Bat For Lashes – “A Wall”

Bat For Lashes just released her new video for “A Wall,” a shivery song from The Haunted Man. Noel Paul, who directed Natasha Khan in Bat For Lashes’ “Laura” and “All Your Gold” videos, once again helms, as a blond-wigged and extravagantly drunk Khan enjoys the company of a dude dressed as a furry at a bleary New Years party.

A$AP Rocky – “Long Live A$AP” (Explicit)

Just before Christmas, A$AP Rocky debuted the video for “Long Live A$AP,” the hazy title track from his new album. Alongside Samantha Lecca, Rocky directed the video himself, and he plays some sort of debauched king in a desolate, enchanted palace.

Taylor Swift – “I Knew You Were Trouble”

Taylor Swift – “I Knew You Were Trouble” (Dir. Anthony Mandler)

Taylor Swift as a punk-rock sprite, screaming while a guy in a Misfits backpatch kicks the shit out of her dirtbag boyfriend? A romantic betrayal at a desert rave? The first dubstep bass-drop in pop-country history? I’m sorry, you guys, but I can’t see how anyone would want to resist this.

Green Day - "X-Kid" (Video)

Billie Joe, Mike and Tre have release a weirdly mesmerising video for 'X-Kid,' taken from most recent album '¡Tre!'

The Moons feat. Paul Weller - "Something Soon"

The Moons feat. Paul Weller - Something soon (Joe Connor)

Joe Connor shoots The Moons and the Mod Father himself Paul Weller in their new single 'Something Soon'.

 'We took a great song, shot a classic performance and added a bucket load of James Bond style ink'

Hurts - "Exile 2013"

Music video by Hurts performing Exile 2013.

Peace - "Wraith"

Music video by Peace performing Wraith.

She & Him – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Official Music Video)

She & Him have released a video for their rendition of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” which is off their Christmas album A Very She & Him Christmas.

The video for the classic duet features an animated Zooey Deschanel doing everything in her power to keep M. Ward (who is also animated) from leaving a cabin in a wintery field. Veering away from the original, She & Him’s rendition has switched the traditional female vocal with the male’s creating a modern twist on this holiday classic. Director: Elliot Dear.

Hooray For Earth - "Never / Figure" (Official Music Video)

Way back in August, Brooklyn psych-pop band Hooray For Earth released the “Never” b/w “Figure” 7″, and now that single, which was good, seems to exist entirely as an excuse for the hallucinatory video. In the clip, a rumpled teacher finds himself on the run from theory and maybe, depending on your interpretation, at death’s door. A seven-and-a-half-minute music video can be a tough sell, but this is one that you should watch.

Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – “Fuck 1 Time” (Explicit)

Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire filmed the video for “Fuck 1 Time,” a track from his The Man In The High Castle mixtape, on location in downtown Manhattan during the Hurricane Sandy blackout. This was a smart idea, since it lends a sense of urgency to the video and since the only lighting comes from a spazzing-out flashlight, police flashers, and whatever starlight manages to shine through the murk of New York smog. Shane Annas directs.

Roc Marciano - 76

On his great new album Reloaded, Roc Marciano perfects a sort of impressionistic reflection of the New York headknock music of the mid-’90s. And similarly, in the video for album standoutu “76,” director Jason Goldwatch does interesting things with bygone eras, filming grimy New York locations in 8mm film to get that old grainy B-movie ambiance.

Sunglasses - "Swim"

"Swim" by Sunglasses
From the album, Wildlife on Mush Records
Director: Harrison Jaffee & Brian Urman
Written By: Samuel Cooper
Producer: Jeremy Aidan & Harrison Jaffee
Production Company: Smallest Violin Productions

In the clip, directed by Harrison Jaffee and Brian Urman, the band is at the center of some noir-ish drama situated at a nightclub; their multilayered summertime psych-pop soundtracks the action.

Dirty Projectors - "The Socialites" (Official Music Video)

A music video taken from the short film Hi Custodian.
 
Watch the latest video from Dirty Projectors' Swing Lo Magellan project, for Swing Lo Magellan's "The Socialites"

Rewind YouTube Style 2012

We invited some YouTubers to star in a mash-up of culturally defining moments of 2012. Can you spot all the references? More at http://youtube.com/rewind. Directed by Peter Furia

See if you can name all the YouTube stars and spot all the references in the video. You might even find a few surprises! (hint: try moving your mouse around while the video is playing...).

Produced by Peter Furia and Beau Lewis | Director of Photography: Catherine Goldschmidt | Edited by Peter Furia and David Fine | A Seedwell Production. Full credits at http://seedwell.com/rewind

STARRING
PSY - http://youtube.com/officialpsy
Walk off the Earth - http://youtube.com/walkofftheearth
AlphaCat - http://youtube.com/alphacat
KassemG - http://youtube.com/kassemg
DailyGrace - http://youtube.com/dailygrace
MysteryGuitarMan - http://youtube.com/mysteryguitarman
DaveDays - http://youtube.com/davedays
DeStorm - http://youtube.com/destorm
PyroBooby - http://youtube.com/pyrobooby
BarelyPolitical - http://youtube.com/barelypolitical
RealAnnoyingOrange - http://youtube.com/realannoyingorange
FreddieW - http://youtube.com/freddiew
CorridorDigital - http://youtube.com/corridordigital
RhettAndLink - http://youtube.com/rhettandlink
Smosh - http://youtube.com/smosh
FeliciaDay - http://youtube.com/geekandsundry
ChesterSee - http://youtube.com/chestersee
iJustine - http://youtube.com/ijustine
EpicMealTime - http://youtube.com/epicmealtime
MyHarto - http://youtube.com/myharto
JennaMarbles - http://youtube.com/jennamarbles
ShitGirlsSay - http://youtube.com/shitgirlssay
JuicyStar07 - http://youtube.com/juicystar07
GloZell - http://youtube.com/glozell1
ClevverTV - http://youtube.com/clevvertv
SmoshGames - http://youtube.com/smoshgames
HuskyStarcraft - http://youtube.com/huskystarcraft
PLUS
RyanHiga - http://youtube.com/ryanhiga
and more...

Fat Creeps – “Daydreaming”

Music: FAT CREEPS
Video: AVI PAUL WEINSTEIN

In September, we introduced you to Fat Creeps, a Boston three-piece who match dark garage-rock guitar riffs with dissonant harmonies for some of the catchiest ’90s-inspired pop songs we’ve heard all year. This week the band has revealed a video for a new song, “Daydreaming,” set to appear on a 12″ split with ZEBU! coming out in early 2013 on one of New England’s best record labels, Feeding Tube Records of Northampton, MA. The track is their tightest yet, with guitarist Gracie Jackson and bassist Mariam Saleh’s girl-gang vocals backed up by Jim Leonard’s heavy drumming. The video, shot by Avi Paul Weinstein, finds the trio running around their hometown, Lynn, MA, playing in the Lynnway Mart, Kiley Park, and Mariam’s bedroom.

Major Lazer - Jah No Partial ft. Flux Pavilion (official Video)

Major Lazer’s recent single “Jah No Partial,” a collaboration with EDM dude Flux Pavilion, is a weird but exhilarating collision between arena-dubstep and old-school reggae. And its brand-new video shows Diplo and friends on the road, bringing their ridiculously fun live show to festivals across the world. (Belgium, we learn, goes off.) Water cannons blast, dancers do impossibly funky shit, Diplo gleefully bites Wayne Coyne’s crowd-walking bubble, and the whole thing is a lot of fun.

