This Week In Music Videos

Director Ryan Staake joins the podcast to talk about his music video for "Left Hand Free" by Alt-J, day drinking, and abandoned convents.

Silver Sound Showdown Music + Video festival is an annual music video festival and battle of the bands where the winning director and winning band get paired up to make a music video. We’re joined on the podcast by festival director Cory Choy, and last year’s winners - director Nick Snyder and Lisa Moore of the Montreal band Blood and Glass. We talk about the festival, this week’s music videos, and what's twerking in Katy Perry’s new video.

Director of Photography Evan Prosofsky joins us on the podcast to discuss his two MTV VMA nominations for Best Cinematography, the hugging styles of Paul McCartney and Lana Del Rey, and the thrill of knowing a guy who knows David Blaine.

Ben Fee joins us on the podcast to talk about his new production company Scandinavia (and their awesome Oakland warehouse studio), OMG Oakland, his new Ben Fields video, the MTV VMA nominations, Weird Al, and so much more.

It's the podcast you've been waiting for - Adam & Adam go toe to toe talking about the music videos of the week which includes a videos from Paul McCartney, Fifth Harmony, and Mika. Plus: Adam & Adam call Doug and even discover a site bug.

Music video director Lance Drake joins us on the podcast to talk about the two videos he released this week - “How You Love Me” by 3LAU and “Clockwork” by Illangelo. We talk about handling two videos at the same time, the glory days of Borders bookstores, and Robin Thicke’s marriage. Bonus: Adam defends Coldplay’s latest music video.

Director/Animator Geoff Hoskinson joins us on the podcast to discuss being on a one-man video creator for some of our favorite videos - like “Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!” by Kishi Bashi. We also discuss the YouTube indie label story, speculate on why Lady Gaga shelved a video where she humps newspapers, and discuss our favorite videos of the week.

Music video director Isaac Ravishankara joins us to discuss his experience helming the amazing camp where kids gets to make things with music video directors - OMG! Cameras. We also touch on Psy’s latest outing, the latest in World Cup music videos, the music video that bummed us out the most this week.

Director Zak Stoltz and actor (and sometimes stunt coordinator) John Lyke join us on the podcast to talk about Zak co-directing “Tongues” by Joywave with Daniels, John acting in “Weightless” by Washed Out, what the set of "Turn Down For What" was like, business cards, toasters, naked hippies, weed stores, and more.

Music video steadicam operator and producer Ari Robbins (aka the Steadi Jew) joins the podcast to talk about the commitment to pain that is steadicam operation, that Coachella shot in the Arcade Fire "We Exist" video, and how everyone asks him about Russian Ark.

We're joined on the podcast by music video director Thom Glunt to talk about slow motion, the things our parents wouldn't let us watch/listen to as kids, and the enduring allure of "Gangnam Style" as it nears 2 billion views.

Animator and VFX artist Cameron Clark joins us this week to talk about working on "The Rule" by Faces On Film, receiving late night VFX emergency calls, wearing tuxedos at the Latin Grammys, and Chinese film students recreating one of his videos.

BRTHR (Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman) join the podcast to talk about their new video for "Youth" by Ben Khan, the wrong color to paint a boy in India, their upcoming director collective, and the time the a model from a Lana Del Rey shoot showed up on their set.

Director duo LAMAR+NIK join the podcast to discuss KFC in France, British customs, citing references in music videos, and 50 Cent's new interest in nursery rhymes.

Colleen Curlin of The Los Angeles Music Video Festival joins us to talk about LAMVF 2014, music video plagiarism, and the burning question of just how much Pharrell likes the ladies.

Doug, Adam, and Adam from Fringe Music Fix are joined by producer/director Chris Black, and touch on a wide range of topics that include rap video tropes, our lizard handshake overlords, cutting your dick off, and angsty white kids in the forest.

Doug, Adam, and Adam from Fringe Music Fix are joined by NORTON to discuss his video for "25 Bucks" by Danny Brown feat. Purity Ring. The crew also discusses IMVDb's new audio commentary feature.

Doug, Adam, and Adam from Fringe Music Fix are joined by Danielle Robarge, founder of the Sprockets music video festival in Athens, GA, to talk about the upcoming 2014 Sprockets event, lightsabers at Skrillex concerts, and the possibility of buying a mansion to rent out to music video shoots.

Doug, Adam, and Adam from Fringe Music Fix celebrate the 100th episode of the IMVDb podcast with some of their favorite clips from past shows, including segments with Hiro Murai, Evidence, Emily Kai Bock, Dugan O'Neal, Saman Kesh, Ben Fee, Mayer/Leyva, Cameron Duddy, and Saul Levitz. Plus, Lady Gaga's latest epic and Shakira's "Empire" are discussed.

Doug, Adam, and Adam from Fringe Music Fix come together and touch on things like sexy exercising, Katy Perry as a music video tastemaker, and a surprisingly comprehensive history of rappers going to jail. Recorded on March 20, 2014.