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Promo Promo: Steve Mason - All Come Down
simple lo-fi stylings for this video from Steve Mason's new album. the ex-Beta Band/King Biscuit Time/Black Affair dude has hooked up w Richard X this time. MPFree here more studio action here
2nd Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Promo Promo: Wishing On A Star
Great early trip hop video, notable for highlighting some classic Bristolian skate spots.
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22nd Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Metal on Metal
Nice slice of Battle Royale style ping pong horror in this promo for Metal on Metal. Promo by The Glue Society.
21st Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Pinkmountaintops
Forgot to post this when it debuted, but check out this slick promo from The Pinkmountaintops for their track Execution.
Directed by Shira Blustein.
17th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Nice low-budget promo up for the new Vampire Weekend track, Cousins.
Directed by Garth Jennings of Hammer & Tongs. Check out his rough mock-up from the pitch below.
8th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
NSFW headtripperry from Yeasayer - point, click, move around for this oddball video
7th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: OKGO
Great one take promo up for OKGO's track WTF?
Directed by Tim Nacksashi
4th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Themselves
Nice n freaky promo up for Themselves' track Roman Is As Roman Does.
12th Nov 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Deuce Poppi - My White Friends
does this qualify as stuff white people like?
2nd Nov 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang
quite like this non-video promo thing for a new slice of riffrenzy from Them Crooked Vultures (aka Queens of Zep Foo - Josh Homme, John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl)
28th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Longcut
Nice old-school promo up for the new single Repeated from Chimp favourites The Longcut.
New album Open Hearts arrived a couple of weeks back, while Repeated in out today on Melodic.
26th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Weezer
Slightly dumb/fun promo up for the new Weezer single - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To. Welcome to Weezerville.
22nd Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Spiral Stairs
Just in time for the announcement of the Pavement reunion, check out Spiral Stairs new promo for Stolen Pills, from his new album The Real Feel.
22nd Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
Nice lo-fi promo up for the new Arctic Monkeys single - Cornerstone.
16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: It's My Party
Don't ask, but I stumbled across this video for the Barbara Gaskin & Dave Stewart hit It's My Party from 1981. Could have been shot in 2000's Shoreditch.
5th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Flaming Lips - I Can Be A Frog
Nice, simple but effective video up for the new Flaming Lips track - I Can Be A Frog.
30th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Riot In Lagos
continuing this week's random Ryuichi Sakamoto video picks: some live footage of YMO's classic Riot In Lagos live in LA 1980, introduced by Herb Alpert looking like David Duchovny
24th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games
I'd like to play the game with the skateboarder dodging lasers from a UFO in the background before YMO take it all Tron
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23rd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sakamoto / Sylvian - Bamboo Music
for some reason, it's the Bamboo Houses side that stands out in my memory of this great double A 12" from David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto (must have had that on playing on an endless C90 loop for a month or two); turns out the other side, Bamboo Music, isn't bad either, and there's a video, preserved in full 80s-vision on everythingeverTube
22nd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Thom Yorke - All For The Best
Rolling Stone have got the video for Thom Yorke's cover of Mark Mulcahy's All For The Best from Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs Of Mark Mulcahy
21st Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: VU & Nico - Femme Fatale
well, it's probably not really all the Velvets, but looks like Lou and John backing Nico on Spanish TV in 1975?
15th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home
a little Friday freakpower from back in the days when the Stones weren't quite the international conglomerate they are now, via Dangerous Minds
11th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Beck - Time Bomb
the internet hates a vacuum: no video for Beck's new single? don't worry, some DIY ones will appear soon enough
11th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Van Morrison
Not sure if it's down to YouTube sorting out their deal with PRS or what, but Van Morrison's been filling up his Official Exile Films page with more gems from the vaults, like this super tight Street Choir jam from 1974 in Montreux
10th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Air - Sing Sang Sung
new Air album on the way - Love 2 - in October
9th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: How You Like Me Now?
Nice promo for The Heavy's new track How You like Me Now?
4th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Pink Mountaintops
Nice promo up for the Pink Mountaintops track Execution, form the recent album Outside Love.
18th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Big Pink
Currently getting very highly tipped, check out the promo for The Big Pink's single Dominos.
Another nice old-school promo from Timothy Saccenti, who did that Chairlift one.
