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DEATHCABFORCUTIE.COM: The second video from the Directions project is now available at http://deathcabforcutie.com/directions/. The video is directed by Cat Solen who also directed the wonderful video for Bright Eyes "At The Bottom Of Everything".

=> Watch the video (QuickTime download format) here.

PEOPLEINPLANES.COM: The video for "If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)" - directed by Joaquin Phoenix - is now online for your viewing pleasure! This is the first video from People In Planes' debut album - AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE... (in stores 3.28.06).

=> Watch the video in WindowsMedia (362K) here.
=> Visit the official site of People In Planes right here.
=> Visit the record company site of Wind-Up Records here.

Danish band Kashmir has a new video out for the track "The Cynic". The video is directed by frontman Kasper Eistrup and animator/filmmaker Anders Bødker. From the album “No Balance Palace”.

=> Watch the video (WindowsMedia, 755K) here.
=> Read news release on BowieNet - the official David Bowie web site - here.
=> Visit the Kashmir web site here.

The first video from Death Cab for Cutie's innovative anthology of 12 short films inspired by each song on their album, PLANS, has been unveiled. The video for 'Marching Bands of Manhattan,' was directed by acclaimed video director P.R. Brown, and is now available for viewing at the band's website, http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/. The short films from the project, entitled DIRECTIONS, will be screened one by one, exclusively online, and then made available for download at iTunes and released on DVD.

=> Watch the video here (QuickTime download).
=> Read the news release from Atlantic Records here.

Beth Orton's new video is so cute it'll make you want to vomit. Warning: contains muppet love.

=> Watch the video in WindowsMedia (273K) here.
=> Visit Beth Orton's web page at her U.S. record company Astralwerks here.

MTVU.COM: London-based one-man-band Tom Vek redefines "garage rock" with his home-brewed confections mixing alt-rock, punk and electronica. Watch as Tom takes his eclectic, low-fi sound to the great outdoors--with a little help from his woodland friends--in the debut of his video, "C-C (You Set the Fire in Me)."

=> Watch the video here (Flash Movie).
=> Visit the official Tom Vek site here.

MARATONPACKS.COM: It's a bit of an oldie, but Russian Futurists' video for "Paul Simon" is worth a watch. Not because the video is groundbreaking in any way--it's that Spike Jonze commercial, person walks around town and somehow cues people to start dancing--but as an excuse to listen again to the absolutely irresistable song, one of the best singles of last year. Who doesn't want to break into spontaneous dance when those synthetic horns kick in?

=> Watch the video here (QuickTime Movie).

MARATONPACKS.COM: The video for Silver Jews' "How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down" is a faithful take from the intelligent, insular band on the traditional performance clip, giving us what looks like shoebox theatre by UVA grad students. The difference with the Jews, though, is that it's the truth. Barman plays the awkwardly charismatic lead, super-hot Cassie is doting and thrift-chic, and Nastanovich is, well, Nastanovich.

=> Watch the video here (QuickTime Movie).

Watch the new video to 'When The Sun Goes Down' right here.

=> WindowsMedia, 512K.
=> View the video in other formats here.
=> Visit the official site here.

STEREOGUM.COM: New Atomic Bomb video premieres today at AOL Music. If you've had enough of Time's Man Of The Year, you will hate the clip, which plays like an update of Godley & Creme's "Cry" ... except every face is Bono's. There are shots of a pregnant belly too, though.

=> Watch the video on AOL Music here.
=> Visit the official U2 site here.

Fort Minor – the eagerly anticipated side-project of Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda – made their debut with the release of the single ‘Believe Me’ on Linkin Park’s Warner Bros. imprint Machine Shop Records. Taken from the debut album ‘The Rising Tied’ that followed, ‘Believe Me’ presents Fort Minor’s brand of hip-hop to the world and demonstrates Shinoda’s eclectic musical ability as he wrote and played virtually every note on the album.“I wanted to make sure this album has a unique identity,” said Shinoda. “Part of that identity is an organic sound; less keyboard, more instruments.”

=> View the video in RealPlayer (300K) here.
=> View the video in WindowsMedia (200K) here.
=> Visit the official site here.

There doesn't appear to be an Elbow consensus: they are their own band; they are the Coldplay it's OK to like; they are the Talk Talk for people who've never heard Talk Talk (or Catherine Wheel); they are somewhere between Supertramp and Superchunk; they are part of a succession of over-introspective, twaddle-peddling British rock bands. They are most of these things — the positive things, at least — at various points. Elbow has released the title track as a single from their rapturously received third album, “Leaders Of The Free World”. Whilst never comfortable with the idea of being a ‘political’ band Elbow have written a single which is a subtle yet scathing attack on the Neo Conservative agenda and general “Let them eat cake” attitude of the Western world’s politicians, is borne of lead singer Guy Garvey’s stringent and well documented opposition to the Iraq war and general political dislocation between the people and their supposed leaders.

View in WindowsMedia (256K) here.

Visit the official site here.

BUY the track from the iTunes Music Store here.
BUY the album from the iTunes Music Store here.

The tad maudlin, fantastic foursome unveil the new video to the smash hit single 'Munich'.

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View in WindowsMedia (256K) here.

Vist the official site here.
Visit the UK record company site here.
Visit the European record company site here.
Visit the Australian record company site here.

BUY this track from the iTunes Music Store here.
BUY the album from the iTunes Music Store here.

Check out some slick boxing moves in their hilarious new video to 'It's A Hit'.

View in RealMedia (240K) here.
View in WindowsMedia (304K) here.

Vist the official site here.
Visit the record company site here.