OneDirection's "Best Song Ever" isn't ready to be crowned Best Video Ever, but the Brit Awards audience have delared it the Best Video of the Year via fan voting.
Personally, I would have gone with Sam Smith f/ Naughty Boy "La La La" which is becoming a smash on these shores as well.
BLAM! Bonnaroo will turn what's usually a press release into something much bigger with the Bonnaroo Line-Up Announcement Megathon. Or, B.L.A.M., for short.
The festivities include Saturday Night Live cast member Taran Killam, comedian Hannibal Bures and a musical line-up that includes The Flaming Lips and Ben Folds. And you can watch it starting at 7pm ET via bonnaroo.com or their Xbox app.
A teaser video is up now and if it looks like a good, silly time — well, it was directed by Scott Schultz who honed those good, silly chops as a co-creator of Yo Gabba Gabba,
"... More eyes are on music videos now, more than ever, and brands have taken notice. With the average CPM on VEVO is somewhere between 25$ and 33$, a video viewed 1 million times will return roughly $30,000 to the content owners. But, those 30-second ads playing before the editorial or music content are often tuned out or immediately skipped by viewers. What is more valuable for a brand: a 30 second pre-roll or being an integral part of the content creation?" — Brian Petchers, Forbes.com
We all know the band as brand mantra by heart now, but the truly popular piece of content is the music video. Forbes writer Brian Petchers digs into the past year of music videos, giving a pretty definitive take on the landscape and what's next...
Viewership is up, way up... VEVO's audience rose by over 180% in 2013 and the Top 10 most watched YouTube clips were all music videos.
Videos are Everywhere: New channels like REVOLT. And premieres that can take place where you can embed a video player, including Facebook, and in other unexpected places like ESPN's College Football Telecasts...
Videos now count toward the charts: Billboard changed the formula to recognize that YouTube had essentially becomes the world's biggest and best jukebox
And if you look at the money, you can see so much of it flowing into music videos from placements and sponsorships...
It's a good read, so read it. And I don't just say that because of the nice things said about videostatic.com
You don't need to dig too deep into the Jonathan Glazer videography — try Karma Police and Rabbit In Your Headlights — to realize that he's mastered the art of the slow burn.
His new film Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, looks to take that vibe to a massive big-screen scale. Check the preview, which plays like an homage to the master Stanley Kubrick (not a bad thing, of course) and look for it to open this April.
Either Mischa Barton is a much better actress than I remember, or she was actually abducted and brainwashed by The Church Of Nobody.
The former OC star appears as "church leader" Willis Earl Beal's muse in this ten minute video that plays like a newly discovered bit of VHS propaganda.
DEVO guitarist Bob Casale is trending on Twitter today, which you probably already know can only happen due to sad news.
Casale passed away at age 61 yesterday, February 17, from heart failure. He's survived by his wife, kids, bandmate Gerald and the rest of the DEVO family.
"As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning. He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got. He was excited about the possibility of Mark Mothersbaugh allowing Devo to play shows again. His sudden death from conditions that lead to heart failure came as a total shock to us all. " — Gerald Casale, DEVO
Go play some DEVO. Even if "Whip It" is the only song you know...
The Afghan Whigs return and it's "Dulli Unchained" as frontman Greg Dulli cruises into an Old West town called Algiers to give the people a taste of Hell.
The Late Night Wars: Next Generation kicked off last night with the series premiere of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
The big musical story of the night wasn't U2, but a hip-hop version of the perennial YouTube clip Evolution Of Dance. Fallon and guest Will Smith do it all from The Robot to Crank That Soulja Boy and even a nice homage to Beastie Boys. And just as fun: Hearing house band The Roots nail every sound.
"Lamu" is a study in stillness, presenting 25 different portraits that all seem to have a mysterious, if not twisted backstory. Director Mathieu Grimard had one rule: "Every person and every eye is shown behind a surface: glass, plastic, water, etc. Its an outside-in view on all these characters."