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Stardeath and White Dwarfs with the Flaming Lips
Drop some acid and check out this trippy new video from Stardeath And White Dwarfs. The psychedelic clip is directed by the Flamig Lips' own Wayne Coyne - easy to arrange if he's your uncle.
The band (Stardeath, not The Flaming Lips) will be headlining a show on the 14th of September at the Islington Academy. Tickets here.
Their album is garnering high praise from Team Chimpomatic here.
13th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Coldplay
Lovely, ingenious video up for Coldplay's new track Strawberry Swing, directed by animating legends Shynola.
Trailer below, but you can see the whole video over at Babelgum.
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Death Cab For Cutie
Interesting story from Atlantic Records regarding the new Death Cab For Cutie promo for - Little Bribes.
The film was put together as a time-lapse showreel piece for film maker Ross Ching, who included a 'looking for work' note on his Vimeo page. Death Cab saw the video and liked it so much they decoded to use it as their official promo.
15th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Beck's Record Club - Sunday Morning
Beck's got a new project - re-recording his favourite albums in 24 hours with his pals - more here
14th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Jonathan Glazer vs the Dead Weather
Promo legend Jonathan Glazer has been back in action, with a new promo for the Dead Weather's single Treat Me Like Your Mother.
More info at Creative Review.
13th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Chairlift
Nicely shot promo up for the iPod-soundtrack-track Bruises, by Chairlift - which is getting a post-ad re-release.
Nice to see people still putting effort and money into promos.
6th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Dirty Projectors
Nicely shot promo up for the new Dirty Projectors single - Stillness Is The Move.
Directed by Matthew Lessner, the video was shot on location out in Vermont and 'features siberian huskies and rare llamas'.
2nd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Dan Black - Symphonies
someone's seen a lot of films...
1st Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: We Have Band
Nice promo up for hotly tipped/unsigned disco poppers We Have Band. Shot and animated entirely from stills - and if you so wish you can get the stills here and assemble your own version.
19th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Jason Lytle
Nicely shot slow-mo promo from The General Assembly for Jason Lytle's track I Am Lost (And The Moment Cannot Last). Watch a hi-res version here.
17th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or Dinosaur vs Promo Promo
It's Skate or Die vs Promo Promo this week, for this cleverly put together video for Dinosaur Jr's new single Over It. Keep an eye out for Mike Watt too.
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16th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Animal Collective
Psychedelic promo up for Animal Collective's Summertime Clothes.
12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Little Joy and BSP
Nice Super-8 promo up for Little Joy's new single Next Time Around, and an excerpt from the British Sea Power soundtrack to that Man Of Aran restoration, that we have talked about before.
22nd May 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Pink Mountaintops
Hot on the heels of last night's show at The Borderline (review tomorrow), check out the Pink Mountaintops' new promo for While We Were Dreaming, from Outside Love (review).
12th May 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Desecration Smile
A little out of date now, but I'm loving this promo for Desecration Smile, from RHCP's Stadium Arcadium (review).
7th May 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Madness vs The Horrors
Two new promos up - the entertaining Dust Devil from Madness (read Creative Review's article here) and the non-Chris Cunningham directed Who Can Say, from The Horrors' latest album Primary Colours.
1st May 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: M. Ward + Breeders
New clips up for Buddy Holly cover Rave On, by M. Ward and The Breeders roller-hockey fight-fest Fate to Fatal, from their new EP.
22nd Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Friendship
Nice promo up for The Graveyard Shift, by Friendship. Single out through the Too Pure singles club.
21st Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Richard Swift
Slightly creepy promo up for Lady Luck, from Richard Swift's latest album - The Atlantic Ocean.
17th Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1)
Michel Gondry's offering a dvd sequel to his Director's collection: cunningly called Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1) - it's available online on his site, and is stuffed full w more Bjork, Beck, Radiohead etc etc - and also YouTube curios like Michel Gondry Solves A RUBIK'S CUBE With His Feet. Best of all though, you can also get him to do a portrait of you if you send in a pic (and $19.95)
15th Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The National & Yeasayer
Couple of promos up from the Dark Was The Night compilation, directed by The National's cohort Vincent Moon. The National's So Far Around The Bend up top, Yeasayer's Knotty Pine below.
3rd Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet