John Cale – “Face To The Sky”

The former Velvet Underground member John Cale will soon release his new solo album Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood, and you know an album has to be good if it’s going to justify a title like that. We’ve already heard first single “I Wanna Talk 2 U,” and now we’ve got the truly odd video for album track “Face To The Sky,” which pairs Cale with a modern dancer.

Chairlift – “I Belong In Your Arms (Japanese Version)” Video

Chairlift’s Something comes out in Japan today, so in celebration of that, Chairlift’s put out a Japanese-language version of their album jam “I Belong In Your Arms,” complete with a video featuring some vintage digital textures. Lead singer Caroline Polachek spent some time in Tokyo as a youth, turns out. Eric Epstein directs and animates.

Moonface - Im Not The Phoenix Yet

Earlier this year, Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown/Swan Lake guy Spencer Krug, working under his Moonface alias, teamed up with Finnish band Siinai on the new album With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. And the new video for album track “I’m Not The Phoenix Yet,” directed by Throneboogie, is an intense and weirdly fetishized series of extreme close-ups of a female body doing calisthenics.

Life By A Thread (Animated Short)

Animator Jim Segrue is part of the award winning team at Titmouse, the folks responsible for shows like Metalocalypse, Superjail and Black Dynamite, but this time he's stretching out his wings and flying solo.

His newest short Life By A Thread details an alley cat's search for warmth during those cold winter months, and the only thing this squashy, stretchy character animation smearfest seems to be missing is a suitable soundtrack.

Anybody have access to a theremin? Or a musical saw and trombone?

--via Cartoon Brew

Old Spice Muscle Music

Terry Crews is back for Old Spice, this time using his body as a music making MACHINE!

Melody's Echo Chamber - "I Follow You"

An underwater clip doused in a psychedelic color palette. The video was directed by Laurie Lassalle.

Bob Dylan – “Duquesne Whistle” (Music Video)

Earlier this week, we heard “Duquesne Whistle,” the single from Bob Dylan’s forthcoming album Tempest. Today, we get the video, an admirably opaque thing from Aussie director and stuntman Nash Edgerton. In the video, a young man’s attempt at a whimsical meet cute turns out really, really badly. We also get unexplained shots of Dylan walking around, leading a posse that appears to include a couple of pubescent cholos and a guy dressed like Gene Simmons. Edgerton’s brother, the actor Joel, is in there as “guy with baseball bat.” The whole thing is pretty ridiculous and great.

(via The Guardian)

Yeasayer – “Longevity”

In Yeasayer’s video for “Longevity,” a jittery track from their new album Fragrant World, we see the band playing the song while frontman Chris Keating ages at extreme speed, sort of like the guy who drinks from the wrong cup in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.

Van She - "Jamaica"

Van She’s “Jamaica” is a top-shelf smooth-pop song, but if I didn’t know any better, I’d think that they recorded it just as an excuse to visit the titular nation to film the video. In the song’s video, we see the members of the band having what looks like an amazing time in Jamaica: Jumping into swimming holes, playing soccer with kids, patronizing raunchy nightclubs.

The Luyas – “Fifty Fifty”

Montreal indie rockers the Luyas will put out their third album, Animator, later this fall, and today we’ve got their evocative and dramatic visual for the single “Fifty Fifty,” a building rocker rife with churning, orchestral swirl. The video is written/directed/shot/edited by Derrick Belcham (A Story Told Well) and choreographed by Katie Ward.

Sigur Rós – “Dauðalogn”

Here’s the latest from Sigur Rós’s ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment — a project that has, thus far, featured contributions from Ryan McGinley and Shia LeBeouf — a nature-themed, mossy clip for the track “Dauðalogn.” Henry Jun Wah Lee takes the helm here.

Screaming Females – “Leave It All Up To Me” (NSFW)

Screaming Females’ video for “It All Means Nothing,” in which bandleader Marissa Paternoster is murdered and dismembered by her bandmates, is not exactly the sort of thing that demanded a sequel. And yet here it is: The video for “Leave It All Up To Me,” in which a crew of gothic Scremales fans resurrect the zombie Marissa and help her exact her gruesome revenge. The band once again co-direct alongside Ken Castellano, and the result is NSFW for extreme hilarious carnage.


Via: Rolling Stone.

