Produced by Afghan-American filmmaker Ali Baluch, Qais Essar’s newest video brings a simple visual approach to a complex song. Unlike Essar and Baluch’s last, more experimental collaboration, “REVOLUTION: Part I ANTHEM,” the video pieces together straightforward shots of Essar playing the rabab in two different settings. According to Essar, the simple concept of the video … Read More
The amount of forced chill is amazing yet unsurprising. The video “Phurr” is a job well orchestrated by Team Shah Rukh Khan and Diplo, two of the wealthiest men in the entertainment business, hardly short of admirers. But somehow, Anuskha Sharma throwing her hips at SRK while he cooly looks on at a sports match on … Read More
Coming back with POWA POWA. Maya Arulpragasam is serving up looks in her new video for “P.O.W.A.” The video opens on M.I.A., veiled like a street-smart Virgin Mary and laying amongst thousands of blossoms, as she rides in the back of a pickup truck snaking up mountain roads. It’s a hyper-saturated dreamscape with a driving electric … Read More
Alpha female of the world. British band Wild Beasts released their music video for “Alpha Female” off their new album Boy King today. Dazed spoke to director Sasha Rainbow about how she filmed the skater girls of Bangalore for the song. “In places like Afghanistan, Cambodia, and India, skating has not been solidified as a male sport … Read More
It provides a clever and creepy commentary on the Dakota Access Pipeline. What is true poison? Where does it come from? Who sends it? Toronto-based electronic group LAL knows. In their eery music video for their single “Tiny Mirrors” off their recent album Find Saftey, the pollution of our world takes the form of a broken old … Read More
Filmed by Mexican filmmaker César Orozco, Qais Essar’s music video “Poppy Flowers Bloom in the Springtime of My Love,” from this album Tavern of Ruin, is spell-binding and unsettling. It follows the story of two alien lovers, Qosimo and Qosima, who are searching for each other. Qosimo travels through the desert, climbing dunes and exploring … Read More
Anyone familiar with MIA knows she has never been shy about politicizing pop music– from rapping about snipers profiling their victims in “Sunshowers” to shocking us with evocations of the Tamil genocide in “Born Free” to mocking the Saudi regime’s restrictions on women drivers in “Bad Girls.” Her most recent, and self-directed, music video for … Read More
On Wednesday, Y Films, the subset of studio-giant Yash Raj Films that produces and distributes entertainment for India’s youth, launched the nation’s first band composed of hijras, 6 Pack Band. An event in Mumbai celebrated the new initiative and debuted the band’s first song, “Hum Hain Happy.” Y Films developed this project in order to … Read More
“Ghetto Hero” is a project by Ochoboyz, a collective of “badass brown girls from around the world.” Their intention is to show girls rarely seen in all their glory, “presented as the G’s that they are.” The people involved in the song are Mohini Hewa, Stash Marina, 8at8oy, Soisy, Feathermeal and Left Leberra. In the video … Read More
