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Promo Promo: DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rok
New DJ Shadow tune, EP, album coming soon
15th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Promo Promo: J Mascis - Is It done
J Mascis is also guesting on a Fruit Bats tune
12th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right Revisited International Version
full-length version of the Beastie's new cameo-tastic dance party showdown
23rd Apr 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Nine Types of Light - The Movie
TV On The Radio's new album might not be the immediate attention-grabber that Dear Science was, but it's a grower. In support of the album, TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe has directed an album-length promo, with a little help from his friends.
Warning: there's an 80's video-art vibe to the opening.
Watch at YouTube. Trailer version below.
20th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
looks like they are using some kind of Hipstamatic video app here
31st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: TV On The Radio - Will Do
now that's a pair of 3D glasses
23rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Cat's Eyes I Knew It Was Over (Performed Live at the Vatican)
not a bad place for a first gig. new side project from Faris Horrors
17th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: David Lynch Directs Duran Duran
weird. this is like the time Andy Warhol directed a video for Curiosity Killed The Cat
16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The National - Conversation 16
The National, John "Roger Sterling" Slattery and Kristen "Conchords" Schaal all together in a Secret Service/ President of the US video? if we were on Facebook this would probably qualify as LIKE
10th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap
a song about secret handshakes. stick around for the burning chimp at the end
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3rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness
first vid from the Strokes. like how the bass player still looks like he's a fan playing along in his bedroom ...
2nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Tyler The Creator - Yonkers
new bug-eating vid from the latest XL signing
24th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Radiohead - Lotus Flower
It seems to be UK only, so I haven't actually watched it here in Berlin - but I'm assuming the new Radiohead video for 'Lotus Flower' will be worth a few minutes of your time.
My copy of the new album will arrive in approximately 14 minutes. German WIFI. Bah!
18th Feb 2011 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Foo Fighters - White Limo
Sabotage-esque video up for new Foo Fighters track White Limo. With added Lemmy.
14th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: She & Him
Promo up for "Don't Look Back" from M.Ward / Zooey Deschanel side-project She & Him.
28th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sour Mirror
Another incredible HTML5 video, not unlike Arcade Fire's recent effort - but actually a bit cleverer.
As with all these smart ass things though, it won't work on phones or ipads - and you need to allow pop up windows.
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10th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Neil Young - Angry World
Neil Young's playing with his delay pedal here
2nd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Titus Andronicus
OK, technically, it's not a promo - but check out this live clip of bearded-heavyweights Titus Andronicus kicking out an epic rendition of The Battle Of Hampton Roads for FORNOONE.tv
15th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Misunderstanding
Another slice of literal translation into video form, with Phil Collins having some kind of Misunderstanding in 1980's LA. It's now a nostalgia piece, featuring a bearded, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing Phil singing in the rain down a telephone, plus many sites of LA - including the demolished drive-in where DeNiro and his gang had a shootout in Heat.
28th Sep 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Everyday Is Like Sunday
Morrissey's classic single Everyday Is Like Sunday is back on the digital record shelves today, in support of the upcoming Bona Drag re-issue. So, here's the classic video that accompanies the track - featuring a literal depiction of nearly every line in the song, with added walkman-sporting-moody-teenager and freeze frame ending. Love it.
27th Sep 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Hair Song
Black Mountain may be edging towards the mainstream with their release of new album Wilderness Heart, with their recent Jimmy Fallon appearance heading the charge.
They are now filming promos with actors and everything.... though the 'boy meets girl and watches Black Mountain in ruins vibe' is still keeping it real. Or was it all in his mind?
7th Sep 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Arcade Fire - The Wilderness Downtown
taking pop videos to a whole new level thanks to some HTML5, Arcade Fire's latest interacts with your home town address for a personalised (ish) experience
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2nd Sep 2010 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Ratatat - Drugs
great video by Carl Burgess, great piece over at Creative Review on the making of - all taken from found footage in the Getty Archive
20th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Cloudbusting
Stellar slice of epic 80's promo action for Kate Bush's hit Cloudbusting. Terry Gilliam conceived the clip, Julian Doyle directed and Donald Sutherland stars. I remember this one getting a screening in the cinema before a feature in 1985, which would make BTTF a contender for the feature.
