First Quarter Clips, Pt. 3 (Video Mixtape)

by Steven Spoerl

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The fact that it’s been a great year for music videos has been stated- and subsequently reiterated- on this site multiple times over. It’s an unavoidable truth and the evidence in its favor continues to mount. While Part 3 (and the fourth collection) brings the featured 2015 music video total to an excess of 100, that number’s fully warranted by the material below. Due to a handful of these clips being Vimeo-only titles, tonight’s video mixtape is presented through a case-by-case basis. No accompanying text is given to the individual titles but most wind up saying more for themselves than I ever could. From familiar faces to determined upstarts to established entities, there’s a lot to mull over. Whether it’s Jack White temporarily negating seemingly everyone’s conflicted feelings with a masterfully-executed experimental interactive video (follow the link for the interactive clip, the animated version’s embedded in the list) or LVL UP getting hit in the face with steaks in slow motion, the 25 videos below are a testament to the creative spirit currently driving the contemporary state of this particular visual medium. Also: even more puppets. Watch all of the clips below, buy the records from the bands you like, and keep an eye on this site for the final installment of this series for the foreseeable future. Enjoy!

COLLECTION IV

1. LVL UP – DBTS

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2. The Spirit of the Beehive – I Smell Bud

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3. Happyness – A Whole New Shape

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4. Timeshares – The Bad Parts

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5. The Menzingers – Where Your Heartache Exists 

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6. Spoonboy – The Dispossessed

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7. Honduras – Mistake

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8. Jack White – That Black Bat Licorice

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9. Deerhoof – Tiny Bubbles

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10. Celestial Shore – Now I Know

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11. Erase Errata – History of Handclaps

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12. Grooms – Doctor M

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13. Swimsuit Issue – Break

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14. Screaming Females – It’s Not Fair

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15. Ex-Cult – Clinical Study

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16. Andy Gabbard – More

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17. Split Single – Fragmented World

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18. Flesh Lights – Free Yourself

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19. Programm – Like the Sun

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20. Rule of Thirds – Fingerprints

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21. Spirit Club – Still Life

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22. Title Fight – Rose of Sharon

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23. Drenge – We Can Do What We Want

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24. Interpol – Everything Is Wrong

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25. Choir Vandals – Monsters