I'll have to watch James Blake's video for his heady, luminescent new single "Retrograde" a few more times before I have any idea what's going on. But the dark and mysterious clip, directed by Martin…   Read Story »

The music-video universe took a bit of a week off this week; Labor Day, I guess, will do that. But there was still plenty of good stuff out this week; the relative scarcity just meant that I didn't…   Read Story »

David Byrne and St. Vincent have teamed up to record the herky-jerk pop-funk album Love This Giant, and it comes out next week. And now we get the appealingly loony black-and-white sketch of a video…   Read Story »

In his video for the Metals song "Anti-Pioneer," director Martin de Thurah shoots Leslie Feist in flickering darkness and worshipful close-up. If "lush black-and-white" is a thing that exists, it…   Read Story »

This week we've got new clips from Depeche Mode, James Blake, Beyoncé, Calvin Harris, Princeton, and Alcoholic Faith Mission. The Depeche Mode clip is directed by Patrick Daughters. He's one of my…   Read Story »

James's spellbinding cover of Feist's "The Limit To Your Love" gives a clean look at the experimental UK producer remarkable voice, a remarkable pristine and powerful thing for someone spending so…   Read Story »