Twin Sister - "Bad Street"

Brooklyn pop mystics Twin Sister will make their full-length debut on September 27, when Domino releases their album In Heaven. That drawing you see above is the album's cover art. And below, check out director Dan Devine's video for first single "Bad Street". The clip focuses on a summertime outdoor party that looks like a whole lot of fun, and it makes excellent use of a fisheye lens, on some real 90s shit. Also, there is a very high cuteness level here. It was shot at the Long Island home of singer Andrea Estella's family.

OK Go + Pilobolus - All Is Not Lost - Official Video

It was only a matter of time until OK GO got into the Chrome experiment game. They’ve partnered up with dance company Pilobolus, longtime collaborator Trish Sie, and Google Japan to create All Is Not Lost – a music video and love letter to Japan that allows you to send messages using either roman characters or katakana.

The HTML5 version is a bit processor intensive (took a couple false starts on my machine), but worthwhile for the window movement and typographic play. The regular music video still features their trademark clever visuals. Making of here.

Directed by OK Go, Pilobolus and Trish Sie
Produced by Shirley Moyers
Director of Photography: Yon Thomas
Edited by Paula Salhany

Interpol - "Say hello to the Angels" Video

Pearl Jam Twenty Trailer

Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to the band's formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after their rise to megastardom, their step back from center stage, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them—giving way to a work culture that would sustain them. Told in big themes and bold colors with blistering sound, the film is carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely-seen and never-before seen footage spanning the band's career. Pearl Jam Twenty is the definitive portrait of Pearl Jam: part concert film, part intimate insider-hang, part testimonial to the power of music and uncompromising artists.

About the Filmmaker

CAMERON CROWE, Director, Writer, Producer

Deus Ex - Human Revolution : Purity First

Title: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Label: Square Enix
Genre: Action RPG
Age Rating: M

David Lynch - 'Good Day Today'

***Official Video - Winner of the David Lynch video competition***

Director: Arnold de Parscau
Cinematography: Jonathan Bertin, Antoine Bon
Actors: Elia Blanc, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Brigitte Aubry, Sarah Barzyk.

Ready, Set, Fall! - Buried Alive

Directed and edited by Andrea Larosa
http://www.facebook.com/andrea.larosa

Produced by Andrea Fusini // Fusix Studio
http://www.myspace.com/fusixstudio

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (in LEGO)

A shot-for-single-shot remake of LCD Soundsystem's 2007 music video for 'All My Friends.' This is part exercise in lip-syncing and digital effects, part tribute to the band that no longer is.

Physical elements shot with a Nikon D50. Compositing and effects done in After Effects CS5. Face designed in Illustrator CS5.

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (Official Music Video)



Music video by LCD Soundsystem performing All My Friends.

The Mountain Goats - Estate Sale Sign

It's an epic battle for a snowglobe in the new the Mountain Goats video.

"Estate Sale Sign", a churning track from the Mountain Goats' 2011 album All Eternals Deck, now has an animated video from the directing team Awesome and Modest. In the clip, two hideous shape-shifting beasts wage a neverending war over a snow globe, with a brief pause for a moment of tenderness. It's weird, and it's just as allegorical as you'd expect.

In a statement, Sean Donnelly of Awesome and Modest describes the video, "A couple fights over a snow globe with a picture perfect house inside of it. Throughout the fight, they continue to rip away each other's skin and take the forms of many kinds of monsters and creatures. Eventually, there are no more layers left to protect them, and their naked little innocent selves are left alone in a wasteland. The snow globe breaks, and the picture perfect house is ruined. They very slowly turn and walk away in opposite directions."

Björk – “Crystalline”

Björk's new album Biophilia arrives September 27 on Nonesuch/One Little Indian. Now, we've now got the video for "Crystalline", the BNM'ed first single from the LP. The video comes from director Michel Gondry, who has made quite a few classics with Björk in the past.