Peaking Lights - "Beautiful Dub" (Official Video)

Earlier this month, Wisconsin production duo Peaking Lights released Lucifer In Dub, an album of dubbed-out versions of tracks from their already-trippy 2012 LP Lucifer. “Beautiful Son,” the married duo’s absolutely beautiful song for their infant, was a highlight of Lucifer, and now there’s a video for the song’s dub version. Director Mike Seely sets the song to old surfing footage, making it slightly more psychedelic. The end result is oddly comforting.

Star Trek Into Darkness NEW Trailer (2013) - JJ Abrams Movie

Star Trek Into Darkness Official Trailer (2013) - JJ Abrams Movie

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

The Killers – “Here With Me” ft. Winona Ryder (Dir. Tim Burton)

The Killers clearly are trying to flush their video vaults before the new year, as this is their second one this week alone. Are there tax implications to carrying over completed music videos into the next calendar year? Probably. That’s probably the explanation. The Tim Burton-directed “Here With Me” has a two-tier structure — band performing in an entirely empty, ostentatiously grand performance hall, and pale guy with bug eyes who was the lead in Richard Ayoade’s Submarine caught in a Mannequin-like romance. That is, he’s in love with a wax Winona Ryder, which occasionally comes to life to love him back. As we learn in the end, mannequins are great to love because they can be your date at dinner and also your candle. Every story has a moral.

McCartney & Nirvana Members – “Cut Me Some Slack” Studio Version & SNL Performance

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Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear Perform on ‘SNL’

In one of those bizarre and unforseeable titans-clashing musical events, Paul McCartney linked up with the surviving members of Nirvana, reunited for the occasion, to play a few songs at last week’s 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy relief show. Among those songs was a hearteningly ass-whomping new one called “Cut Me Some Slack,” which will show up on the soundtrack to Dave Grohl’s forthcoming Nirvana documentary Sound City. And this weekend, the studio version of the song emerged online. Meanwhile, McCartney served as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and he brought the Nirvana trio with him to blast the song out again. Check out the studio and SNL versions of the song below.

MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds (Featuring Raven) (Official Video)

If you watch RuPaul’s Drag Race, you’ll recognize the queen getting gussied up then taking the stage to perform MNDR’s yearning “Feed Me Diamonds” as Raven. And if not, then meet Raven! She’s on RuPaul’s Drag Race. As you can tell from Peter LaBier’s video, she’s the rare TV star working to dramatically boost the volume of her ass, which is bold and alluring.

Jessie Ware - "Sweet Talk"

The videos for the singles off Jessie Ware's debut album, Devotion, have largely been classy, simple affairs directed by Ware's visual collaborator, Kate Moross. But the promo for "Sweet Talk" is an unexpectedly cute clip where sharply dressed little kids act out Ware and producer Julio Bashmore's roles in the studio (the Invisible's Dave Okumu also produced), have a food fight, then play out their creation for Mama Ware (Jessie in some sharp horn-rimmed glasses) at home in a festively decked-out lounge.

Rolling Stones - "You Got Me Rockin" (12.12.12. Concert)

The Rolling Stones perform You Got Me Rockin' at the Hurricane Sandy relief concert

Paul McCartney Front Nirvana, Chris Martin Duet With Michael Stipe, and Kanye West at the 12-12-12 Benefit

Last night's 12-12-12 Sandy benefit saw Kanye West wearing a leather skirt, Coldplay's Chris Martin almost looking bashful as R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe joined him for a duet, and, yes, Paul McCartney fronting Nirvana to perform a new song written by the surviving members, "Cut Me Some Slack". Of course, Courtney Love was regally "not amused," as she told TMZ.

Check out footage of all three performances below, along with a video where Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic talk about their new song and performing with the Beatles legend.

Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear: "Cut Me Some Slack":


Kanye West's performance in full:


Coldplay and Michael Stipe: "Losing My Religion" (scrub through about five minutes for their performance):

Roger Waters and Eddie Vedder - "Comfortably Numb" (12.12.12)

Roger Waters and Eddie Vedder Comfortably Numb 12.12.12

Dirty Projectors - "Offspring Are Blank" (Official Music Video)

A few months ago, Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth released his Hi Custodian short film, which used a bunch of songs from the band’s Swing Lo Magellan album. And now, like the “About To Die” video before it, the video for the surprisingly hard-rocking album opener “Offspring Are Blank” is built entirely from footage shot for Hi Custodian. This one, which is beautifully shot, has a whole lot of a radiation-suited Longstreth hanging out at a landfill and of the band playing at the base of a misty mountain.

FIDLAR – “Gimme Something”

Hedonistic L.A. punks FIDLAR’s video for their strummy, catchy-as-fuck number “Gimme Something” doesn’t feature FIDLAR at all. Instead, it appears to be made up entirely of ancient footage from a Creedence Clearwater Revival show, manipulated so that it looks like Creedence are playing “Gimme Something.”

Toro Y Moi – “So Many Details” Video

Home-studio memory-manipulator Toro Y Moi releases his new album Anything In Return next month, and now the awesomely squirmy plastic-soul first single “So Many Details” gets a video. In the HARRYS-directed clip, Chaz Bundick takes a weekend getaway with a beautiful girl and rocks a seriously impressive series of ’70s-movie ensembles, generally looking way more pimp than you’d expect this guy to look. It’s a pretty great video, and you should consider.

Wavves - "Sail To The Sun" (Official Music Video)

A priest figure with a double life does drugs and brings two young women to a sleazy hotel

Wavves are coming back with a new album this spring, and they worked on it with pop producer John Hill. First single “Sail To The Sun” is a fast, snotty rager that sounds a lot like the songs Williams always writes, but it’s cleaner and more direct than any of his older stuff; he’s going for it with this one. The song’s video, directed by BLACK // DOCTOR, tells the story of a televangelist living a fucked-up drugs-and-hookers double life.

Actors: Steven Bartlett, Olivia Bellafontaine, Sekoia Grant, Teremy Jackson

Frightened Rabbit – “The Woodpile”

The video for “The Woodpile,” a swollen and emotional song from braying Scottish rockers Frightened Rabbit’s forthcoming Pedestrian Verse, is a single-shot tableau of a bloody scene in a New York bodega. The members of the band join a crowd of onlookers at the scene of an accident, and you should probably stay tuned for the surprise-ending punchline.

Google Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review

See how the world searched with Google's 2012 Zeitgeist:
http://google.com/zeitgeist

Music: "All I Want" by Kodaline
Produced by Whirled Creative

Fucked Up – “Inside A Frame”

 The brand-new video for “Inside A Frame,” one of the prime ragers from Fucked Up’s great 2011 album David Comes To Life, mostly takes place at a tough-kid dance-crew choreography practice, and it’s pure melodrama. It’s also a nice indication that the makers of the next Step Up movie should seriously throw a Fucked Up song or two in there.

The Killers – “Miss Atomic Bomb”

 The Killers already made one video for their grand widescreen anthem “Miss Atomic Bomb,” but that one was just live footage, and clearly someone realized that the song needed a video as huge and ridiculous as the thing itself. And so here we get a mostly-animated clip about a fantastical futuristic love story that eventually features Eric Roberts in his post-”Mr. Brightside” return to the Killers-video fold.

Charlie Brown - She Makes Me

Charlie Brown is back and ready to claim the breakthrough nametag for 2013. Following the release of his debut single 'Dependency' which has received flawless reviews from his fans, media and his peers, Charlie looks set to cement his position at the top of the industry with the viral release of 'She Makes Me.' The track will support the release of Charlie's new single 'On My Way'. Cheeky, flirty and giving girls an insight into how men think the track will be released early next year due to high demand. Charlie's soulful vocals coupled with the captivating songwriting shows exactly why he is THE one to watch.

