BOOKED: The Dixie Chicks - Sophie Muller, director

The Dixie Chicks will make their long-awaited return since being banished from The Red States with a new album produced by the legendary Rick Rubin. Sophie Muller has been confirmed to direct a stylized performance clip for album track "Not Ready To Make Nice."

artist: The Dixie Chicks
song: "Not Ready To Make Nice"
label: Columbia
director(s): Sophie Muller
production co: Oil Factory

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Wayne Coyne And The Wolf

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne (right) and this brave werewolf prove that man and beast can work in unison, even if only on the set of the Lips' new video "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song."

NEW RELEASE: Morrissey "You Have Killed Me"

Morrissey
"You Have Killed Me" (Attack/Sanctuary)
AV Club, director | Anne Johnson & Ute Leonhardt, producers | The Directors Bureau, production co | Jesse Green, DP | Description: AV Club lovingly recreate a vintage, yet fictional Italian TV appearance of Morrissey and band performing this lead single off new album Ringleader Of The Tormentors. In a testament to AV Club's commitment to authenticity, the video was shot in Rome, Italy and the footage was appropriately fuzzed up so as to look like an old VHS bootleg. -- Watch "You Have Killed Me" at Myspace or The Director's Bureau

NEWS: Editor Mario Mares Now With rOOm

Video editor Mario Mares has joined the staff of film/tv company rOOm. Mares' most recent editing credits include Say Anything's "Alive With The Glory Of Love," directed by Kevin Kerslake, and the as yet unreleased Nine Inch Nails' video "Every Day is Exactly The Same," directed by Francis Lawrence. Other notable clips edited by Mares include No Doubt's "It's My Life," Staind's "For You" and Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River," for which he won an MVPA Award.

BOOKED: Obie Trice - Jessy Terrero, director

Look for Eminem cohort Obie Trice to rebound nicely from a New Year's Eve shooting (bullets, not film) with a video for this upcoming single.

artist: Obie Trice
song: "Snitch"
label: Shady/Interscope
director(s): Jessy Terrero
production co: Terrero Films/Lotus Filmworks

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Lou Pearlman + Dale Resteghini

Trans Continetal Records head honcho Louis J. Pearlman and video director Dale Resteghini compare assets on location in Florida for the C-Note video "Forgive Me."

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Patricia of the Horrorpops

Horrorpops singer Patricia Day and Propeller Productions Executive Producer Peter LeFevre get cuddly on the set of "Where You Can't Follow," directed by Matthew Heckerling.

DVD ALERT: Eels with Strings - Live

Eels With Strings - Live At Town Hall
Vagrant
release date February 21 2006
directed by Niels Alpert
Description:  Mark Oliver Everett aka E aka the long-running alternative act Eels gets all respectable on us with this DVD that captures a June 30 performance at NYC's Town Hall. Rather than a typical rock band configuration, this performance is from the Eels With Strings tour in which E was backed by a string section and various multi-instrumentalists. The DVD also includes behind the scenes documentary segments. Performances and other content from the release be viewed at this Eels player.

SHOT: DMX - Jonathan Mannion, director

DMX makes his post-Def Jam debut  with this video shot in Houston during the recent NBA All-Star Weekend...

artist: DMX
song: "We In Here"
label: Sony Urban/Columbia
director(s): Jonathan Mannion
production co: DNA

SHOT: Big City Rock - Rich Lee, director

Director Rich Lee checks in with his first video since signing with DNA...

artist: Big City Rock
song: "All Of The Above"
label: Atlantic
director(s): Rich Lee
production co: DNA

SHOT: Daniel Powter - Marc Webb, director

artist: Daniel Powter
song: "Lie To Me"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Marc Webb
production co: DNA

NEW RELEASE: Nya Jade "One Pill"

Nya Jade
"One Pill" (Katako)
Matt Bass, director | Steven Johnson, producer | Factory Features, production co | Description: Singer/songwriter Nya Jade performs all around the Bay Area in this video for "One Pill" In a slight nod to the psychedelic connotations of "One Pill," most of the colors are blown out to hallucinatory glow, while additional footage shows people going to the medicine cabinet in search of that quick fix. -- watch "One Pill" at nyajade.com

NEW RELEASE: Sigh "Midnight Sun"

Sigh
"Midnight Sun" (Baphomet/Candlelight)
Dave Bekerman, director | Patrick Dunn, editor | Description: Because nothing is quite as cool as Japanese heavy metal, I give you the debut video from Japanese metal band Sigh. This psychedelic clip for "Midnight Sun" mixes band performance with a man's vision quest through the desert. Thrown in for good measure are some split screens, various effects and a touch of stock footage. -- watch "Midnight Sun" at Sigh's MySpace page.

