With Pinback's new album dropping in a few weeks and the new video being out on MySpace, this seems like a good time to tell you how obsessed we are with them. We needled some details out of their record label about the "From Nothing to Nowhere" video that you may find interesting.
1. It was directed by Josh Nicholas, who has never done a music video before but has produced and direct segments for the Sci Fi Channel as well as FOX Sports.
2. This video was shot in the same location as the newest Kanye video for "The Good Life" which we just happened to have seen today and can confirm is a complete rip-off of Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." video. When it hits the Internet give it a peep, we're certain you'll agree.
3. As you know, Pinback are named after the cult sci-fi film Dark Star. As you may not realize, however, Rob Crow is wearing a homemade Sgt. Pinback suit in this video.
And here's a little clip from when they kindly stopped by the Subterranean studios to promote their last album.
With fan-made videos being all the rage, we'd like your opinion as a fan. Which one of these fan videos is the best one?
The new Bjork "Innocence" fan video, created by a couple of French kids and completed with actual imput from Bjork.
The Shins college student/future music video director video for "Sleeping Lessons," completed with no input from anyone but grant money from Sub Pop and mtvU.
The Decemberists "O Valencia!" video that kicked off a craze - if you never heard the backstory of how this idea came about, the band shot on green screen and then didn't like the animation that their real director brought to them and, under deadline for some promotional materials, ganked the Stephen Colbert green screen idea and allowed a fan to re-animate their video.
Comment and post your votes or a link to your favorite fan video not listed here.
New lovely video from the Against Me! covering Ben Lee. This quite lovely video was directed by Dennis Fitzgerald, who worked on some key music videos for some of your favorite indie artists like The Shins "Saint Simone" and the Decemberists "The Soldiering Life."
Nothing says love like a wild, colorful water balloon fight?
Dunno how often you're going to MTV.com, but you may have noticed that site turned on embed code so now you too can snag tons of great videos for your blog. mtvU.com jumped on board with that plan (finally, they're Mac compatible too) and went one better. They've made their entire Freshman show a cute little embedable linkable entity.
We must encourage you to watch and vote for the Handsome Furs this week. Damn emo bands almost always win these things, with all their viral marketing and manipulation of the Internet.
Oh and while we've got you here? mtvU has a Backstage Pass with Flight of the Conchords. Follow the link to enjoy the actual feature, but here we give you quesitons submitted by fans, which is always the funniest part.
Meant to post ages ago about how much we love this Architecture in Helsinki video/song for "Heart It Races." Cutest thing since sliced bread. Sit down 'n have a slice.
In this, the final installation of the Dappled tour 07, Tim goes, well, crazy.
There’s not much to be said about a 36 hour straight drive from Arizona to Minnesota except maybe aaagggh##hhhhcchtee*ju)))))pullover!!!!!@hatenhhhaggejek,m mn!!!!!!!.
We are doing some gigs with the Fratellis. The drummer is so tough and rad. We saw him come out of a tattoo parlor with two new ink blots before playing a great show. What a drummer. What a tour. Milwaukee in particular struck our love spots. When we return here, we will bring some of our favourite teddy bears and show them around. Oh how Puggles will be impressed.
Next stop, the nation’s capital. Driving around this place in a 12 seater van, with tinted windows and no license plates is a pretty good way to get into trouble. Surprisingly, we escaped without any random body searches (that we didn’t ask for in the first place) and continued on our short tour (now playing headline spot with label mates All Smiles). I’m not going to lie. We played some great gigs in new cities but again didn’t have enough time to do crazy things like smoke a hookah or citizen’s arrest confused and aged retirees. Like children in a candy store filled only with shards of glass, we have frantically made our way between NY, Philly and Boston. I have vague memories of hijacking a 35ft pirate ship and sailing it up the North coast of the Atlantic. I think Mel Gibson was there. Then we got out at Salem and I shot that women (accidentally). And now we are going to try get into Canada. Good luck to us is all I can say. Good luck!
X Tim.
Dapppppppppppppllleeeeeeedddddddd Cities.
We know you've noticed the return of plaid flannel to the fashion world. We've noticed, in our life travels of late, some kids with bad cases of 90s nostalgia for Third Eye Blind and Hole. So lately we've been thinking about our favorite forgotten 90s songs.
In that spirit, here are a few videos for you to enjoy or possibly feel repulsed by, depending on your age and mind-set.
One of the greatest and strangest TV moments ever, courtesy of 120 Minutes.
So, everyone's all...oooh Amy Winehouse is a druggie with Lohan-esque daddy issues! As if we didn't all suspect that already. To figure out Amy Winehouse's future, thought, let's take a look at the past of another "troubled" auteur.
Ryan Adams has a leg up on Amy musically, due to his time served in Whiskeytown (who had a running feud with the Old 97s, a la Lily Allen and Amy - meaning only the former side were participating while the latter found it a bit beneath them), but otherwise we could compare Amy's current period to Ryan's Gold era - top of the world, hit singles, just busting out into the mainstream (although there was no Perez Hilton at the time, which we dearly wish was the case now). Then Adams started releasing spotty work, some good and some bad (as his time was often spent on hitting the streets, hitting the bottle and hitting on the starlets). Then it got oddly prolific and mostly bad. Around the Cold Roses/trio album era we called Adams' record label to see if he'd be making any videos and realized everyone there was afraid of him.
Several years and albums later he's clean again and this is what it looks and sounds like:
We're not saying Amy will follow the same path, since everyone has their own trip down the rabbit hole, but we will say there's a very real possiblity that this is the best work she'll ever do.
In some ways, this entire album by the Bolshoi might be better forgotten. It's from Lindy's Party, which would be their last full length before disbanding. The guys produced it all themselves, but the band best known for Goth anthem "Away" put such a spit shine on that they lost their own sound. This single sits among an a confused album.
We're dusting it off for you, however, because it just hit us that we have to wait until January for the new season of Lost. This song seemed like the approrpriate response to the level of despair that's causing us.
