If I had to give you a top three list, I would try out Broadcast's Papercuts, Christian McBride's cover of an old weather report tune, and Cat Power's two vids and two protest mp3s...
The rest are as follows.
Adrian Belew (prog rock)
He has the right attitude. All of his personal vids are available for download. My fave is the duet with David Bowie. Pretty Pink Rose.
http://www.adrianbelew.net/download.htm
And You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Dead (alt rock)
Actually, I don't like all of their tunes, but I think "Relative Ways" and "Early Morning Stoner" are some of the best rock vids I've seen over the last 10 years. I also like what I 've heard of their new album.
http://www.trailofdead.com/media/
Broadcast (alt trip hoppy acidy jazzie)
I can't get enough of this band. If you're a fan of Portishead or Esthero, then you'll probably like Broadcast. I also highly recommend City in Progress, Come Let's Go, and the World Backwards, when you buy them legally at your fave online music downloader, or from Emule, which would be wrong, probably....
http://www.broadcast.uk.net/index8.html
Patricia Barber (out jazz singer)
She has one vid online and it'a a good one. I first saw this on BEt on Jazz. Catch her great screaming at the end of the tune...
http://www.patriciabarber.com/av/index.html
Buckyball records (jazz rock)
The only place on line that I've seen actual real life jazz rock music. Buckyball seems to be made up of the remnants of the great Brit fusion band Brand X, most notably sinewy Jaco-like bassist Percy Jones and flashy guitarist John Goodsall.
audio here
http://www.buckyballmusic.com/music/index.html
vids here
http://www.buckyballmusic.com/video/index.html
Cat Power (alt rock)
I've always liked Cat Power. I think her best vids are:
He War
Nude as the News
http://www.matadorrecords.com/cat_power/music.html
You can also find two of her better protest tunes over at
http://www.protest-records.com/mp3/index.html
Click on Volume 1. And try "Rockets" and "Maybe Not"
Stanley Clarke (jazz rock living legend)
I'm still checking these out..
http://www.stanleyclarke.com/aud-vid_pg.htm
Helium (alt rock)
I just caught this at Matador. I give it a B.
http://www.matadorrecords.com/helium/music.html
Kaki King (jazzy acoustic guitar virtuoso)
Looks like they're putting all of her first album out there for free at her first label. You can't download it. But you could tape and then record it as an Mp3, if you had the proper equipment and hated America I guess..
http://www.velourmusic.com/2003/site.html
You have to scroll around.
She moved up to the big label Sony of course and she now has a video, which you can actually see on vh1 megahits between the mostly garbage that they play... (I'm never going to purchase anything from the Killers. Not gonna happen.)
http://www.kakiking.com/
You can get her new vid plus live performances at the above URL.
Kudu (acid jazz)
I was sniffing around Kaki's old label and I ran into this incredibly acid jazzy band called Kudu. Nice stuff. I'm an acid jazz junkie. I don't do the drugs but I sure love the drug music. Bitches Brew forever....Neo soul at its finest. I don't think I'll be hearing this on WAMO anytime soon.
http://www.velourmusic.com/2003/site.html
Read her profile here:
ttp://www.arielpublicity.com/kudu/press_2001.html
http://www.velourmusic.com/2003/site.html
Christian McBride (jazz bassist)
There's just one cover of a Weather Report tune on the Internet. I think this is it...
Boogie Woogie waltz
http://christianmcbride.com/multi.html
Brad Melhdau (jazz piano)
The return of Bill Evans, just a wondrous supple sound. He's scary tech wise too, but he doesn't show it off all the time...
http://www.bradmehldau.com/mehldau/media/index.html
Sonic Youth (alt tuned alt rock gods)
All of their vids are online, plus all kinds of live cuts. I have yet to try this out..
http://www.sonicyouth.com/archives/vidselect/index.html
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