Lil Wayne - Mirror ft. Bruno Mars

Music video by Lil Wayne performing Mirror ft. Bruno Mars

Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream - Autonomia

Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream

'Autonomia' will be released through Future Noise Music on February 20th, a dense agit-protest superfunk monster with sirens and Bobby Gillespie's frenetic 'keeping the dream alive' call-and-response chant with Mark Stewart who explains the story behind the song - "I'd written this song about Carlo Giuliani, who was killed at the G8 demonstrations in Genoa. At that point, it was a protest ... afterwards I started getting on with Bobby and I asked Adrian [Sherwood] about doing it. It's important that people hear about the story, it's the message and the atmosphere as much as anything.'

Directed by Douglas Hart (founding member and bassist of The Jesus and Mary Chain) with Dominic Lee & Chiara Meattelli, the video exhibits a raw, riotous & feverish vivacity infused with the artists' trademark punk rock ethos to convey the song's deep political message.

"Starting out as a teenager in the late 70s with the Pop Group and thru the 80's with the Maffia up to his new solo record, Mark Stewart has led the attack on conformist reality. Mark is a constant inspiration and a true Thief of Fire. A poet of paranoia and a great laugh. What a guy." -- Primal Scream

Yann Tiersen - "Monuments"

"Monuments" by Yann Tiersen from the upcoming album 'Skyline,'

Foo Fighters - These Days (Official Music Video)

The bulk of Foo Fighters’ new “These Days” video is made up of footage of the band playing a gigantic stadium and generally looking like straight-up rock stars. But we also get to see Dave Grohl kissing his family goodbye and the rest of the band gearing up before the show and cooling down after it, and it’s a nice reminder that these are professionals doing a job. Also, I enjoyed the climactic Grol/Pat Smear high-five.

Bon Iver "We Are Music" Grammy Spot

The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be handed out at the Staples Center on 2/12, and while Bon Iver won’t be performing at the ceremony, the band is up for some of the night’s biggest awards, including Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist. That’s enough to have inspired a special commercial featuring cool, wintry animation and the sounds of “Holocene.” The spot was developed by the Recording Academy and ad partner TBWA\Chiat\Day, and is one of four “We Are Music” artist-themed tune-ins (along with Adele, Foo Fighters, and Skrillex) being rolled out before the big night.

Via: http://stereogum.com

SOKO - First Love Never Die

French chanteuse SoKo, who last graced our pages with a touching video she co-directed (with Spike Jonze) for an affectingly charming song of hers, is here today with a touching video she co-directed (with actor Matthew Gray Gubler) for an affectingly charming song of hers. This is remarkable consistency. Everything about SoKo sings cinema, from her co-conspirators and their visual palette to the sentimental, husky rasp of her voice. And sure, she is already a hit on YouTube, but if you don’t know her, meet the ascendent queen of the Sundance set.

Eleanor Friedberger - Heaven

Director: Scott Jacobson.

Cast: Eleanor Friedberger, Samantha Shelton, Kelvin Yu

Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Animated Short Film

The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are in, and although they were announced last week, we thought we’d dig up snippets of each flick for Best Animated Short Film to share with you today. Say hello to the contenders!

Animated Short Film Nominees:

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg)



Dimanche/Sunday (Patrick Doyon)



La Luna (Enrico Casarosa)


Clip from Pixar's short film La Luna por animatieblog

A Morning Stroll (Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe)



Wild Life (Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby)

Feist - The Bad In Each Other

The opening track to Feist’s Metals, the powerful post-blues LP standout “The Bad In Each Other,” is here for you to observe in cinematic form. It’s filmic and a little narratively confusing in its depictions of what are presumably good men and good women in various epochs and locales and styles of dress, but in the end it is all fireworks and smiles. I tell you that so you aren’t as clenched up as I was watching these sorta intimate scenes and waiting for the track’s title to manifest somehow.

