Azealia Banks – “Luxury” Video

Azealia Banks is in the news for a not-great reason this morning: As Pitchfork reports, she’s involved in a Twitter feud with Munchi, the producer behind her Fantasea mixtape track “Esta Noche.” Munchi is saying that she used the track without permission, then announced plans to release it as a legit commercial single, and Munchi refused, turning down a five-figure payday on it. He’s been going in on her on Twitter, and she’s responded with “I suggest you shut the fuck up… Seriously.” Yikes!

But here’s a good reason to pay attention to Banks this morning: The smooth and glamorous new video for “Luxury,” a hard and sinuous Machinedrum-produced dance track from Fantasea. In director Clarence Fuller’s video, she poses hard against a black-and-white New York cityscape.

No Doubt – “Push And Shove” ft. Busy Signal, Major Lazer

Returning ska-pop superstars released their new album Push And Shove this week, and now there’s a video for the title track, a collaboration with Major Lazer and dancehall star Busy Signal. Diplo and Busy Signal don’t show up in the video; instead, it shows the band drunkenly traipsing across a black-and-white cityscape. Sophie Muller, the band’s longtime collaborator, directs.

Colin Munroe - "The Fight of My Life" feat. Pusha T (Official Video)

Colin Munroe - "The Fight of My Life" feat. Pusha T (Official Video) from the mixtape, #UnsungHero. Directed by Philip Sportel for Mad Ruk Entertainment

Joey Ramone – “New York City” (feat. Anthony Bourdain, Reggie Watts, and Andrew W.K.)

Joey Ramone remains the busiest rockstar in the afterlife. Earlier this year, he dropped his posthumous album “…ya know?”, and now he’s back with its accompanying video for “New York City”. Directed by Greg Jardin, the three-and-a-half minute ode to the Big Apple gallops across the metropolis through a series of eclectic cameos. From the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Reggie Watts, and Andrew W.K. to local citizens who pay an arm and a leg to stay within its concrete confines, everyone joined in to lend Ramone a hand. Watch the clip below.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – “Walk Like A Giant”

When Neil Young & Crazy Horse debuted “Walk Like A Giant” live during their tour last month, the song frequently edged around the 20-minute mark. The version included on the band’s forthcoming Psychedelic Pills comes in at 16 minutes, but the video for the track fades out at four and a half. Still, it still feels pretty damn epic. It’s the first studio recording of original music we’ve heard from Neil with Crazy Horse since 2004′s Greendale; the clip is a montage of random b&w footage of historical icons (Einstein, the atomic bomb, the railroad, Bigfoot) interspersed with color shots through a kaleidoscope. It’s pretty weird. Of course the song is an absolute beast regardless of its visual accompaniment.

Animal Collective - "Today’s Supernatural" on "Conan"

Last night, Animal Collective, who don’t exactly spend a ton of time on the late-night talk-show rounds, came through Conan and played their frantically dubby Centipede Hz single “Today’s Supernatural.” They brought their trademark total lack of stage presence and performed in what looked like a series of glowing shark mouths, presumably inspired by the Centipede Hz cover art. I wonder how Conan managed to convince them not to play a half-hour jam of unreleased material.

GLEE - Full Performance of "Celebrity Skin"

The makeover-themed episode airs on Thursday night

Hole's "Celebrity Skin" has been Glee-ified. A cover of the title track from the Courtney Love-led band's 1998 album will feature in Thursday night's episode, TV Line reports (via Vulture). Evidently the episode is makeover-themed, so Love's sneered opening line — "Oh, make me over" — might've played a part in this, ahem, theatrically over-the-top rendition.

If Courtney's complaining, à la Gotye, she isn't doing it via her official Twitter account. In fact, Love's account has retweeted more than one comment with links to the video. Tacit approval? No word yet from "Celebrity Skin" co-writer Billy Corgan, either, however clearly somebody had to have granted the show approval to use the track. Though it's kinda fun to imagine Courtney and Billy in the male and female roles here. What do these lovable kids know about "demonology," anyway?

Unnatural Helpers - "Medication"

A man takes his prescription pills and is haunted by melting faces.

Dum Dum Girls – “Lord Knows”

“Lord Knows,” the lead single from the new Dum Dum Girls EP End Of Daze, is one of the prettiest songs to come down the pike in the last few months. And in the track’s new video, from director Christin Turner, all four Dum Dums play veiled witch brides who summon a shirtless dude from a flaming column.