Converge – “Aimless Arrow”

This fall, Converge, the most important hardcore band of the last 20 years or so, will release their new album All We Love We Leave Behind. The album seems to stand in stark contrast to its predecessor, 2009′s ambitious and thoroughly face-ripping Axe To Fall, since it has no guest stars or outside collaborators. Guitarist Kurt Ballou, possibly the best producer currently working in hardcore and metal, engineered it, and it will probably rule. A 17-track deluxe edition of the album will include a 48-page book with art from frontman and iconic graphic designer Jacob Bannon. Below, check out the album’s tracklist and director Max Moore‘s chaotic, nightmarish video for the explosive album opener “Aimless Arrow.”

Julia Holter – “Goddess Eyes I”

In the new video for her blissed-out track “Goddess Eyes I,” sound-sculpting vocalist Julia Holter appears in a mysterious landscape just as fuzzy as the song itself. Here’s what director Jose Wolff says about the clip:

The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with visual noise, echoing the sonic noise present in the song. We go from lightness to darkness, away from a structured, fabricated place and into raw territory.

Sleigh Bells – “End Of The Line”

Here’s the clip for Sleigh Bells’ glistening Reign Of Terror cut “End Of The Line,” a scenic visual that finds Alexis and Derek vogueing hard while riding BMX bikes. You could screencap this one for days, folks. Sleigh Bells’ Derek Miller and Gregory Kohn direct.

Flight Of The Conchords – “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)”

Flight Of The Concords might not have an HBO show anymore, but they’ve just gotten back together to raise money for the children’s charity Cure Kids. The video for their new single “Feel Inside And Stuff Like That” finds the duo interacting with a number of ridiculously adorable kids from New Zealand, all of whom help write the lyrics, and it has cameos from a whole parade of New Zealand celebrities that I’ve never heard of.

The Flaming Lips & Amanda Palmer – “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (NSFW)

For their collaborative album The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends, the Lips recorded a version of the old folk song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” with Erykah Badu, and it was good. But in the song’s video, Badu’s sister Nayrok writhed around naked in tubs of glitter and fake blood and white goo, and the result was pretty gross and exploitative — so much so, in fact, that Badu herself famously called out Wayne Coyne online.

Well, for whatever reason, the Lips have now recorded another version of the song, this time with drama-rock queenpin Amanda Palmer subbing in for Badu. And in the new video, Palmer appears, extremely naked, though this time she’s in a tub of nothing more exciting that water. Palmer howls the song ecstatically while the lips bang it out in what looks like bored slow motion.

Band Of Horses – “Knock Knock”

Band Of Horses return next month with their new album Mirage Rock, and we’ve already heard first single “Knock Knock.” That song’s new video works as a parody of old-timey wildlife-adventure films, with a group of scientists tracking the band through the wilderness. That’s a fun concept, and it also works as an excuse to film the band playing on some truly gorgeous desert vistas, all filmed on location in Utah. Jared Eberhardt directs.

Nicki Minaj – “I Am Your Leader” (Feat. Rick Ross & Cam’ron)

Here’s Nicki’s new visual for Roman Reloaded highlight “I Am Your Leader,” wherein Nicki, Rick Ross and Cam’ron hold down a neon-green-and-pinked-out version of a Looney Tunes setting. Cam’ron’s wearing a shirt that changes colors, possibly depending on Cam’s mood. Just a guess.

Mouse On Mars – “They Know Your Name”

Early in the year, the veteran German squelch-and-burp glitch duo Mouse On Mars released their Parastrophics album, and their new video for the album track “They Know Your Name” consists entirely of spastic footage of biological cell studies, edited together by Pfadfinderei.

The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (Official Video)

Here’s the clip for Welsh trio the Joy Formidable’s new single “Wolf’s Law,” a black-and-white visual that gets pretty Tree Of Life-y and complements to the epic feel of the song, which is a big, sweeping thing itself.

Montag – “True Love” (Feat. James Bay)

The latest entry in Montreal producer Montag’s monthly singles series Phases is “True Love,” a sinister Italo romp in which he sings over a synth-throb from fellow producer James Bay. The track’s new video starts out with horror-movie imagery: Worms made to look gigantic, billowing dry-ice clouds, dark looming woods. Then an intense-looking group of people lip-syncs the song. Then they all make out furiously with each other. I’m not sure what any of it means, but it’s sure not boring. La Barbe Rousse directs

Apache Beat – “Tracing Sky”

Here’s Apache Beat’s kaleidoscopic daydream of a clip for “Tracing Sky,” a clip directly influenced by Australian director Peter Weir’s Picnic At Hanging Rock. Mark Lovato and Gella Zefira direct. Watch it below.

