Awesome Music Videos

Musician Mark Pritchard partnered with Radiohead frontman and all-around talent Thom Yorke to create the album Tall Tales. The song This Conversation is Missing Your Voice is a rhythmic electronic track about emotional turmoil and isolation. The video by artist Jonathan Zawada takes us on a first-person ride through a package sorting facility.

This music video came out in late 2023 but is too good to ignore. Directed and animated by Everfresh and accompanied by Caravan Palace’s neo-swing track MAD, the hilariously weird clip drops us into a 1930s-style cartoon world where musical cockroaches live in a secret world inside our bodies.

(Flashing Images) The rhythmic track I Exist Inside This Machine is accompanied by an appropriately mechanical music video by artist Henning M. Lederer. The intense, high-contrast imagery takes us deep inside the inner workings of a massive machine driven by human thoughts, emotions, and movements. From the album On Being, due 2.28.2025.

(PG-13: Language) Many of us gave candy and flowers for Valentine’s Day. DJ Cummerbund showed up with a different sort of gift. His mashup of Mötley Crüe’s Kickstart My Heart and The Pointer Sisters’ I’m So Excited is the perfect combo for anyone craving a sweet ’80s treat instead of chocolates and roses. That DMX cameo really spiced things up.

Isabel Garrett’s music video for Coldplay’s ALiEN HiTS/ALiEN RADiO fills our eyeballs with a patchwork of visuals from 28 talented filmmakers and animators. Part of the 44-minute film accompanying the album Moon Music, it weaves together hand-painted frames, stop-motion, live-action, and other techniques to complement the warm and enveloping track.

We can’t believe it’s been 25 years since Gorillaz released their first album. Since its start, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s virtual band has defied genres and enlisted the likes of De La Soul, Elton John, Robert Smith, and The Clash. NOSTALGIAZ is a 4-minute retrospective of the virtual band’s most captivating visuals, accompanied by an orchestral medley.

Indie-pop band OK Go is known for making wildly inventive and complicated music videos. Their latest video was shot in 64 one-take pieces, played back across 64 individual phones. Beyond the video, the single A Stone Only Rolls Downhill is as catchy as anything they’ve recorded. See how they made it in the behind-the-scenes video from the PMI.

Can you tell a diamond from a piece of glass? We just watched this animation by Meat Dept., and we came away both hypnotized and perplexed. The surreal short is populated with strange-looking characters embroiled in a war that involves interpretive dance, shawarma cookers, and jet-powered wingsuits. The clip is underscored with an excellent track by Arlo.

“I’ve been itching to do some snitching, I’m in my kitchen, listen to my conditioning, and then picking up that phone.” Andy Samberg visits his old stomping grounds to sing a song with Saturday Night Live host Charli XCX. It hardly matters what the song is about because the beat, the melody, and the video are too well done to ignore. Here’s the uncensored version.

(PG-13) From the late ’80s to the early 2000s, MTV was the vehicle for musical artists to spread not just their work but their creative wings as well. Polyphonic recounts the trends along with lots of trivia from the golden age of the channel. Big-budget short films, raw performances, and the early days of CGI all coexisted and entertained two generations of viewers.

“I can’t rest on no dynasty. Then what is wrong with me? And I’m so sorry I got the best of me. I’ve really did been on such a violent spree.” Master of loss and anguish Justin Vernon and his band return with a stripped-down single that hearkens back to his debut album. From their upcoming EP SABLE, which drops 10.18.24.

Our favorite all-knowing, all-seeing canine is back, and he has an official music video. He’s got a bit of an ego from his popularity, so the only wisdom he’s dispensing this time is about his cuteness. It’s like one of those rap songs where the rapper just brags about how great he is. Dog is being cute, though, so he gets a pass.

Can’t get enough of Weird Al? His track Polkamania features upbeat oompah versions of songs from Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and more, all packed into four minutes. The accompanying rapid-fire music video features animations and vignettes from filmmakers including Cyriak, Liam Lynch, and Bill Plympton.

All the time you spent, you gotta be running from your head. The music video for Wand’s track JJ drops us into a world where creatures procreate in the strangest way. Vernon Chatman & lilfuchs‘ animated clip could be interpreted in many ways, but we think it has something to do with a creator building a world and ultimately being rejected by those he gave life to.

Filmmaker HR Pao created a fantastic documentary of life in the 1980s. The video collage was made from bits of movies, TV, music videos, and other sound bites. Now he’s hoping to make a feature length version of his “Docu-Musical” by raising funds on Kickstarter to secure licensing rights to the music and to pitch it to streaming services.

I’m a drinker, I’m a smoker, I’m a loser, I’m a poet… yeah I got some bad habits and I think you should know it. Fatboy Slim’s disco-backed collab with Dan Diamond and Luca Guerrieri speaks volumes about how just being a celebrity doesn’t make you a role model for others. The music video features questionable deepfakes of celebs singing the lyrics.