Modest Mouse and MTVU make their own greenscreen challenge

That Stephen Colbert is quite the trendsetter: first he had fans create their own Star Wars videos featuring himself, and later the hyper-literate indie band The Decemberists had their fans also create a music video for one of their songs, which culminated in the great guitar shred-off on The Colbert Report.

Now, Modest Mouse, another indie band --actually, I'm just going to call it a "rock band" and drop this whole "indie" thing if you don't mind-- has teamed up with MTVU and is asking aspiring video music directors to create their own video for the song "We've Got Everything" off the band's recent album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (which, despite being a huge Modest Mouse fan, I have yet to purchase).

The winner of the contest will have their video debut on both MTVU and MTVU.com, and will also win a Sony HDR-HC5 High Definition Mini DV 2.1MP Handycam Camcorder. Information and downloadable goodness can be found here.

One of the great things about the plethora of video sites popping up on the Web is that bands are actually making videos again, and it's cool to see bands like The Decemberists and Modest Mouse taking it a step further and letting fans participate. Now, instead of MTV deciding which thirty seconds of a video to show on television, bands and their fans can cut out the middleman and interact more intimately. I think that's pretty cool.

[via Pop Candy]