September 2014

In Depth

LOUD VISIONARIES PROFILE: Director Ryan Reichenfeld

Our syndication of The 405's music video series Loud Visionaries continues, focusing on the new wave of music video directors and creatives.

LOUD VISIONARIES: Ryan Reichenfeld

Ryan Reichenfeld is name you should get used to hearing. The man's ambition might exceed his grasp, but by God, he has one hell of a grasp on what he's doing. After Justin Timberlake, Adidas and RAC came calling, a lot of people started tuning into his way of thinking. When The 405's own Elsa Bishop sat down with Ryan, she learned that music videos are only one part of the master plan...

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News

MTV EMA Nominations Announced

MTV announced the nominees for their annual EMA European Music Awards....

There's only one video category, and the nominees are: 

BEST VIDEO

Look for the live worldwide broadcast on November 8,  7 p.m. ET from Glasgow, Scotland, following a pre-show from Miami, FL.

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Colin Cowan and the Elastic Stars "Whispers to Rockefeller" (Daniel Code & Graham Kew, dir.)

Falling out of love ain't easy, it leaves you with a big ugly broken heart, but at some point you must go through the ritual called get-fucking-over-it. The only way forward is to pile up the tokens of your ex, douse them with gasoline and burn them all to hell just to feel real again.

Colin Cowan's second album in his seasonal series, "Eye of Winter," is scheduled to be released on vinyl and for the public on November 28th, 2014. His music aims to be a fluorescent cup of warm nostalgic soup fit for any contemporary star-child or drifter.

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Amp Live "Signs" (Frank Door, dir.)

Los Angeles-based producer Amp Live wants to create music "to make you move and think," which he does by using just about every instrument in his musical arsenal. His latest, "Signs," combines a heady beat, the sorrowful sound of a cello, a variety of electronic notes, and the beguiling voice of Eric Rachmany from Rebelution.

The black and white video for Signs, haunts it's way through the complexities of a relationship that is as powerful as the waves that crash on the beach that centers the video. 

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Making a Movie Music Video with The Vamps, Bella Thorn and Director Emil Nava

Finding a creative way to pull off the movie clip job is one of the tougher music video tasks — how to make a video when you need a healthy percentage of movie footage in order to keep the the movie $tudio happy? Rather than come up with some forced mechanism to scatter that footage, Director Emil Nava instead inserts The Vamps into the same Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day world that new movie Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and casts the movie's starlet, Bella Thorne, to star in it.

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