Top Music Videos of October '12 (Via SeenYourVideo.com)

Each month at our sister blog, Seen Your Video, we watch a ton of music videos and share the best ones with you. These are my five favorites for the month of October. Topping the list are slumdog breakdance champions, disturbing / adorable pets, stop-motion puppetry, mind-bending levitation and one very freaky forest . Watch the videos below!

5. Post War Years “The Bell” (dir. Tobias Stretch

4. Metronomy “Hypnose (Late Night Tales)” (dir. Daniel Brereton)

3. Connan Mockasin “Faking Jazz Together” (dir. Fleur & Manu)

2. Rudimental “Not Giving In” (dir. Josh Cole)

1. Half Moon Run “Call Me In The Afternoon” (dir. Człowiek Kamera)

HM:

Young Dreams “Fog Of War” (dir. Kristoffer Borgli)
Lord Cry Cry “Blind Lightnin’ Floor” (dir. Francis Kamprath)
 Young Rival “Two Reasons” (dir. James Kuhn)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Top Music Videos of September '12 (Via SeenYourVideo.com)

Each month at our sister blog, Seen Your Video, we watch a ton of music videos and share the best ones with you. These are my five favorites for the month of September. Topping the list are eccentric dancing, surrealistic urban storytelling, body-poppers in art galleries, Elle Fanning in the woods and a wandering figure skater. Watch the videos below!

5. AlunaGeorge “Your Drums, Your Love” (dir. Henry Scholfield)

4. Woodkid “Lolita Lempicka” (dir. Yoann Lemoine)

3. David Byrne & St Vincent “Who” (dir. Martin de Thurah)

2. Grizzly Bear “Yet Again” (dir. Emily Kai Bock)

1. Flying Lotus “Until The Quiet Comes” (dir. Kahlil Joseph)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Top Music Videos of August ’12 (via SeenYourVideo.com)

Each month at our sister blog, Seen Your Video, we watch a ton of music videos and share the best ones with you. These are my five favorites for the month of August. Topping the list are compiled student drawings, gorgeous desert landscapes, bizarre birthday parties, trippy mirror effects, and some truly astonishing workplace etiquette. Watch the videos below!

5. Michael Andrews “Bubbles in Space” (dir. Josh Hassin)

4. Cave Painting “So Calm” (dir. Jimmy Ahlander & Robin Antiga)

3. 2 Chainz “Birthday Song” ft. Kanye West (dir. Andreas Nilsson)

2. JJ DOOM – Guv’nor (dir. Ninian Doff)

1. Antony and the Johnsons “Cut The World” (dir. Nabil)

HM:

Two Door Cinema Club “Sleep Alone” (dir. AB/CD/CD)
Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built” (dir. Jim Larson)
Benga “Pour Your Love” (dir. Guillaume Panariello)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Listen: Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn't

The delightful title track to Jens Leman‘s latest opus I Know What Love Isn’t comes in the middle of an amazing 4-song run that ends the album. Although the song lives outside the main narrative, reflecting on a relationship with a friend whom Jens considered marrying for citizenship rather than love, it illustrates the album’s theme of living with a broken heart beautifully. And it does it in a way only Jens Lekman can, with lyrical dashes of whimsy, melancholy and humor set against a breezy flute-and-strings arrangement and one of his most infectious, unforgettable melodies yet.

Stream the track and watch a video of Jens performing a stripped-down acoustic version below. You can pre-order I Know What Love Isn’t at Secretly Canadian.

Jens Lekman – “I Know What Love Isn’t” by Secretly Canadian

Top Music Videos of July ’12 (via SeenYourVideo.com)

Each month at our sister blog, Seen Your Video, we watch a ton of music videos and share the best ones with you. These are my five favorites for the month of July. Topping the list are futuristic hybrid-sports games, 80’s public access TV parodies, enchanted dream worlds, hilarious telephone-game shenanigans and highly symbolic interpretative dancing. Watch the videos below!

5. JUSTICE “New Lands” (dir. CANADA)

4. OFF! “Borrow and Bomb” & “I Got News for You” (dir. Whitey McConnaughy)

3. Purity Ring “Fineshrine” (dir. Young Replicant)

2. Dan Deacon “True Thrush” (dir. Ben O’Brien and Dan Deacon)

1. Bat For Lashes “Laura” (dir. Noel Paul)

HM:

Active Child “Johnny Belinda” (dir. Dylan Wiehahn)
Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra “Want it Back” (dir. Jim Batt) [NSFW]
Todd Terje “Inspector Norse” (dir. Kristoffer Borgli)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Top Music Videos of June ’12 (via SeenYourVideo.com)

Each month, I post my 5 favorite music videos that we’ve featured on our sister blog, Seen Your Video. In June, we added Chris Deline (previously of Culture Bully) as a writer on the site, and topping our list of videos was whimsical urban dance leagues, hipsters committing increasingly dangerous acts, mysterious boxes and Shia LaBoeuf as a bearded interpretative dancer. Watch the videos below!

