Video Reviews 2012

‘It was truly an honor to direct the new NILE video; a band with so many diehard fans and such a strong impact in the metal scene. The video concept, as a matter of fact, was inspired by the culture and the ritual habits of the Ancient Nubia, a region along the Nile River, which is located in northern Sudan and Southern Egypt. The research and design elements of the video led to a really interesting combination of the Ancient Egyptian myths, through the prism of the Nubian African Voodoo Burial rituals. Two worlds set so close yet so far from each other.’

It shows them rehearsing in a church, the perfect place to fit the acoustic of a choral group. This is a vibrant and happy band, and although we don’t get to hear much of the song, the full and warm vocal harmonies, just tickled by these Glockenspiel-sounding bells, give an idea of what we can expect.

This is the last installment of the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, in which the band commissioned artists to make short films out of their songs, and director Floria Sigismondi didn’t spare any drama for this one.

The gospel-choir choral from Texas has released a Holiday album ‘Holidaydream: Sounds of the Holidays Volume One’, back in October, and just posted this charming animated video for a totally updated version of ‘Let it Snow’. If it wasn’t for the lyrics ‘let it snow’ I wouldn’t have figured out it was that winterland song

Filmed in the hot Californian desert, the mini-movie is a blurry-busy fast-moving experience, hitting the road as fast as the chords on the electric guitar, letting us watch a confused and angry preacher in a cemetery, while Miles Solay’s voice is assaulting the delusion of the American dream with the help of some aggressive trumpet.

This girl seems to embody racy classic Hollywood, as she just played Elizabeth Taylor and is staring in this upcoming sexual noir thriller, ‘The Canyons’, written by Bret Easton Ellis…

‘What you resist persists’…Is there a metaphor somewhere? ‘I didn’t know you had it in you’,… yeah definitely, Bjork embodies the fury of mother earth or suffer from it, and it becomes so personal, ‘My Eurasian plate subsumed’, she sings before the Earth’s second orgasm, or whatever it is….

Tame Impala may be insisting too much on their psychedelic tendency by producing such a mind control designed clip, with bright colors and movements of heads inside heads coming straight from an acid dream, but it is nevertheless fascinating and hypnotic.

she has no problem with releasing a four-minute video clip of herself turning in slow-motion in the smoke, giving the sultry sight,… but despite all her efforts, she is looking as sexy as a somnambulistic zombie.

The story follows a womanizer and heartless man who is trying to reach the heart of a woman with Green Day records, but since he has no heart – and when it is a Green Day video, you have to literally visualize it: there is a giant hole in his cavity chest! – the seductive game doesn’t work out very well.

“Paradise Garage” was the great gay disco hangout that heralded House in all its beauty and my bet is this started a tribute even though the video is aggressively heterosexual. It used to play before the movie at the Waverly on 8th street every saturday and became part of the scene.

After watching it a couple of times, I can tell that the video is as fun as the song is upbeat! Over a catchy chorus and driving guitars, we follow a high-school mini-story involving the two sisters Sarah (on guitar and vocals), Stephanie Snyder (on drums and backing vocals), and a love story viewed by 3 persons,

he anthemic song seems to tell his search for true identity and the delusions and frustrations coming with it, whereas the music sounds like one of these Titus Andronicus classic rock’ n’ roll epic numbers with, of course, a touch of Springsteen’s spirit.

The South African band, which released the video this past week, isn’t afraid to make fun of the Born-This-Way-icon, who, according to two tweets she sent to the band, didn’t really appreciate the joke.

It’s nostalgic with dancing Woodstock hippies and pure Neil Young’s progression chords, the melody reminding some of his greatest songs,… so let’s the good times roll and watch it below:

The video oscillates between darkness and light, mystery and reality, whereas the dream-pop dark song balances between Sha Sabi and Axel Steuerwald’s vocals, and offers tenebrous riffs, which could just fit between those of the Los Angeles indie band Great Northern and famous group Interpol.

Directed by Whitey Mcconnaughy, ‘Lethal Justice’ can be watched like a lost street-action-horror western of the 70s (check out Black’s sky blue suit coming straight from a Starsky and Hutch episode) and starring, beside Mr. Tenacious D