DP Scott Winig, Lupe Fiasco and director Mark Staubach on the set of Lupe's video for "Solar Midnite" an iTunes exclusive bonus track from the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack...
Anyone who got a raging vertical stick from Lady Gaga's lurid and ambitious "Bad Romance" video was probably left a bit flaccid from her restrained appearance in Beyonce's video for "Video Phone." But, this is clearly a Beyonce video first and foremost, and there was no chance that the Queen B would let herself be upstaged on her own turf. An intro that promises a Reservoir Dogs faceoff between the two music stars fades into a bootylicious Beyonce performance montage, mixed with a slight narrative in which she and Lady Gaga go all commando on some videoheaded men.
Ever wondered what if... Gnarls Barkley featured Tom Waits or Kool Keith? This might be the answer, as electronic/hip-hop soundscapers N.A.S.A.lure the legendary and legendarily eclectic Waits and Keith to provide the vocals on "Spacious Thoughts." The animated video keeps up with the lyrical twists and turns just fine, personifying Waits as a menacing red cloud and Keith as a heroic Pac-Man sort of creature in a deconstructed metropolis that seems to burst between 3D and 2D.
Some things in life are unexplainable. This video for Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of them. Director Keith Schofield assembles a series of totally bizarre, yet strangely moving tableaus that feature the two performers in a kind of heaven on earth, where anything is possible and nothing makes complete sense. Stay tuned for the directors cut. --> watch "Heaven Can Wait" (official label version)
TheMonsters Of Folk are adrift in a war when they stumble upon an oasis of music and community and rollerskating. The rollerskating combo with the old timey vibe is not as incongruous as you'd think, having been appropriately compared to the infamous rollerskate dance scene from the even more infamous flick Heaven's Gate, an ill-fated, overlong, and way over budget box office bomb. Don't read too much into that though, because this musical collaboration between My Morning Jacket mastermind Jim James, Bright Eyes frontman Conor
