Category: 2022 Music Videos

Alt-J drops new music video for “Hard Drive Gold”

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Alt-J returns to the music video feed with the exciting new single “Hard Drive Gold.”

The track is an advance from the trio’s highly anticipated new LP, The Dream, set to drop on February 11th.

“‘Hard Drive Gold’ is a slightly tongue-in-cheek song written at what we thought was the height of the cryptocurrency gold rush,” Newman says.

t“It’s the story of the ultimate childhood fantasy, the schoolboy who becomes a millionaire overnight, and the different interactions he has with people in his life from teachers to neighbours.”

The video single drop was preceeded by the singles “U&ME” and “Get Better.”

The release of the video marks Alt-J’s Joe Newman’s directorial debut with co-direction from his partner Darcy Wallace.

The Flaming Lips and Nell Smith drop video for ‘Red Right Hand’

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The Flaming Lips and 14-year-old musician Nell Smith have returned with cover of Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand.”

The cover comes from Smith and the band’s Nick Cave covers album, Where the Viaduct Looms, released back in November.

Backdropped with a psychedelic light screen, and with members of The Lips faded into the background, Smith takes center stage coupled with her beautifully-mature vocals and presence.

The performance, captured live on CBS, is the latest in a series of videos, including a stunning cover of Cave’s “Ship Song” dropped in November.

At the end of the performance for “Red Right Hand,” drummer Matthew Kirksey reveals a t-shirt which reads ‘Bad Seed.’

I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versionsNell Smith

Where the Viaduct Looms features nine Nick Cave covers performed by Smith and The Flaming Lips.

“I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later,” Smith said about being asked to record with the band. “It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.”

The record features “Red Right Hand,” plus previously released covers “The Ship Song” and “Girl in Amber,” among others.

The band and Smith first met at a Flaming Lips concert where Wayne Coyne offered the mic to Smith who was seated in the front. Apparently, Coyne heard something special in her voice.

Interesting, the album’s front cover referencing only “Nell” without even a mention of The Flaming Lips. View it and listen to the stream via Bandcamp.

M83 shares video and trilogy plans for ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’ Reissue

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Indie veteran Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83, has jumped into his time machine and traveled back to 2011 – the year of the brilliant M83 album Hurry Up We’re Dreaming.  Now, he has a new video of “My Tears Are Becoming A Sea” to share.

The revisiting of Hurry Up We’re Dreaming involves a larger video trilogy project for the album tracks  “Midnight City,” “Reunion,” and “Wait,”  directed by Sacha Barbin and Ryan Doubiago. Gonzalez will also drop a 10th-anniversary orange vinyl edition of the album (April 15 via Mute). 

Doubiago clarified in a press release: “this story takes place 10 years earlier in order to highlight the first moment one of these children uses their supernatural gifts.

On the way to the hospital and moments before his birth, the child’s parents are victims of a horrible car accident. The unborn child is forced to use his powers to save them from within the womb.

The idea was to show the literal birth of a superhero. We wanted to place this story in a realistic and universal setting. We think that the panic created by this magnificent moment speaks to everyone.

We also wanted to pay homage to the mothers who are too often absent from the mythology of superheroes. And finally, to go beyond the codes of the genre to carry a symbolic message of hope where future generations would come to save us from a dark fate.”