May 2007

Adds:The Bravery "Time Won’t Let Me Go" Brick & Lace "Never Never" Lady Sovereign "Those Were The Days" Maximo Park "Our Velocity" Mya "Lock U Down"

The last time we saw director Jaron Albertin and Metric singer Emily Haines together was inside a Zellers department store, toppling over people like dominoes with the power of their depression. "Dr. Blind" was an excellent video with an ominous tone that has been a hallmark of the director's work up to that point. With "Empty," Albertin presents a new, perhaps welcome tone to his work: A sense of comfort. The clip starts with a house that's been tossed around as if by a tornado. The

Director Aaron Rosenbloom (far left), producer Jason Goldman (fifth from left), DP Wes Mellant (second from right) and camera op Scott Cramer (far right) getting in a line-up with Ipecac band Hella at the Sacramento, CA shoot for "The Things That People Do When They Think No One's Looking." The video was produced by The Pharmacy.

Hyperbole be damned, Chris Milk may very well be the most creative director working in music video today. And, when you consider that he tends to work with much more mainstream acts than many of his cutting edge peers and still gets away with his unexpected flights of fancy, it's all the more impressive. His output over the past year or so has included a performance video for Green Day and U2 that doubled as a powerful statement about our government's priorities, a story of a randy bug for Gnarls Barkley, and an epic Evel Kneivalization of Kanye West.