Nicki Minaj - Fly (Clean) ft. Rihanna

Music video by Nicki Minaj performing Fly.

The Presets – “Promises”

The new video for Aussie dance-rock duo the Presets’ new single “Promises” is a propulsive stream of disconnected images — some CGI, some flesh-and-blood. Special Problems direct.

SSION – “Psy-Chic”

Over the years, KC genre (and gender) experimenter Cody Crichteloe aka SSION has amassed some impressive video directing/producing credits  alongside a steady output of his own outré-pop creations.

Prince Rama – “So Destroyed”

In Tom’s great Album Of The Week piece on Prince Rama’s Top 10 Hits Of The End Of The World, he says that this concept album allowed the sisterly group to “start investigating pop ideas, but … in an exploratory and unserious way” and that by “tying all those songs in with an explicitly apocalyptic theme, they’ve also freed themselves from the burden of writing straight-up pop music, instead indulging an end-times fervor that makes their music both more urgent and more diffuse.” The track “So Destroyed” is in many ways the perfect distillation of that line of thought, and for its video, Prince Rama turned to their fans to submit homemade videos for a “So Destroyed” Dance Contest. The results were edited by Nimai Larson that is exploratory, unserious, diffuse, and most importantly, perfectly silly, which is nice counterpoint to the self-seriousness that usually accompanies concept projects.

El Perro Del Mar – “Hold Off The Dawn”

The video for El Perro Del Mar’s skittering, assured, dance-inflected single “Hold Off The Dawn” is a beautifully shot live-in-studio thing from directors Bell And Light. It’s always fun to watch people pounding out heavily synthesized music with actual drumsticks and stuff.

Twin Shadow – “The Ones” Video

This summer, Twin Shadow released the very good sophomore album Confess. And today, they’ve released a digital single of the album track “The Ones” — not the version from the album, but a lovely acoustic rendition that frontman George Lewis Jr. played during a recent KCRW session. Lewis also made a shaky, cobbled-together montage of a video for that version.

How To Dress Well – “& It Was U”

The skittering gospel-house thumper “& It Was U” is my favorite song from How To Dress Well’s excellent sophomore album Total Loss, and now it has a video from director Luke Gilford. Tom Krell, otherwise known as How To Dress Well, doesn’t appear. Instead, it tells the story of a gold-lame-wearing, Segway-riding vision who appears to some kind of hybrid prayer circle/dance troupe. It’s a deeply strange and absorbing video.

Tracey Thorn – “Joy”

A few weeks ago, Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn released her solo Christmas album Tinsel And Lights, which has covers of seasonal music from people like Sufjan Stevens and the White Stripes. One of the album’s few originals is the plainspoken, sincere opener “Joy.” And in that song’s new video, we see Thorn wandering around Christmastime London, as the camera calmly and lovingly lingers on all the lights.

Seapony - "Be Alone"

Dominic Lord releases the deluxe version of his Fashion Show EP, along with the video for its lead-off track

The Invisible Hand – “Psychic Cat”

As a proud resident of Charlottesville, VA, I feel obligated to let you know that the Invisible Hand, probably the city’s biggest indie band at the moment, are really, really good at making charged-up power-pop. Their “Psychic Cat” video is full of local landmarks, which is fun for me and probably less so for you. But the real reason to click is the quick little energy-burst of a song.

The Decemberists On The Simpsons

 
The Simpsons: It’s still on! Last night’s episode of the venerated animated institution, which I did not watch, concerned the hipsterification of Springfield, and the episode’s guest voices included Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Patton Oswalt, and the Decemberists, who managed to look smug even as cartoons. Watch a quick glimpse of the band, in Simpsons form in the clip.

PROCRASTINATION - The Musical

Procrastinating is an ART! Watch as these people realize the importance of doing NOTHING!

what is your favorite method of procrastination? Let us know!

Starring: Elizabeth Oldak, Molly Gallagher, Tim Sampson, Marlena Hoffman, Joshua Israel, Kevin Gisi

Sigur Rós – “Leaning Towards Solace” Short Film (Feat. Elle Fanning & John Hawkes)

Leaning Towards Solace from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo.

 

For the better part of the year, Sigur Rós have been taking part in their Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, in which they commission different artists to make short films out of songs from their recent album Valtari. The latest entry in the series, and apparently the final one, comes from director Floria Sigismondi, and it may be the strongest one yet. The sort film is called “Leaning Toward Solace,” and it uses two songs, “Dauðalogn” and “Varúð.” The film takes place in a rural desert slum, and it stars Elle Fanning as a young ballet dancer and the great John Hawkes as a self-doubting father. It’s all lingering shots on faces and sadly gorgeous atmosphere, and nothing much happens until the absolutely inexplicable ending, but it’s gorgeous regardless.

Wooden Wand – “Supermoon”

 

Wooden Wand - 'Supermoon'

Director: Ryan Weibush
Producer: Kris Flugan
Assistant Producers: Ryan Rodriguez & Jonathan Shick
Actor: Lisa Mitchell

The-Dream (Terius Nash) - "Wake Me When It's Over"

Last year, The-Dream, recording as real name Terius Nash, released the free mixtape 1977. And later this month, he’ll release a commercial version of it, complete with bonus tracks. And now he’s got a video for the 1977 track “Wake Me When It’s Over,” with the video mirroring the song’s lyrics about a relationship falling apart and the two people feeling powerless to stop its slide. I honestly can’t tell if that’s fucking or abuse happening at the end there.

Nguzunguzu - "Smoke Alarm"

Watch NGUZUNGUZU's smoky lazer light show in their new video

Autre Ne Veut – “Counting” (Feat. Mykki Blanco)

The bedroom-R&B newcomer Autre Ne Veut now has a video for his great breakout single “Counting,” in which both he and the song’s guest, gender-bending New York rapper Mykki Blanco, play sad hospital orderlies. David Riley directs.

POP ETC – “Speak Up”

The new song and video by POP ETC from "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2".

“Speak Up” is the former Morning Benders’ contribution to the soundtrack of teen-vampire-romance blockbuster The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and it oscillates between delicate acoustic folk and digital Auto-Tune pop. The song’s brand new video, directed by fourclops, intercuts between footage of the movie and images of the band on a picturesque sunset sail, with (possibly CGI) dolphins jumping alongside the boat.

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (Uncensored)

YACHT – “Second Summer”

Psychedelic Portland dance-party duo YACHT haven’t announced plans for a new album, but they’re giving us a new song and a new video anyway, to celebrate the fact that they’ve been an ongoing project for 10 years now (even if “they” where a “he” for a whole lot of those years). The new song is the streamlined, bumping “Second Summer,” and it nicely illustrates the idea that YACHT are still continuing to get better. And the video, from directors ADHD, is an animated thing about the druggy adventures of a smiling triangle.

M83 - "Wait" (Official video)

The directing team of Fleur & Manu have previously made two amazing videos for “Midnight City” and “Reunion,” two songs from M83′s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming! album, using them to tell the story of a group of escaped superpowered mutant children. Today, they give us the Creators Project-produced clip for “Wait,” which finishes those kids’ story in grand fashion. We catch up with them as they survey a world they may have helped to destroy, or fly through space in gleaming black pyramids. Wolves and vultures and manta rays and space-jumps all figure prominently. It’s beautiful and enthralling and quite possibly nonsensical.

Crooked Fingers – “Bad Blood”

Crooked Fingers hasn’t released an album since Breaks In The Armor, which came out in October 2011, so it’s decidedly odd to see the band dropping a video from that album now, in December 2012. But hey, a little extra Crooked Fingers is definitely never a bad thing! The clip for “Bad Blood” was directed by Jamie Fleischel and stars Mike Lust (both of whom work for AV Club) as the grown-up version of the kid from Van Halen’s 1984 album cover, which is a pretty funny concept IMO.

