Straight To Video

Right now, as you're reading this, I am en route to Los Angeles, to work on a very strange and exciting freelance assignment that I'm…

God bless the music video, the one art-form where a star can distract the world from a historic rap-feud trouncing by reuniting the cast of…

We haven't yet gotten a single music video from Kanye West's series of Wyoming albums, and maybe we never will. But Pusha-T's performance of "If…

In music, as in virtually every other arena of American culture, this has been an exhausting, exciting, overwhelming week. For once, though, music videos weren't…

In the unexpectedly stiff competition for the title of "week's best rap video from a badass woman that visually quotes Kill Bill, Vol. 1, Cardi…

One day in 2007, I had the idea for a parody music video: "Crank That Daniel Plainview." The idea was that I'd wear a fake…

It's been a long time since we've seen one music video dominate conversation like this -- not just conversation about music video, but conversation about…

Between Christina Aguilera's "Accelerate" and the two new Nicki Minaj videos, it feels like we're entering a golden age of declining superstars making gallingly, furiously,…

Last night, Janelle Monáe unveiled the 45-minute short-film companion piece to Dirty Computer, her excellent new album. There aren't many artists who could convince me…

The best experience I had this week watching music on video -- and, I suspect, the best experience anyone had watching music on video --…

It's Coachella weekend, which means that about a hundred thousand at-least-theoretical music fans are now converging on the California desert, waiting for the yodeling kid…

Look. You should know something. You are going to scroll down to the bottom of this list and see that a Panic! At The Disco…

I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but Netflix's Roxanne Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne is streaming today. And you know what that means:…

I have been writing this column for more than six years now. And even if you haven't been reading for that whole time -- even…

Music videos constitute an art form, but they're also basically advertising. They were created so that we'd want to buy music. That's their point. It's…