MTV jumped the shark, at least when it comes to music video, years ago.
But a video podcast - Blogotheque’s The Take Away Shows - is making music videos relevant again.
“Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in [...]
Radiohead and Google have partnered on a new project that is a very cool example of using cutting-edge video technology, social media and an open source approach to promoting music.
Radiohead’s latest video, for House of Cards, was created without cameras or lights. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of [...]
Weezer’s Pork and Beans video, which features cameos and references to dozens of viral Internet videos, is a viral hit of its own.
Director Mathew Cullen explains the story behind the video:
“We’d been wanting to work with Weezer since their last album,” said Cullen, “and five weeks ago Weezer sent us this song, and we immediately [...]
A scandal has broken out over the fact that the most-viewed video of all time on YouTube, Evolution of Dance, has been beaten by a fan video for the song Music is My Hot Hot Sex.
A lot of people are crying foul - not just because the Hot Hot Sex video is so bad, [...]
iPhones are great for listening to music - you can rip and copy over your CDs, you can get music off of iTunes and you can subscribe to one of the many free music podcasts.
But iPhones aren’t just for listening to music. There’s a growing number of applications for jailbroken iPhones that let you [...]
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 already [...]
It looks like the music industry has figured out a new way to anger music lovers.
Suretone Records, a label distributed by the Universal Music Group, plans to start distributing free video files featuring popular acts like Weezer and new bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous on file-sharing networks.
The music videos will not be wrapped in protective [...]
The Sonny Rollins Podcast, a new monthly video series, focuses on tenor saxophone legend Sonny Rollins and his music. The series tells Sonny’s story through interviews with band members, friends, fans, family, and Sonny himself, and utilizes performances current and classic as well as backstage footage.
“These podcasts are essentially an ongoing documentary film that will [...]
