May 2014

Best Of The Month

Best Music Videos of May 2014

A good month. A very good month. 

note: Some of these are NSFW. Also, there's a lot of dancing. And a few puppets. Exercise caution.

The Best Music Videos of May 2014

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Jem And The Holograms Is Scarily Accurate About Music Video Production

Maybe you're too young to remember the cartoon "classic" Jem And The Holograms. And if you click to watch what I recommend, it'll hit you as pure parody. But, listen kids: This is what the music biz was really like back then. Minus the holograms and other sci-fi prattle, of course.

If you're in music videos, you must watch this episode clip so you can meet Lindsey Pierce, host of influential rock video show Lin-Z TV, and Anthony Juilan, the most dynamite director in the business. And their creative conversation is actually still fairly typical of what you'd hear today.

Spoiler Alert: The director's first question is about the budget.

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Sayaconcept "Nara (Asadoya Yunta)" (Alexandre Dai Castaing, dir.)

To celebrate their recent signing with UK Electronic label Bit-Phalanx Music, Japanese duo Sayaconcept (Mina Mermoud & Alexandre Dai Castaing) take there unique spin on merging traditional Japanese folk music with contemporary Electronica through a tender and beautiful reimagining of the legendary traditional Okinawan folk song, 'Asadoya Yunta'. 

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