Augustana
“Boston”
Album: All the Stars and Boulevards
When I say “Boston,” what do you think of? Baked beans? The Red Sox? Racism? How about beaches? Can you name a famous beach in Boston? Southie? No, close. That’s by the water, but it’s not really a “beach” in the traditional […]
Snow Patrol
“Signal Flare”
Album: Music From and Inspired By Spiderman 3
You know what Snow Patrol is good at? Re-writing “Chocolate,” and giving it a larger string section every time. This time they called it “Signal Fire,” and finished it just in time to see it featured on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack! What luck!
Can’t […]
You ever think about how many things launch every year? Websites, rocket ships, water balloons, shot puts, catapults, mice that wear little helmets and fly paper airplanes…lots of things! You know what all these things have in common? They all come crashing back down, sometimes with fire attached.
b5 Music Channel is NOT a mouse that […]
Alkaline Trio
“Burn”
Album: Crimson
Nononono! How could this happen? Hasn’t it been pretty well agreed upon that circus sideshow videos are played out? When Panic! At the Disco and Shane Drake won their MTV Music Video award for one of their three or four clips that all recycled the same basic concept did you […]
Menomena
“Cough, Coughing”
Album: I Am the Fun Blame Monster
If I ever had to invent a holiday, it would be called “Steak Day,” and we would all hang steel-toed boots with our names on them from the sides of our grills. When we woke up in the morning, we would all find big, juicy steaks […]
Good Charlotte
“Keep Your Hands Off My Girl”
Album: Good Morning, Revival
The best way for me to begin any sort of assessment of this video is to refer to the words of fellow critic Stardancer11. In this video’s YouTube comments, she draws the following conclusion: “GOOD CHARLOTTE R THE BEST BAND.”
For someone who has chosen to […]
Muse
“Knights of Cydonia”
Album: Black Holes and Revelations
Some music videos are cool. Some are awesome. And some need to be worshiped like the life-affirming religious experiences that they are.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, “Knights of Cydonia.”
Not only was Muse cool enough to have the giant, cantaloupe sized…uh, brains…to release a sprawling, six-minute […]
Paul McCartney
“Dance Tonight”
Album: Memory Almost Full
This?! Really, Sir Paul, this? This is the best you could afford for the video for the lead single off your big, new, Starbucks released album?! Did the coffee plantation workers finally rebel this month, or did you really just spend the whole budget for your […]
Sherwood
“Song In My Head”
Album: A Different Light
Holy crap! This kid’s got a miniature cardboard band in a shoebox!
Little known fact: this form of entertainment was actually wildly popular in Victorian London right between the chamber orchestra craze and the invention of the wax sound cylinder. Unfortunately, back then, the little cardboard men […]
From First To Last
“Ride the Wings of Pestilence”
Album: Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count
Well, I think I can safely predict which side of the immigration debate the raven-haired boys of From First To Last fall on. Their “Ringu” meets “Desperado” clip for the “Ride the Wings of Pestilence,” misappropriates Mexican […]
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