Lavender Diamond – “Everybody’s Heart’s Breaking Now” (Official Music Video)

Official music video for the song "Everybody's Heart's Breaking Now" from the album Incorruptible Heart. Directed by Maximilla Lukacs

Crystal Castles - “Plague”

We first head Crystal Castles’ goth-y, bombastic “Plague” back in July, and now, only two months later, we’ve got a clip to go with it. Directed by Ivan Grbin, the video depicts what looks a woman possessed, flailing violently and helplessly in an empty hallway. Then, there’s an especially unnerving 30-second segment (around 1:54) that inexplicably moves the action to another woman in a ballet studio before shifting back to the original scene. It’s just a really disturbing video, all told.

Kid Koala – “5 Bit Blues” (Official Video)

Proving there’s more use to them then Xeroxing fannies, Canadian DJ Kid Koala enlists the power of a photocopier in the music video for “5 Bit Blues”. Koala and company pair the office prankster’s favorite tool with a FUJI instant camera to print out documents/Polaroid snapshots displaying various lyrics and musical parts (“rain” on a sheet of paper, a picture of a sampler, etc.) as they occur in the song. The end result is an interesting dissection of the interplay between the visual and the auditory. It’s also a far better use of printer ink than scans of anyone’s pasty white derrière, no matter the motive or how well it comes out.

Miike Snow – “Pretender”

A person’s first festival can be an overwhelming experience, something Jean Noel learns firsthand in Miike Snow’s music video for “Pretender”. Noel (the same large-nosed character who appears in the group’s previous three videos) wanders around Los Angeles’ HARD Summer Fest. Along the way, he’s harassed by random concertgoers, dances his face off, and encounters an all-too-brief brush with stardom. Relive your own festival de-virginization (which hopefully didn’t involve leather pants in 90 degree weather) when you click play below.

Green Day: "Stay The Night"

Green Day is giving Sigur Rós a run for its money for the most music videos released behind one album.

We’ve already seen visuals for “Oh Love” (plus its explicit version), “Kill the DJ”, “Nuclear Family”, and now here are some more for “Stay the Night” (via RollingStone.com). It’s another in-studio affair — sans the naked models.

The video’s release comes just a day after Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that he’s entering treatment for substance abuse. As a result, the band has canceled a number of promotional appearances in support of their new album, ¡Uno!, out tomorrow via Reprise.

Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk (Starring Aiden Gillen, a.k.a. Mayor Tommy Carcetti From "The Wire")

Sigur Rós' ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, in which 12 directors create videos for songs from their latest album, continues with a clip for "Ekki Múkk", directed by filmmaker Nick Abrahams.

The video stars Irish actor Aiden Gillen, perhaps best recognized for his work as Mayor Tommy Carcetti in "The Wire", getting close with snails and other forest creatures. Folk singer Shirley Collins provides the voice of a snail. As Abrahams notes on Sigur Rós' website, this is "a taster" for a longer feature film.

Aimee Mann – “Labrador”

Aimee Mann – “Labrador” (Dir. Tom Scharpling)

It’s best if you watch ‘Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” video beforehand, but you should be doing that anyway. Some dazzling meta-narrative fireworks here: Aimee Mann, playing herself, playing a younger version of herself, looking just as disgusted as she did in the original video but for different reasons. Jon Hamm, playing Tom Scharpling as a sleazy huckster cabdriver type. Jon Wurster, being as wooden and hammy as the situation demands but somehow still not equaling the pure awfulness of the guy in the original video. Everyone involved in this thing deserves a massive high-five, like the kind that leaves your hand stinging for a few minutes after.

Calvin Harris – “Sweet Nothing” Video (Feat. Florence Welch)

Recently, Florence Welch, of …+ The Machine fame, lent her crazy rocket-launcher wail to “Sweet Nothing,” the new single from EDM anthem-generator Calvin Harris. She also shows up in the song’s video, playing a lounge singer at a dingy British strip club, and she goes into onstage conniptions while her significant other, for reasons I definitely don’t understand, catches a Guy Ritchie movie beatdown outside.

Diplo – “About That Life” Video (Feat. Jahan Lennon)

“About That Life,” the excellent and deeply uncharacteristic new song from Diplo and former PO PO member Jahan Lennon — a track more concerned with strummy psych-rock transcendence than dance-floor insanity. And we’ve already got the video for the song. Directors @LILINTERNET and Jack Cearnal go so heavy on hazy imagery that the video, appropriately enough, comes off looking like the acid-trip scene from a late-’60s movie.

Supreme Cuts & Haleek Maul - "M00N"

Here's the video for "M00N" by Supreme Cuts & Haleek Maul, who described it like this:

"M00N" is more or less a reflection upon internal struggles, both ongoing and resolved which caused me to doubt a lot of things I was doing from relationships to school and music. After venting on that track a lot of those insecurities dissolved into nothing and I felt free from a lot of the turmoil which was haunting me.

