Today is the premiere of Portland band Menomena’s new video, for the song TAOS off their latest album, Mines.I’ve posted the video, along with an article about why & how director Alicia J. Rose made it. You can read it & watch it at my old stomping grounds, opbmusic.org. Go forth and be seduced!
The interactive category is still a fairly new one, and there were only five I could have possibly put here. Three of them were really boring, but these both are worth spending some time with, particularly the first one.
Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait (taken from The Suburbs)
Plug in the address of the house you grew up in (or lived in at a significant time in your life) and via the magic of Google Maps, the video is set there. I actually found the experience very moving and cathartic, which I didn’t expect from a web application.
Au Revoir Simone - Knight of Wands (taken from Still Night, Still Light)
Who doesn’t like to color as the listen to music, right?
This is the end.
These are brain candy. But it’s gourmet brain candy.
Broken Social Scene - All to All (taken from Forgiveness Rock Record)
When we were kids, my two sisters and I would stand at the top of the stairs, pretend to have a slow-motion fight where one of us would punch the other, who would then fall down the stairs, also in slow motion. The faller would get back up, charge up the stairs (again, still in slow-motion) and punch the other person down. We could cycle like this for hours.
Ratatat - Drugs (taken from LP4)
Just say maybe.
Aeroplane - Superstar (taken from We Can’t Fly)
Fashion has a price. If you’re going to be boring, you may as well be naked.
Holy Fuck - Red Lights (taken from Latin)
Cats are badass and you know it.
It’s not over yet…
We love our stuff. If you think that’s not true, try watching Hoarders or MTV Cribs sometime.
Wax Taylor (feat. Charlie Winston) - I Own You (taken from In the Mood for Life)
Actually, we kind of love our stuff a little too much. Umm… anyone wanna go Ghandi with me?
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop + Wire (taken from Hoop + Wire)
Jason Sivers imagines a world where it’s not our computers & cell phones that unite and achieve sentience, but rather our boxes of tapes, Ataris and alarm clocks that we forgot to clear out from our parents’ attics.
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg version) (taken from Of the Blue Colour of the Sky)
As I said the other day about the marching band version of this song, OK Go have been so generous to pour themselves into these videos to remind us that anything is possible, even a two-story Rube Goldberg machine synced to a pop song.
The end is near…
