Smoke Break #896: Awesome Video For DJ Shadow’s “Scale It Back” Feat. Little Dragon
November 15, 2011
The just-released video for DJ Shadow’s “Scale It Back” is a trip I don’t mind taking. The memory sequence by Ben Pridmore and the vocals from Yukimi Nagano (of Little Dragon) are brilliant. And who isn’t a sucker for monkey marionettes and breakdancing Mongols?
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The Very Coolest Music Video That You’ve Likely Never Ever Seen Before #295
September 3, 2011
Savage Night At The Opera | Destroyer
Remember back in 2009 when we posted that awesome 1978 film called “Rendezvous”? In it, French film director Claude Lelouch bolted a camera to the front bumper of his Ferrari and had a still anonymous professional Formula 1 driver tear through the heart of Paris at death-defying speeds running red lights and nearly killing dawn’s pedestrians in order to meet up with his girl. It was brilliant. Anyhow, director David Galloway’s new music video for the Destroyer song Savage Night At The Opera was clearly inspired by Lelouch – red lights and all – only it’s Vancouver and not Paris, a motorcycle instead of a Ferrari, and a woman doing the driving instead of a man (the dude she meets up with and hugs in the end is Destroyer front man Dan Bejar). The ride starts in Railtown/Gastown and ends up in Stanley Park. Hold on! This equals amazeballs!
The Very Coolest Music Video That You’ve Likely Never Ever Seen Before #292
May 5, 2011
Trip | Vacationer
The Coolest Music Video That You’ve Likely Never Ever Seen Before #290
April 18, 2011
“Add Ends” | When Saints Go Machine | Directed by Dawn Carol Garcia
The Coolest Music Video You’ve Likely Never Seen Before #287
October 18, 2010
Archie Bronson Outfit | Hoola
The Coolest Music Video You’ve Likely Never Seen Before #286
October 7, 2010
Die Antwoord | Evil Boy
The South African group’s brand new video dropped today, and it’s…characteristically rad, albeit likely only palatable to a minority. It’s probably making the old boers of Bloem kak their khakis right about now, and I like that as much as the video. The language and art are definitely NSFW (the Afrikaans snippets are so much worse/better). Archbishop Desmond Tutu retired from public life today. This is why.
The Coolest Music Video You’ve Likely Never Seen Before #285
October 5, 2010
Cubic Zirconia | Hoes Come Out At Night
(lyrics not safe for work)
The Coolest Music Video You’ve Likely Never Seen Before #284
September 30, 2010
El Guicho | Bombay | Cinematography by Marc Gomez del Moral
WARNING | if you’re easily offended by stuffed teddy bears being shot, overt sexuality and the occasional exposed breast, then this magic Spanish track from El Guincho (aka Pablo Diaz-Reixa) may trouble you deeply…
(ed. note) So we’re launching this new feature – The Coolest Music Video You`ve Likely Never Seen Before – because a) we’re music buffs, b) we love great videos, and c) the 283 music videos we’ve put in the front page sidebar’s “Now On Heavy Rotation In The Scout Office” have never been archived. From our eyes and ears to yours, enjoy!
Smoke Break #705: R2D2 And His Buddies Get Down Like It’s 1997
May 26, 2010
Eclectic Method | “Robots”
Soundtrack #788: Deliverance Versus The Levant In California
April 25, 2010
I’d usually put something like this is the “Now on Heavy Rotation” sidebar slot, but this video for Beauty Beats by electro-acoustic band Beats Antique (Oakland, CA) needs some size to do it justice.
