We are excited to present our third voting for the most beautiful, most clever and/or most challenging queer and/or gender-bending music video posted on Catch Fire in 2011. You find our 12 contestants below the jump, don’t forget to take your time and check them out before you make your vote! The competition will run for three weeks. This year the winner will receive a hand-made price, which will be revealed as soon as the winner is found. Here we go:
Vote for your favourite CF music video 2011!
Aérea Negrot - It's Lover, Love (32%, 49 Votes)
Alexis Blair Penney - Lonely Sea (3%, 4 Votes)
Alien Alien – Sambaca (14%, 21 Votes)
Azari & III – Manic (8%, 12 Votes)
Gio Black Peter – Revolving Door (New Fuck New York) (3%, 4 Votes)
Jessica 6 feat. Antony – Prisoner Of Love (7%, 10 Votes)
Jolly Goods – Try (11%, 17 Votes)
Katastrophe – Tunnel Vision (2%, 3 Votes)
Light Asylum – Dark Allies (12%, 18 Votes)
MEN – Who Am I To Feel So Free (7%, 10 Votes)
Miracles Club - Light Of Love (Cut Copy Re-Vision) (3%, 4 Votes)
“A video art tribute to gangster YouTube clips, gay for pay thugs, surveillance videos, voyeurism and the live version of Salem’s Alice DeeJay cover ‘Better Off Alone’. Directed/edited/created by Matt Burgess. Unofficial, non-for-profit..” Released in March. Via Michał. More videos by Matt Burgess on his Vimeo page and on YouTube.
Junksista is a new electrotrash artist who coos smutty lyrics with a German accent over thick, fuzzy beats (think Garbage and Simian Mobile Disco), plus she’s got an impeccable Cyndi Lauper tattoo. Her digital EP from earlier this year was just given a CD release with two new tracks, retitled (C)LICK ME XXXtended and available thru her site. Check the video for “Fruits”, a sexy reminder to get your 5 A Day:
If I would actually believe in the relevance of the album format and acquiesce to the Gregorian calendar, then SSION‘s Bent would certainly make it onto my 2011 list. Here’s my reworking of the bittersweet “Nothing Happens at Nite”, using Cody Critcheloe’s a cappella over a new arrangement that shifts from French filter house and dance-pop into some kind of tropical interlude before unfolding into the cut-up disco closing. Thanks to Electrosexual for mastering my remix, and if you haven’t already heard Bent, you can download the whole album for free at SSION’s official site.
+++ Snax has just published a pretty depressing article on the Huffington Post about the homophobic and racist reactions to the video of song “It’s Time To Get Paid” (a collaboration with Yo!Majesty member Shunda K). Read it here. Germans can watch the video here.
+++ The mysterious Manchester group No Ceremony have remixed Patrick Wolf’s “Time Of My Life”. You can stream and download the song here (via Snipe London). I also recommend the download of their lastest single “Wearme” on their homepage (via Joey).
+++ Justin Leon Johnson aka Fatha Green, one half of Portland based duo Purple & Green has just released a pretty awesome solo EP/mixtape. Stream it here and buy it over at Bandcamp - you can decide yourself what you want to pay:
+++ A couple of days ago I received an email by a Swedish musician and set designer Johan Svenson, who introduced me to his electronic music trio called DELAYKLINIKEN. I really like their trancey latest Single “Everywhere”, which you can stream and download right here. There’s also a nice video to the song, you can watch it here.
+++ Kele Okereke (see sexy picture above) is about to release his new “The Hunter” EP next week. The EPs lead track “What Did I Do” feat. Lucy Taylor has already been released in September. You find the tracklist of “The Hunter” here and the video to “What Did I Do” here.
+++ Here comes a new video by Jessica 6 to their song “Prisoner of Love”, which premiered over at Interview Magazine yesterday. The song is a duet with Antony, who also appears in the video. Styling by Nicola Formichetti.
+++ Portland’s newcomers Purple & Green (see picture above) have just released their new 4-track EP “Sunshine”, which can be downloaded on bandcamp for whatever you wanna pay for it (including nothing). There’s also a new video to the title track “Sunshine”, which you can watch here, as well as their last video “Human Nature”.
+++ MEN founder JD Samson is featured in a fashion shoot of the latest ”Vogue Homme”. Check out all four pictures of photographer Maciek Kobielski on the website of the French gay magazine Tetu +++
+++ The website Homoground is a great source for music of queer artists. Every Monday the site releases a new mixtape by people related to the queer music scene, every Thursday you can download an audio podcast featuring music by queer musicians. The site also features tour date, live videos and much more. Check it out! +++
Berlin based DJ duo Discodromo has just returned to Berlin after two US gigs in New York and San Francisco, where the guys promoted their single “Mercurio”. The song was released in June as the first output of a new queer electronic imprint called Discaire, which was founded by Ryan Smith and DJ Pee Play from Honey Soundsystem. You can now officially watch the NSFW video to the single by an artist called Gold~n~sour on the label’s website – until recently it was only available to the owners of the 12″ vinyl. The B/W clip was shot on a Sunday morning after the duo’ party Cocktail D’Amore at the now officially closed artspace basso in Kreuzberg (official funeral tomorrow).
To watch it you just need to click here or on the screenshot below and then enter the password FLANEUR in capital letters.
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