Luscious Jackson - ＂Daughters of the Kaos＂

What this video is

Released in 1993 on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label, 'Daughters of the Kaos' was one of Luscious Jackson's first music video releases and represents a pivotal moment in early-90s New York alternative rock. The band occupied a unique intersection of hip-hop, punk, and indie rock — an all-female group emerging from the same downtown NYC milieu that produced the Beastie Boys. The video, directed by a then-nascent…

Why it matters

A key early document of the NYC alt-rock/hip-hop crossover scene that flourished on Grand Royal Records in the early 1990s. The video also marks one of Spike Jonze's first solo directing credits, contextualizing his later landmark work (Beastie Boys 'Sabotage', Weezer 'Buddy Holly') within a…

The director

Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel, October 22, 1969, Rockville, MD) began his career photographing BMX riders and skateboarders before directing the influential skate film Video Days (1991). He entered music video directing in 1992 co-directing Sonic Youth's…