Air - Parade (Video 2012)

Le Voyage Dans Le Lune, the new album from veteran French sexy-music purveyors Air, began life when the duo were asked to score a restored, colorized version of the 1902 Georges Méliès silent film with the same title. It’s now a full-length album that’s set to come out next week, and we’ve already heard the Victoria Legrand collab “Seven Stars” and seen a couple of glimpses of the film-score portion of the album. And now here’s another one: The proggy, psychedelic instrumental “Parade” set to scenes from Excursion To The Moon, Segundo de Chomón’s 1908 remake of the Méliès film. (Remakes have apparently been a movie-industry standby for longer than I realized.)

Via: http://stereogum.com/

The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings Enhanced Edition

Jaw-dropping trailer created by Platige Image for CD Projekt RED’s forthcoming Xbox 360/PC title, The Witcher 2. WARNING: Extreme gore. Credits and more info here.

White Rabbits – “Heavy Metal”

Breaking a long silence, Brooklyn-via-Columbia, MO indie rockers White Rabbits dropped a new single, “Heavy Metal,” while simultaneously announcing the upcoming release of their third LP. Today that song got an accompanying video, which captures an eerie, warped love triangle. Andrew Droz Palermo direct.

Jane's Addiction - Underground

Jane’s Addiction haven’t been anyone’s idea of an underground band since around the time George Herbert Walker Bush took the oath of office, but they still have a song called “Underground” on their 2011 album The Great Escape Artist. And now there’s a video for that song, in which they play it in some sort of 1920s-style occult burlesque speakeasy. Lots of leg is shown.

Desire - "Don`t Call"

Italians Do It Better co-honcho Johnny Jewel hit a pop cultural sweet spot last year, making in-roads with the Gossling demo by landing one of his Chromatics tracks on the much-loved Drive OST. His stardusted and narcotic Italo production style seemed to influence a lot of that soundtrack; in fact, the lesser known and more recent Jewel vehicle, Desire, had a song on in it as well (“Under Your Spell”). Desire is Jewell with fellow Chromatic Nat Walker and vocalist Megan Louise, and here they are with the video for the glam electro-strut cut “Don’t Call.” It’s directed by Alberto Rossini, who recently helmed a clip for that other Jewell outlet, Glass Candy. All of which is to say, he stays busy. The song is old, but the video is new. The clip was filmed in Miami during a hurricane watch, if that affects your enjoyment any.

Blink 182 - "After Midnight"

Blink 182 "After Midnight" - Dir: Isaac Rentz

Evanescence - My Heart Is Broken (Official Video)

Evanescence fans rejoice and behold, the new video for "My Heart Is Broken." Directed by Dean Karr — who's known for his work with other artists like Dave Matthews Band, Cypress Hill, and Marilyn Manson — it's the second from the band's recent eponymous release.

The "Broken" clip, which premiered on the band's Vevo page earlier today (and then promptly made its graceful, illegal jump to fans' Youtube pages, like the one embedded below), features pretty lights and a field of wheat, in addition to the usual Evanescence fare — frontwoman Amy Lee in pale chiffon and corsets, a fantasy world involving lots of wind and unpleasant situations (see: the video for "Bring Me to Life"), and dreadlock-banging galore. In the making-of clip posted four days ago to tease the video's release, Lee confesses jokingly,"I'll write stuff and not really know what I'm writing about, listen back, and then think, 'Oh, I've got to change my life!' "

Wilco & Popeye - "Dawned On Me"

Wilco hasn’t issued a video since 1999. Maybe they wait for an idea, maybe they just hate music videos. Regardless, their video for “Dawned on Me” indicates they’ve definitely hit a creative streak. The Chicago troupe gets animated, time travels to the ’30s, and buddies up with Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee’ Pea, Wimpy, and Bluto. Director Darren Romanelli conceived the idea and collaborated with King Features to put together the first hand-drawn, frame-by-frame rendering for Popeye since 1987′s Popeye and Son. If you’re wondering what the story’s about, it’s pretty honest Popeye fare. Olive Oyl’s in a love tryst between our spinach-eating sailor, Bluto…and Jeff Tweedy.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Look Around (Official Video)

cameras in the round!