Vivian Girls – “Take It As It Comes”

When we posted the Vivian Girls’ “Take It As It Comes,” I called it “a girl-group pep talk featuring Grease-style spoken word.” This chatty Travis Peterson-directed plays around with that aesthetic, albeit with Cure and Ramones posters in the background.

Miranda July: The Future

Miranda July: The Future on Nowness.com.

Miranda July: The Future
The Artist and Filmmaker Presents An Exclusive Vignette Inspired By Her Magical New Film

Miranda July dreams up an idiosyncratic solution to the interruptions of modern life in "A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted." An offcut from July's latest film, The Future, the scene has been reconstituted by the actress, writer and filmmaker for NOWNESS, complete with a score by David Byrne collaborator Steven Reker. July drew on her performance art piece, “Things We Don't Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About” for her sophomore feature; it follows 2005's Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Caméra d'Or prize at Cannes. The film's plot centers on LA couple Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater), whose decision to adopt the sickly stray cat Paw Paw sees them grapple with the impending responsibility of the pet's care. This being a July vehicle, things take a characteristically kooky turn, with Paw Paw stepping in as narrator, and the couple embarking on a quest to seize the day: Sophie strives to reach her artistic potential by creating a definitive dance number, and Jason hands his future over to fate, following "signs" from the universe. We spoke to the prolific July, who has also exhibited as a performance artist at the Guggenheim and the Whitney Biennale and written for publications including The Paris Review and The New Yorker.

Why didn't the scene above make the final cut of The Future?

This scene was meant to make it clear that Sophie was struggling against distraction, after losing time on YouTube—we all know how alluring these distractions are, and here we are seeing her attempting to take charge. I had her rig up a grape juice booby trap. In the next scene, which is actually in the movie, you see her run past the table and her white dress is covered in grape juice, which seemed like a funny visual way of showing that she had sacrificed the dress for the internet. Except that nobody got the whole grape juice trap. I don't think a single person understood why she was doing any of it. It just seemed like a bizarre performance in the middle of the movie. So I cut it. It's nice to show it here, and hopefully with the cards it isn't too mystifying.

What compelled you to tell a story so focused on temporality?

It didn't start out being about time, but the longer it took to make, the older I got and the more pressure I felt. It was made more acute by me being in my mid-thirties—a very particular time in any woman's life.

Can you sum up what the movie is about for you?
My work is never only about the story—it is always about what is inside the people who are in the story. But, in the most basic sense, it's about time: getting through it, minute by minute, stopping it, and the end of it, death.

You’ve said that The Future is your version of a horror movie. Can you explain why?
The character I play in the movie fails to make the dance she sets out to make, and then flees her life. She moves to a world where she will never have to try and fail again. No one cares if she's creative there. This is a sort of horror movie for a person like me, who has created her sense of self through making things. But it's also a fantasy: a fear-fantasy.


The Future will be released in the US on July 29, and in the UK on November 4

“Sexy Fingers” (NSFW)

Shake Them Balls – AIDES “Sexy Fingers” commercial (NSFW)

Links
Jean-Michel Tixier (Illustration and direction)
Jérôme Lozano (Editor)
Frenzy (Production)
JWT Paris (Agency)

The Flaming Lips with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Do You Realize?

[video] Flaming Lips + Edward Sharpe do 13-minute “Do You Realize” at sunrise in a graveyard.

Sure, I posted a partial video of this not too long ago. But this pro shot multi-cam video is absolutely incredible. Anyone who experienced this live: you are a lucky son of a gun.

Little Dragon - When I Go Out

Music Video: Little Dragon - When I Go Out - Dir.Emanuele Kabu. www.emanuelekabu.org

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

Film clip for the Gotye song Somebody That I Used To Know
Featuring Kimbra

Directed, produced and edited by Natasha Pincus
Body art by Emma Hack
Cinematographer and colourist: Warwick Field
Scenic artist: Howard Clark
Key grip: Rob Hansford
Assistants: Rose Cidoni, Claire Leighton, Rob Murray
Original artwork by Frank De Backer

Calvin Harris - "Feel so close"

Calvin Harris "Feel So Close" - Dir: Vincent Haycock

Container - Before

The video for Container's Before from the album Neo. Directed by Steven Sole.

