Las Bandas

WATCH IT: Lilygreen & Maguire "Given Up Giving Up" (Greg Davenport, dir.)

Everyone knows that mastering Rock Paper Scissors is the key to prep school popularity. At least it is in this music video homage to Wes Anderson.

Lilygreen And Maguire"Given Up Giving Up" (Warner Bros. UK)Greg Davenport, director | Licia Conn, producer | Epoch Films, production co | Las Bandas Be Brave, rep | Matthew Taylor, DP | Chris Roebuck @ Speade, editor 

WATCH IT: Avicii "Levels" (Petro, dir.)

Sometimes a song is so infectious that you can't help yourself. Such is the case in "Levels," where a workaday dork has no control over his dancing infatuation with Avicii. After a totally genius interlude where he passes out and dreams about his Sisyphus-like existance (don't be scared; there's a rainbow) he winds up in a hospital where the infection bloom once again and starts to spread like a bad case of the Zombies. --> watch "Levels"

WATCH IT: The Rapture "Sail Away" (Kris Moyes, dir.)

Rapture singer Luke Jenner lassoes a crumpled mylar food bag and rides it through Brooklyn, held aloft by the power of two shofar and shell blowing pseudo-Hasids. Only in Brooklyn, kids, only in Brooklyn. --> watch "Sail Away"

The Rapture"Sail Away" (Modular)Kris Moyes, director/editor | Chavvah Stuart & Stine Moisen, producer | Ghost Robot, production co | Las Bandas Be Brave, rep | Adam Newport-Berra, DP 

QUICK CLIP: Labrinth f/ Tinie Tempah "Earthquake" (Syndrome, dir.)

Earthshaking bass emanates from a series of CGI speakers in this h-tech clip for UK artist Labrinth featuring TInie Tempah. --> watch "Earthquake"

Labrinth f/ Tinie Tempah"Earthquake"Syndrome, director | Phil Tidy, Kwok Yau, producer | Catch Films/Syndrome, production co | Las Bandas Be Brave, rep | Magni Augsutsson, DP | Syndrome, fx | Jan Walker, art director | JT/Monica Blackburn, exec. producer 

WATCH IT: Yuck "Shook Down" (Michael/Forrest, dir.) NSFW

Naked people in a Yuck video? Yes, the streak continues. This time it's a collage of body parts all stiched together, making for mismatched mammaries, complementary cocks, and other bits that aren't nearly as alliterative. And if you're offended — and you shouldn't be, unless you watch it in public or your workplace, or anywhere else where it would be inappropriate — you should at least be glad that the knife they keep displaying never gets used. --> watch "Shook Down" (NSFW)

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WATCH IT: Yuck "Get Away" (Michael, dir.) - NSFW -

Just another band on the road. Endless trips in the van, flipping through pussy (cat) centerfolds, drinking apple juice (?) straight from the bottle, picking up naked hitchikers, baptising them on the roadside with flowers and that aformentioned mystery liquid (please be apple juice). In other words it's exactly like "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" but not quite as perverse or bizarre. --> watch "Get Away" (note: Not Safe For Work)

WATCH IT: Yuck "Holing Out" (Michael., dir.) [NSFW]

Although this new Yuck video is all sorts of fuzzy and degraded, it's all in terms of the various lo-fi effects that perfectly match the shoegazing tune. That is, until the video reaches it's NSFW climax in which a naked girl gets mauled by a werewolf type thing. --> watch "Holing Out" [NSFW]

Yuck "Holing Out" (Fat Possum)Michael., director | Videothing, production co | Las Bandas Be Brave, rep

WATCH IT: Yuck "Rubber" (Michael Reich, dir.) - NSFW-

Is it wrong to find eroticism in washing a dog? Is it even legal? Whatever the answer (ed: Yes, wrong. Legal, probably, unless acted upon), here we are, presented with the sexiest dog grooming video ever. Director Michael Reich emphasizes each repetitive act of sudsing and stroking, before making the sexual connection incredibly obvious by mixing in some shots of the apprentice groomer's naked body. It's very unsafe for work, especially when you consider how the nipple shots are juxtaposed with sequences where dog anal glands are expressed. Yuck, which happens to also be the band's name. --> "Rubber" (NOTE: Very NSFW)