Music Video Mayhem: Matt & Kim "Block After Block"

Matt & Kim's latest music video from their album Sidewalks is for the the track "Block After Block". Matt & Kim's previous music video for Sidewalks featured an epic battle royale between the two bandmates. So how do they up the ante for this one? Turn New York City into what everyone wants it to be, their personal playground. Never has New York City been this much fun, and its mostly because they don't seem to be trying. Lots of movies and TV shows have portrayed New York as a fun place to be, but the characters always have specific destinations in mind, items that they are checking off a list. Matt & Kim manage a to capture a sense of complete spontaneity running through NYC at a break neck pace with an entire crew of jubilant fans in tow. 

What do think a good time you wish you could have? Or does is it a failed run for fun?

Music Video Mayhem: Two Door Cinema Club

Welcome to my first repeat post wooo!
As I've said Music Video Mayhem comes about when I find a particularly appealing music video I'd like to share with you. This week's entry comes from a band called Two Door Cinema Club, who I had never even heard of until this morning.

They say cable doesn't play music videos anymore, but that isn't really true. They just don't play them all the time, and well, MTV doesn't really play them anymore, except to occasionally premiere something new from a popular artist after the Jersey Shore. But channels like Fuse play them quite frequently, and even VH1 does, if you know when to watch. VH1 is where I discovered this gem called What You Know from band Two Door Cinema Club this morning before class. VH1 has been doing a pretty solid job with their morning broadcasts of music videos, playing more than just the predictable standard of Top 40 hits by delving into the more obscure. Now I don't know exactly what the name of the program is, but I do know that while this video was playing there was  graphic in the the corner telling me I "ought to know" this band, and I have to agree.

This video, and song have lots of appealing elements, from the twangy guitars to the dancers who seem to be choreographed by ballerina who works on bad SNL sketches. Throw in the optical illusion filed white set with splashes of prime colors and you have a pretty awesome little video.

Music Video Mayhem: Atomic Tom Covers "Don't You Want Me Baby"

Music Video Mayhem is just a long winded way of saying I found a pretty awesome music video online that I want to share. Today's video is Atomic Tom covering Human League's one-hit wonder "Don't You Want Me Baby" for the upcoming film Take Me Home Tonight.

For those unfamiliar with them, Atomic Tom rose to popularity towards the end of 2010, when a video of them playing their single "Take Me Out" on their iPhones on the New York subway went viral.*  Here they do little to change what made the original song so great, but someone manage to make it sound more modern, which is a good thing.

As I mentioned, this video is part of a promotional campaign for the upcoming 80's set movie Take Me Home Tonight. The movie stars Topher Grace, Ana Faris, and Dan Fogler (the guy from Balls of Fury). The music shows the stars at a party paying homage to a number of classic 80's films, and there are some pretty great bits, especially from Topher Grace.  The sad part is that the actors seem to be having way more fun here, than in any of trailers I've seen, which doesn't bode well for the movie.

Take Me Home Tonight comes out March 4, 2011.

*A special thanks to Mr. Ian Kitchen for posting that video on his Facebook back in...I don't know, let's say November.