Directed by Andy Capper
Edited by Matthew Caron
Produced by Andre Muir
Assistant Producer Monet Lucki

Sun Airway - "Close"

Philly synth-rock duo Sun Airway return next month with sophomore album Soft Fall, and today they unveil the video for first single “Close.” Director Ewan MacLeod‘s clip tells the story of a castaway who washes up on a mysterious island, discovers Return Of The Jedi-style telekinetic powers, and searches for companionship. It’s all very Lost, especially in that it makes no sense at all.

invade ALL OF THE humans!!!

A micro-musical-comedy about two obsolete and deranged retro robot toys with delusions of world domination.

Created by Tom and Mark

Produced by Julia Parfitt and Christine Ponzevera

Music, Voices and Sound by Brains and Hunch

Technical Director: Ben Cowell-Thomas

Animation: Eoin Coughlin, Weles Bussett, Mike Greenwood, Mark Davies, Stuart Doig, Roly Edwards

The Renter

Do yourself a favor: Stop what you’re doing and, for the next 9 minutes devote your attention to “The Renter,” an animated short by CalArts alum Jason Carpenter.
Powered by a haunting score from Jeff Shiffman, “The Renter” gets under your skin. The relationships between the characters are fraught with ambiguity, making them feel more authentic than the tidy roles often found in student films. From the animal-like prowling of the old man to the cowering hesitancy of the little boy, each movement of each character imparts dramatic weight, even as it stokes uncertainties about the characters’ motivations.

The Look

Despite the film’s painterly look and bounty of textures, the process behind it was nearly all digital:

Except for some early drawings and thumbnails, I didn’t use any paper. I really tried to approach the digital production the same way I would if I were using traditional mediums. Before I started the animation, I blocked out rough layouts and animatics in Flash. With some basic brushes and a couple of paper textures I got from a friend, I started working on the backgrounds in Photoshop. The “texture” of the film results more from how I worked with the tools I had and not so much what tools they were.

In a time of backlash against digital processes and stilted romanticism for analogue techniques, I find Jason’s attitude refreshing. All tools, whether digital or analogue, are tools. Their superiority is only judged by the artist who wields them and the purposes to which they are applied.
For more information, check out the official site.

Dirty Projectors – “About To Die”

Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that you have not yet carved out the 20 minutes necessary to watch Hi Custodian, the massive and ambitious mini-movie that Dave Longstreth directed, which stitches together much of the new Dirty Projectors album Swing Lo Magellan. You will be pleased to learn, then, that the new video for the ornately tricky Swing Lo Magellan track “About To Die” compresses much of that movie, especially the parts with Longstreth in a hospital bed, into a digestible four-minute chunk. As it happens, “About To Die” is also the linchpin and title track of a forthcoming new Dirty Projectors EP, one that will include three new tracks, presumably culled from the Swing Lo Magellan sessions.

Wilco – “Sunloathe”

Wilco are no strangers to animated videos — they’ve worked with Popeye in the past, for instance — and their new clip, for The Whole Love‘s somber ballad “Sunloathe,” continues on that path. Created by director Peter Glantz (Andrew W.K., OK Go!) and illustrator Nathaniel Murphy (whose illustrations were included in the album packaging for Sky Blue Sky, and who is also Glenn Kotche’s drum tech), the video “reflects the complicated emotions expressed in the song, where we feel hope and sorrow coexist,” according to Glantz. There’s definitely an epic tale being told here, albeit a pretty surreal and inscrutable one.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - "Your Love"

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’ new clip for “Your Love” shows our hero chilling in an opulent boudoir listening to tapes, tapes that transport his mind around the globe (but mostly Asia). Production by HK Corp.

Alt-J – “Something Good”

Last week, we posted the video for “Fitzpleasure,” a track from the mysterious and ascendent British group Alt-J. And they’ve already dropped another video. This one, for “Something Good,” tells the story of what happens when a matador fucks with the wrong magical bull. It’s an engrossing and spatially confusing affair, and there’s a lot of blood.

Opossom - "Girl"

The New Zealand band get an elaborately choreographed music video.

Two Gallants - "My Love Won't Wait"

Includes G-Unit swag, trash goblins and burning bills

It's been five years since their last album, but Two Gallants make a triumphant return with the song and accompanying clip for "My Love Won't Wait." This fuzzed up delight of a folk-blues clanger hails from the San Fran duo's new long-player for ATO, The Bloom and the Blight, which dropped September 4 and is the group's first since parting ways with their longtime home, Saddle Creek.