Chrome Canyon – “Pluze”

Last time out, Chrome Canyon’s Morgan Z directed and edited his video for “Memories Of A Scientist,” in which he played a mad scientist plumbing the depths of his sanity to create a keyboard-pop to save the world. Here on the slowcomotive synth-epic “Pluze,” Z turns over the directorial reins to Jennifer Juniper Stratford, who renders the track’s overall vibe with crossfades, dissolves, closeups, and an ’80s-psychedelic palette of colors and VHS filters.

Star Trek Into Darkness Japanese Trailer

Discover the first Star Trek Into Darkness trailer in this japanese special teaser for new J.J. Abrams movie

Earl Sweatshirt - Chum (Explicit)

Earl Sweatshirt hasn’t made a music video since “EARL,” the clip that put both him and his Odd Future crew on the map. But now he’s returned to the form with a video for “Chum,” the jaw-dropping and emotionally gut-scraping new song. In the dark and meditative black-and-white clip, Earl floats down an abandoned street and encounters giant frogs and skull-faced dogs. It’ll stick in your brain.

Shout Out Louds - "Blue Ice"

“Blue Ice,” the emotively precise new single from the Swedish band Shout Out Louds. And now here’s the mostly-CGI video, in which faces and bodies drift across the expanses of space and the camera runs laps around Saturn’s rings. Johan Toorell directs the psychedelic clip.

Cold Showers – “BC”

Here's "BC," the new video from Cold Showers, taken from the band's new album 'Love and Regret,' released this past October by Dais.

Directed by Brian Davila, with a cameo by Andrew King (Crystal Antlers), the video is an homage to films such as The Hunger, Society, and Night Of The Comet.

Krauss - Ella (Video Oficial)

Letra & música Krauss / Gómez
Dirección: Gory Patiño
Producción y Montaje: Germán Monje
Dir. Fotografía: Gus Soto
Elenco: Natalia Peña y Mauricio Toledo
Krauss son: Christian Krauss - Voz, Conejo Arce - Bajo, Paco Agular - Guitarra, Teto de Ugarte - Batería
Vestuario: Narcisa & Cucho Arce
Asist. de Dirección: Ferdi Ballivián
Maquillaje: Juan Ignacio Revollo
Asist. de Producción: Mariana Urquidi

Ciudad Liquida - Cada Día Mas

Ciudad Liquida - Cada Día Mas

The Killers – “I Feel It In My Bones” Video

The Killers have made an exceedingly, commendably goofy mini-tradition out of releasing Christmas songs, and we posted their latest, the mock-horror Santa story “I Feel It In My Bones,” yesterday. And now here’s the video, in which Santa is reinvisioned as a terrifying vengeful biker. Director Roboshobo has a whole hell of a lot of fun with early-MTV lighting and fog machines.

A$AP Rocky – “Fuckin’ Problems” (Feat. Drake, Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz)

A$AP Rocky recruited a hell of a lineup for “Fuckin’ Problem,” the sex-talk posse cut from his forthcoming album LONGLIVEA$AP. And all four guys show up in the brand-new video. It’s a pretty bare-bones affair: Some dancers, some fashionable black clothes, some blank backgrounds. And it lives and dies entirely on the rappers’ charisma. Fortunately, these are some charismatic motherfuckers; Drake, in particular, comes out looking like the coolest motherfucker on the face of the earth.

Unstoppable Death Machines - "Do The Devo"

"Unstoppable Death Machines - Do The Devo" - Directed by Nick Chatfield-Taylor

Sally Shapiro – “What Can I Do”

Sweden’s Sally Shapiro kind of disappeared after her 2009 sophomore album My Guilty Pleasure, but she’ll return in 2013 with a new album, Somewhere Else. We heard achingly sweet and earnest first single “What Can I Do” last month, and now we’ve got a video for the track. Directed by Jarett Sitter, the animated clip follows a silhouetted figure through a fantasy landscape, capturing both the song’s sadness as well as its sense of wonder.

Tomahawk - "Stone Letter" (Official Music Video)

Around the time Faith No More broke up, Mike Patton started a new band with a particularly burly and vicious lineup: Melvins’ Trevor Dunn, the Jesus Lizard’s Duane Denison, and Helmet’s John Stanier, who would later become the best part of every Battles show. Tomahawk has been largely inactive since 2007, but they’ve started touring again, and they released a new single called “Stone Letter” on Black Friday. The song’s video is all live-show footage.

H-Burns - "Six Years" (Official Video)

H-Burns - "Six Years" (Dir. Jamie Harley)

Submotion Orchestra - "It's Not Me It's You" (official video)

Submotion Orchestra - It's Not Me It's You - Directed and Filmed by Dan Medhurst

Radio Room - "Synesthesia" (Official Music Video)

Written and Performed by Radio Room (Robbie Murphy, Steven O'Neill, Colm Drennan, Marco Persechini). Director Eoin Heaney

La Casa Azul - "La Fiesta Universal"

La Casa Azul : La Fiesta Universal (Dir. : JM Marbach)

Second video of La Casa Azul taken from the latest album La Polinesia Meridional.

A.C. Newman - "I'm Not Talking" (Official Music Video)

A.C. Newman gets real raw and emotional with a talk show host in the clip for “I’m Not Talking.” The General Assembly directs.

The Echo Friendly – “Supplies For Arson”

The Echo Friendly’s “Supplies For Arson” begins with some spoken word about the song title and “the Pencil Factory,” which probably isn’t about setting a Dixon Ticonderoga plant ablaze so much as it is a reference to this bar in Greenpoint and this boy/girl group’s tendency to go from flames to ex-flames: The Echo Friendly is Jake Rabinbach (ex-Francis & The Lights guitarist) and Shannon Esper, a pair of North Brooklyn residents who have turned the melodramatics around their ever-shifting relationship status into an song-cycle about it. (Think The Kills, though less slinky/more indie-pop/more romantically involved.) If you watch the show Girls, you may recognize their song “Same Mistakes” (and if you didn’t watch it, you can probably still guess what the track’s about). “Supplies For Arson” is just as direct, but for the opening’s double entendre, and its video frames their “are they, or not” story arc into a three-and-a-half minute video vignette.

Watch Florence Join The Rolling Stones In London

The Rolling Stones are in London playing a string of shows in celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary, and last night the band brought out Florence Welch to wail on “Gimme Shelter.” She obliged.

Foxygen – “Shuggie”

In the mysterious, black-and-white Ulysses///Onasis-directed video for Foxygen’s assured, string-laded indie-pop tune “Shuggie,” a gleaming black box seems to stand in for a whole lot of people’s deepest longings and desires, or something. It’s pretty weird! Watch it below.

Eternal Summers – “Good As You”

Virginia indie-pop C86-throwbacks Eternal Summers released a terrific LP this past July, Correct Behavior, which has been unjustly overlooked on most of the year-end lists I’ve seen so far. So it’s a good time for the band to drop another video from the album (by my count its fourth!), reminding those of us who make such lists to take another look at ‘em. “Good As You” has the winsome sweetness of an old Softies ballad, all clean-tone guitar strum and Nicol Yun’s longing vocal, heavy on the echo. The video takes place partly in a dilapidated hospital, with the band in scrubs looking drugged, and partly in an underwater dreamworld.

Nosaj Thing - "Eclipse/Blue" [Official Video]

Interesting – and beautiful – music video for Nosaj Thing by Daito Manabe. Manabe employed a Point Grey camera to track the dancers – all graphics were projected in real time over the live performance. For more information on the piece, check out The Creators Project’s interview with Manabe.

