Music Videos Not Dead

Well, maybe the music video is not entirely dead. As reported by Wired, the new video from Portland band, The Decemberists, has been released by the band directly onto Bittorrent. It's a great video, and a much higher quality version than the pixelated crap proliferated on the web. Heck, I'm proud to help distribute this video using my personal bandwidth. They're a great band, and it's a fun way to help support getting the word out. Other bands should move to this method of video distribution. Music videos are basically a little commercial for the band's CD, and a great creative art form that is deteriorating when it's left to the bouncing nubile breasts of Lindsay Lohan, the lewd misogyny of gangsta hip-hop, or the cliche darkness of the metal crowd.