Mudhoney - It Is Us

What this video is

Released in March 2006 on Sub Pop Records, 'It Is Us' is the second track from Mudhoney's seventh studio album 'Under a Billion Suns,' a politically charged record forged in the context of the ongoing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The title itself — echoing the phrase 'I've seen the enemy and it is us' — reflects the album's sardonic, self-implicating critique of American complicity in wartime. The video's…

Why it matters

A key document of post-grunge's political turn in the mid-2000s, 'It Is Us' represents Mudhoney's maturation from progenitors of early Seattle grunge into sardonic elder statesmen of American indie punk. The track and its video sit at the intersection of garage punk authenticity and mid-2000s…

The director

Rob 'Whitey' McConnaughy is a Cannes Lion-winning DGA director based in Portland, OR. He began his career directing over a dozen best-selling snowboard and skateboard films, and was a founding creator of the MTV series Jackass. He expanded into music videos,…