The Dead Weather eyeing Treat Me Like Your Mother video

Directed by Jonathan Glazer from the album, Horehound.

Fans of all degrees can join The Dead Weather's, "The Vault," and depending on your fandom(money spent) you will be receiving unique material in your mail. The social networking style site is run by the band's label, Third Man Records. Those who sign up for the maximum $20 fee, quarterly Third Man 12"s and the occasional limited 7" will be coming your way.

The video builds and builds and then it just ends. The two characters are horrendous shots, and who plays chicken with guns anyway? Quite disappointed overall, the production level was high but the visual story was missing, unless I missed something...

Third Eye Blind eyeing Don't Believe A Word video

Directed by Stephan Jenkins from the album, Ursa Major.

Those who will be in New York city on July 17 can attend a free show at Central Park. Third Eye Blind will be taping for Good Morning America for those willing to be there at 6 a.m. when gates open.

Stop motion + performance video = whatever this was...

Ash eyeing Return of White Rabbit video

Directed by Nico Jones from the A-Z Series singles.

Like many band releasing music in the new digital age, Ash will be embracing the new technology with the digital consumption of listeners in mind. Beginning in September, the band will be releasing one out of 26 tracks every two weeks through digital outlets and also vinyl for those on that side of the coin. Download Return of White Rabbit here. [Link provided on band's website]

Unrequited love from childhood through adulthood would definitely make the character's actions in the video acceptable. He wasn't even rejected by the ladies, just simply too shy to pull the trigger. Too bad he chose a ridiculous method to end the cycle. Great art style that keeps the story moving...

Spinnerette eyeing Baptized by Fire video

Directed by Chris Hopewell from the album, Spinnerette.

Brody Dalle former vocalist for the Australian band, The Distillers, described her new band's sound as Chinese rock, folk doom and Gaelic disco. And as a side note for M&M's fans, her favourite color is yellow. [Shakefire]

The sea backdrop and ship props fit well to the backing track. Too bad she wasn't literally on a boat sailing away, instead of singing around a beached, decrepit boat. It would have given the video a more uplifting feel which the song does well.

Story of the Year eyeing Terrified video

From the album, The Black Swan.

The band's third release, The Black Swan, felt like a total renewal for the band. So much so that they switched to Epitaph records. The album's name comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book of the same title.

Touching tribute to the soldiers serving. May they return safe.

In This Moment eyeing Call Me video

Directed by Nathan T. Heys from the album, The Dream- Special Edition.

Some random In This Moment trivia. Maria Brink's(vocalist) first tattoo was of an infinity sign, symbolizing the connection between Maria and her son. Sheri Bodell creates the dresses Maria wears on stage, though she sometimes creates her own from vintage shop purchases. [changetherecord]

Taking a cue from the original Blondie music video, Maria lies seductively on a round bed belting out the band's cover version. As with the original, the backing instruments are thrown in through performance footage. These shots feature green screen work that look like they were left to the last minute. The blurred edges on the white background are quite distracting when the video just cut from the standalone shots of Maria. Few times where you have a cover song and video...

The Brainchild eyeing Conversational Tennis

From the album, Conversational Tennis.

Chris Dowling(vocals, guitar) has played since he was 10 years old, professionally since he was 15, his first gig was in front of 1000 people. He ended up supporting the likes of Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Queen before settling into a band.

Video footage taken from a tennis loving family reunion can be viewed below. Nothing really stands out while watching, though the grandma(?) juggling one object and being proud of it does bring a chuckle...


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Sonic Youth eyeing Sacred Trickster

Directed by Tom Surgal from the album, The Eternal.

Initially the band went under the name 'Arcadians' before renaming it was changed to Sonic Youth in the early 80's. They were the first act to be signed to Neutral Records in 1981.

Long lead up to a quick climax, down with corporate culture. They spent a lot of time to look like the part but for some reason decided not to act while on location. And unless there was acid in the paint, why the reaction from the victims?

Linkin Park eyeing New Divide

Directed by Joe Hahn from the album, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Linkin Park provided more than a track for the Transformers film. New Divide will be used as a thematic element to score sections of the movie, therefore various "interpolations" were created together with world renowned composer Hans Zimmer.

Just like a Michael Bay movie slams you with explosions, the video seems to be a never ending reel of special effects. The pixel bleeding used to transition between the movie and the band works well to keep from making it just another typical movie tie in. The rest seems to try and make the clip as visually appealing as possible though it might make sense after watching the movie, the ghostly halos, etc.

