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Meet NYC Punk Patrons Dennis and Lois in Elbow "NY Morning"

There are fans and then there are superfans. Dennis and Lois are the latter variety, having dedicated their lives to rock 'n' roll. They've been patrons of the NYC music scene since the heyday of CBGBs punk and playing host to nearly every UK rock band to hit these shores. 

This Elbow video for "New York Morning" tells their story, taking us inside their home/museum and riding along as they drive past their old East Village haunts. It's a bittersweet tale since NYC is brutally Darwininan in its evolution; The weird and dangerous downtown scene has been replaced by something way more sanitized and stylish, so all Dennis and Lois have left are the memories and the memorabilia. Which is probably enough for them...

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Justin Timberlake "Suit And Tie" Wins Best Video Grammy

Because, how could the Grammys NOT want to celebrate getting spiffy for 

Best Music Video For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the artist, video director, and video producer.

SUIT & TIE [WINNER] Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay Z David Fincher, video director; Timory King, video producer [RCA Records] 

And for all you longform fans... 

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Disclosure f/ Mary J. Blige "F For You" (Kate Moross, dir.)

How distinctive and effective are the white line tracings that Disclouse have used on their album art, promo photos and nearly everywhere else? So much that they made an app where you can make and share your own. 

That style carries over to this collabo clip with the one and only Mary J. Blige, splitting the difference between performance piece, lyric video and animation.

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Bruce Springsteen "Just Like Fire Would" (Thom Zimny, dir.)

Despite having a music video with a moment so famous and impactful that you could essentially use it as a definition for what an '80s video looked like — see: Courtney Cox + Dancing In The Dark — Bruce Springsteen has never been a comfortable participant in our world. In fact, he's essentially shifted to purely performance or otherwise modest videos since his 1999 E-Street Band Reunion. "Just Like Fire Would" continues that trend, featuring nothing but a staged performance with his band and special guest Tom Morello of this 1986 single by Australian alternative band The Saints.

Bruce has always worked with great filmmakers — Brian DePalma directed "Dancing In The Dark," Jonathan Demme, Meiert Avis and Mark Pellington have all been recurrent video collaborators, and his post-reunion video guru is Thom Zimny, who edited the classic HBO show The Wire and directed some amazing longform pieces about Bruce and the band — but hopefully the time will come soon when he'll let one of these directors, or someone of their caliber, deliver the kind of narrative or imagistic videos that could add another level of interpretation to the music and reach beyond the base.

That said: The Boss can do whatever he wants.