The song is "Manhattan" and that's exactly what we get in this walkabout video that plays like an indie version of "If I Ruled The World," especially when Chan Marshall aka Cat Power rolls through Times Square.
Just when you think the old man has found a way to happiness in director Emily Kai Bock's beautifully cinematic and haunting b/w piece, you realize he's still stuck on the tracks. Literally.
PS: Character actor Kenneth Welsh plays the old man. And he's actually the real life dad of Devon Welsh aka Majical Clouds, which makes this video even more personal and powerful.
A loving ode to the inherent awkwardness of performing on a chat show, especially of the vintage, Public Access variety. --> "I'm Not Talking"
A.C. Newman "I'm Not Talking" (Matador)The General Assembly, director | Frenchie Alburtis, producer | Honey Badger, production co | Charles Son, DP | Joseph Remerowski, editor | Nigel Mogg, art director | John Benson, Gower Frost, exec. producers
Interpol frontman Paul Banks makes a solo debut — unless you want to count his alter-ego release as Julian Plenti — with a video that casts him as a grownup who realizes that Dodgeball is a game you play to win. --> watch "Young Again"
Punk rock as it should be: A grainy, no-frills live clip that makes its case in less than two minutes. --> watch "World Blue"
Ceremony"World Blue" (Matador)Robert Semmer, director | Ben Pagel, producer | Spunk Design Machine, production co | William Voermann, DP | David Feinberg, editor
Although this clever Perfume Genius video stars a hardcore gay porn star Arpad Miklos (safe link, btw), it's about as tender a music video as you could imagine, even if the visuals do add a whiff of parody to lyrics that are mired in sad self-loathing.
Director Scott Cudmore gets meta with this latest F'cked Up video, recreating the photoshoot from the band's David Comes To Life album, while also having the cast and crew from their "Queen Of Hearts" video in it, so it's a look at a band looking at themselves preparing to document themselves while being documented. Or something equally enigmatic. --> watch "Turn The Season"
Although it seems you have to dig into the band's new concept album David Comes To Life to fully follow and appreaciate this video, there's still a certain thrill in watching some straight-up romantic storylines while listening to a band called Fucked Up. --> watch "The Other Shoe"
Despite the stellar cast and boffo premise — Paul Rudd and Bill Hader as pregnant coin collectors who are Las Vegas bound for a debaucherous babymoon — Expectant Dads isn't a real movie. And the preview that immediately follows for rockumentary about The New Pornographers also boasts a stellar cast and a boffo premise, even if it too doesn't really exist.
Director Moh Azima sets up all sorts of visual barricades in this Interpol performance video, using a mix of projections, backdrops and other bits of trickery to keep you constantly off-kilter. --> watch "Barricade"
Now that Punk Gone Broadway is a reality — thank you, Green Day — why shouldn't Teo Leo set aside his nearly two decades of principled punk for a shot at musical immortality (and a living wage) via musical theater? Enter Reginald VanVoorst, a theater impresario who works with the band to bring this gem from The Brutalist Bricks to The Great White Way. If that sounds absurd, well, it is. WFMU Best Show host Tom Scharpling directed this satire, enlisting comedian Paul F.