Each room loosely represented the band members' personalities, so almost all the props and artwork in the rooms came from their personal collections.

Electric Guest - "American Daydream"

L.A. duo Electric Guest taps into electronic-tinged soul grooves and the product was interesting enough to get Danger Mouse involved; he produced their debut LP Mondo (as well as Norah Jones’s new one. Dude is busy). In the buildup to that release, the band put out the clip for “American Daydream,” a video glimpses at a party gone wrong where a wannabe lover creeps around the edges. Then frontman Asa Taccone, who has contributed to the songwriting process of his brother Jorma’s Lonely Island gang for viral hits like “Dick In A Box,” makes a bit of a scene. Jorma himself directs.

The Twilight Sad - Another Bed

The clip for the Twilight Sad’s queasy, visceral postpunk banger “Another Bed” follows a creepily mustachioed video-store clerk who, in his spare time, uses dead bodies as marionette puppets and stages parties with them. Director Craig Murray is the man responsible for this deeply unsettling piece of work.

Mastodon - "Dry Bone Valley"

Boing Boing presents the US premiere of Mastodon's "Dry Bone Valley, from the album The Hunter, available on Reprise Records.

Mastodon videos, like the relatively recent “Curl Of The Burl,” tend to adhere to a pretty high standard; they’re usually both brutally violent and honest-to-god funny. Well, the band’s new video for “Dry Bone Valley,” a track from their 2011 album The Hunter, is neither. Director Tom Biskup‘s animated clip is entirely comprised of vaguely evil-looking images flying at the camera, and it’s not particularly interesting. It is, however, a pretty good excuse to listen to “Dry Bone Valley,” which rocks.

We Have Band - "Where Are Your People?"

With a tip of the cap to 'The Holy mountain' WHB embark on a ritualistic sacrifice of the self image through their wax effigies.

Directed by Alex Turvey

Kate Bush - Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe

Official animation to accompany a segment from the new Kate Bush track Lake Tahoe - "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe"

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Trailer

This is the first trailer for the upcoming Doctor Who video game The Eternity Clock that shows gameplay, and it seems the game will be combining old school platformer elements with third person action and super cinematic cutscenes.

Starring the Eleventh Doctor, River Song, Amy Pond and just about every major enemy from the last few seasons of the show, this game is definitely going for an epic level look, but I feel like the fun in gameplay variety might get sucked out by frustrating platforming puzzles and too many cutscenes. After watching the video, what do you guys think about this game?

–via Topless Robot

Sleigh Bells – “Comeback Kid”

The new video for Sleigh Bells' "Comeback Kid" is a riot of badass fashion choices: Alexis Krauss' leather jacket, newly blonde hair, and whitewashed jean shorts, and Derek Miller's Nirvana t-shirt, varsity jacket, and sunglasses. Directed by Miller and Gregory Kohn, the clip for the Reign of Terror track can be watched below, via MTV.

ASAP Rocky – “Wassup” Video (NSFW)

Harlem rap sensation A.$.A.P Rocky teamed up with VICE to create a video inspired by Scarface, Belly, Enter The Dragon, The Warriors and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.

The result is a video that follows A.$.A.P Rocky through a dreamy fantasy world filled with 40s, Ferrari's, homies and hoards of cash.

Xiu Xiu – “Hi”

Conceptual art-music frighteners Xiu Xiu have released the video for “Hi,” their new fraught-synthpop single, and it’s a frantic jumble of the sort of disconnected, often vaguely disturbing imagery you’d expect from Jamie Stewart and co.: Toys being set on fire, Stewart biting apples off of trees, lyrics scrawled in bathroom stalls. Somehow, nothing in it scans as NSFW, but that doesn’t mean you want your supervisor staring over your shoulder while it’s playing. Stewart and David Horvitz direct.

Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe (Explicit)

Nicki busted out “Stupid Hoe” late last year before promising an accompanying clip to drop this week, and though it’s coming in late Friday, she’s a woman of her word! And, my stars, is it a flashy, sugared-out affair. Hype Williams — who else? — directs. And like many other Hype Williams clips, I haven’t the foggiest idea of what’s going on in the tripped-out excess of “Stupid Hoe.”

The Internet – “Fastlane”

The latest Odd Future offshoot is the Internet, a duo formed by OF DJ/producer Syd The Kid and ambient collective member Matt Martian. Last night they dropped their latest video, a clip for “Fastlane” that finds Syd Tha Kid and her accomplice robbing and stealing. Since it’s two girls, it’s like, Bonnie & Bonnie, you know? Also, shout outs to the cashier woman in the video, who doubles as one of the ridiculous Pawnee townspeople on Parks & Recreation.

Directed by Matt Alonzo
Concept by Matt Martin & Syd
Video Produced by Michael Busalacchi, Kelvin Craver & Tara Razavi (Modern Artists//Happy Place)

Perfume Genius - 'Hood'

Directed by Winston H. Case (http://paloduroproductions.com)

COLDPLAY - 'Paradise' Dir: SHYNOLA

COLDPLAY - 'Paradise' Dir: SHYNOLA

This is our video for Coldplay's Paradise single.
Produced by Black Dog Films Limited

Justice - ON'N'ON (NSFW)

Justice - ON'N'ON (dir: ALEXANDRE COURTES)

The Balconies - "Kill Count"

The Balconies - "Kill Count" - dir. Alon Isocianu

Still Pacific - Mine for the Time

Still Pacific - Mine for the Time Dir. Katie Maren and Mike P. Nelson

The Maccabees – “Pelican”

The music video for “Pelican” from The Maccabees is a wild ride.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix that won't work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Thought Ballune

Definitely fans of weird / video / concepts, indie rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra dropped the strange, but cool, clip for “Thought Ballune” today. What a bunch of … wait for it … airheads. You’ll see what I mean. Co-Directed w/ Ryan Knowles.

Snow Patrol - In The End

Music video by Snow Patrol performing In The End. Dir. por Brett Simon.

Topo glassato al cioccolato

A very striking creation from the mind of Milkyeyes.

Jessie Baylin - Hurry Hurry (Director Scarlett Johansson)

See Scarlett Johansson’s Directorial Debut

Scarlett Johansson's buddy, singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin, called upon her to direct her music video for "Hurry Hurry," which you shouldn't do, because it is very boring (unlike the song, which is actually quite lovely). [MTV Hive]

Ryan Adams – “Chains Of Love”

First came “Lucky Now,” and now Ryan Adams has released the second video from Ashes & Fire, his excellent return-to-form 2011 album. In the “Chains Of Love” video, Adams sings the song on a city rooftop and a foggy plain, and it takes a second to realize that his entire backing band appears to be comprised of model chicks. Also: Fireworks!

Blaudzun - Elephants

Music video by Mirka Duijn & Nina Spiering (directors of "Do Better" of Bart Constant & Dustin O'Halloran)

Death Cab For Cutie – “Underneath The Sycamore”

The new animated clip for Death Cab For Cutie’s “Underneath The Sycamore” is a novel attempt at a cartoon film noir, with an ending more ambiguous than what you’ll find in most of the classic private-eye tales. The animating team Walter Robot is the party responsible.

Real Estate – “Easy”

Real Estate - "Easy" from Tom Scharpling

The Kills – “The Last Goodbye”

Credit Samantha Morton, the actress who was great in Sweet And Lowdown and Minority Report and a million other movies, with noticing something important: Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have crazy-expressive faces. Morton just directed her first-ever music video, for the Kills’ “The Last Goodbye”, and the whole thing consists of Mosshart and Hince in a photo booth, making intense expressions and generally showing that someone should cast them in something.

(via Nowness)

Caged Animals - "All The Beautiful Things In The World" (NSFW)

From Eat Their Own, out now on Lucky Number.
Directed by Jamie Harley.

