was small, yet solid. That said, I feel like I'm missing stuff, so please use the comments to offer up your faves and if warranted I'll do a follow-up playlist of your picks.

PS: It took a lot of self-control to not use a Waste Land reference here.

Best Music Videos of April 2012 — embedded as a playlist below, and/or click the individual posts for full credits and more info)

• artist: Theory Of A Deadman
• song: "Hurricane"
• label: Roadrunner
• director(s): Bill Fishman
• production co: Fallout Ent.
• rep: Laure Scott
• commissioner: Rick Ernst

There be monsters in this video for dubstep act Gramatik, sometimes showing up as shadows and sometimes as a raging dragon that looks like a Chinese New Years firework gone seriously awry. All of the monsters except for the dragon were done the very old-fashioned/organic way, via a silhoutte/bokeh effect that director Brad Hasse created by holding paper cutouts held directly in front of the camera lens. --> watch "Solidified"

• artist: Train
• song: "50 Ways To Say Goodbye"
• label: Columbia