Broken Bells' sweet 3D video for "October"

In addition to a quality track off their debut, Broken Bells has turned up the music video standards a notch with a sweet interactive video for their song "October" where you navigate, with your pointer, a snake-like line through space as the video goes on.  It's totally satisfying in a totally simple way, like you actually have control over something.

Check it out at their website.

Vid It Up: The Black Keys & Broken Bells

Recently, some sweet music videos have been dropped.  These aren't your typical "watch-'em-play-and-sing" playground deals---it's real.

The Black Keys' video for "Tighten Up" is hugely entertaining.  Gotta love kids.



Broken Bells' Star Wars/Star Trek/ Battlestar Galactica-themed video features the "Sexiest Woman Alive"  "Mad Men" star Christina Hendricks, which adds on to its draw if James Mercer and Danger Mouse haven't enough sexy for you.

Who They Is: Broken Bells

Broken Bells.  The Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse.  What?

Life is going well for Danger Mouse, now that he has become a recognized producer in the industry and his controversial Dark Night of the Soul album with the late Sparklehorse is finally getting an official release.  But what about Mercer?  He fired two key bandmates from The Shins, and he's taking some time off.  Well, it looks like he's been working on this Broken Bells project in secret all along, since March 2008.  It's all good, folks.

On their self-titled debut album, the two basically do it all, with the help of some strings players.  There's organs, synthesizers, bass, piano, drums, and guitars at their disposal to create some experimental, melodic pop tunes.  I would say you could liken the album to a peaceful journey of the mind through space, making some stops along the way to visit Martians and Neptunians.  Mercer's voxbox is as swayful as ever, and Danger Mouse's beats and rhythms create some nice atmospheres.

And we have liftoff..."The High Road"