David Lynch wants you to direct his music video. Lynch – best know for directing cult films like Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and the TV series Twin Peaks, has released an electronica single, Good Day Today / I Know, and launched a music video competition to promote the track. There will be 10 finalists chosen [...]

New media and cheap technology is making it easy for anyone to podcast, video podcast and create all types of media for the Web. It’s a mistake, though, to think that this revolution is limited to low-budget indies. Check out this concert video for Nine Inch Nails‘ performance of Survivalism, live in Atlanta, GA, May [...]

Daft Punk is working on a live concert DVD, created from footage shot by the audience at the Bercy Live Show in Paris. The Daft Punk Alive 2007 DVD looks like it will be the Cloverfield of concert DVDs. It will feature high-quality sound recorded by Daft Punk synced to audience footage. A preview is [...]

The Rolling Stones have launched a new channel on YouTube, Living Legends. Visitors can upload video questions for the band, and the best questions will be answered by the Stones. It’s an interesting use of the site, but I’d like to see them experimenting with letting fans make creative use of Stones music or music [...]

Gravitas is a unique video podcast that pairs original music compositions with computer graphic simulations of the universe in motion. Here’s the podcast description: GRAVITAS is a visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity. Animations from supercomputer simulations of forming galaxies, star clusters, galaxy clusters, and galaxy interactions [...]

Microsoft’s downloadable media portal, the Zune Marketplace, announced the publication of Zune’s first video podcast, a behind-the-scenes profile of metalcore band The Black Dahlia Murder. Zune sent a video crew out to shadow The Black Dahlia Murder on the New York City stop of their current US headlining tour, capturing a day in the life [...]

YouTube has announced a new music video competition, YouTube OntheRise Rap Edition. The video contest hopes to find the best upcoming rap and hip-hop artists in the US. Interested artists can submit original videos from Friday, August 10 through Friday, August 17. 50 Cent, Common and Polow da Don will help judge the contest and [...]

It looks like the recording industry has learned that the promotional value of music videos is worth more than revenue from digital music video sales. Both EMI and Warner have announced plans to offer free Internet music videos. EMI Music, Google and YouTube Announce Partnership EMI Music, Google and YouTube today announced an agreement which [...]

Ozzy Osbourne wants you to direct his next video, for the track I Don’t Wanna Stop from his upcoming album Black Rain. He’s offering prizes for the best music video, including a Sony HD video cam. Here are the details: Here’s what we’re looking for. Ozzy wants a video for his new single “I Don’t [...]

London-based social networking/music website Last.fm has announced that it will be using its connections with major and independent record labels to bring video recommendations to the site this week. This new offering enables users to create their own personalised video “channels” filtered according to their musical tastes – much like the way that users can [...]