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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'musicvideos'

February 13, 2008

Rejoice! Final Fantasy finally has a new version of his website! The site now has a full list of accomplishments that you can memorize and quiz your friends on, including a list of upcoming projects: upcoming album Heartland, two E.P.'s (Spectrum and Plays To Please), and arrangements for Alex Turner (of the Arctic Monkeys) and plenty of others. Better, there are some videos that have been kicking around on YouTube, like a live action version......

Continue Reading "Final Fantasy Has a Good Home"

February 12, 2008

It’s a strange, perhaps undesirable, thing to admit to, but Torontoist spends a lot of time thinking about R. Kelly. Generally it comes down to one core question that we just can’t answer (nor do we think we ever will): Is R. Kelly a genius or a lunatic? Here is a man who has produced some of the most pitch-perfect songs in the sickeningly syrupy ballad category (including possibly the pinnacle, Michael Jackson’s "You are......

Continue Reading "Trapped At The Royal"

February 5, 2008

It's Super Tuesday south of the border, and American politics are finally becoming interesting again rather than just depressing. The web is crowded with candidate support videos, and one of the oddest and most widely disseminated is "Yes We Can," assembled by Black Eyed Pea will.i.am. Distractingly overlaying an Obama speech onto a rootsy acoustic track, the video features appearances by fellow musicians Common and John Legend, but also Scarlett Johansson (who's releasing an......

Continue Reading "We R In Need Of A Presidential Revolution"

January 29, 2008

Hot on the heels of a sweet little in-store at Sonic Boom, Brooklyn's Nada Surf have further endeared themselves to Torontoist (and allowed us to make yet another obvious "Popular" joke) by so obviously featuring our wonderful city in their new video for "I Like What You Say" (via Chromewaves) from their upcoming full-length, Lucky. How weird would it be if the band actually played a show at Filmore's? Only a sad animated cardboard......

Continue Reading "Toronto is Popular with Nada Surf"

January 23, 2008

Dundas Square gets a lot of flak for being a cold and soulless expanse of commercial neon and grey granite, and in a new music video for local singer-songwriter-producer Colin Munroe, it still is! But in this case, it's appropriate for his fantastic cover of Kanye West's mediocre "Flashing Lights" track. Directed by Toronto-based street artist, musician, and director Philip Sportel, the super-low-budget video effectively dulls the square down into a generic, industrial, underpopulated......

Continue Reading "Street Fights And Flashing Lights"

May 24, 2007

Members of comedy group Asiansploitation will stare at you until you come to their show: (left to right) Brian Lee, James Cheng, Sandy Chen, Max Minagawa, Glenn Gabriel, and Gary Chan. Photo by Sushant Verman. Asian Heritage Month is almost over. If you feel a little guilty because you didn't even know there was Asian Heritage Month until you read these words, the comedy troupe Asiansploitation will ease your conscience and make you bust......

Continue Reading "Pacific Rim Shot"

January 5, 2007

Special guest Victoria Kent sent us this article, and, since it's about Final Fantasy and "This Lamb Sells Condos," we're pretty much obliged to post, especially now that we've interviewed Brad J. Lamb, whose advertising slogan inspired Owen Pallett to write the song. Thanks Victoria! Toronto-based artists Stephanie Comilang and Jamie Shannon have created an enchanting music video for the Final Fantasy song "This Lamb Sells Condos" -- that required no editing whatsoever. In the......

Continue Reading "This Lamb Leaps CN Towers (Without Final Cut Pro)"

June 17, 2006

Last night, at The Worldwide Short Film Festival, Torontoist was lucky enough to catch Scene not Herd, a collection of 16 music videos assembled by journalist Sandy Hunter. Both the music and the quality and uniqueness of the submissions was absolutely incredible. There were a few big names (Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, The Go! Team, Death From Above 1979, Ladytron, and The Darkness), but plenty of lesser-known gems as well - just the right mix......

Continue Reading "Short Films, Short Reviews"

June 15, 2006

MTV Canada launched three months ago, and since that time one thing has become obvious: it's way better than MuchMusic. Less annoying VJs (including Daryn Jones, of Daryn Jones & Mista Mo fame) and way more addictive content (My Super Sweet 16 and Laguna Beach, to name a few) are just the tip of this sexy, American iceberg. Sure, MTV doesn't have any actual music videos and their website is a huge pain to navigate,......

Continue Reading "Video Killed The Video Star"

August 18, 2005

The Resfest screening series kicks it back into play tonight "with a jam packed evening or shorts, music videos & motion graphics." Shorts by Canadians and people who come from other places, as well as music videos for the Bloc Party, The DItty Bops and Yuki. The organizers are also promising to announce some important CanCon news. And while the CEEB's on strike we'll take our 'CanCon news' wherever we can get it. Tix are......

Continue Reading "RESurrection"

June 17, 2005

The WSFF's program of not oft seen music videos is always a good time, even if it's not always true - it can be a bit annoying to pay good money to see Franz Ferdinand's latest onscreen, when you have indeed seen it on Much ad nauseum. But, for the most part, Scene Not Heard offers up little seen gems. This year, we're curious about Howie Beck's video. To wit: 'A nebbish dance floor neophyte......

Continue Reading "Film Fridays: Scene Not Heard"

February 16, 2005

RESfest came and went a few months ago. There were far too many screenings packed into one chaotic weekend for our tastes, but we caught three screenings and satisfied our shockingly cutting-edge video needs for a spell. But we need a fix of some digital majesty pronto! Good thing Resfest has an interim screening of hot music videos (Feist, Dizzee Rascal, Your Mom, Okay Not Your Mom) showing tonight at the Royal. Low low price......

Continue Reading "Be it RESolved to See More Music Videos"

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