Memory Tapes - Trance Sisters

Vera Todorova, a young Berlin-based film-maker, was given a wildly ambitious brief: to remake the George Lucas cult sci-fi debut THX1138 for not much more than the cost of a couple of flights to Berlin and back. She rose to the task, amazingly, and delivered a memorably great narrative video that starts like some contemporary newsreel footage of civil disobedience and ends up…well, shan’t spoil it, but “demented, sci-fi mind control” is not a phrase we use often. But we will. And it fits here.

Taken from the album 'Player Piano' available from Carpark Recordings in North America and Europe via Something In Construction.

MemoryTap.es for more info.

Pproducer/director: Vera Todorova

Arctic Monkeys - Black Treacle

Arctic Monkeys -- Black Treacle. Directed by Focus Creeps.

Rihanna - Birthday Cake

New Rihanna's song Birthday Cake off her new album Talk That Talk!
Dancers : Stéphanie Da Silva - Stéphanie Le Blavec
Choreography by Kriss Leyo
Directed and edited by Behind The Corner

Wilco - Whole Love

Trash Talk – “Slander”

And here we have an even better example of the animated music video, though it, too, is a violent head-trip. (Maybe that’s the secret.) This one’s a fun time: The band’s vengeful blast rendered in vivid and hyperactive color, with a nasty punchline that just goes on forever. Ideally, this is what happens when punks figure out how to use computers.

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – “Two Against One” (Feat. Jack White)

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – “Two Against One” (Feat. Jack White) (Dir. Chris Milk)

This is a bloody head-trip that somehow works as an internal monologue for the villain of the Danger/Luppi concept album Rome. But even if you don’t care much about that album’s narrative — and I sure don’t — it’s fun to watch this thing twist and wriggle through all its different rabbit holes.

Modeselektor feat. Otto von Schirach "Evil Twin"

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Modeselektor feat. Otto von Schirach - Evil Twin (Dir: DentDeCuir)

Parachute Youth -"Can't Get Better Than This"

Parachute Youth -"Can't Get Better Than This" Directed by Julien Paolini

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

See how the World Searched with Google's 2011 Zeitgeist:
http://googlezeitgeist.com

Music: "Sooner or Later" by Mat Kearney
Produced by Whirled Creative with Director Scott Chan

"Soldier surprises mom" clip courtesy of the National Geographic Channel, Siskell/Jacobs Productions and Joseph Desira.

The Discovery Of Fire

A pack of 'Cromags' obtains fire without knowing how to make it. The 'Neandert' family is cold. The father sees a smoke in the distance and decides to go... A short film directed by Mickaël Bellamy.

Gom

In a circus, Gom, a rubber-boy, has to replace the artist's assistant during the show.
Directed by Anthony Delliste.

Jónsi – “Gathering Stories”

Jónsi scores the new Cameron Crowe flick We Bought A Zoo, and a little earlier this year we heard a new song from that soundtrack called”Gathering Stories.” That track now has a video, an animated, wintry affair and doesn’t feature Matt Damon, which is a strength or weakness depending where you fall on that (I side with Damon, here is why). Check out the Crush Creative-directed visual.

Flaming Lips - I am the Walrus

Watch Flamings Lips Cover “I Am The Walrus” In Studio

Rihanna - You Da One

While a lot of criticism — most of it fair — has been pointed at Rihanna’s Talk That Talk, a record that feels rushed and trend-chasing, its latest single “You Da One” is so strong that it basically validates the experiment. Now, the dubby, churning dancehall jam has a heavily stylized video; check it out after the jump.

LCD Soundsystem - Live Alone (Franz Ferdinand Cover)

Live Alone is taken from the Franz Ferdinand Covers EP.

Video directed by Gabriel Pulecio Aka Lustix http://www.lustix.com

Cosmo New Year

A lonely cosmonaut finds himself without the wherewithal to celebrate the new year. Fret not, comrade. Mission control is on it. Directed and animated by Anton Korolyuk and Artem Bizyaev.