On the rise Los Angeles director Vice Cooler (Deerhoof, Peaches, Feistodon) is at the helm, Tyson Vogel in flannel and Adam Stephens rocking a G-Unit shirt as they do battle with a bunch of cloaked warlock types who seem intent on burying them in trash. Things begin to look bleak just as Stephens howls, "There's no escape!" but his partner has a trick up his sleeve.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Black Mold” (Official Music Video)

Today, reunited ’90s power-trio greats Jon Spencer Blues Explosion release Meat And Bone, their comeback album. And director Toon Aerts‘s video for their single “Black Mold” works as a mini-horror movie and as a fable about why you shouldn’t touch any puddles of goo you might find at flying saucer crash sites. It’s pretty disgusting.

Flying Lotus - "Putty Boy Strut"

 
Until the Quiet Comes is the new album from Flying Lotus, out October 2 through Warp in the U.S. (October 1 in the UK). Here's the video for "Putty Boy Strut", an animated tale of robotics directed by Cyriak Harris

Tame Impala – “Elephant”

 

Tame Impala have dropped a new video in support of their forthcoming LP, Lonerism, due out October 9th via Modular. With “Elephant”, artist Yoshi Sodeoka answers the question: “What happens when a YouTube video drops LSD?” The end result is an acid-tinged, psychedelic swirl of analog synthesized video. The Silentlights provided Sodeoka with the live footage, and you can stream his warped work.

Corin Tucker Band – “Neskowin”

In the Corin Tucker Band’s new video for their single “Neskowin,” we follow the story of two teenage girls in the late ’70s, as they fake their way out of a family vacation, hitchhike to the big city, start some fights, and go to an X-Ray Spex show. Tucker herself plays multiple roles, including X-Ray Spex leader Poly Styrene, and the whole thing is really fun and sweet. Alicia J. Rose directs.

Pure Bathing Culture – “Ivory Coast”

Pure Bathing Culture is a Portland-based duo made up of a couple of Vetiver members. In the deeply weird new video for their song “Ivory Coast,” singer Sarah Versprille attempts to raise a blue alien beauty while a hologram shark follows her around. It’s oddly touching. Sean Pecknold, the brother of lead Fleet Fox Robin, directs.

Green Day – “Oh Love” (Playboy version)

Just because, Green Day have unveiled an explicit version of their video for “Oh Love” featuring a bunch of topless models. Watch it at Playboy.com.  If you’re under 18, the SFW version is posted below.

“Oh Love” is off the band’s new album ¡Uno!, which is now available to stream in full. ¡Uno! officially arrives September 25th via Reprise Records. The band’s other two new albums, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!, will be released on November 13th and January 15th, respectively.

Sex Pistols – “Holidays in the Sun”

Coming to you just 35 years after the song’s release, here’s the Sex Pistols’ official video for “Holidays in the Sun”. Created by the band’s longtime documentarian Julien Temple, the clip contains previously unreleased concert footage alongside scenes from the band’s trip to Berlin in 1977. The Pistols took the trip after being sacked by their label, A&M Records, and it ultimately inspired the lyrics to “Holidays in the Sun”.
Says Johnny Rotten:

“Berlin was a very different town then. It was like that scene in Apocalypse Now when they go up the river and they see the flares and the party going on, all the soldiers on acid… That’s what Berlin was like, with a chaotic war-zone wrapped around it. The Communists were looking in on this adventure playground. Quite mental.”

The video is part of the 35th anniversary reissue of Never Mind the Bollocks.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Official Trailer 2)

The second official trailer for 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey', part 1 of Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy. Starring Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield). A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug. Also starring Benedict Cumberbatch (The Necromancer), Elijah Wood (Frodo), Hugo Weaving (Elrond), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Andy Serkis (Gollum) and Christopher Lee (Saruman).

Trailer de ''El Hobbit: Un viaje inesperado'' en Español

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks

Music video by Of Monsters and Men performing Little Talks. Directed by WeWereMonkeys.

Slowdance – “Spell”

In making the video for their song “Spell,” the Brooklyn dreampop Slowdance made the commendable decision to visit Manhattan’s Children’s Museum Of The Arts, where a mob of adorable kids worked to put the video together: Directing, building sets, doing animation, touching up the band’s makeup, impersonating the band.

Jessie Ware – “Night Light”

Jessie Ware’s elegantly smooth debut album Devotion is one of the great surprises of 2012, and she’s starting to look just as assured onscreen as she sounds on record. Her new video for the album track “Night Light” pushes the track’s British-soul vibe even deeper into the the early ’90s, giving a glamorous high-contrast black-and-white sheen to everyone involved. It’s like something David Fincher would’ve put together for Madonna in 1993. Chris Sweeney directs, and Ware’s boyfriend and sister both make appearances.