Fall On Your Sword - The First Time

Video for “The First Time I Saw Jupiter”, by Fall On Your Sword. Directed by Rupert Cresswell.

The Drums - Money

The Drums: Money
The World Premiere of the Indie Pop Band's Surreal New Video

Inhabiting a universe in which tea parties are ripe for the crashing and Fidel Castro lookalikes can be found lazing about parks, M Blash’s video for the Drums’ infectious new single “Money” brings frontman Jonathan Pierce's wistful lyrics to life. "It's absurdist," says Blash of the clip, which was filmed in and around the city, from Chinatown to Queens to the West Side Highway. The Smiths-indebted tune is the first off the Brooklyn outfit's much anticipated second album, Portamento, which sees the surf rock–inflected three-piece retain the sonic giddiness that has become their hallmark, while adopting a more confessional tone. "Things have become more personal," says Pierce. "On our first album we romanticized everything. Portamento is rooted in honesty." Originally from Florida, the Drums burst on to the music scene in 2010 with their freewheeling Summertime EP before releasing a self-titled debut that went on to sell 200,000 albums. A member of the prestigious Director's Bureau, Blash has created music videos for the likes of Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett), as well as writing and directing the 2006 Cannes-screened feature Lying, starring Chloë Sevigny. We asked Pierce to talk monetary inspiration.

How would you sum up the song's meaning?
It's essentially about trying and failing, but with a heart that is mostly sincere.

What prompted you to hook up with M Blash to direct the video?
I met M. about a year ago at Gus Van Sant's house in LA. At the time we were directing all our own videos, but with the new album we wanted to bring in talented people who really get what our band is about.

The lyrics to "Money" talk about doing something nice before you die. What's your view on the afterlife?
Hell was always too scary and heaven always sounded too boring. Life is better without those things, and so is death.

What would you buy a loved one if money was no object?
It depends on who it is. I'd like to buy [guitarist Jacob Graham] a Roland 505 string and organ synthesizer. It's his dream. I must say after playing one, I wouldn't mind having one myself.

H+ | Comic-Con trailer (2011)

Bryan Singer beams the internet straight into your brain, in the trailer for H+

Watch the first trailer for Bryan Singer's futuristic webseries H+, in which the population has ditched smart phones for brain implants. And of course, it all goes horribly wrong.

Here's a quick synopsis:

H+: The Digital Series takes viewers on a journey into an apocalyptic future where technology has begun to spiral out of control, a future where 33% of the world's population has retired its cell phones and laptops in favor of a stunning new device – an implanted computer system called H+.

This tiny tool allows the user's own mind and nervous system to be connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. But something else is coming… something dark and vicious… and within seconds, billions of people will be dead… opening the door to radical changes in the political and social landscape of the planet - prompting survivors to make sense of what went wrong.

No word yet on when the series is set to go online, but rumor has it, it will air by 2011. Fingers crossed for this one, the FX are pretty compelling. Let's hope the story works as well!

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From producer Bryan Singer ( X-Men , X2 , X-Men : First Class , Superman Returns ) comes a Comic-Con exclusive first look at H+, the forthcoming Warner Premiere/Dolphin Entertainment web series directed by Stewart Hendler (Sorority Row) and written and created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso. H+ takes place in a near-future world where a tiny and stunning new piece of technology lies at the center of a dark and epic mystery.
many thanks to Warner Digital for supplying us with this trailer

The Flaming Lips x Lightning Bolt – “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage”

Providence noise lifers Lightning Bolt have collaborated on an EP with Wayne Coyne. Here’s a video for one of the tracks, “I Want to Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage.” (Very different than Björk’s Lightning Bolt moment.) At the start of the clip, Coyne talks about doing a reading at Boston’s Newbury Comics tomorrow (Tuesday), mentioning he’ll have copies of the EP on hand. For now, take a look at the video and the EP tracklist. You’ll notice a theme.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Death Of You And Me

Noel Gallagher’s debut single and video for “The Death Of You And Me” is here. In the clip for the countryish tune, Noel is a patron at a dreary desert diner who inspires a waitress to escape her life by pushing her into a swimming pool. More importantly it delivers another classic singalong chorus from the former Oasis songwriter.

