The Modern Age

The new N.E.R.D. video for their single “Everybody Nose” features cameos by Kanye West, Samantha Ronson, and Lindsay Lohan. Shot by director Diane Martel (who also shot “Conquest” for the White Stripes), still photos by Last Night’s Party:

Coldplay has released their “music video” (aka- weekly political statement) for their new single, “Violet Hill.”

The video features various clips of current, former, and future world leaders such as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Boris Yeltsin, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, among others. Most of the clips have [...]

Check out this new music video for “Who” by British/American band the Five O’Clock Heroes, featuring vocals by superstar Brit model Agyness Deyn:
Who
Surprisingly, Agyness sounds quite good…. Thoughts?
TMA friend Adam Neustadter directed the video. Writes Adam on his blog: “The track was recorded on a Friday and the video was shot the following afternoon. It [...]

Found this video from the TriBeCa Film Festival Music Lounge over at the Music Slut: Chris Thile (formerly of Nickel Creek, now of the Punch Brothers) doing his bluegrass cover of The Strokes’ song “Heart in a Cage.”

Personally I love this version of the song. I think the slowness and simplicity of singing the song [...]

Beth Ditto and the gang of the Gossip rocked the house on Letterman last night. Dittos electric performance, complete with neon makeup and traffic sign-patterned tube dress, surely weaseled them some new found fans.
When it was all over, Dave suggested that he and the band “rent a van and drive across the country.” To which [...]

The sophomore album by British rockers The Kooks is now out in stores.
I took a few spins of the album today and was all in all impressed. As readers of this site will recall, I absolutely adore the Kooks, so I had high expectations (and a little trepidation) for the new album.

Although some of the [...]

Just answer the following question and you could win one of 5 signed Futureheads “The Beginning of the Twist” UK Single Packs!

The Single Import Pack includes CD and two 7″’s from The Futureheads.
QUESTION: Who is the director of “The Beginning of the Twist” music video?
EMAIL THE ANSWER BEFORE APRIL 2, 2008 TO “CONTEST at THEMODERNAGE.ORG” [...]

…is melting my MIND. The herky-jerky stop-and-go motion is a little difficult to watch. Now I know what it’s like to have epilepsy.

Surely his new tunes about leprechauns and “writing the hits” will be storming the charts in the near future:
Don’t Comb The Leprechaun from Ryan Adams on Vimeo.
Ryan looks charmingly preppy in his argyle sweater while singing about macaroni and cheese and Wilco in designer clothes:
Writing the Hits with Stupid from Ryan Adams on Vimeo.

In the early 2000s one of my guilty pleasure songs was “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus. I recently got nostalgic and Googled the song name which lead me to finding this absolutely horrendous version of the song by British pop girl group Girls Aloud. Witness the horror:

There’s no way any of those people have ever listened [...]