Javiera Mena - Luz De Piedra De Luna

Javiera Mena - Luz De Piedra De Luna (dir: Canada)

Bob Mould – “The Descent”

Earlier this month, we posted “The Descent,” the chunkily hooky new single from American indie founding father Bob Mould. And in the song’s new video, Mould plays a character who goes from corporate casualty to backwoods off-the-grid mountain man faster than anyone could reasonably expect. Alicia J. Rose directs.

Killer Mike - Untitled (Official Music Video)

‎Director: Benjamin Dickinson

In the music video for “Untitled”, Killer Mike and guest star Scar recreate a series of historical art tableaus. The reworked pieces cast Mike as a saintly deity, a Saddam Hussein-inspired dictator with matching sword, an imprisoned civil rights leader and, finally, a severed head (with his old pal El-P their to hold it up on a golden platter). Save yourself a trip to the museum and watch the video below (via Pitchfork TV).

Grimes - "Genesis"

As promised, the video for Grimes' "Genesis" is here (directed by Claire Boucher herself), and it bears no shortage of things to gawk at. Claire holding a python in the back of a livery cab! Claire wearing a fitted dress that says "PUSSY" across it! Sword fighting in the desert! Crawling around in the the woods and strutting down the streets of L.A. with a cast of characters ripped straight out of "Mortal Combat"! Grimes, you've officially out-fucking-Grimes'd yourself.

Aesop Rock – “Cycles To Gehanna”

It’s hard to outdo the overwhelming badassery of Aesop Rock’s “ZZZ Top” video, pretty much just a full-length martial arts brawl, but the ferocious punk rock ballet dancers of the new “Cycles To Gehanna” video make it closer than you’d expect. Ben and Pete Lee direct with classic B-movie panache.

Diplo - "Set It Off" (ft. Lazerdisk Party Sex)

MTV has posted the new video for "Set It Off", a track from Diplo and Lazerdisk Party Sex (say that 10 times fast) that appears on Diplo's latest, the Express Yourself EP. Directed by Ryan Staake, it's pretty much exactly what you might expect from Diplo and an artist called Lazerdisk Party Sex: Strippers in space.

Dinosaur Jr. – “Watch The Corners” (Feat. Tim Heidecker)

Dinosaur Jr. go the Funny Or Die route for their new video for “Watch The Corners.” The band themselves only show up in digitally blurred cameo form. Instead, we see the story of a teenage girl who works at a supermarket and falls in with a bad boy who turns everything he touches into digital blurcles. Internet weirdo-comedy god Tim Heidecker plays the protective father, who finds an immensely satisfying way to respond. The Director Brothers direct.

Garbage – “Big Bright World”

Garbage’s comeback album, Not Your Kind Of People, was released back in May; not surprisingly, it was a dynamic, lushly produced, sweeping affair. The clip for new single “Big Bright World,” directed by Julie Orser, shares those qualities. Employing gothic images and striking juxtapositions of color scenes against stark black-and-whites, it kind of looks like something Vaughn Oliver might have created.

A$AP Ferg – “Work”

The member of A$AP Mob people seem to be the most excited about — outside of, you know, Rocky — is A$AP Ferg, thanks to his memorable debut appearance on LiveLoveA$AP standout “Kissin’ Pink.” Anyway, the Mob will be putting out a mixtape later this month, and recently Ferg’s video for his solo track “Work” surfaced, a strange clip that takes place mostly in a courtyard and a sand dune (plus a Kilo Kish cameo!).

Xiu Xiu - Born To Suffer

Xiu Xiu’s video for “Born To Suffer” starts as a pixelated, gray-scaled pastiche before blossoming into something much more color-rich and evocative, featuring — amongst other things — some passionate kissing. Adriana Alba directs.

Ungdomskulen – “Askefast”

Bergen, Norway post-punk trio Ungdomskulen will be announcing some new album details soon, but before that happens, today they’re sharing the video for the first single “Askefast,” a propulsive, proggy cut. The video finds the group workin’ some stuff out in the shadows and features some always-much-needed shirtless cave drumming.