Lotus Plaza – “Black Buzz”

Earlier this year, Lotus Plaza, better known as Deerhunter secret weapon Lockett Pundt, released his Spooky Action At A Distance album. And now here’s the video for the hazy, “Black Buzz,” a gorgeously shot slow-motion character study about a girl who leaves behind a squalid, disgusting existence and wills herself toward a sort of transcendent tranquility. Nautico directs.

Ben Folds Five – “Do It Anyway” Video (Feat. Fraggle Rock)

Tomorrow, the reunited Ben Folds Five release The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, their first album together in 13 years. Months ago, we posted the demo version of their new single “Do It Anyway.” And today, the clip gets a special kind of all-star video, one that features the entire cast of the beloved ’80s Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock. In the clip, we see what happens when the Fraggle Rock Muppets invade a Ben Folds Five recording session. Phil Hodges directs, and actress Anna Kendrick and comedy types Rob Corddry and Chris Hardwick also star. Watch and keep watching for the quick reprise of the Fraggle Rock theme at the end.

Smoke & Jackal – “No Tell” (NSFW)

In the music video for “No Tell”, Smoke and Jackal (the new duo comprised of Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill and Mona frontman Nick Brown) present the tale of a girl looking to get away. The smoky, NSFW clip is ripe with metaphors about dropping out, moving on, and genuinely grabbing freedom by the short hairs. Whether it’s driving around in a sleek muscle car, skinny dipping, hanging out with a huge steed, solo drinking in a hotel room, or even dancing around fireworks naked, all come strictly from a life without constraints. Watch the video, and try not to feel too bad if you’re not living quite as uninhibited.

Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child ft. John Martin

Electronic super trio Swedish House Mafia are about to retire the tour bus for good, so it seems appropriate that they dedicate their new video for “Don’t You Worry Child” to celebrating their time on the road. Specifically, this video feature footage from the outfit’s final UK show ever at Milton Keynes Bowl last July, which drew some 65,000 people.

The Kills – “Wild Charms”

The Kills just released a video for “Wild Charms”, off last year’s Blood Pressures. Director Kenneth Cappello keeps the video simple and its length short (1:16 to be exact), offering grainy footage of Jamie Hince smoking and drinking.

Cat Power – “Cherokee”

In the video for “Cherokee,” the single from Cat Power’s excellent new album Sun, Chan Marshall engages in zombie laser battle in some sort of immaculately designed apocalyptic future. Marshall herself directs the narrative-heavy video, and I’m going to have to watch it a few more times to figure out whether it’s symbolic of something or whether she just wanted to make her own low-budget ’80s-style sci-fi movie.

Maria Minerva - The Sound

Maria Minerva - The Sound
From the album 'Will Happiness Find Me?' Not Not Fun[2012]
Direction - James B Stringer
Principal Photography - Mike Levitt

Watch Lana Del Rey Cover “Blue Velvet” For H&M

Watch: Lana Del Rey Covers "Blue Velvet" in New David Lynch-Inspired H&M Commercial

 Lana Del Rey has covered the classic 1950s pop song "Blue Velvet", penned by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris, for her new campaign for the clothing chain H&M, as Stereogum notes. "Blue Velvet" was famously performed by Isabella Rossellini in the 1986 David Lynch film of the same name.

Watch the opening clip from Lynch's Blue Velvet.

AlunaGeorge - "Your Drums, Your Love"

The video for AlunaGeorge's "Your Drums, Your Love"-- their excellent debut single as Island signees-- finds Aluna Francis and George Reid looking sullen, meandering through a sea of pop-and-locking museum-goers. Directed by Henry Scholfield, the video features art by the illustrator Arran Gregory and street dancing choreographed by Brooke Milliner.

Frank Ocean – “Pyramids” (NSFW)

Frank Ocean shoots up a bar, goes to a strip club, rides a motorcycle through the desert, and encounters John Mayer in the video for "Pyramids". Nabil (Kanye West, Bon Iver, Antony And The Johnsons, etc) directs.

A Place To Bury Strangers - "Leaving Tomorrow" (Official Video)

In A Place To Bury Strangers’ video for “Leaving Tomorrow,” a bleakly meditative song from the band’s Worship LP, we see what happens when mysterious forces chase some dude through a park and wage war over his soul. The band supposedly based the clip on Momo Fujiwara’s short story “Katsu Gee,” shooting it on iPhones and including some awesomely cheap special effects.