Pure X - "Easy"

Austin trio Pure X’s Pleasure makes for great summer listening — the Bedhead vibe and shadowy production have a cooling effect even when the air-conditioner’s busted. That said, director Malcolm Elijah plays off the collection’s red-and-leather cover art, creating a “steamier” feel in his video for “Easy.”

Hooray For Earth - "Sails"

Directors David Parker and Cole Schreiber’s shadowy, frenetic video for “Sails” depicts a young woman (played by Madeline Zima) chasing herself (?) through nighttime streets in pursuit of a mysterious hidden box. Watch it and maybe you can explain it to me.

Neon Indian – “Heart : Decay” & “Heart : Attack”

Young Alan Palomo is readying his second LP as Neon Indian, titled Era Extraña. Unlike the somewhat obfuscated and anonymous rollout for Psychic Chasms, this time Alan is ready for his closeup — this video, for the Part Two (“Decay”) of the album’s three-part instrumental “Heart” piece, has Palomo traipsing around the Era Extraña’s birth city Helsinki, scribbling in his notebook, trudging through snow. Video by Sean Lopez:



Here’s Part One, “Heart : Attack”:

Computer Magic – “Running”

Computer Magic – “Running”. Directed by: John McSwain

Phineas, Ferb and Slash - Kick It Up A Notch (Music Video)

Phineas and Ferb and Slash Kick It Up A Notch! Phineas and Ferb Across the 2nd Dimension premieres Friday, August 5 at 8/7c on Disney Channel!

Beastie Boys (Feat. Santigold) – “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” (Full Length)

Beastie Boys have reteamed with longtime collaborator Spike Jonze for this epic video featuring action figures — “NOT dolls” — of Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D. Santigold is on hand too as the crew tries to escape a gang of assassins during a series of ill escapades.

Plot Device

A young filmmaker obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn.

Created using Magic Bullet Suite 11. Learn more at RedGiant.com/​PlotDevice

Watch the "Behind the Scenes" documentary at: vimeo.com/​24747132

Lenny Kravitz - Stand (Director's Cut)

Lenny's new video for "Stand" from the forthcoming album 'Black And White America".

Lenny Kravitz "Stand" - Dir: Paul Hunter

Foster The People - Helena Beat

Music video by Foster The People performing Helena Beat.

Atmosphere - Last To Say

Check the brand new video for Atmosphere's track Last To Say. The video show Slug's putting his lyrical talents to work for a good cause : prevention of domestic violence. The video is well directed,pretty explicit and it never falls into cheap drama (which is a pretty good achievement for this kind of cause).

Björk – Biophilia [iPhone, iPad, Sound]

Creative Applications reviews Björk and Scott Snibbe’s experimental music album meets iPad app, Biophilia.

Biophilia is an iPhone/iPad release of Björk’s latest album created in collaboration with Scott Snibbe and her longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris). Comprising a suite of musical pieces and interactive artworks, Biophilia is released as ten in-app download experiences that are accessed through a three-dimensional galaxy, the album’s theme song Cosmogony. The first single Crystalline, is now available, others soon to follow.


Björk has collaborated with artists, designers, scientists, instrument makers, writers and software developers to create an extraordinary multimedia exploration of the universe and its physical forces, processes and structures – of which music is a part. Each in-app experience is inspired by and explores the relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena, from the atomic to the cosmic. You can use Biophilia to make and learn about music, to find out about natural phenomena, or to just enjoy Björk’s music.

Biophilia opens into a three-dimensional galaxy with a compass allowing navigation between the 3-dimensional universe and a two-dimensional track list. By tapping on stars within the constellations you can access each in-app purchase which includes a combination of album art, games, interactive music notation which you can pan through in realtime, lyrics, and essays that explore Björk’s inspirations for the track.