Chrome Canyon – “Memories Of A Scientist”

Morgan Z brought a triple-decker synth rig to the defunct futuristic glam-pop outfit Apes & Androids before striking out on his own as Chrome Canyon. We’ve heard “Generations,” which served to announce the project’s signing to Stones Throw, and Z’s following that with a self-directed/edited clip for the whimsical MS-DOS-era sci-fi synth-funk of “Memories Of A Scientist.” Esteemed photographer Noah Kalina serves as Director Of Photography, capturing Chrome Canyon as a mad scientist with an eye toward cracking the code of multi-tracking a song that surely would have been the credits music for a Reagan-era sitcom about computers or mathematics. Whimsical, shticky b-movie stuff.

Peaking Lights – “Dreambeat”

It’s their song and some version of their gauzy lens-flare aesthetic, but the married Wisconsin dub duo Peaking Lights only make a quick cameo in the video for their track “Dreambeat.” Instead, the video, from directors Jordan Redaelli and Jason Miller, follows a girl from Coney Island’s outer-borough scuzz to New York’s visually gorgeous vogue-ball underground. It’s just a very good music video, thanks at least in part to the production values that the Urban Outfitters corporate overlords gave it, and you can watch.

Animal Collective – “Today’s Supernatural”

Here’s the eyebleed of a visual for AnCo’s “Today’s Supernatural,” a video that includes Avey Tare in a frightening clown getup, one of those dragon dance costumes riding round in a go-kart before getting beaten up by a pair of disembodied arms with clubs, and so forth. Business as usual for AnCo. Directed by Danny Perez.

Frightened Rabbit - "State Hospital"

Last week, we got our first listen to the studio version of “State Hospital,” the title track from Frightened Rabbit’s forthcoming EP. Today, the clip for the track has surfaced, giving glimpses into the emotional trauma of a woman who is (presumably) a resident of the hospital in question. It’s a big, uplifting song, but a gray, depressing video.

Y.N.RichKids – “Hot Cheetos & Takis”

Y.N.RichKids – “Hot Cheetos & Takis” (Dir. 13twentythree Photography)

The world is a remarkable place. The screaming kid with the braids is my new favorite human being. Also, I’m hungry.

King Tuff - Alone and Stoned

“Alone And Stoned,” the new video from garage rocker and Happy Birthday frontman King Tuff, revolves around the goofy things that people do when they’re listening to music in their bedroom under the influence of something or other. It involves copious amounts of hair-whipping and bed-jumping, and all the people involved put a lot of work into their rooms.

Physical Therapy – “Drone On” (Feat. Jamie Krasner)

Here’s the video for Brooklyn producer Physical Therapy’s jam “Drone On,” a clip that includes a romantic story arc. Oh, did I mention that this story arc also includes rollerblading brides? If this video is any indication, rollerblading is about to come back hard. Maybe it never left?

Poliça – “Dark Star”

In their video for “Dark Star,” a track from their 2011 debut album Give You The Ghost, the members of the Minneapolis synthpop crew Poliça play in all sorts of shimmering sci-fi light; the sets look like they’re on loan from conceptual sci-fi movies. Which is to say: This is not a Grateful Dead cover.

Aimee Mann - Charmer (Feat. Laura Linney)

Aimee Mann’s new video for “Charmer” deals fearlessly with an issue that so many of us face: What happens when you hire a robot double of yourself but then get annoyed when you’re double is better at being you than you are. Tom Scharpling, who is turning out to be maybe the best active indie rock video director, helms the thing, and Laura Linney stars as the robot version. John Hodgman shows up, too.

Lykke Li, Peter Bjorn & John, The Knife, & More In Peaches’ Free Pussy Riot Video

After a February protest/performance at a Russian Orthodox church, three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing years in prison for the charge of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” They’ve been in the news a lot lately, and we’ll soon learn whether the international outcry to free them had any effect. In the meantime, electroclasher Peaches has recorded a new track called “Free Pussy Riot” in solidarity. And the video, which doesn’t seem likely to sway any Russian court functionaries, features footage from a Berlin rally in support of the band, as well as appearances from sympathetic artists like the Knife, Lykke Li, Peter Bjorn And John, Nick Zinner, the Hives, Miike Snow, Kate Nash, Light Asylum, Wayne Kramer, Marshall Crenshaw, JD Samson, and others.