We Were Promised Jetpacks eyeing Roll Up Your Sleeves

Directed by Mark Charlton from the album, These Four Walls.

Fans of the band living in England, or are heading there in the next few weeks can win tickets their June 18 show by clicking here. Also if you're a super fan, you can message them at their Myspace address and get the chance to receive WWPJ's phone number.

Old school South Park comes to mind at first site of the video. The "floating" paper placements help focus the viewer on the important parts of the performance. Summer is coming...

Dinosaur Jr. eyeing Over it

Directed by Marke Locke from the album, Farm.

The Dinosaur Jr. name was put to rest in 1999 after many of the original members had either left or retired. They reunited in 2005 releasing their first album, Beyond, - with the original three members since 1988 involved - two years later.

If all the tricks were pulled off by the band, kudos. Its great to know that the likes of Tony Hawk won't have an age excuse to why they are not pulling off crazy lines. This leaves room open for X Games, the I'm not over it yet edition...

Kings of Leon eyeing Notion

From the album, Only By the Night.

Only a couple of days after the release of their third album, Because of the Times, lead singer Caleb Followill stated that new tracks were already on tap for their fourth outing. That album, Only By the Night went on to be the best selling album of 2008 in Australia.

True story potential seems to have been missed in the video. The lead walks against traffic and ends up at a burning building. One would think he's trying to save someone but it never comes. Even the band playing in the exploding building seems nonsensical, but its good eye candy for the Michael Bay fans. Looks like they don't make it out...


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Paul Dempsey eyeing Out The Airlock

Directed by Bart Borghesi from the album, Everything Is True.

Paul Dempsey is lead singer for the Australian band Something For Kate. Everything Is True is his first album as a solo artist.

Sometimes the video had a "Godzilla" feel to it with Paul towering over the city but in the end the final product was relaxing. His placement into the faux background was done well, it would have been nice if he did more than walk. Maybe interact with the townspeople or something along those lines. Train never comes...



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Bat For Lashes eyeing Pearl's Dream

From the album, Two Suns.

Two Suns is, "a record of modern-day fables exploring dualities on a number of levels – two lovers, two planets, two sides of a personality," according to its press release. Fitting for her work has been compared from the like of Fleetwood Mac to Björk.

So far so good for the video releases from "Two Suns". Another abstract video though this one seems more telling. A fight with the inner demons within us though based on the wig color choice, one would think that the wrong Natasha died. Yes, there are two, find out below...

Patrick Wolf eyeing Hard Times

Directed by Ace Norton from the album, The Bachelor.

At age 16, Patrick earned money by performing on the streets with a string quartet in London. After performing at a club in Paris, Kristian Robinson(Capitol K), released Wolf's debut album Lycanthropy.

The blacklight scenes that appear quaterway into the video do really well to keep one's attention. The colors are already blinding but to add a kaleidoscope effect makes the viewer's eyes bulge out of their sockets. By the way, some people weren't actually drumming...


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Snow Patrol eyeing The Planets Bend Between Us

From the album, A Hundred Million Suns.

The music video was shot in Cape Town, South Africa where the band was playing the Coke Zero Festival. Lead singer Gary Lightbody is also working on two solo projects. A "Napoleonic rock-band collaboration" titled Listen Tank and a country album, Tired Pony.

Maybe looking too much into it but the video seems to have the theme that humans affect the world around them. Beach looks great...


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Mute Math eyeing Spotlight (Twilight Mix)

Directed by Brandon Goodwin from the EP, Spotlight.

The video took twelve minutes to shoot, was one take and the band nailed it on the first shot.

Literally taking your music on the road...

311 eyeing Hey You

Directed by Joe Lynch from the album, Uplifter.

As fans may or may not know, the "311" band name came from an indecent exposure ticket Jim Watson -guitarist who left the band- received for skinny dipping.

A sign spinner battle...


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Chris Cornell eyeing Long Gone (Howard Benson Remix)

Directed by Matt Alonzo from the album, Scream.

During the 2008 Projekt Revolution tour, Chris Cornell, one of the performing acts, would join Linkin Park during their performance of Krwlng from the Reanimation album.

Extreme shooting locations...


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U2 eyeing Magnificent

Directed by Alex Courtez from the album, No Line On The Horizon.

The band's time spent in Fez, Morocco aided in making the album more experimental than their previous two and was also the location for the Magnificent video.

Removing the covers from the eyes...