Whilst the app does “borrow” some of the concepts we have already seen in the AppStore and/or on CAN, it never the less offers an unique experience where different elements are weaved together with both sensitivity and precision. The experience is unified, building on different layers of visuals and sound, Bjork with Scott and M/M have just set a new milestone, showing real benefits that lie in collaboration. Considering there are still 8 tracks to go and although I have no intention to cover each one independently, I fear I may have to as from what I have seen in no.1, there are many more wonderful things yet to come. Get it >

Biophilia was created by Björk in collaboration with interactive artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and Björk’s longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris). Crystalline (one of the in-app purchase tracks) was created by Björk in collaboration with Luc Barthelet, developer of The Sims; TouchPress, creator of The Elements app; and M/M (Paris).

Platform: iPhone/iPad (Universal)
Version: 1.0
Cost: Free + $1.99 in-app purchase
Developer: Second Wind Ltd
iTunes.

Attenborough Intro - Biophilia by Bjork from CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo.

The found collective: The Wombats - Techno Fan

C++ openFrameworks magic from the Found Collective in collaboration with MSA Visuals.

Winsor McCay - 1911 - Little Nemo (Animation 100 Years Ago)

Cartoonist Winsor McCay {wiki} creates an early movie animation in this 1911 film, originally entitled Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics but often just called Little Nemo, after McCay’s comic strip. Most of the video is a dramatization of how the animation came about. The actual animation happens about eight minutes in. McCay later went on to produce Gertie the Dinosaur, which many of us learned was the “first” animated movie. -via Buzzfeed

Kasabian - Switchblade Smiles

Music video by Kasabian performing Switchblade Smiles.

Slow Club - Two Cousins

The brilliant video for the new single - Two Cousins - taken from their forthcoming new album, out in September.

Directed by Lucy Needs.

Jonathan Wilson - Natural Rhapsody

The first music video for the folk singer Jonathan Wilson.

Director: Michael Graham
Artist: Jonathan Wilson
Title: Natural Rhapsody
Cinematographer: Matthias Koenigswieser

Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival 2008
Official Selection - Venice Film Festival 2008

Setting Sun - No Devil Me No More

Setting Sun- No Devil Me No More (Dir. Charles Pieper)

The official music video for 'No Devil me no More' by Setting Sun, off of their album 'Children of the Wild.'

Designed, animated, directed by Charles Pieper.

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer: It All Ends, Again

The Coathangers - Hurricane

Artists: The Coathangers
Song: Hurricane
Album: Larceny & Old Lace
Release Date: June 7
Label: Suicide Squeeze

Video Productions by Studio 8 (http://studio8atl.com)
Directed by: Mike Moore
Cinematography: Ilir Imeraj
Edited by: Video Rahim
Shot By: Andre Murphy, Ilir Imeraj, Mike Moore, Video Rahim
Hair and Makeup: Charity Jillian

Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed

Timothy Saccenti, previously known for directing videos for the likes of Battles, Flying Lotus, Chairlift & Animal Collective, amongst others, has teamed up with Alan Bibby to create a beautiful short visual piece for 'Eyes Be Closed'.

It's the first single to be taken from 'Within and Without', the long awaited debut album from Washed Out.

Paramore - Monster (Official Video)

A clip of Paramore's song 'Monster' from Transformers: Dark Of The Moon - the album featuring music inspired by the film, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

Black Lips - New Direction

Black Lips, “New Direction” (VICE)

Director Jake Burghart takes the Black Lips on a minute-and-a-half journey over glacial peaks and bucolic valleys in “New Direction.” The rambunctious ode to never going stale sees defying the laws of physics over Atlanta, the Andes and Africa on the strength of tambourine and power chords.