Dirty Projectors – Hi Custodian

Dirty Projectors – Hi Custodian (Dir. Dave Longstreth)

 Longstreth may never be as good at crafting images as he is at stacking otherworldly harmonies on top of each other, but he’s not going to let a little thing like that stop him from going all Jodorowsky on us. One amazing thing about this film is that it exists at all. Another is that it’s pretty fun to watch throughout. Music is good, too.

Star Wars Fan Made Short

Apparently working by himself, Otaking77077 created this inspired animated short that shows us the people behind the masks of The Empire. The original version had no audio, so YouTuber SuperMulciber added Sleigh Bells “Born,” which works surprisingly well.

Icky Blossoms – “Cycle” (NSFW)

The video for “Cycle,” a track from the Omaha electro-pop trio Icky Blossoms, is an NSFW affair, cobbled together from clips of ancient porn, all cut quickly together. So yeah, pretty much a rapid-fire humpfest.

King Dude - "Jesus in the Courtyard"

Promotional video for "Jesus In The Courtyard" from the forthcoming album "Burning Daylight". Directed by: Angel Ceballos. Edited by: Angel Ceballos.

ALT-J – “Fitzpleasure”

Here’s the intense, visceral clip for Brit indie-pop outfit ALT-J’s “Fitzpleasure,” a video that features some visual trickery as well as one hell of a back tattoo. Guillaume Cagniard directs.

Family Band – “Moonbeams”

In the video for Family Band’s soft-focus indie-folk single “Moonbeams,” a pair of skeletons share a day of giddy suburban romance after rising from the grave one morning. They steal a bike, go swimming, and manage not to feast on anyone’s flesh, so it’s a decidedly feel-good affair. Sam Macon directs.

Hospitality – “Eighth Avenue”

Some emotional drama gets kicked up at the raceway in Hospitality’s new clip for “Eighth Avenue” and, well, let’s just say it doesn’t turn out great for the race car driver. If you catch my drift. Gregory Mitnick and Nat Livingston Johnson direct.

Mission of Burma - "Semi-Pseudo-Sort-of Plan"

Mission of Burma - "Semi-Pseudo-Sort-of Plan" (Official Music Video)

Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Music video by Taylor Swift performing We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

Robbie Williams - Candy

Music video by Robbie Williams performing Candy. Directed by Joseph Khan

Sigur Rós - "Seraph" (Rembihnútur & Ekki múkk) Animated Video

 

New Animated Sigur Rós Video Co-Written by John Cameron Mitchell of Hedwig Fame A provocative commentary on the human body.

The Mystery Film Experiment that Sigur Rós launched in May in support of their latest record, Valtari, continues on with video number nine. The animated clip, which uses album cuts "Rembihnútur" and "Ekki Múkk", was directed by Dash Shaw and written by Shaw with writer/director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, Rabbit Hole).

Shaw offered a director's commentary at the band's website: "oooooooooooeeeeee... oooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooo!"

The clip, given the title "Seraph", offers a solemn commentary on the human body, depicting a boy who strips naked and is slapped by his father and brought to church to learn about god. The boy then finds himself in a graffiti-strewn, "Garden of Earthly Delights"-esque nude environment, before getting wrapped up in self-mutilation, bar fights, and prison violence.

The Raveonettes – “The Enemy”

The glamorously spacey Danish dream-rock duo the Raveonettes just dropped their new album Observator. Their video for the album track “The Enemy” is an attractive swirl of digitally-rendered psychedelic blurs and band-member faces from director Imogen Prado.

Fight Bite – “Charlotte Iris”

 

Fight Bite - Charlotte Iris (Official Music Video)

Directed by Gusti Fink - Produced by Sandboxxx

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “A Time To Be Clear”

Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new video constructs a tale of rabbit love that careens into dark, bloody territory. It’s written by writer/journalist Mike Ayers and illustrated by cartoonist Dustin Glick. It’s basically a way more macabre version of the “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” video (rabbit version).

Willow - Sweater

Without a doubt, one of the most clever projection-based pieces I’ve ever seen.

Video for Willow's 'Sweater'.
Everything shot in studio with 3 beamers projecting on a floor and two walls.

Directed by: Filip Sterckx

Parenthetical Girls - Curtains (Official Music Video)

Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington is carried to his viking funeral.

Ty Segall - "The Hill"

Here’s Ty Segall’s video for his new one “The Hill,” a druggy VHS-style mishmash that features the band ripping it up in animal costumes (an eagle, a bear, and a dog, respectively). Let’s just say it does not betray Segall’s aesthetic (the dog guy takes a huge bong rip at the end). Segall and Peter Grimm direct.

