I've been music blogging since 2002 or 2003, and have developed a strong sense/taste for which music videos have high rewatchability value vs which are more forgettable. I don't really worry about budget; you can see creativity at all levels of production. Clearly helps if the music is great too.
"VIDS: Adventures in Music Video" is a custom 24/7 internet video station showing music videos spanning indie/alternative, electronic, hip-hop, downtempo & trip-hop. Check it out:
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With over 2300 music videos in rotation, it's also a non-algorithmic, curated music discovery source.
2026 had best be a swift improvement upon 2025, or I shall be obliged to pen a sternly worded memorandum to the entire organization
Am I winning
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Electronic musician Clark has a wild new music video out that usurps the top spot in my chart of best Jello-themed music videos. The premise: a slick modern dance troupe never loses sight of the groove even as Jello increasingly infuses their routine. Good clean family fun here.
A schoolboy manages to acquire an unreleased track from his big brother (played by the track’s artist, Bakar), resulting in a giant choreographed playground celebration. A surprising number of commenters mentioned this music video made them cry, but it’s a joyful expression of youthful exuberance.
An Irish choral composition (“the BEST song about seaweed” according to a commenter) gets a polyphonic spin by Spokanki, “8 sisters from the mystical country of SpokanLand, wandering around all corners of the planet to search and distribute music of different peoples from Africa to the Netherlands.”
Here's a deeply mesmerizing new music video for a track by electronic artists Max Cooper and Rob Clouth called "Candeleda." I'd call these visuals by Brandon Eversole highly psychedelic, but not in a stereotypical tie-dye or Mandelbrot fashion; these are modern, high tech, surprisingly gorgeous.
This was interesting. Wish they had finished it.
Director Nadia Lee Cohen, whose work lives in a pleasingly weird zone of satire, fashion, and absurdism, recently released her music video for an old Aphex Twin track, and it delivers exactly what you’d expect from an Aphex Twin video: it’s batshit crazy.
Put it up on Odysee, might have better luck
My latest newsletter hit inboxes yesterday! Every issue I feature a list of 10 short films, music videos, and videoart that you might like. Comes out on average every 2-3 weeks.
It's called THIS NEWSLETTER CANNOT SAVE YOU - a callout to my first book, YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU.
A set of four loose keyboard keys featuring the unusual punctuation mark, the interrobang
In future, all keyboards will come properly equipped with interrobang keys
A photo of a Maxell tape cassette labeled "Slightly Interesting Vol. V" and its corresponding tape case with a bunch of track names hand written on it.
I made you a mixtape.
Okay, I made it 30 years ago, but still, in principle, it's for you.
I don't know what happened to Volumes 1-4 unfortunately. Not even slightly interesting, I guess.
Anyway yeah, look for this on your favorite streaming platform. It will not be there.
In this 2D animated film, a young woman, billed as “the main character,” attempts to register a domain with her name, only to discover someone else has already snagged it and is posting animations based on her social media highlights. It’s hilarious and poignant and mysterious.
Comedian Ember Knight made a 9 minute EP based on the text on a Dr. Bronner’s soap bottle (lavendar, to be precise), interspersed with historical nuggets about the fascinating figure of the Doctor himself. You don’t really get to choose your prophets.
Cordy from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is looking at a computer, alarmed. The caption is "Who gave you permission to exist?"
Whoever it is, they're fired
The music video for this ethereal track by Oklou is set on the streets of a quiet suburb, where several girls are pursued by a force that can’t be captured by the camera they’re wielding. It's unsettling in its framing, never straying far from the girls’ POV as they start to fray apart.
Director Dugan Gundelfinger tells the tale of taking an exorbitant amount of liquid LSD from a stranger on a beach in Costa Rica and subsequently freeing himself completely from that pesky thing called “ego,” in this demented short film.
In this music video for a track by the band Oh Astro, we see remixed footage of Ruth Buzzi (RIP) and Jim Nabors from their shortlived Krofft sitcom "The Lost Saucer." They play robots!
Easta! It's the beloved story of how sentient, horn-playing, Easta eggs (including crossbred bunny-eggs) live peacefully on the moon, until UFEs (unidentified fried eggs) arrive to blow up King & Queen Easta Egg's castle, because screw the monarchy, amirite? Anyway this music video is called Easta.
Happy Bicycle Day! On this date in 1943, Dr. Albert Hofmann experienced the first intentional LSD trip, ingesting around 250 micrograms of the potent substance, then taking a bike ride home from his lab. Here's a fanciful four-minute animated film depicting the event.
Hey the audiobook version of my novel WILD MASSIVE is on a spring sale, please consider to go get it! It's a science-fantasy epic set in an infinitely tall tower in the center of the multiverse, where hijinks ensue...
Neo-classical electronic artist Odalie has an excellent new single out on Max Cooper’s Mesh label. The otherworldly music video is a visit to a planet where mystic mountains hover in the atmosphere and life is seeded via fiery vortex. Both the soundtrack and the visuals are lush and intricate.
An old school comic strip panel, in which a young girl asks a passing man in a suit, "Are you unhappy, mister?" The man replies, "Yes... and you'll be too, if you get a chance to grow up!"
In this music video showcasing the experimental beats of the band ECHT!, witness the history of Europe through the perspective of a giant floating head (reminiscent of the Supreme Being from Time Bandits, but much lower rez). Apparently a lot of dancing occurred.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ZS...
Three stylishly dressed dapper dudes, likely from the late 60s era of style, one smoking a pipe as an affectation
I missed my era
Quickly catapulting to second place on my list of "Favorite music videos featuring a lone astronaut hurtling across the galaxy like Dave Bowman" is this recent music video from “psychedelic soul” artist Common Saints. The cinematic vid is written and directed by Jeremy Rubier.
A sign that reads "Surprise your valentine" is positioned above a rack of hammers for sale
Quickly catapulting to second place on my list of "Favorite music videos featuring a glorious parade of immensely weird beings" is the new music video from Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke. Pleasingly surreal goodness from animator Jonathan Zawada.