MTV Adds for the Week of 3/06/06

Adds:
E-40 feat. Keak Da Sneak "Tell Me When To Go" (BME/Warner Bros.)
Panic! At the Disco "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (Fueled By Ramen)
T.I. "What You Know?" (Atlantic)

MTV2 Adds:
T.I. "What You Know?" (Atlantic)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion" (Interscope)
Ying Yang Twins feat. Bun B "Git It" (TVT)

MTVU Adds:
Augustana "Boston" (Epic)
Lil Wayne "Hustler Musik" (Cash Money/Universal)
Gym Class Heroes "Cupid's Chokehold" (Fueled By Ramen)
The Strokes "Heart In A Cage" (RCA)
System of A Down "Lonely Day" (Columbia)
T.I. feat. UGK "Front Back" (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

MTV Jams:
Busta Rhymes "Touch It (remix)" (Aftermath/Interscope)
Cham "Ghetto" (Atlantic)
Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone "Ridin" (Universal)
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley f. Bobby Brown "Beautiful" (Universal)
Lil Wayne "Hustler Musik" (Cash Money/Universal)
Ray-J "What I Need" (Knockout/Sanctuary)
T.I. feat. UGK "Front Back" (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

No VH1 Adds for the Week of 3/06/06

No Adds

BET Adds for the Week of 3/06/06

Adds:
Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy "Say I" (Island/Def Jam)
Jagged Edge "Good Luck Charm" (Sony Urban/Columbia)
Jamie Foxx "DJ Play A Love Song" (J Records)
Missy Elliott "We Run This" (Goldmind/Atlantic)

Rap City Adds:
Bun B feat. Young Jeezy, Pimp C, Z-Ro "Get Throwed" (Rap-A-Lot)
Lil Wayne "Hustler Musik" (Cash Money/Universal)
Shawnna "Gettin' Some" (Disturbing Tha Peace/Island Def Jam)
T.I. feat. UGK "Front Back" (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

FUSE Adds for the week of 3/06/06

Adds:
Motion City Soundtrack "Hold Me Down" (Epitaph)

Music Choice Adds for the week of 3/06/06

Adds:
Boys Night Out "Medicating" (Ferrett)
Bubba Sparxxx feat. Ying Yang Twins "Ms. New Booty" (Virgin)
Bullet For My Valentine "Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow" (Trustkill)
Cream "White Room" -live- (Rhino)
Devildriver "End Of The Line" (Roadrunner)
Dwele "Weekend Love"  (Virgin)
Franz Ferdinand "The Fallen" (Epic)
George Harrison & Bob Dylan "Just Like A Woman" -live- (Rhino)
Ginuwine  "When We Make Love" (Sony Urban/Epic)
Maxeen  "Soleil" (Warner Bros.)
Motorhead "Ace Of Spades" (SPV)
Pink "Stupid Girls" (LaFace/ZLG)
Tha Alkaholiks"Flute Song (La La La)" (Waxploitation/Koch)
Tiffany Foxx featuring Snoop Dogg "Shake That S***" (Doggy Style/Koch)
Trillville & Cutty "Some Cut" (BME/Warner Bros.)
Type O Negative "Too Late" -live- (SPV)

Much Music Adds for the week of 3/06/06

Adds:
Broken Social Scene "7/4 (Shoreline)"
Madcaps "No Way Out"
Pilate "Barely Listening"
The Trews "Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me"

CMT Adds for the week of 2/27/06

Adds:
Eric Church "How 'Bout You" (Capitol Nashville)
Neal McCoy "The Last Of A Dying Breed" (903 Music)
Willie Nelson "You Don’t Know Me" (Lost Highway)

IMF Adds for the week of 2/27/06

Adds:
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley feat. Bobby Brown "Beautiful" (Tuff Gong/Ghetto Youths/Universal)
Frank Popp Ensemble "Love Is On Our Side" from Germany
Humanzi "Fix The Cracks" from Ireland
Kaiser Chiefs "Modern Way" (Universal)
Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco "Touch The Sky" (Roc-A-Fella/Island Def Jam)"
Matt Costa "Cold December" (Brushfire/Universal)
Richard Ashcroft "Break The Night With Colour" from the UK
Silverstein "Discovering The Waterfront" (Victory)
Son Of Dork "Eddie’s Song" from the UK
Test Icicles "Circle. Square. Triangle" (Domino)
Tom Vek "Nothing But Green Lights" (Star Time)
The Wylde Bunch "Na Na Na" from the UK

SHOT: Wolf Parade - Adam Bizanski, director

Filmmaker Adam Bizanski goes about the labor-intensive work required for his upcoming stop-motion Wolf Parade video, "Modern World." Bizanksi previously directed the cow-centric "Pink Bullets" for fellow Sub Pop band The Shins. "Modern World" will support Wolf Parade's Sub Pop album Apologies To The Queen Mary. (ps: click the picture to make it bigger)