Green Day – “Nuclear Family” Video

For their latest video, Green Day drop the glitter ‘n’ glam and cleaned up the bloody dance floor for something a little more subdued. “Nuclear Family” simply captures the Bay Area collective doing what they do best: playing their hearts out. It’s a raw, straightforward clip that gives far more credence to one of the album’s stronger cuts yet. 

(via Yahoo! Music).

Revolver - Let's Get Together (Official Video)

Revolver - Let's Get Together Dir: Tim and Joe

Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait

Mumford & Sons «I Will Wait» taken from the new album 'Babel' released on Sep 24th 2012. Video directed by FRED&NICK

Calexico - "Splitter" (Official Video)

When it came time to conceptualize the video for "Splitter," first single from Algiers, the latest from Arizona indie-folk cross-pollinators Calexico, Spanish director Paloma Zapata looked toward the heavens. "The idea came after a conversation with [Calexico guitarist/vocalist] Joey [Burns]," says Zapata. "For him, the song was about the migration going through the border of any country. I thought that setting up a story within a particular border was very limiting. So I developed the idea of 'the escape' into a generic concept, adding a touch of fantasy to lighten the dramatic tone that those situations already have. To escape aboard a spaceship to an unknown reality as an idea of change, mystic encounter and rebirth." The resulting visual, premiering exclusively below, was so cinematic it's inspired Burns to take things further. "My only wish," he says, "would be to continue working from this music video to make a full length feature film and original music score."

Azure Ray – “Scattered Like Leaves”

This week, the hazily harmonizing duo Azure Ray released their electro-inflected album As Above, So Below. And now, director Jonathan Tvrdik‘s video for “Scattered Like Leaves” seems to concern some beautifully photographed, intensely personal apocalypse.

Chris Cohen - "Optimist High"

The former Deerhoof/Ariel Pink sideman Chris Cohen will release his solo debut Overgrown Path later this month, and his video for the breezy psych-pop jam “Optimist High” consists mostly of extreme close-up studies of things that Cohen might find in his garden: Bubbles, bugs, dog hairs, flower petals.

Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes Short Film

Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes Short Film (Dir. Khalil Joseph)

Again, this might not strictly qualify as a music video, but it’s shot like one. And FlyLo tracks tend to sound randomly patched together anyway; might as well post a video that actually does patch together a bunch of his tracks anyway. In any case, Khalil Joseph puts together an artful and, at times, deeply disturbing series of images about ghetto fatalism. The scene where the dead guy lurches up and dances into a lowrider will remain deep in my brain for a while.

Swans – “No Words/No Thoughts”

This is live footage of a song that’s a couple of years old, but I’m counting it as a music video. That’s partly because it’s not just one live performance; the footage clearly comes from a bunch of different settings. But it’s also because the thing just knocks my head clean off.

DIIV – “Doused”

In the new video for DIIV’s “Doused,” frontman Z. Cole Smith tends to an army of toy soldiers before realizing that, in his trance-like fixation, he’s late for a DIIV gig. The gig is at 285 Kent, which makes a lot of sense if you know 285 Kent. It’s directed by Smith and Ian Perlman.

Nude Beach - Radio (Official Music Video)

Nude Beach take us on a youthful home video tour.

Directed by Nude Beach
Edited by Will Ellis

Hundred Waters – “Thistle”

In Hundred Waters’ music video for “Thistle”, a stop-motion piñata horse is given the chance to transcend birthday parties and roam free. And roam he does, running like paper lightning through various fantastical landscapes (churches, in the desert at sunset), all while receiving visions in the form of Polaroid photos of his own life cycle. But like all good things in life, the horse’s wandering ways are threatened with terrifying premonitions of derby masks and laughing audience members. Find out if our buckin’ bronco runs free or is tied down hard when you click play.

Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar

An atmospheric, abstract clip for the title track of Phil Elverum's latest album.

Muse – “Madness” (Official video)

Muse demonstrate just how powerful and resistant young love can be in the music video for “Madness”. As two strangers begin a slow-building flirtation aboard a London subway, a riot breaks out, with the scene worsening (SWAT team, snarling dogs, etc.) as the couple gets closer and closer. Meanwhile, the band soundtracks the action from just outside the epicenter, playing oversized instruments while bathed in neon lights, seemingly add more fuel to fire of human emotion. Does the young couple get their shot at romance? And just who set all this insanity in motion in the first place? Find out those answers and more when you watch.

