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Category Archives: Music Review
Music Video of the Day: Zombie by Radiation City (2013, dir by Matthew Gamlen)
Apparently, the world’s ending but, fortunately, your boyfriend’s built an underground bunker!
Unfortunately, you now have to live down there with them and I don’t care how much you love someone, you still occasionally need some alone time. Perhaps if he had built a bigger bunker, you wouldn’t be going as stir-crazy but, as usual, no one asked you how big the bunker should be. Instead, they just said, “Get down there in case the world ends!”
And so, you flee. You break out. You confront the brave new world that is rising from the ashes of the old one.
Of course, a few weeks later, you lose all your hair and you die a slow and agonizing death from radiation poisoning. Fortunately, your boyfriend will probably die too. That’ll teach him to try to put you in a corner.
Anyway, this is an absolutely great video, both wonderfully directed and acted. That’s Cori Benesh and Hill Hudson as the couple in the bunker and they’re so empathetic and believable that you really do cringe when you realize how radioactive the sand between their toes probably is.
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Music Video of the Day: Zombie by Jamie T (2014, dir by James Slater)
What if you turned into a zombie and nobody noticed?
Now, in defense of the pup patrons in this video, when was the last time you ever really paid attention to the band playing at your favorite bar? I mean, I always do but that’s just because I don’t drink so I always have to find something to do while everyone else is getting drunk. So, I probably would have noticed Jamie T. transforming into the undead but I doubt I would have said something just because it’s 2019 and who wants to be a snitch?
My favorite person in this video is the drummer, mostly because she’s not going to let anything — even a discarded arm — keep her from keeping the beat.
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Music Video of the Day: Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper (2009, dir by Daniel Elkayam)
If Cormac McCarthy was writing and directing music videos, the end result would probably be a lot like this brilliant video for Blitzen Trapper’s Black River Killer.
The song may be about a man who is thrown in jail on a whim and charged with the murder of a woman that was found on the Sunset Strip but, as soon becomes obvious, sometimes whims turn out to be correct. The song’s narrator is a murderer, one who kills randomly and without giving it much of a second thought. According to an interview Eric Earley gave to Rainn Wilson, the killer is actually a supernatural force that possesses one individual after another. So, even if the current Black River Killer ceases his activities, a new one will take his place.
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Music Video of the Day: American Horror by Speedy Ortiz (2014, dir by Peter Binswanger)
Needless to say, the part with the dancer being controlled and then transformed into something else totally freaked me out, mostly because I’ve had nightmares like that.
And then, of course, you have the tentacles and the graffiti, which feels like something that H.P. Lovecraft would have come up with if he had lived in New York City in the 1970s and had to travel on the subway everyday. It’s easy to imagine old Howard Lovecraft, heading to an accounting job while staring at the graffiti all around him and wondering what type of monster was responsible for it. Cthulhu tags his territory.
As for the wizard with the eyes — well, glowing eyes are always freaky.
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Music Video of the Day: First Date by Danko Jones (2006, dir by Micah Meisner)
Today’s music video of the day brings us a little more vampire action. I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised. Vampires always seem to inspire musicians in a way that werewolves don’t. This video came out two years before Twilight and it basically tells a less romanticized version of the same story….
Still, there is an odd romance to vampirism, though that might not be obvious from this video. In this video, the vampire just comes across as being a pervy stalker but, in the popular imagination, there’s usually nothing sexier than a centuries-old vampire. Maybe it’s all the ennui.
To be honest, I just like the bottles of blood in the refrigerator. That makes me laugh every time I see it.
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Music Video of The Day: Written in Blood by She Wants Revenge (2007, dir by Justin Warfield)
Oh my God, I love this video.
Everything — from the atmosphere of ominous decadence to the dark cinematography to the wonderfully sordid art direction — just works perfectly. Fortunately, this is one of those videos where we actually have the names of some of the people who worked behind the scenes so here they are:
Director — Justin Warfield
Director of Photography — Simon Thirlaway
Production Design — Ariana Nakata, Production Designer
Costume and Wardrobe — Brooke Dulien and Stefanie King Warfield, Wardrobe Stylists
Great work by all! Jean Rollin would be proud.
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Music Video Of The Day: Fate by Boy Harsher (2018, dir by Bryan M. Ferguson)
I’m not sure if the main character in this video is an actual vampire or just someone with an addiction for raw meat and blood. Either way, it’s obviously not an easy life.
This video was shot in Glasgow, Scotland and the atmospheric cinematography was credited to George Harwood. It’s like a filmed nightmare, which is my favorite type of nightmare.
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Music Video of The Day: Ghost by ERAAS (2013, dir by ????)
Daaaaaaamn….
Seriously, this video is dark but it’s so good!
The message appears to be that you should be careful who you murder because he might have a bunch of friends who will all form a drum circle and bring his ghost back to life to get revenge. That’s actually a pretty important message. There would be a lot less violence in the world if everyone took it to heart.
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Music Video of the Day: Darkness by Fantastic (2014, dir by ????)
I like this video because it’s full of atmosphere and the whole time that you’re watching it, you’re just waiting for the world to end.
It kind of reminds me of when I was in Rome, the summer after I graduated high school. It was around 3 in the morning and because I was a hyperactive little insomniac, I was exploring the hallways of our hotel. I figured everyone else in the hotel was asleep but then I turned a corner and there was a dark-haired woman with ashen skin standing in the middle of the hallway, staring at me.
“What are you doing here?” she asked and I immediately noticed that 1) she had a British accent and 2) she was glaring at me with pure hatred in her eyes.
When I didn’t reply, she said, “I own this hotel, what are you doing here?”
I started to back away from her.
“I OWN THIS HOTEL!” she shouted.
And that’s when I took off running and I didn’t stop running until I got back to my room.
What was scary was that I had already met the owner of the hotel and I know it wasn’t that woman. For the rest of my stay in Rome, I was terrified of running into that woman but I never saw her again. Perhaps she was a ghost or maybe she was just an angry sleep walker. Who knows?
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