NEW RELEASE: Coheed And Cambria "Welcome Home"

Coheed And Cambria
"Welcome Home" (Equal Vision/Columbia)
Artificial Army, director | Cathy Pellow, producer | Refused TV, production co | Joel Duetsch, DP | Artificial Army, editor | Description: Coheed And Cambria perform this absolutely pummeling metal tune in front of a stormy sky backdrop dotted with a few framed portraits. These framed pieces serve as transitions to the Gothic storyline about a man seeking revenge against an unfaithful lover. -- watch "Welcome Home" in Quicktime, Real or Windows Media

NEW RELEASE: Avenged Sevenfold "Beast & The Harlot"

Avenged Sevenfold
"Beast & The Harlot" (Warner Bros.)
Tony Petrossian, director | Nicole Acacio, producer | Rockhard Films, production co | Robin Frank Management, rep | Pat Darrin, DP | Richard Alarcon, editor | Description: Avenged Sevenfold and their squad of harlots bring some unsuspecting victims over the dark side. Usually using the lure of sex, they're able to convert a wannabe showgirl, a scuzzy ladies' man, some strippers and even a young boy into their evil circle. Once the victim is infected, black spidery dendrites race to cover their skin, until they're totally encased in a shiny, black shell. As all this chaos ensues, Ax7 perform this downright wicked, old school-influenced metal tune amongst their already pleasantly sordid fans. -- watch "Beast & The Harlot"

DVD: They Might Be Giants "Venue Songs"

They Might Be Giants "Venue Songs"
Idlewild Recordings
Description: Challenged by former literary agent/author/deranged millionaire John Hodgman, They Might Be Giants wrote and performed an original song in honor of each and every venue at which they performed on a 2004 tour. The results are here on a DVD/CD set that contains a CD with the original recordings and in situ versions of the venue songs, in addition to a DVD with videos for 15 tracks. The videos are all as short, quick and quirky as the songs themselves, simply illustrating the basic crux of each tune. Directors with videos on the disc include Colourmovie, David Ahuja and TMBG member John Flansburgh. Mr. Hodgman provides intros to each video, that are as clever and funny as the songs and videos themselves. Venue Songs is currently being streamed at tmbg.com, with the DVD/CD set available exclusively there as well.

SHOT: Mates Of State - Arno Salters, director

artist: Mates Of State
song: "Fraud In The 80's"
label: Barsuk
director(s): Arno Salters
production co: Spy Entertainment
commissioner: Jill Kaplan & Van Riker

BOOKED: Brandi Carlile - Jake Schrier, director

artist: Brandi Carlile
song: "What Can I Say"
label: Columbia
director(s): Jake Schrier
production co: The Board @ Plum Productions

NEW RELEASE: Old Time Relijun "Wolves and Wolverines"

Old Time Relijun
"Wolves and Wolverines" (K Records)
Zak Margolis, director
Description: Animator Zak Margolis brings a fittingly strange tale to life in this video for this psychotic blast of jubilantly evil, yet funky noise rock from Old Time Relijun. A middle aged poor slob is haunted by  memories of  his deceased wife. Although she does indeed visit him as a beautiful angel, she also chops his head off in the backyard. Meanwhile, a group of manimals run an assembly line where they create winged pigs. Perhaps these were the human-animal hybrids President George W. Bush was trying to warn us about during the State of the Union speech? -- watch "Wolves And Wolverines"

NEW RELEASE: Flyleaf "I'm So Sick"

Flyleaf
"I'm So Sick" (Octone)
Brothers Strause, directors | Rock Bice, producer | Tight, production co | Description: It's clear after a few seconds of this video that Flyleaf singer Lacey Mosley is really only "so sick" in the the head. Some of the symptoms include her mastery of several self-absorbed heavy metal singer poses, a blurring effect that makes it clear that reality is distorted and, of course, the padded walls of the performance locale.

NEW RELEASE: Madonna "Sorry"

Madonna
"Sorry" (Warner Bros.)
Jamie King, director | Nicola Doring, producer | HSI, production co | Tim Maurice Jones, DP | Jonah Sederberg, editor | Description: The boombox, the leotards and the dancers from Madonna's "Hung Up" video are all back in her new effort "Sorry." In a nice twist on the Bang Bus concept, Madonna and her gal pals pick up unsuspecting men for some good times aboard their van. The van drops them off at a warehouse location where Madonna and crew take on the guys in a steel cage dance battle, before the entire scene transitions to a roller disco bash. All in all, it's very weird and very random.

BOOKED: Taking Back Sunday - Marc Klasfeld, director

artist: Taking Back Sunday
song: "MakeDamnSure"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Marc Klasfeld
production co: Rockhard Films
rep: Robin Frank Management

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Elefant & Philip Andleman

Director Philip Andleman (far right) with members of Elefant after wrapping the band's video "Lolita."