A$AP Mob – “Bath Salt” (Feat. Flatbush Zombies)

“Bath Salt” was the first single we heard from A$AP Mob’s crew mixtape Lord$ Never Worry, our reigning Mixtape Of The Week. And last night, the crew posted the track’s video which features all four of the song’s rappers — A$AP Rocky, Baltimore livewire A$AP Ant, conceptually aligned Brooklyn duo Flatbush Zombies — going nuts in a dark room somewhere, while goth chicks watch it on a busted TV and eat drugs. It’s all very mid-’90s, in a good way, and gold fronts abound. Shomi Patwary directs.

House Shoes feat. Danny Brown – “Sweet”

What: In Detroit producer House Shoes’ music video for “Sweet”, an animated version of guest star Danny Brown’s head is morphed into various cartoon characters, including a zombie and a scary kitty cat.

Green Day – “Kill the DJ”

When last we saw Green Day in a music video, they were rehearsing their new single “Oh Love” in a practice space littered with models. Today, the band returns with visuals for another ¡Uno! track, “Kill the DJ”, and this time the setting is a disco club and the audience isn’t afraid of a little blood. There’s also a random scene of the band riding dirt bikes through the desert, which doesn’t really make sense in the context of the video but seems like a good way to spend an excess video budget.

Ellie Goulding – “Anything Could Happen”

Ellie Goulding channels her inner Daenerys Targaryen in her new video for “Anything Could Happen”. Following a tragic car accident, the UK songwriter awakens on a beach littered with Phantasm-like orbs and other alien geometric shapes. There’s a lot of smoke, jagged rocks, and one bloody lover. If this is her idea of a beach day, we’ll opt for sunnier afternoons with Katy Perry, but if it’s a preview of the afterlife, remind us to pack our dancing shoes come reckoning.

The Black Keys – “Little Black Submarines”

The Black Keys had originally intended the video for their El Camino burner “Little Black Submarines” to be some sort of narrative. But that video didn’t work out, and instead they made the simplest video possible: Grainy footage of the band blazing through the song in a tiny Nashville club. It works, mostly because the song is great. Danny Clinch directs.

Title Fight – “Secret Society” (NSFW)

Pennsylvanian post-hardcore bashers Title Fight will release their sophomore album Floral Green in a couple of weeks, and it rules pretty hard. We’ve already heard first single “Head In The Ceiling Fan,” and now we’ve got the gruesome, Camcorder-driven video for the album track “Secret Society.” In this one, a sweet adolescent girl, in a moment of romantic disappointment, goes Full Leatherface. The band co-directs alongside Hannah Roman, and the result is NSFW for crazy-insane violence.

David Byrne & St. Vincent – “Who” Video

David Byrne and St. Vincent have teamed up to record the herky-jerk pop-funk album Love This Giant, and it comes out next week. And now we get the appealingly loony black-and-white sketch of a video for the catchily off-kilter first single and album opener “Who,” in which Byrne and Annie Clark take turns lying down in the middle of a country road and busting out absurdist dance moves. If you haven’t watched Stop Making Sense in a while, here’s a needed reminder that Byrne’s broken-marionette dance moves are among our greatest human treasures. Martin de Thurah directs.

Deerhoof - Fête D'Adieu

Deerhoof and friends perform interpretive dances in a Brooklyn park in this clip directed by Elias Gwinn.

The Fresh & Onlys – “Presence Of Mind”

The excellent San Francisco psych-pop band the Fresh & Onlys will release their new album Long Slow Dance next week, and today they give us the video for their lilting, sneakily catchy single “Presence Of Mind.” In director Dawn Carol Garcia‘s clip, a city bus’s time-travel function solves a lot of people’s problems.

Tori Amos – “Flavor”

Tori Amos will put out her new album Gold Dust later this year, her follow-up to 2011′s Night Of The Hunters. Recently, she dropped the video for the slowly unfurling single “Flavor,” a visual ode to the richness of the NYC experience.

TRASH TALK - F.E.B.N.

“F.E.B.N.,” the new song from feral Sacramento hardcore band and newly minted Odd Future affiliates Trash Talk, is a minute and a half of screams and juddering riffs, and it somehow still stands as a move toward accessibility for this band. Their buddy Tyler, The Creator directed the song’s new video in stoic black-and-white, but that doesn’t really cut down on the energy, as he captures whatever mischief the band and their friends can get up to in a bare warehouse space. Ever so slightly NSFW for a brief glimpse of ass.

Azealia Banks - 1991

Azealia Banks - 1991 (Dir. Justin Mitchell)

"1991"
Director/DP: Justin Mitchell
Editor: Jeffrey McHale
Produced by: Dilated Pixels