September 2012

Maybe there's some Aimee Mann fans who keep wish she'd re-spike her hairl, braid that rat-tail and back with Til Tuesday. That day is not today, but perhaps you'll settle for a faithful remake of their breakthrough "Voices Carry" video. Aimee looks understandably annoyed throughout, but Superchunk drummer and Friend Of Tom Jon Wuster revels in the role of rich douchebag, commanding every scene. The homage is preceded by A Behind The Music intro with Jon Hamm as the director with the genius idea.

The Avett Brothers and director Philip Andelman keep things authentic and organic in this casual clip: Shot on 16mm on-location at album producer Rick Rubin's famed studio The Mansion, with most of the performance being directed at each other rather than in some slick set-up. --> watch "Live And Die"

• artist: Aerosmith
• song: "What Could Have Been Love"
• label: Columbia
• director(s): Marc Klasfeld

Different types of nerds will geek out over different things in this first new Ben Folds Five in forever. Music nerds get Ben Folds back with his guitarless,punkish, and incorrectly, yet perfectly named trio Ben Folds Five. Hollywood nerds get Anna Kendricks. Comedy nerds get Rob Corddry. And Jim Henson nerds get to see the Fraggle Rock gang back in a new production. Since that's a whole lot of nerds coming together over a music video, it makes sense that the video was a collaboration with popular nerd portal Nerdist, with Mr.