December 2009

HAPPY CHANUKAH from Neil Diamond and Teqtonik

Oy. Neil Diamond has covered an Adam Sandler song. Happy Chanukah, y'all. --> watch "The Chanukah Song"

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"99","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","height":"353","width":"471","style":""}}]]

Neil Diamond "The Chanukah Song" (Columbia)Teqtonik, directors | Geoff McLean, producer | Vision Ent, production co | RW Media, rep 

WATCH IT: One Block Radius "Broke Ass Holiday"

Ho, Ho, Ho. It's a "Broke Ass Holiday" with rap act One Block Radius and directing team Secret History. In their case, it's not just Christmas on a budget, it's all the major holidays, from Thanksgiving to Valentines Day. And it also spills over the band themselves, as evidenced by the makeshift instruments they jam on toward the clip's end (but before a final credits sequence in the spirit of Cannonball Run, that lets us in on bloopers and behind-the-scenes footage). --> watch "Broke Ass Holiday"

WATCH IT: Fanfarlo "Harold T. Wilkins"

The hands of Fanfarlo are alive with the rhythms of this song, dashing about and pulsating in some indie rock version of jazz hands. That kind of minimalistic, yet innocent joyous approach is also evident in the other aspects of this video directed by Alma Har'el on-location in the woods of Lake Placid, NY. There's shadowplay at night and then a fitting coda in which the drab woodlands steadily burst into full Fall foliage. --> watch "Harold T. Wilkin" (Stereogum)

WATCH IT: Kid Cudi "Pursuit Of Happiness"

Kid Cudi uses the video for his MGMT and Ratatat collabo "Pursuit Of Happiness" to dip into the same ennui that his mentor Kanye West explored in his Spike Jonze short film, "We Were Once A Fairytale." Once again we're at a posh party with beautiful women, flowing champagne and once again the action culminates with a moment of self-realization in the bathroom [ed: Come on, don't we all do our best thinking in the can?].

Pages