Archives - Jeffrey Howard

Qadiri has some of the most visually stimulating and enchanting music videos I've ever seen.

I’m a different person now. When they come in my way, I can just shout loud enough.

Now it is 2016, and I've listened to Britney Spears’ “Femme Fatale” and a little bit of “Blackout” almost every day for the past month. What once repelled me like some sort of insect on a stick is now a divine thing.

VIMTV, or “Velocities in Music,” is a hidden gem of a YouTube channel. The channel features two friends, Jake and Tom, who sit at a table in front of a camera and talk about albums. They haven’t been as active the past few years as they were when I discovered them in 2010. They used to mainly cover popular indie releases from this era—think Black Keys “Brothers,” “ James Blake’s self-titled album. They would review Top 40 pop albums, too, like Britney Spears’ “Femme Fatale” and Justin Bieber’s second album.

“madcatlady's” videos are insanely creepy. The characters and music in her videos are the stuff of nightmares.

A lot of these songs, having been produced in the past five years, have synths and multiple keyboard parts, and NJR did justice to that.

Look, “theneedledrop,” a.k.a Anthony Fantano, is literally one of the greatest music reviewers of all time.

“Dylan's Couch” is a 2007-2008 YouTube series that features Dylan, a 14-year old who shares anecdotes of his life in school, at home, and with friends.

For a car enthusiast who loves to think about makes and models of normal, everyday cars, “Regular Cars” is a dream come true.

Ratboy Genius stands as an example that creative genius still exists in pure form these days—you just have to look a little harder to find it.