Green Day – “Oh Love”

Here’s the clip for Green Day’s “Oh Love,” in which we find the Green Day dudes performing the punchy piece of power pop to an audience of models. Indifferent at first, the crowd starts to feel it toward the end.

Via: MTV.

Nude Beach - Walkin' Down My Street

The Brooklyn-based band Nude Beach have their roots in their home borough’s scuzzy DIY scene, but there’s virtually no noise or abrasion to what they do. Instead, they play a fun and beery strain of punk, one that has plenty of classic-rock radio in it. And so it makes sense that their video for “Walkin’ Down My Street” is a fun one. Director Will Ellis shoots them bashing the song out at a loft party, as pizza boxes sail through the air and everyone retires to the rooftop to shoot off bottle rockets. Watch it below.

Paper Tiger - "The Fortunate Wayfarer"

Paper Tiger "The Fortunate Wayfarer". Directed by James Gundersen.

The Summer House -Treats! (NSFW)

 
The Summer House -Treats! »NSFW» - Dir: Joe Wehner

Beck – “Cities,” “Spiral Staircase,” & “Touch The People”

As previously reported, Beck has contributed three songs to the new Playstation 3 game Sound Shapes. And we’ve already heard a preview of “Cities.” But now, the video game is out, and versions of all three songs are out on the internet. In the gameplay videos below, we can hear the songs and see how the music interacts with the gameplay experience, which looks both pretty fun and absolutely maddening. “Cities” and “Spiral Staircase” find Beck sounding smoothed-out and precise, while “Touch The People” is glitchier and jankier, as if Beck is experimenting in EDM.







Sound Shapes is out now, via Queasy Games. Also, Beck’s new album Song Reader will be out now, but only in sheet music form, which is sort of like releasing a video game as pure binary code.

Via: Stereogum.

DJ Khaled & Kanye West – “I Wish You Would”/”Cold” (Feat. Rick Ross & Kim Kardashian)

Hear’s the visually impressive combo clip for “I Wish You Would” & “Cold,” a six-minute long Hype Williams construction featuring West, Khaled and Rozay holding down an underground tunnel. Real talk, though — is it better than the fan video with the kid rapping, a la Danny Brown’s “Grown Up“/Biggie’s “Sky Is The Limit“?

Sigur Rós – “Varðeldur”

The great Icelandic wonderers Sigur Rós are now deep into their Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, a project that sees the band recruiting directors to make conceptual art films out of songs from their new album Valtari, and which has already afforded us a glimpse of Shia LaBeouf’s schlong. The latest video, from director Melika Bass, is for the warm and placid instrumental “Varðeldur,” and it gives us nearly seven minutes of a woman, alone in a room, having what appears to be a prolonged slow-motion seizure.

Japandroids - "The House That Heaven Built"

A sequence of touring, partying, and shenanigans accompany Japandroids' Celebration Rock anthem.

Directed by Jim Larson

MIKA - Celebrate ft. Pharrell

MIKA's brand new single "Celebrate" from his forthcoming album The Origin Of Love.

Gotye - Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra

Gotye - Somebodies [YouTube remix/mash-up]

Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of Somebody That I Used To Know seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn't resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered.



I was directly inspired here by Kutiman's Thru-You project:

‪http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA‬

Wonderful stuff!



Thankyou to everyone who has responded to Somebody That I Used To Know via YouTube. It's truly amazing!

All audio and video in Somebodies is from the YouTube user videos featured, each of them a cover or parody of Somebody That I Used To Know. No extra sounds were added to the mix, but I used some EQ, filtering, pitch-shifting and time-stretching to make the music.



A full list of links to the original videos is available here:
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http://www.gotye.com/#blog.html

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I avoided using any existing remixes of the song, or any covers from tv talent shows.

As comprehensive and extensive as I tried to be with my downloading of source videos, I know there are many clips that I missed. Tay Zonday's cover for instance, no internet mashup should be without him.



I used KeepVid.com to download the YouTube videos, Ableton Live for audio stretching, pitch-shifting and the initial video editing, and Adobe's After Effects to put the final video together.



Big thanks to Travis Banko for assistance with downloading source videos, and to James Bryans for After Effects tutelage.



Thankyou to Barry for being Barry, and guiding us all.