19th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Postal Service
Loving the love-in-the-microchip-factory vibe of this video for Such Great Heights by The Postal Service from back in 2003. Bands of this size just don't get MTV-Ready videos like this any more.
13th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Coral - 1000 Years
The Coral rocking the desert/astronaut look in their new video
5th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Not Band of Horses
Bizarre cover, even more bizare (NSFW) video. Cee-lo does Band of Horses.
1st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sour
It's won some best video awards and had 2M+ hits on YouTube. Check out the Gondry-esque maniacal organisation of SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'.
Via Sound Theory
29th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Black Mountain - Old Fangs
Black Mountain's psyco-delic promo for Old Fangs is not all together surprising. Nice rims.
23rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Roots feat. Jim James
Promo up the The Roots re-imagining of Monster of Folk's Dear God. Jim James goes to the big city.
23rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
one of the mellower numbers on the new Gorillaz album; nice to see Lou Reed underwater in a submarine
16th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Field Music - Let's Write A Book
old school cut n paste style video
7th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Black Keys
Bikinis and a singing dinosaur. What's not to like?
21st May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Cornelius - Coloris
tune that Cornelius did for a Game Boy game
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19th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Fall - Bury! PTS 2+4
Nice slow-mo pro-mo up from The Fall's new album - Your Future Our Clutter
7th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Gayngs - Cry
new Jagjaguwar supergroup Gayngs w Justin "Bon Iver" Vernon
5th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union
Promo up for one of Titus Andronicus' most Springsteen-channeling songs - A More Perfect Union. As noted in the YouTube comments "The lead singer looks like one of those 3 villans from Superman 2".
28th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: M.I.A. - Born Free
another full-on long-form pop video, this one's directed by Romain Gavras (son of Costa Gavras) bit more serious than Lady GaGa's
28th Apr 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Spike Jonze vs LCD
Promo up for the new LCD Soundsystem single Drunk Girls, co-directed by Spike Jonze and James Murphy. Fun video, but sadly the song falls into the annoying 'Beats. On. Repeat.' category of the band's catalogue.
19th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park/Promo Promo: LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
this is a new one - a trailer for a video... still, it's LCD, and it's great
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7th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Erykah Badu - Window Seat
Erykah Badu's walking backwards through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, putting her clothes on in her new video
5th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Band Of Horses - Compliments
like how the new Band Of Horses video looks like an iPhoto slideshow
2nd Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Beck v INXS!
Beck's Record Club have turned to INXS's 1987 hit Kick for their next project - been thinking it was about time for that revival. Guns In The Sky is up first, more to follow soon.
1st Apr 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Monsters of Folk
Two nice promos up for Dear God, the album highlight from last year's Monsters of Folk album. The video above was directed by Laura Faggioni, while the one below was fan-made, and the winner of a competition run by the band....
31st Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Hot Chip - I Feel Better
on the strength of this, they should let more comedians like Peter Serafinowicz direct pop videos...
24th Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Mia Doi Todd, dir. Michel Gondry
Great new Gondry video up for Mia Doi Todd's Open Your Heart.
via Sound Theory
23rd Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Martini Ranch
Interesting slice of 80's pop trivia - a promo for Bill Paxton's band in the 80's, Martini Ranch. Forget the forgettable track, but check the wild west/sci-fi video, which was directed by James Cameron and features a handful of cameos (including Reiser and Henriksen from Aliens) in support of Paxton. And presumably wishing to keep Cameron on side.
Most interesting cameo? Cameron's previous wife and now Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow.
Reach!
22nd Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Devendra Banhart - Baby
guestastic video for DB's new one - GZA, Fab Strokes, MGMT dude etc
19th Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Predators
another franchise that just won't die: here comes... PredatorS
16th Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet