Awesome Music Videos

(PG-13: Language) Even if De Staat’s intense track isn’t your musical cup of tea, Studio Smack’s mindblowing music video will pull you in and won’t let go. The low-budget video was made with mo-cap and CGI trickery. We haven’t felt this way since seeing Mad Max: Fury Road.

For their latest hum-worthy music video, DUM yet again face-swapped themselves with movie actors, this time choosing Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as their subject of choice. Even the chilled monkey brains got a new face.

Director Ninian Doff’s video for The Chemical Brothers’ new track works as a brilliant standalone work of science fiction, leaving us wanting to know so much more about this dystopian world that lives somewhere between Mad Max, The Walking Dead and Westworld.

“An empty spacecraft. A paranoid vacuum cleaner robot. Some strange invaders. Jeremy Clapin’s animated short film serves as the music video for Hundred Waters‘ dreamlike track Innocent, and also is a great little science fiction story.

(NSFW?) We already had to wash our eyeballs out with soap the first time we watched the video for DJ Snake and Lil’ Jon’s Turn Down for What. Now that College Humor has had their way with it, we might be scarred for life.

Daft Punk’s Give Life Back to Music is a great track, but its official music video leaves a little to be desired. Thankfully, Bitter Strike! Cartoons created their own fan-made music video that lives up to Daft Punk’s musical vision.

Shhh! I think I hear a samsquanch! Follow the pulsing, synth-heavy tracks of dance music duo W&W deep into the darkest of woods and you may discover the not so elusive but ridiculously awesome music video for their banger Bigfoot. 

Dark sci-fi visuals and an ambiance inspired by the emptiness of space are somewhat at odds with Jim Guthrie’s earthy sound but his music still works brilliantly with the video for this somber single off his album Takes Time.

Almost 50 years after the release of Bob Dylan’s first electric single, Like A Rolling Stone finally has a music video and an interactive one at that. Flick through the different ‘stations’ for a different experience every time you watch.

Have some CDs lying around? Don’t just use them as coasters! Revamping a classic form of animation, frames were printed onto 189 discs to produce a very cool and appropriate effect for the video of Life is Music by Japanese band SOUR.

Michael Jackson may be gone, but his musical legacy will outlive all of us. In tribute to the 25th anniversary of his hit album Bad, the OSU Marching Band paid their respects to the King of Pop during their halftime against Iowa.

A soft groove combined with ghostly guitars, vocals and synths on Tiny Love by Amsterdam based Moss accentuates a compelling video that follows MMA fighter Marlos Coenen and all of the moments leading up to a fight.

Breaths from the band members of Travis bring a projected animation to life in this entirely appropriate video for Moving, the second single off of their upcoming album Where You Stand. The album drops 8/19/13.

(NSFW) The second episode in Brooklyn-based Team Spirit’s music video series by animation duo HannesJohannes picks up with the boys finding themselves in Hell and being forced to play at the celebration of Satan’s Unholy Union.

Sean Pecknold’s animated clip for The Shrine/An Argument off of Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues is beautifully done. Are we the only ones who secretly wish animals really looked like this?

No, this isn’t the video for Gorillaz’ Kids With Guns, it’s actually for a group known as Is Tropical. Regardless, it’s got kids, guns, and a violent style that mixes comic books with Freddie Wong.

WEARWILL’s video for Dutch artists Kraak & Smaak (which means “Crunch and Taste”) overlays the background with a simple, but clever gimmick – a flipbook for animating the foreground elements.

(NSFW: Language) The Limousines’ single is a commentary on the temporary and shallow pleasure that we get from the artificial sources we consume. Let’s all live, get out and create more!

Everything is illuminated in this beautifully constructed music video directed by Roger Haus and Matteo Crinelli for Cocoon. Illustrated using Adobe Flash and animated in After Effects.