Thanks to you for listening



Wally

Feist – “Anti-Pioneer”

In his video for the Metals song “Anti-Pioneer,” director Martin de Thurah shoots Leslie Feist in flickering darkness and worshipful close-up. If “lush black-and-white” is a thing that exists, it applies here. This one aims to bewitch, not to dazzle.

More information: Nowness.

Arcade Fire - “The Suburbs” (Pop-Up Video)

VH1′s blessedly reactivated Pop-Up Video show is back on the air, and one of its most recent selections is Spike Jonze’s kids-in-the-apocalypse video for Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs.” If you were reading music blogs around the time that video dropped, then many of the Pop-Up Video fun facts will be familiar, but not all of them. The Dairy Queen from that video, for instance, was also a location on Friday Night Lights; I sure didn’t know that.

For more clips from the reactivated Pop-Up Video, check here.

Gotye - Save Me (Official Video)

Directed and animated by Peter Lowey
www.piepantsanimation.com
3D modeling and inbetweening by Andrew Bowler
Compositing by Glenn Hatton

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Windshield Smasher

Pittsburgh melt-pop toxic avengers Black Moth Super Rainbow are priming the world for their new Kickstarter-funded album Cobra Juicy, and their new song “Windshield Smasher” pushes their bubbling-tar sound in friendlier directions. The video, however, is something else entirely. Director Bo Mirosseni gives the song a straight-surreal take on Dead Prez’s mob-rules “Hell Yeah” video, telling the story about two unfortunate travelers who get lost and find themselves confronted by a crew of masked goons, who pull them out of their car and do, um, surprising things when them. This is a fun one.

Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"

What a build-up: Tom Waits has spent the past week dropping hints about an announcement he had planned for today, and the Web was thick with speculation: Could it be a tour? New music? A concert cruise? Nope. Turns out it was the release of a new video for "Hell Broke Luce," a scabrous, blackly comic anti-war song from last year's Bad As Me. The clip was the source of various surreal images posted on Waits' website last week, depicting the singer sporting an eyepatch and a scimitar, underwater flanked by boxy sharks (that turn out to be submarines) and poking an oversized spoon at a roaring fire.

Directed by Matt Mahurin, the video is as gritty as the song, as Waits pulls a small house through an arid, blasted landscape; over the ocean while surrounded by warring flotillas; and under water, trailed by boxy shark submarines.

Waits addressed the speculation over his clues in a statement: "As most of you guessed, it’s a tour . . . a tour de force!" The singer said he and Kathleen Brennan, his wife and songwriting partner, envisioned the song as "an enlightened drill sergeant yelling the hard truths of war to a brand new batch of recruits. The video grew from the gnawing image of a soldier pulling his home, through a battlefield, at the end of a rope.

Via: Rolling Stone.

Ane Brun - "Words"

Music video for Ane Brun - Words, taken from the album "It All Starts With One".

The video for "Words" is the prologue from a short film based to music from Ane Brun's album "It all starts with One", the film that houses no fewer than four orchestrated songs will be premiered in 2012.

The Director for the whole project, Ane's long-standing video director Magnus Renfors, says of the venture:

"Ane's music is like a great ocean housed under the roof of a great old theater, where pictures are hung from the threads of the music shooting out, so it really does the job itself. That said, the images require a certain height at a substantively dramatic level, otherwise the music, sometimes so sublime and skin tingling, can rush over the head of the visual aspects. Ane and I have done stuff together since 2003 and already on the last album we talked about doing something bigger, more coherent, and this time it was really the one. "

"ONE", as the film is called, is a poetic tapestry incorporating various threads interwoven on several levels, integrating and complimenting Ane's delicately composed branches between hope, rage and grief.
A heavy period of post-production is now rolling with the other chapters before the film is fully released in the fall.

The film is produced by Hobby Film Stockholm in cooperation with, among others, Riviera Post Production and Ljud & Bildmedia, with the theatre giant Ivar Wiklander appearing as the main character.

Credits:
Director: Magnus Renfors
Producer: Frida Lindin
Photographer: Gustav Danielsson
Production Company: Hobby Film Stockholm
Sound: Johan Isaksson
Colorist: Ola Bäccman
Editing: Gregers Dohn
Visual effects lead artist: Maceo Frost
Choreographer: Rebecca Chentinell
Art Director: Agustin Moreaux
Costume Designer: Lotta Barlach

Antony and the Johnsons - Cut the World

This video may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.

Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramović, and Carice van Houten star in this quiet, violent clip.

The title track from Antony’s new, live and symphonic release Cut The World is a previously unreleased track coming from the stage show The Life and Death of Marina Abramović. Fittingly, the famed performance artist brings her iconic mug to this stark, chilling, short filmic Nabil-directed clip’s conclusion, but not before Carice Van Houten (of Game Of Thrones) and Willem Dafoe (of Game Of Cheekbones) work their way through a little secretary/boss disagreement. That is, Willem’s character seems to feel he is entitled to keep living, while Carice takes the opposite position. It’s a literal take on the title, and comes with a “viewer discretion is advised” tag.

Lower Dens – “Candy”

Lower Dens hits the corporate team-building camp in the video for “Candy,” a visual accented by light psychedelic flourishes to fully flesh out the strangeness. Plenty of trust falls are practiced, in case you were concerned about that. Alan Resnick and Noah Collier direct.

My Morning Jacket – “Outta My System” Video (Feat. Zach Galifianakis)

The first line of My Morning Jacket’s “Outta My System is, “They told me not to smoke drugs but I didn’t listen.” The video makes that admission pretty damn explicit, if not entirely unnecessary. The clip is a super-trippy cartoon directed by James Frost, starring an animated MMJ (Jim James is inexplicably a cyclops) and Zach Galifianakis as a wizard. The only thing it’s missing is Johnny Cash playing the Space Coyote.

Norah Jones – “Miriam”

The second video from NoJo’s Danger Mouse-produced and co-written Little Broken Hearts is for “Miriam.” The track has a reverberating, rippling elegance that’s part pretty and part shadows, and director Phil Andelman conjures all of that with Norah in a pink dress and a paddle boat with a bloody paddle in the water. Of course, that’s not all that’s in the water.

Mono - "Legend: A Journey Through Iceland"

Mono score an epic, 12-minute journey through Iceland's landscapes during the midnight sun.

Babasonicos - Ideas

Music video by Babasonicos performing Ideas. Directed by Lindatv

Washed Out - A Dedication

Washed Out’s debut album Within And Without is a year old at this point, but that didn’t stop Yoonha Park from making a new video for its tender ballad “A Dedication.” The video gives us a romantic getaway to a decaying abandoned cabin, and there’s also a cat who steals every scene it’s in. Watch the clip below.

Angel Haze - "New York"

Here’s the video for Angel Haze’s sneering Reservation standout “New York,” a menacing clip that finds Haze and some other dudes wearing gasmasks patrolling the streets and tunnels of New York. After she’s done with that business, she gets in the booth! All in a day’s work. Also, this video has one of those “To Be Continued …” cliffhangers which, if we’re going by tradition here, will never be continued. Adrienne Nicole directs.

Sonny & The Sunsets – “Pretend You Love Me”

In the video for their sprawling country heartbreak-jam “Pretend You Love Me,” Bay Area garage-pop greats Sonny & The Sunsets give us a tour of their San Francisco native habitat. Also, a guy in an Incredible Hulk mask tries on cowboy hats, which is a pretty good look. Ryan Browne directs.

Feistodon – “A Commotion” (Interactive Video)

Feist and Mastodon’s (AKA Feistodon’s) collaborative “A Commotion”/”Black Tongue” split was one of the highlights of this year’s Record Store Day exclusives. Five thousand copies of the 7″ sold out, but starting today you can buy it digitally from Feist’s and Mastodon’s official sites. The artists have also unleashed an interactive HTML5 video for “A Commotion,” directed by Vice Cooler, featuring Leslie smashing instruments and generally tearing shit up. The interactive part is that you can toggle the audio between the Mastodon version and the Metals original. Check it out at listentofeist.com or mastodonrocks.com, or watch a non-interactive version below:

Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean (Official Music Video)

Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean (Official Music Video). Directed By: Rich Lee.

Passion Pit - "Constant Conversations"

The video for Passion Pit's Gossamer track "Constant Conversations" is a quiet, sensual journey through a summer party full of secret trysts. Directed by Dori Oskowitz, it features actor/director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, "The Sopranos"), actress Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Damsels in Distress), actress Taryn Manning (8 Mile, Hustle & Flow), and actor Roger Guenveur Smith (Do the Right Thing, American Gangster).