Flying Lotus - Tiny Tortures (Feat. Elijah Wood )

Big day for Flying Lotus news: He revealed that he is, in fact, the mysterious rapper Captain Murphy, and he has released his new video for "Tiny Tortures", starring Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood, as a one-armed man. Directed by David Lenandowsky.

Flying Lotus puts his burgeoning hip-hop career on hold as he reveals a new video for “Tiny Tortures”, off this year’s Until the Quiet Comes. Wilfred star Elijah Wood stars as an amputee in this “cinematic portrait of the transformative nature of Flying Lotus, who collides the real and the surreal through kinetic soundscapes. ”

An issued statement explains:

Enduring the acid-tinged hallucinations of the digital-age, this slow-motion trip explores the relationship between humans and machines. As objects move and float, we enter a visual dream world – the culmination of Flying Lotus’ vivid songwriting and Lenandowsky’s surreal aesthetic.

The Babies - "Baby"

The Babies' Cassie Ramone does some karaoke.

Directed by Timothy Fiore: http://timothyfiore.tv

Matthew E White – “Will You Love Me” Video

The video for stunning single “Will You Love Me” doesn’t try to force a narrative onto White’s song — it’s clear, simple, and striking, putting its focus on the music and the musician, just as the song deserves. Director: Daniel Portrait.

Julia Holter – “Goddess Eyes II” Video

Julia Holter will release a new 12” that features Ekstatis cuts “Goddess Eyes I” and “Goddess Eyes II” as well as a couple of remixes. Today, Holter put out the video for the latter, a strange, metaphor-heavy clip. The director, Yelena Zhelezov, explains:

The video for Julia Holter’s “Goddess Eyes II” is inspired by the Latin phrase “deus ex machina”. In literature, deus ex machina is a plot device for seemingly unresolvable dramaturgical situations. The unexpected and dramatic measure was employed by many Greek tragedians. It is in tribute to Euripides and the literary spirit of the song that the video was directed.

(via Domino)

R.E.M. – “That Someone Is You” (Dir. James Franco)

Before the band broke up, R.E.M. somehow ended up working with James Franco on two never-released videos from their final studio album Collapse Into Now. A couple of weeks ago, we saw Franco’s “Blue” video, which featured Lindsay Lohan and a whole lot of distinctly Californian ennui. And now here’s Franco’s decidedly different video for “That Someone Is You.” In this one, Franco himself stars, and he appears to be practicing for a community-theater production of Grease. The lead actress has her head hidden by a giant superimposed cat-head.

Charli XCX – “Cloud Aura” (Feat. Brooke Candy)

Today Charli XCX unveiled the video for her Brooke Candy collaboration “Cloud Aura,” a black and white clip featuring Charli and Brooke sauntering around in between cuts of celebrities (Britney Spears, Lauren Conrad, Ingrid Bergman, etc) crying.

Tegan And Sara – “Closer”

In Tegan And Sara’s new video for the fired-up and catchy single “Closer,” the Quin twins put their party-rocking skills on display at an adorable teenage rager. The song, it bares mentioning, has aged really well in the past couple of months. Isaac Rentz directs; watch the video along with a behind-the-scenes clip below.

Tanlines – “Not The Same”

Tanlines keeps the string of great videos alive with their new clip for “Not The Same,” a visual where the band’s Eric and Jesse go all Multiplicity on everyone. The band directs.

of Montreal - "Feminine Effects" Video

Earlier this year of Montreal shared a split-side with Deerhoof, a release that yielded the band’s “Feminine Effects.” It’s a song that has an alternate version where singer Rebecca Cash takes lead, and today of Montreal dropped an official video to accompany that take.

Jonny Pierce – “I Didn’t Realise”

Jonny Pierce, frontman for major-label indie-poppers the Drums, is going solo next year, releasing an album that he wrote, recorded, and produced entirely by himself. The first song we’ve heard from the LP is a glimmering, surprisingly hypnotic synthpop track called “I Didn’t Realise.” This is the last guy I would’ve expected to release something even vaguely dub-inflected, but there it is. In the song’s video, we see Pierce drunkenly weaving around an alleyway.

How To Destroy Angels - Ice age

Just yesterday we published our Deconstruction of Trent Reznor’s musical legacy, and in the second sentence, there was a reference to “Ice Age,” a song featured on An omen_, the new EP from Reznor’s band How to destroy angels_. And today? They drop a video for that very song! Freaky. (Perhaps … an omen, indeed? Or something?) Like the band’s last video, “Keep It Together,” there’s not much motion here, most of the focus is on haunting vocalist (and Reznor’s wife) Mariqueen Maandig, although the song’s acoustic instrumentation stands in stark contrast to the glitchy “Keep It Together.”

Via: Stereogum.

MellowHype – “Break” Video

Hodgy Beats shows off his sportsman side in the new clip for MellowHype’s “Break.” GL II directs.

Veronica Falls – “Teenage”

We’ve already heard “Teenage,” the blurrily jangling new single from old-school London indie-poppers Veronica Falls. And now here’s the video, an out-of-focus affair in which the band’s members look like they’re posing for an early-’90s album cover in every single shot.

The Mary Onettes – “Evil Coast”

Official video for single "Evil Coast"

Mystical Weapons – “Mechanical Mammoth”

Last month, we learned about the existence of Mystical Weapons, Sean Lennon’s new experimental-psych duo with Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier. Now, we’ve got the video for their madly blooping single “Mechanical Mammoth.” Martha Colburn directs, and it’s an art-fucked collage of masked women and swirling colors.

Tanlines – “Brothers” Video (360º Video)

Jesse and Eric of Tanlines announced their forthcoming full-length Mixed Emotions with the bittersweet synth balm of “Brothers,” unforgettable unto itself for being the undisputed jam of that week. Propers to the production team of Weird Days, then, for giving that track a panoptic counterpart that is suitably memorable as well: Basically, click and drag around the screen below and you can “choose your own adventure” with a 360º look at a tight London apartment outfitted with a plasma screen, a piano, some bongos, and a guitar — focus on whichever of those, or of the two Tanlines brothers that suit you best. And if you don’t want any of that, just turn your attention to the standup special on the screen in back, where Jesse Cohen is delivering the best ’80s standup comedy special never seen. (Also, I’m told that while this is fun to watch on computer, it is “next level” on iPhone, so you can go and make that happen if you’d like, too.)

Local Natives - "Breakers" (Official Music Video)

In the clip for their single "Breakers", directed by Jaffe Zinn and Local Natives, watch the band perform, move in reverse, hang out with a spaceman, and wear masks.

Companion – “20th Century Crime”

Companion is a new project from the big-voiced Pepi Ginsberg, of Red and East Is East, and they’ll release their self-titled debut early next year. Alex Sutherland has directed the evocative video for “20th Century Crime,” an intricate chamber-rock song from the album, and it revolves around Ginsberg breaking into a happy couple’s home deep in the woods.

Deerhoof – “Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III” (official video)

“Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III” is a jittery, catchy tune from Deerhoof’s new album Breakup Song. and for its video, director Richard Huntington Swanson films an old-timey circus and makes it look as trippy as possible. This might be the first recorded appearance of tough-guy mimes, so take note.

Prince – “Rock And Roll Love Affair” (official Music Video)

Prince’s video for his new single “Rock And Roll Love Affair” is nothing more than a casual soundstage-performance clip, but it’s worth watching anyway, for one particularly bald bit of innuendo and for the sight of Prince effortlessly playing guitar and keyboard simultaneously. Prince, as you may have noticed, is a talented man.

