Editors Note: In the hopes of giving some up-and-coming directors and artists some love, we are starting a Video Round Up feature which is basically what it sounds like. We take a handful of the videos we received in the mail that week and say a few words and rank them according to whatever we feel is important at the moment. Check the clips out and then tell us what you think. Show us some love.

4th Place: A Place To Bury Strangers – I Know I’ll See You (Dir:Adam Grabarnick)

Give this Kid an A for Effort. While the quality is lacking the band went through hell making it. The clip features them traveling across the country, virtually killing their RV and almost missing a show. Watch it, people put effort into these videos.

3rd Place: The Cribs – I’m a Realist (Dir: The 3 Pronged Attack)

You know what’s been bothering me lately — it’s the absence of the big ending in music videos, they all end up so anti-climatic. I watch three minutes of a clip to have nothing happen. I understanding taking away the big bow ending from the audience but you have to leave them something, maybe a different sorta present. You must give me something damn it, I’m American.

2nd Place:
The Harpeth Trace – Locked Out and Wandering (Dir: Manny Marquez)

You ever been inside a dream? I haven’t but it sounds nice, real nice. I just wake up in the morning feeling nothing at all. I wish I could dream of keyboards, birds and The Harpeth Trace playing guitar. The song and video make the experience very much like a dream I would want to have. Well played, Manny. Well played.

1st: The Volunteers – Fuck My Ghost (Dir: Matt Schuman)

Ready for a video so simple it punches you in the throat when your not looking. Take some real hardcore lyrics over a very simple idea and pull no punches, then headbut him when the ref is not looking. Now you got something. They call it juxtaposition. Don’t believe me? The Volunteers are completely DGAF about the whole dying situation. “I probably wont know that you came [to my grave]” over a game of badminton. Believe me now?