5. Hilary Hahn and Hauschka “Draw a Map” (dir. Eric Epstein)

4. Beirut “The Rip Tide” (dir. Houmam Abdalla)

3. Be Brave Benjamin “Devil Fool” (dir. Pablo Maestres)

2. Sigur Rós “Fjögur Píanó” (dir. Alma Har’el) [NSFW]

1. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros “Man On Fire” (dir. Brady Corbet)

HM:

Danny Brown “Grown Up” (dir. Greg Brunkalla)
Lana Del Rey “National Anthem” (dir. Anthony Mandler)
Slow Club “Beginners” (dir. Lucy Needs)
Aesop Rock “ZZZ Top” (dir. Pete Lee)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Top Music Videos of May ’12 (via SeenYourVideo.com)

Every month, I post my 5 favorite videos that we’ve featured on Seen Your Video (our music video-obsessed sister blog). May happened to be an outstanding month for music videos, making it difficult to narrow it down to just five (make sure to check out the HM’s also). Topping the list, we have a dark, gripping murder tale, some bizarre Groundhog Day-like shenanigans, grinded-up Hungry Hungry Hippos, a video that epitomizes the term “Epic Fail” and a band marooned on quite possibly the coolest mysterious iceberg in existence . Watch below.

5. Blood Orange – “I’m Sorry We Lied (dir. Abteen Bagheri)

4. Delta Heavy “Get By” (dir. Ian Robertson)

3. The Hickey Underworld “the Frog” (dir. Joe Van Houtteghem)

2. Tenacious D “Rise of the Fenix” (dir. Daniels)

1. Moones – “Better Energy” (dir. Peter Sluszka)

HM:

Woodkid “Run Boy Run” (dir. Yoann Lemoine)
Los Punsetes “Alférez Provisional” (dir. CANADA)
Naive New Beaters “Jersey” (dir. Remy Cayuela)
Canyons “When I See You Again” (dir. Fleur & Manu)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Top Music Videos of April '12 (via SeenYourVideo.com)

Every month, I post my 5 favorite videos that we’ve featured on Seen Your Video (our music video-obsessed sister blog). Topping our list in April, we have some adorable kids in face paint, stylized new-wave animation, two women running ominously in a field, a reverse-video with a twist, and maybe the weirdest party you’ll ever witness. Watch below.

5. tUnE-yArDs “My Country” (dir. Mimi Cave)

4. Jack Ladder “Short Memory” (dir. Michael Spiccia)

3. ∆ “Breezeblocks” (dir. Ellis Bahl)

2. Punks Jump Up “Mr Overtime” (dir. Maxime Bruneel)

1. Van She “Idea of Happiness” (dir. Andreas Nilsson)

HM:

Last Days of 1984 “River’s Edge” (dir. Sophie Gateau)
Alialujah Choir “A House A Home” (dir. Daniel Fickle)
Mark Foster, A-Trak & Kimbra “Warrior” (dir. DANIELS)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Top Music Videos of March '12 (via SeenYourVideo.com)

Earlier this month I launched Seen Your Video, a blog dedicated to posting cool music videos. So if you’ve noticed a lack in video posts the last few weeks, it’s because we’re so busy researching and posting them over there. Just so you don’t feel left out though, I’m starting a regular list of my 5 favorite videos that have been posted at Seen Your Video in the past month.

Topping our list in March, we have bizarre alien invasions, gorgeously shot B&W cinematography, some adorable dancing and emotionally affecting turns from both wildlife puppets and crash test dummies. Watch below.

5. Grimes “Oblivion” (dir. Emily Kai Bock)

4. Lana Del Rey “Blue Jeans” (dir. Yoann Lemoine)

3. NO “Stay With Me” (dir. Ryan Reichenfeld)

2. Miike Snow “The Wave” (dir. Andreas Nilsson)

1. Keaton Henson “Small Hands” (dir. Joseph Mann)

HM:

The Shoes “Time to Dance” (dir. Daniel Wolfe)
Factory Floor “On Hold” (dir. AB/CD/CD)
Clock Opera “Man Made” (dir. Ben Reed)

Don’t forget to check out Seen Your Video for many more cool music videos.

Introducing SeenYourVideo.com, Your Essential Guide To Cool Music Videos

As you probably know if you’ve read this blog for a while, I have a huge passion for music videos. I’ve scratched the surface on here with my annual Best Videos Of The Year posts and occasional video posts, but I’ve always wanted more, and now I’ve finally gone and done something about it. Today, I’m launching Seen Your Video (credit to The Replacements for the name), a brand new blog dedicated to posting cool music videos.

I’ve long felt like there’s been a void on the Internet in music video-focused blogs. Sure, there’s plenty of blogs that post videos, but I find it’s usually focused on the artist / song and not necessarily the quality of the video. I consider myself as much of a film geek as a music geek, so stuff like interesting narrative, beautiful cinematography, and originality matters to me.

At Seen Your Video, we’ll only post the stuff that stands out from the pack and we’ll also let you know why the video is worth your time. If that sounds like something that’s up your alley, then visit us, add us to your bookmarks, subscribe to our feed and maybe help us spread the word too.

MP3 The Replacements – Seen Your Video