Video Militia

COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "THE BROKEN" - DIR. WEWEREMONKEYS

Coheed and Cambria? Meh.  Try muting this and instead play The Ride Of The Valkyries or Also sprach Zarathustra. These days it's amazing that this fucking-epic, sci-fi film from directors WeWereMonkeys is even a music video.

After watching this video we feel like a couple of tweaked-out, Log Cabin, Republican Congressmen after leaving a gay night-club to drive home drunk to our sleeping wife and kids.  Try and make sense of that while making sense of this video.  Is your mind blown?

HYBRID - "BREAK MY SOUL" - DIR. MIKE TRUMAN

This video is notable for being nicely shot on the Canon 7D, nicely edited with overlapping opacity layers and for all being done by Hybrid's very own Mike Truman.

When we close our eyes and listen to electronic music this video by Beeple is exactly how we would imagine it is made.

Ok Go just upped their own anty on one-off videos by building a massive Rube Goldberg machine... and paying for it with corporate sponsorship. The video, directed by James Frost (noted for his Radiohead "House of Cards" video), was shot in an Echo Park warehouse and reportedly took 60 takes to get a perfect cycle.

On a side note:
We would love to see a foundation like Canada's MuchFACT created in the US to support the future of music video. We think it's an important aspect of promotion for new and established acts, as well as for the development of emerging directors, that should not die with the demise of MTV. This video, and the rapid-fire transmission of it around the Internet, proves the importance of the medium. We hope State Farm Insurance and other sponsors would see the importance of establishing such a foundation.

A nice hand-drawn animation for a change.  The song "Your Car" is about an old Honda Civic Leslie Early drove in high school.  "It was red, had no air conditioning, and only a radio/cassette deck."

Ever had a dream where no matter how hard you scream no sound comes out?  The new Liars video from director Andy Bruntel elicits these same feelings in the viewer.  Stick it out to the very end and wait to see if you open your eyes in time.

Absentee parents, creepy man snooping on twinkster boy, strangely Satanic television broadcasting hypnotic messages... The Casiokids new video "En Vill Hest" could be seen as a loosely, metrosexual take on Donnie Darko. That sounds weird to say so see for yourself.