Tom Vek – “Aroused”

Tom Vek’s Saam Farahmand-directed “Aroused” video features folks staring moodily at the camera before treating cigarettes like a hot date. Vek: “It’s a nod to the way in which smoking is used heavily and quite innocently in art and fashion … In the video, it represents feelings of being overwhelmed and extremities — both of which tie in with the sentiment of the album.” Don’t watch if you’re trying to quit.

Tom Vek: Aroused on Nowness.com.

Pictureplane – “Post Physical”

When writing about “Post Physical” from BTW Pictureplane’s great new album Three Physical, I noted Travis Egedy has a knack for “mixing unexpected styles and noisy/smooth cross-genre sounds to create some of the most effortlessly catchy (and impressively DIY polished, living/breathing) dance tracks” you’ll hear all summer. It’s basically a refined form of fucked-up, unrefined collage, one that holds up insanely well to repeat listens. Fittingly, one of Thee‘s standouts was paired with MENZ frenetically inventive, aesthetically dead-on cuts and splices.

Cults – “Go Outside”

Video: Cults: "Go Outside"

(via Boing Boing)

To tell the story of Cults’ hauntingly beautiful track, “Go Outside”, I was inspired to bring the band inside the world of Jim Jones’ famous religious cult, Peoples Temple, and the eventual tragedy in Jonestown. Fortunately, when exploring the feasibility of this video I became acquainted with Fielding M. McGehee III, an expert on Peoples Temple history and the primary researcher for the Jonestown Archive. It is thanks to him and his encouragement that I was able to take on this project and through his support gained access to over two and half hours of home videos showing Peoples Temple in Jonestown. For this music video we didn’t want to put a spin on the footage or the peoples lives—instead we wanted to re-tell and humanize their story. In order to achieve this we used a combination of stock footage, visual effects and other tricks to embed the band into the historical footage. This was achieved through my collaboration with my visual effects supervisor Bill Gillman and my cinematographer Matthew Lloyd. Lastly, I am moved to say when we completed the video we were able to preview it for some of the survivors of the Jonestown Massacre, who expressed their appreciation of our focus on the lives of the People’s Temple members as opposed to exploiting the graphic images of the final tragedy.

In History and Memory,
Isaiah

Watch Interpol's Collaboration With David Lynch

When Interpol played this year's Coachella, the band's performance of "Lights", from last year's self-titled effort, was accompanied by a film by David Lynch, titled I Touch a Red Button (watch video of the performance here). Now, Matablog points out that I Touch a Red Button, which is soundtracked by "Lights", is available for viewing online now. Watch it below.



Via: http://www.pitchfork.com/

Starkey - Lost In Space (featuring Charli XCX)

Official music video for Starkey's latest release 'Lost In Space' featuring Charli XCX. by Broken Antler

The Polyphonic Spree – “Bullseye”

im DeLaughter’s symphonic pop cult the Polyphonic Spree have released a new song via an interactive video designed by Moonbot Studios for the iPad/iPhone. Here’s the description of “Bullseye” from Apple’s app store:

Play through an expansive and changing world as You-Me, a small creature striving to find his way in the world. Bring plants and creatures to life in a video where you see, hear, and touch the world around you.

Below is a video preview of the app in action for you to consider before shelling out $1.99 here, along with HQ video of the band performing “Bullseye” for the first time at the Dallas Museum of Art last month.

Hercules and Love Affair - Painted Eyes

Hercules and Love Affair -Painted Eyes [Moshi Moshi]: Check the video for "Painted Eyes", a prettily kaleidoscopic affair that features fashion models becoming psychedelic imagery.

The Strokes - Taken For A Fool

The Strokes "Taken for a Fool" dir. Laurent Briet

The Vaccines - Norgaard

Music video by The Vaccines performing Norgaard.

Defective Detective

A film by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis debuting exclusively in the the Cartoon Brew's 2nd Student Animation Festival.

Visit the filmmakers' websites at:

Avner Geller: AvnerGeller.blogspot.com

Stevie Lewis: Chocosweete.blogspot.com

Sufjan Stevens – “Get Real Get Right”

Sufjan Stevens directed this frenetic stop-motion clip for The Age Of Adz‘s “Get Real Get Right,” extending the album’s visual aesthetic, linking to the colorful Adz live show, and offering momentary corpse paint in a Kabuki makeover.

