Music Video
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: The Future Is Your Past. 2022. Directed by Jean De Oliveira and Matilda Reid.
Gorillaz: Gorillaz Presents Skinny Ape in my Dining Room: 2022. What an amazing song. I love this. Clearly, Damon Albarn is miles ahead of the rest. To see a different version of this video, click here. To see a yet-different version, click here.
The Jam: That's Entertainment: 1981. Indie art, circa Clash, Derrida, Basquiat, Black Flag, and, yes, Reagan. Something epic figures forth from this song, which tells me it will sound just as good, maybe better, a hundred years from now.
PJ Harvey: A Place Called Home. 2010.
James K: Ultra Facial!. 2021. She's doing this on zero budget, Can you imagine this aesthetically gifted force with major label money? I can. Keyword: the Bjork of the 2020s and the 2030s, but even better.
The Black Angels: Empires Falling. 2022.
Oli Burslem/Yak: Let It Loose. 2016. Directed by Douglas Hart.
Ride: Charm Assault. 2017. Directed by Jean De Oliveira;
Concept by Anton Newcombe & Jean De Oliveira.
Suicide: Frankie Teardrop: A Film by Douglas Hart. 2022. Directed by original Jesus and Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart. I consider this to be a masterpiece.
ESCAPE-ISM: Rocker's Delight: Directed by Douglas Hart. 2022. Is this found footage from 1962 Hamburg, or is this a sequence of outtakes from a failed 2005 iPod campaign? Did Joe Meek produce this track for The Twilight Zone? Hard to tell, and that's why this video works.
I Break Horses: Death Engine. 2020. This is not necessarily the greatest video; but the track itself is beyond cool.
Party Dozen: The Worker. 2022. Like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs meet Iggy and the Stooges.
The Horrors: Sea Within a Sea: Directed by Douglas Hart. 2009. From Primary Colours, NME's Album of the Year, 2009.
Otoboke Beaver: I Am Not Maternal: 2022. Video and animation by the band's guitarist, yoyoyoshie.
Melody's Echo Chamber: I Follow You: 2012. If I were in a band with a French female singer, I would make music just like this.
Kasabian: Reason Is Treason: 2004. Directed by Scott Lyon. Strangely, they made the video for the alternative mix (the "Jacknife Lee mix," as it's called). The album version of the track is actually better; to hear that, click here.
The Verve: Live in London 1993: Four songs: Star Sail, Slide Away, Virtual World, Blue. This performance, for me, is iconic, possibly for the simple reason that I saw them exactly one month after this October 1993 London show; their performance, absolutely on fire, looked exactly like this, but it was at the Variety Arts Center, downtown LA. The nineties was a horrific time for music; and in my view, the emergence of British indie like The Verve and Suede marked the beginning of an era.