WATCH IT: Kaskade f/ Dragonette "Fire..." (Chic + Artistic, dir.)

Directing team Chic and Artistic deliver something, well, chic and artistic for DJ/producer Kaskade and Dragonette singer Martina Sorbara. Set up as a photo shoot, Kaskade works the camera while Martina poses and vamps — often in reverse — while also displaying a pair of sparkler pumps that I hope become the stripper stiletto of choice.) --> watch "Fire In Your New Shoes"

 Kaskade f/ Dragonette "Fire In Your New Shoes" (Ultra)
Chic & Artistic, directors/post | Ghost Robot, production co | Brooklyn McDaniel, producer | Andreas von Scheele, DP | Shea Daspin, stylist | Mark De Pace & Zach Mortensen, executive producers

WATCH IT: Galactic f/ Cheeky Blakk "Do It Again" (Joey Garfield, dir.)

Finally, a booty video I can get behind [no pun intended]. Just be sure to remember that things in this video are never quite what they seem, especially if this is your first brush with Sissy Rap. --> watch "Do It Again" plus an EPK about the video

Galactic "Do It Again" (Anti)
Joey Garfield, director | Stine Chrone Moisen, producer | Ghost Robot, production co | Graham Willoughby, DP | Josh Cramer, editor | Mac Pohanka, art director | Tramaine Montell Ford, choreographer | Tramaine Montell Ford, Major Nesby, Wanda Bey, dancers | Mark De Pace, Zachary Mortensen, executive producers

WATCH IT: Morningwood "Best Of Me"

Backstage bacchanalia may have gone the way of most things in the music business (including sales and money, unfortunately), but it lives on in this video for Morningwood. The band's longtime director of choice, Adam Neustadter, resurrects the puppet from the band's "Sugar Baby" and mixes in all sorts of transgressive shenanigans and bizarre/annoying hangers-on. Despite the backstage hoopla, none of it is as groundbreaking as the pact they made with Vh1 to promote its self-released new album. --> watch "Best Of Me"

Morningwood "Best Of Me" (Morningwood)
Adam Neustadter, director | Ghost Robot, production co | Heidi Gregory, rep

SHOT: The White Tie Affair - Adam Neustadter, director

• artist: The White Tie Affair
• song: "Take it Home"
• label: Epic
• director(s): Adam Neustadter
• production co: Ghost Robot
• rep: Heidi Gregory
• commissioner: Calvin Aurand

WATCH IT: Gary Go "Open Arms"

Pop/rock newcomer Gary Go goes to Mars in this video for "Open Arms" — a title that reminds me of the Journey song of the same name. Director Adam Neustadter avoids any resemblance to the Journey Space Voyager art vibe, instead using 2001: A Space Odyssey as the obvious visual reference to frame this tale of a boy who grows up to fulfill his dream of flying to the Red Planet. --> watch "Open Arms"

Gary Go "Open Arms" (Decca)
Adam Neustadter, director | Noreen Khan, producer (UK) | Matthew Achterberg, producer (US) | Ghost Robot, production co | Adam Frisch, DP | Theo Maniatis, vfx supervisor 

SHOT: Kuroma - Adam Neustadter, director

Available as a free download at GreenLabelSound.com...

artist: Kuroma
song: "In New York, Everything Is Tropical"
label: Green Label Sound
director(s): Adam Neustadter
production co: Ghost Robot

SHOT: Flosstradamus - Keven McAlester, director

Song available as free download via Mountain Dew's Green Label Sound...

artist: Flosstradamus ft. Caroline Polachek (of Chairlift)
song: "Big Bills"
label: Green Label Sound
director(s): Keven McAlester
production co: Ghost Robot

WATCH IT: Morningwood "Sugarbaby"

Morningwood frontwoman Chantal Claret is faced with any easy choice. She can stay in a debaucherous, yet sexually unfulfilling relationship with her broke, philandering hipster boyfriend in his hovel on the Lower East Side of NYC, or she can jump in the limo with a rich lover who's ready to shower her with gifts, affection and "sugar." The notion that both options are tugging at her heartstrings possibly led to the decision to have Claret portrayed by a puppet created by Jim Henson/Avenue Q/Crank Yankers vet James Wotjal. --> watch "Sugarbaby"

Morningwood "Sugarbaby" (Capitol)
Adam Neustadter, director | Matt Achterberg, producer | Ghost Robot, production co | Heidi Gregory, rep | Eric Robbins , DP | Josh Cramer @ House Of Trim, editor | James Wojtal, puppetmaster

WATCH IT: Langhorne Slim "Restless"

Meet the Woodman. A smile on his face, an axe in hand. He's a well-meaning frankenstein of stumps and logs that finds the beauty in nature and modernity. If only he wasn't so bio-degradable. Folky Langhorne Slim provides the soundtrack from the back of a pick-up truck while cruising around suburbia. --> watch "Restless"

Langhorne Slim "Restless" (Kemado)
Joey Garfield, director | Mark De Pace, Matt Achterberg, producers | Ghost Robot, production co | Heidi Gregory, rep | Ron Egozi, DP | Brian Gannon @ Whitehouse, Chicago, editor | Judge Finklea, puppeteer/production designer | Shane Walker @ Optimus, visual fx

WATCH IT: Old 97s "Dance With Me"

Alt country stalwarts Old 97s and Battlestar Galactica seem to have nothing in common — ok, the show's Cylon sexpot Tricia Helfer is apparently friends with Old 97 frontman Rhett Miller — but here they are in the same music video and it goes together just fine. Director Keven McAlester lays out a tale in which a sci-fi dork out for a nighttime ramble happens upon a posh party where Ms. Helfer is working it on the red carper. Armed, of course, with a copy of a Battlestar Galactica fanzine, our zero heads up to the velvet rope in hopes of an autograph only to be summarily rejected by the doorman. With that fantasy foiled, he goes for an even bigger flight of fancy. He imagines crashing the club to go all Kill Bill n' shit on the various scumbags inside before sidling up to his dream date for a little romance. As if it needs to be said: Not a fracking chance. --> watch "Dance With Me" plus a Making-Of/Stunt featurette at YouTube

Old 97's  "Dance With Me" (New West)
Keven McAlester, director | Paul Bock, producer | Ghost Robot, production co | Andrew Shulkind, DP | Christine Khalafian, editor | Heidi Gregory, rep