Via: http://stereogum.com/

Handsome Furs - "What About Us" (highly NSFW)

Scott Coffey put together a pretty excellent (highly NSFW) video for Handsome Furs’ “What About Us.” Coffey, who’s clearly drawn to couplings, previously directed Wolf Parade’s cosmonaut romance “Yulia” and the Furs’ zombified “I’m Confused” videos. He’s also an actor who appeared in Mullhulland Drive and Inland Empire, etc. Make sense: You get a cinematic, strange, grubby, apocalyptic feel in this clip, one that features a number of beautiful shots and colors, an eerie atmosphere, male/female nudity, dry humping, and some humping of the wetter sort.

Warpaint – “Warpaint”

Warpaint the band is a relatively simple yet effective dream pop act. “Warpaint” the video, however, is anything but simple, featuring everything from girls wearing mustaches to women who cry crystals and lots of creepy Alice in Wonderland-inspired mermaids. We may not know what’s going on, but it matches the ethereal vibe of the song and sure is a Technicolor dream (courtesy of director Ted Newsome). Well done, Warpaint. And “Warpaint”.

Arctic Monkeys – “The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala”

Focus Creeps are again at the helm for this new, Super 8 video from their bbfs4evr Arctic Monkeys’ favorably prematurely evaluated fourth LP, Suck It And See. See it:

Origins

A character made of scraps wonders though the woods until he comes across a sign that will help him discover where he belongs.

Lonely Dogs

Short Movie : Lonely Dogs
On an oil platform, a story of friendship between two workers is compromised by the insanity paranoiac of one of them. A short movie by Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Deghani, Jonathan Djob-Nkondo, Paul Lacolley, Nicolas Pegon, Jérémy Pires, Kevin Manach from Gobelins School.

Skoda - Curriculum Vitae

weareflink crafts a stunning paper world for Skoda in “Curriculum Vitae”

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "The Body"

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "The Body"

Kurt Vile – “Baby’s Arms”

“Directed and filmed by Todd Cole entirely on the Windows Phone.” Download the song courtesy of Matador after the jump…

Skindred - Cut Dem

Skindred get all day of the dead on us in their new video for 'Cut Dem'

Johnny Cash - 'Hurt"

To celebrate the launch of NME Video - a new standalone site dedicated to the best music videos - we're counting down the greatest examples of the artform.

Director: Mark Romanek

The montage of shots of Cash served a poignant purpose at the time; after Johnny’s death seven months later it became even more powerful. A fitting audiovisual epitaph.

Best bit: Those opening chords and that opening line ”I hurt myself today / to see if I still feel” – near perfection.

This poignant performance of Nine Inch Nail's, "Hurt" is almost haunting, as it was recorded just prior to Cash's untimely death. Whether or not a Johnny Cash fan, this performance is powerful and deep with emotion. Produced by Rick Rubin, The Man Comes Around is the fourth and final Grammy Award-winning album Cash and Rubin have collaborated on.

dOP - 3 Suitcases

“3 Suitcases” by dOP is a bizzare stop-motion animated music video.

The Subways - It's A Party

The Subways - Its A Party (dir. Blake Claridge)

Beastie Boys Team With Spike Jonze Again for New Music Video, Starring Action Figures

On their website, the Beastie Boys report that they're working on a new video with an old buddy, "Sabotage"/"Sure Shot" video director Spike Jonze. For "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win", the Santigold collab from their Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 album, Jonze is making both a short and an "epic length" video. According to the Beasties themselves, the video is "an explicit action adventure spectacular," and it'll feature action figures of all three Beasties. ("yes, they are ACTION figures, NOT dolls!") The clip will arrive this month-- hopefully sooner rather than later.

For some idea of the magic that happens when these guys get together, watch the "Sure Shot" video below.