The Sea And Cake – “On And On”

Director Naomi Nagata made her video for “On And On,” a tune from Chicago sophisti-rock veterans the Sea And Cake, through a process called sand animation. I’m not really sure what that is, but it this case, it involves turning an endless sidewalk into a sinuous, weirdly hypnotic waveform. Watch it below.

Shugo Tokumaru - "Decorate"

Shugo Tokumaru - Decorate (Dir: ONIONSKIN)

Africa For Norway - "Radi-Aid"

Africans are banding together to help their brothers and sisters in Norway. The goal is to send radiators to those poor cold Norwegians, and spread the warmth of global brotherhood. The theme song is performed by an all-star group called Africa for Norway. Link .

HAIM – “Don’t Save Me”

Music video by HAIM performing Don't Save Me.

Hot Chip - "Don't Deny Your Heart" (Official Video)

If you're not familiar with the rules of football, Hot Chip's new video for "Don't Deny Your Heart" might prove something of an education. The Peter Serafinowicz-directed clip (he also did the videos for "Night and Day" and "I Feel Better") features the band playing a soccer-based video game in which two opposing players start fighting, and get sucked through a vortex onto a dancefloor staffed with thousands of gold men. The players return to the pitch where a giant sky-mouth spits hundreds of footballs over both teams, and the nemeses start pashing off on the ground. "This is what football is all about!" exclaims the commentator.

Hot Chip - 'I Feel Better'

Official HD Promo Video for Hot Chip's fantastic new single 'I Feel Better', taken from the new album 'One Life Stand'.

Directed by Peter Serafinowicz

Starring Ross Lee

Chromatics – “Cherry”

CHROMATICS "CHERRY"

Camera No. 1 : Adam Miller
Camera No 2 : Alberto Rossini

Filmed While Recording In Montreal (April 2011) & In Chromatics' House In Portland.

Sufjan Stevens – “Joy To The World”

Sufjan Stevens has already given us some freaky videos for songs from his new Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas EP box set, but the newest, for his way-out version of “Joy To The World” may be the freakiest yet. It pretty much just shows a chattering video-game chipmunk, its image looped and turned kaleidoscopic until it just becomes straight-up nightmare material. The whole thing is on some real Oneohtrix Point Never shi.

BenZel & Jessie Ware - If You Love Me

When British soul singer Jessie Ware teamed up with the teenage Japanese production duo BenZel to cover “If You Love Me,” Brownstone’s 1994 R&B hit, the result was one of the most tender and unexpected musical surprises of the year. And now that cover has a video, from director Haley Wollens, in which we see a girl stripper-dancing in an almost-empty subway car. I’m not mad at it.

The Rolling Stones – “Doom And Gloom” (Feat. Noomi Rapace) (NSFW)

It’s tough to rationalize the existence of new Rolling Stones music in 2012, and it’s even tougher to figure out what the hell is going on in the video for their new single “Doom And Gloom.” As far as I can tell, the video captures the fever dreams of actress Noomi Rapace, as she falls asleep under a Stones-logo neon light — dreams that involve her decapitating zombies, stuffing her face with food until it explodes, flushing hundred-dollar bills down a shit-encrusted toilet, replacing various members of the Stones as they slither around a soundstage, and showing almost as much boob as she does in all three Swedish Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies. Jonas Åkerlund directs.

Sigur Rós – “Varúð” Video (Dir. Björn Flóki)

Sigur Rós’s Mystery Film Experiment shows no signs of slowing down and today the Icelandic experimental stalwarts let loose another video for “Varúð.” This one features a little more action than the last one, documenting a young girl’s mystical adventure through a forest. Björn Flóki directs.

Frightened Rabbit - Dead Now

Watch this splendid new video for 'Dead Now' taken from Frightened Rabbits new album 'Pedestrian Verse

Gotye - Seven Hours With A Backseat Driver (official video)

Before Gotye got all weepy with his hit song Somebody That I Used To Know he had a dub sound without all that sappy singing in a song called Seven Hours With A Backseat Driver.

 The sound is so different that it's hard to see how Gotye got to where he is today, and when Ivan Dixon and Greg Sharp of Rubber House Studio heard it they imagined a town full of animals acting the fool, and a bowtie clad elephant who doesn't know what to do...

Nicki Minaj - Freedom (Explicit)

Nicki Minaj's does good work repeating her own lyrics back to herself in "Freedom," but in the video she's rocking looks we've never seen before.

The clip starts out in black and white, and transitions into color (get it? Freedom from the confines of black and white? Or something? Anyway) as Minaj poses elegantly against Noah's Arc to mansion banisters to modern sculpture. It's the rapper-singer through the ages, an eternal beauty proudly hocking her wares from Macy's.

One repeating motif in this epic is Minaj's inability to quit touching her hair. Her many wigs are no match for wandering fingertips, but frankly, if I had that many weaves, I'd be poking at 'em too.

Gaslamp Killer (ft. Dimlite) - "Seven Years of Bad Luck for Fun"

“Seven Years Of Bad Luck For Fun,” an intense instrumental from bass music producers the Gaslamp Killer and Dimlite, shows up on the Gaslamp Killer’s new album Breakthrough, and now director Phil Nisco has given it a deeply stressed-out video. It’s hard to say what’s going on at any given moment in the clip, but even though we never quite see anything horrific, it still feels like a jumbled, out-of-context collection of clips from a deeply fucked up horror movie.

The Crystal Ark – “We Came To”

The Crystal Ark is the new project spearheaded by singer Viva Ruiz and resident DFA synth wizard Gavin Russom, and their excellent brand-new self-titled album marries psychedelic disco excess to classic rudimentary Chicago-house thump. Ruiz directed the new video for their eight-minute odyssey “We Came To,” and it plays like a completely drugged-out Star Trek parody.

Night Moves - Country Queen

Night Moves, a ’70s-style choogle trio, are recent addition to the Domino roster, and the new video for their song “Country Queen” builds up their music’s revivalist tendencies. Directors Isaac Gale and David Jensen film them like they were on a ’70s rock-concert TV show, and you can watch the result.

Florence + The Machine – “Lover To Lover” Video

Florence + The Machine have already released one video for “Lover To Lover,” a gospel-tinged blastoff from their 2011 album Ceremonials that somehow sounds huger than most other Florence songs. That one was a stripped-back live video, but now they’ve got a new cinematic one from director Vincent Haycock. In this one, Florence Welch plays a woman in a tempestuous relationship with leathery actor Ben Mendelsohn.

Florence and the Machine: Lover to LoverThe English Songstress Performs a Tale of American Heartbreak in Vincent Haycock's New Video

A relationship falls apart in the desert towns and fog-soaked coast of California as the baroque pop chanteuse and Karl Lagerfeld and Gucci muse Florence Welch takes on a cinematic role in this second collaboration with LA-based director Vincent Haycock. After helming the narrative music video for Welch’s Calvin Harris-produced disco hit “Sweet Nothing”, Haycock wanted to further explore singer’s interest in acting in his film for “Lover to Lover”, the latest single from her hit sophomore album Ceremonials. “She wasn’t just Florence, she was playing a character,” he says. “It was exciting to take someone who’s built such an iconic visual style, with the floaty dresses and distinct look of her videos, and do something really different.” Performing opposite Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, who stars alongside Brad Pitt in the forthcoming flick, Killing Them Softly, Welch's on-screen interpretation echoes the track’s heart-aching refrain, “There’s no salvation for me now.” Beginning in a drab Los Angeles house and building to a cathartic gospel frenzy, the romance ends as the lovesick heroine disappears amid mist into the Pacific Ocean. “The waves were enormous, it was freezing cold and four in the morning—I was weeping all the way in I was so scared,” recounts the MTV Award-winning singer, laughing. “It was the most intense experience because we shot the whole day before; I went back to the hotel, slept for three hours, woke up and dove into the sea.”

