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Music Videos Filmed in Arizona

  • Kate
  • Jan 20
  • 3 min read

Get ready for a tour across the Grand Canyon State through a music video playlist, below is a list of 18 music videos filmed in Arizona. The list is in no particular order but you can tell the time period as during classic rock a lot of middle-of-the-desert videos, in the garage rock era of 90s/00s people liked to film in Papago park and Scottsdale backyards, and now that the Valley is more developed more videos are being filmed in Phoenix downtown.


Collage of Arizona-filmed music album covers, including bands, desert scenes, and vibrant album art. Central text reads Music Videos Filmed in Arizona.

"Tell Me" by People Who Could Fly

Local rock band that is a mainstay at taprooms, they filmed this video downtown.


Filmed at Gammage in Tempe, which was designed by Frank Llyod Wright.




Local Tempe band most known for "Jealousy" this music video is about local Valley neighborhoods.


Filmed in Winslow, Arizona and Route 66.




Opens with the 1-17 "tunnel" with additional shots of Phoenix's freeway, including near the Botanical Gardens, an inside of a convivence store, Tovrea Castle, and Tempe Town Lake bridge. Very quintessential Phoenix Valley from a local band.



Filmed in Antelope Canyon, near Page, Arizona.


Wendy O. Williams did her own stunts in this middle-of-the-desert video.


Filmed in a ghost town near the border.


I believe this was filmed in Paradise Valley.


Pistoleros are a local rock brand and have filmed at least 2 music videos in Tempe and Phoenix downtown areas.


Another one from the Pistoleros filmed in the Valley.


I believe this was filmed in Papago Park in Tempe.


Multiple camera angles and production quality mean this is a music video, but it's also one location so it skirts the line between live recording and music video.


Another music video that skirts the line of a live recording, this is from Scottsdale.


This Tucson-based band has a number of music videos, I think this one is in South Tucson but I'm not positive. If you want to see one of their weirder videos, I suggest "Falling from the Sky."



Weirdly, I don't think The Format has filmed a music video here even though they're local. Maybe that'll change with their newest album, Boycott Heaven, coming out 20 years after Dog Problems. A lot of local acts don't have music videos, like Hans Olson, or filmed their videos in Los Angeles, like The Format or Jimmy Eat World. For instance, see this live recording of Waylon Jennings playing in Phoenix even though he never recorded in his home state.


If you'd like to listen to a general Arizona playlist, here's one I created on Spotify:


Did I miss any music videos filmed in Arizona? Which is your favorite?

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