How did the concept for this character come about?

I was going through a phase where I was thinking about what I wanted from life, asking, do I want a husband and a child? Why do I think I need that?

What was it like to film such intense scenes with a proper actor like Ben Mendelsohn?

It was an emotional day and it brought up a lot of things. I’d come to the end of this massive tour and just needed to go home. I was tired and disoriented because Southern California doesn't have seasons--everything's getting cold back home and the leaves are falling but in LA everything’s in this stasis. I think I was screaming, “This isn’t real, I don’t know what’s going on!" and Ben was screaming back, “You’re here, you’re here!”

Did you have a script?

It was completely improvised. I had to think about things that I was actually angry and upset about. It is cathartic, but you have to literally let yourself go. Ben is so sweet and accommodating--afterwards he gave me this massive hug and made me feel so comfortable.

Do you plan to take some time off now?

I’m not going to tour for a year after this one. I’ve been doing it since I was 21 and I think it’s time really to settle into moving out of my mum's! But I’m not going to stop writing. Playing live is my biggest passion, but I’ve got a lot of ideas, and I need the space to work on them.

Via: Nowness.

R.E.M. – “Blue” Video (Feat. Lindsay Lohan)

It’s hard to say why this is just surfacing now, but the movie star and conceptual joker James Franco directed a video for “Blue,” a Patti Smith collaboration from R.E.M.’s 2011 album Collapse Into Now, that band’s final LP before breaking up. The video is full of blurry, double-exposed shots of Los Angeles, and it devotes a decent chunk of time to Terry Richardson photographing Lindsay Lohan, as well as to shots of Franco himself, filming footage of L.A. from a helicopter — presumably shot by someone in another helicopter. I can’t tell whether the video is supposed to give an impression of glamor, or whether it’s supposed to function as a critique of the idea of glamor. Probably both, I guess? In any case, you can watch.

Night Beds – “Even If We Try”

Here’s a dark new visual for Nashville’s Night Bed’s single “Even If We Try,” a clip where one young man’s night out tumbles into despair. It’s direction by Rick Alverson who also headed up Sharon Van Etten’s “Magic Chords” clip as well as the Tim Heidecker-starring film The Comedy.

Moonface – “Headed For The Door”

Moonface’s new video for With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery‘s “Headed For The Door” is a mystic, seaside clip featuring a mysterious letter and an even more mysterious protagonist. Marsha Balaeva directs.

Nite Jewel – “Weak For Me”

Here’s the shadowy, pixelated visual for lo-fi disco maven Nite Jewel’s “Weak For Me,” a standout from her 2009 LP Good Evening that saw reissue this week.

Hercules And Love Affair - Release Me

Directed by by Mo Stoebe (MODEFY)
Cinematography Katja Kulenkampff & Mo Stoebe
Ultramodern VFX by MODEFY
Featuring NAYLA (R.A.I.D - LA)
Styling & Choreography by Katie Mitchell (R.A.I.D. - LA)

Icona Pop – “We Got The World”

In the new video from Swedish pop duo Icona Pop’s “We Got The World,” the group does what they do best — rage hard. Slightly NSFW because of some butts. Directed by: Fredrik Etoall.

The Sticks - "Mother Mother" (Official Video)

Mother Mother - The Sticks - Animated, produced & directed by Chad VanGaalen

Beach House - "Wild" (Official Music Video)

Beach House’s new video for the dreamy Bloom song “Wild” tells a fractured, unhappy story about romantic violence and obsession, one that I’m not entirely sure I follow completely. It’s shot in a dank, realistic story, its narrative chopped up into isolated moments, most of which are not the happiest. This is an intense piece of work.

Metric – “Breathing Underwater”

Metric’s new video for Synthetica cut “Breathing Underwater” combines some newly shot footage alongside travelogue-style live footage clips.

Via: their Tumblr.

Wiz Khalifa – “Remember You” (Feat. The Weeknd) Video

If the Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye somehow becomes an anonymous R&B hook-singer dude, we’ll all die just a little bit inside. So far, though, Tesfaye is two-for-two on his featured appearances, with both Drake’s “Crew Love” and Wiz Khalifa’s “Remember You” fitting beautifully with his cokesweat-soul body of work. Tesfaye doesn’t show up in director Ryan Hope‘s new video for “Remember You,” but its storyline, in which a beautiful dishwasher finds herself at a skeezed-out contortionist party, is pure Weeknd.

Björk – “Mutual Core” (Official Music Video) + The Making of

Björk will soon release her new album bastards, a collection of remixes of songs from her 2011 studio LP Biophilia. And now she’s also given us a video for the Biophilia track “Mutual Core,” which builds from shamanistic swirl to IDM insanity. In the video, we see Björk, buried to her waist in sand, singing while sentient, inhuman rock-creatures float around her, attempting to form strange connections. As the song unfolds, the images reach an explosive conclusion that resembles a fucked-up metal album cover. I have no idea what director Andrew Thomas Huang‘s visuals mean, but like so many other Björk videos, it’s a beguilingly strange vision.

The Making of Björk - "Mutual Core" - Art + Music - MOCAtv



The editing and overall arc keep a tight pace, feeling purposeful where experimental and abstract film can sometimes drift.

Sufjan Stevens – “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”

Sufjan Stevens’s holiday-themed EP box set Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas comes out today, and he’s already made two very, very different videos for songs from the EP: The splattery satire of “Mr. Frosty Man” and the familial warmth of “Silver & Gold.” Now, in the new video for his impressionistic version of the standard “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” Sufjan goes a third way: Lynchian dread! The video follows a little girl running in slow-motion Christmas-morning glee through a house where creepy and cryptic but seasonally appropriate things are going down. Aaron + Alex Craig direct.

Johnny Marr – “The Messenger”

Smiths guitar guru Johnny Marr will release his debut solo album next year, and today his camp let loose with the sky-scraping title track “The Messenger.” Watch the single’s accompanying video, a black-and-white visual that features Marr ambling through the elements.

Freddie Gibbs – “BFK” Video

People smoke and brandish guns in Gary for this Baby Face Killa clip.

Stereophonics - In A Moment

Official video for Stereophonics single In A Moment. Written and directed by Kelly Jones.

Sigur Rós – “Valtari” (NSFW)

Sigur Rós: Valtari

Christian Larson's Industrial Seduction for the Icelandic Outfit’s New Album

Two isolated individuals carnally collide in Swedish director Christian Larson’s collaboration with Antwerp-born choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for the orchestral rockers Sigur Rós. "The dancers copy each other’s movements and flow into one another," Cherkaoui explains of the sensual ritual. The video is the 14th in the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, a series commissioned by the Icelandic band to herald the release of their new album Valtari, giving filmmakers such as Ryan McGinley total creative freedom yet the same budget to interpret the record. Larson, also a trained dancer, has directed commercials for brands like Absolut and Roche Bobois as well as music videos for Tinie Tempah and Swedish House Mafia; for this film he chose four different tracks from Sigur Rós' recent release: "Ekki Múkk", "Valtari", "Rembihnútur" and "Varúð". Cherkaoui, who worked on projects with the Royal Danish Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and Anthony Gormley before starting his own company, Eastman, in 2010, enlisted Australian dancers James O’Hara and Nicola Leahey for this stirring piece. “There was an interesting contrast with this very harsh environment,” explains Larson of the fluid choreography for the film, shot in a disused MOD base. “I wanted to try and make a dialogue through movement, without anyone saying anything." 

Via:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Driftin’ Back”

Neil Young and Crazy Horse continue their support behind Psychedelic Pill with a 28-minute long (!) video for “Driftin’ Back”. The clip does contain old images of Neil Young and the band and other found footage, but mostly it’s a kaleidoscope of psychedelic imagery, making for the best Windows 98 screen saver or one hell of a visual trip to accompany your Saturday night activities.

Purity Ring – “Lofticries” Video

A series of characters encounter surreal moments.

AG Rojas (Spiritualized’s “Hey Jane,” Jack White’s “Sixteen Saltines“) takes the helm of Purity Ring’s new video for “Lofticries,” a clip that stitches together strange, somewhat chilling scenes through the eyes of several different protagonists.

Azealia Banks – “Atlantis” Video

Mermaids figure heavily into the iconography of au courant Harlem-bred dance-rapper Azealia Banks, and never more so than in the new video for “Atlantis,” a percolating track from her Fantasea mixtape. In director Fafi‘s video, Banks rides dolphins, flexes octopus tentacles, and generally reenacts “Under The Sea” via goofy no-budget CGI.

Stereolove - "I Wish That"

Gloriously. Demented. The good folks at Oh Yeah Wow are certainly on a roll. Jayden Dowler directs the latest for Stereolove, aptly described as “Mussolini meets Dumbo’

Kazaky - "Last Night" Video

Kazaky - Last Night (Director: YevgeniyTimokhin)

Two door cinema club - "Sleep alone"

Two door cinema club - Sleep alone (Official Video)

Gotye - "Dig Your Own Hole" Video

Live visuals for the Gotye song Dig Your Own Hole, a b-side from the album Making Mirrors

Directed and animated by Saiman Chow
Produced by Blacklist
http://www.blacklist.tv/

Music credits:
Produced by Wally De Backer
Mix by Franc Tetaz, assisted by Andy Stewart, at The Mill, Gippsland, VIC, Australia

Ellie Goulding - "Only You"

 

The full 90 second edit of Ellie's exclusive new video for her track, Only You. Wearing a new season party look from ASOS, find out what makes Ellie's #BestNightEver, catch an exclusive interview with her and get tips and tricks from Ellie, Charlotte Free and Azealia Banks to make sure your party season is epic.

Kris Menace feat. Miss Kittin - Hide (Official Video)

Taken from the Album 'Features'
http://smarturl.it/features

Director : Mathieu Bétard
Production : WIZZPROD / QUAD . Paris
Producer : Sonlan Tran
Animation : Mathieu Bétard, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Pierre Ruitz

Kate Boy - "Northern Lights"

Northern Lights by KATE BOY

Directed by SIKOW. Additional animations by Oskar Gullstrand at NAIVE

Sufjan Stevens – “Silver & Gold”

Sufjan Stevens has already released one video from his forthcoming EP box Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas: The amazing claymation gorefest “Mr. Frosty Man.” Today, we get another one, and it’s pretty much that video’s polar opposite. The video for the box’s title track, a cover of an old Johnny Marks Christmas song, is Instagram-style home-movie footage of Sufjan’s nephew Gavin flying a cute on a beach somewhere, while wearing underoos. It’s extraordinarily cute.

Rihanna – “Diamonds” Video

We might as well get used to Rihanna’s new single “Diamonds” now, since if past experience is any indication, it’ll be completely inescapable for the next three months. (That’s not a bad thing! Pretty good song!) The video, directed by Anthony Mandler, is all swoony slo-mo, and it has a whole lot of Rihanna looking pretty along with some disconnected imagery: Floating bodies, fiery riots, horses running wild across plains.

The Joy Formidable – “This Ladder Is Ours” (Official Music Video)

Early next year, anthemic British alt-rock trio the Joy Formidable will release Wolf’s Law, their sophomore album. And in the new video for their churn-soaring first single “This Ladder Is Ours,” Greg Jardin directs as the band’s three members play in different rooms of a decrepit house while a cyclone blows around them. The song is a total radio-rock energy-rush, and not too many bands are capable of or interested in making that kind of racket these days.

Lana Del Rey – “Bel Air” Video

Lana Del Rey has a new video for “Bel Air,” one of the new bonus songs from Born To Die: Paradise Edition. It would’ve been great if the video chronicled her passionate but doomed romance with Uncle Phil, but that is not the case. Instead, it’s her staring sexily through plumes of various-colored smoke. The YouTube description teases something called Tropico, the film, which is apparently coming next year. Let’s all let our imaginations run away with us while we think about an LDR cinematic vehicle.

Ke$ha - "Die Young" (Official Video)

Ke$ha’s clip for “Die Young” features our hero as a cult leader, partaking in ceremonies with orgy implications and flashing scores of Illuminati icons. Basically, she’s back!

Directed By: Darren Craig for The Uprising Creative / Produced by: Jonathan Craven for The Uprising Creative / Editor: Shahana Khan / VFX: Ryan Paterson & Jesse Austin and Mike Orr.

Tame Impala – “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”

As the latest visual for Lonerism cut “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” again proves, “Tame Impala” might as well be synonymous with “not betraying the aesthetic.” It features the mesmerizing psychedelic swirl of oil paints, and if someone told you it was commissioned for a late-period Beatles video feature you wouldn’t second guess it. Joe Pelling and Becky Sloan direct.

King Krule – “Rock Bottom”

In the video for his jazzed-out, Streets-quoting Cockney shuffle “Rock Bottom,” the enigmatic young singer-songwriter King Krule finds himself confronted by bizarre, inexplicable forces that want to hurt him, including a middle-aged man and a dog in an underground walkway and a lady with a cactus for a face. It’s a trippy dark-night-of-the-soul thing. But the strongest parts of the video are the ones where Krule is just wandering around a desolate industrial seaside landscape, radiating dead-end-kid charisma. Paraic & Michael Morrissey direct.

King Tuff – “Keep On Movin” Video

King Tuff hosts a montage of his friends dancing in his clip for the upbeat jam “Keep On Movin.” Here’s Tuff with some context:

“[The video is] a slo-mo, cinematic gang painting that expresses the freedom of the dance, the ancient magic that happens when you point a camera at cretins,” Tuff tells Rolling Stone. “People may say the video is a very literal representation on the song title, but I think it’s actually a video concept that’s never been done before: people that can’t dance, dancing. J/K, we rule at dancing.”

The Weeknd – “The Zone” (Feat. Drake)

Last year, Toronto sad-loverman icons and mutual admirers the Weeknd and Drake linked up for “The Zone,” a haunted and numb track from the Weeknd’s Thursday mixtape. Next week, the Weeknd releases the three EPs he dropped last year, repackaged and remastered as Trilogy. So it’s a good time for “The Zone” to get a video, one that throws Drizzy and the Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye into a flickering, Lost Highway-inspired partyscape. Tesfaye directed the video himself.

Scott Walker - 'Epizootics!'

Scott Walker has shared a video for "Epizootics!", the ten-minute centerpiece from his upcoming album Bish Bosch, out via 4AD on December 3 in the UK and December 4 in the U.S. (The song premiered yesterday on Spotify.) To match the song's strange narrative, director Olivier Groulx offers a slow-motion loop of footage: a woman in Hawaiian luau gear smiling eerily wide, erratic swing dancers, barren landscapes, a creepy insect crawling on human flesh, a recurring image of white shoes.

TKTTSM - Plastic Fantastic (Official Music Video)

Director: Patrick Ryan Morris
Producer: Sheena Suarez
Produced by Dedalus Moving Pictures