Flying Lotus - Tiny Tortures (Feat. Elijah Wood )

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

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

An issued statement explains:

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

The Babies - "Baby"

The Babies' Cassie Ramone does some karaoke.

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

Matthew E White – “Will You Love Me” Video

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

Julia Holter – “Goddess Eyes II” Video

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

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

(via Domino)

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

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

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

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

Tegan And Sara – “Closer”

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

Tanlines – “Not The Same”

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

of Montreal - "Feminine Effects" Video

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

Jonny Pierce – “I Didn’t Realise”

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

How To Destroy Angels - Ice age

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

Via: Stereogum.

MellowHype – “Break” Video

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

Veronica Falls – “Teenage”

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

The Mary Onettes – “Evil Coast”

Official video for single "Evil Coast"

Mystical Weapons – “Mechanical Mammoth”

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

Tanlines – “Brothers” Video (360º Video)

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

Local Natives - "Breakers" (Official Music Video)

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

Companion – “20th Century Crime”

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

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

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

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

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

The Sea And Cake – “On And On”

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

Shugo Tokumaru - "Decorate"

Shugo Tokumaru - Decorate (Dir: ONIONSKIN)

Africa For Norway - "Radi-Aid"

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

HAIM – “Don’t Save Me”

Music video by HAIM performing Don't Save Me.

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

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

Hot Chip - 'I Feel Better'

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

Directed by Peter Serafinowicz

Starring Ross Lee

Chromatics – “Cherry”

CHROMATICS "CHERRY"

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

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

Sufjan Stevens – “Joy To The World”

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

BenZel & Jessie Ware - If You Love Me

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

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

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

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

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

Frightened Rabbit - Dead Now

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

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

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

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

Nicki Minaj - Freedom (Explicit)

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

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

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

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

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

The Crystal Ark – “We Came To”

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

Night Moves - Country Queen

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

Florence + The Machine – “Lover To Lover” Video

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

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

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

How did the concept for this character come about?

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

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

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

Did you have a script?

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

Do you plan to take some time off now?

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

Via: Nowness.

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

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

Night Beds – “Even If We Try”

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

Moonface – “Headed For The Door”

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

Nite Jewel – “Weak For Me”

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

Hercules And Love Affair - Release Me

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

Icona Pop – “We Got The World”

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

The Sticks - "Mother Mother" (Official Video)

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

Beach House - "Wild" (Official Music Video)

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

Metric – “Breathing Underwater”

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

Via: their Tumblr.

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

Johnny Marr – “The Messenger”

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

Freddie Gibbs – “BFK” Video

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

Stereophonics - In A Moment

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

Sigur Rós – “Valtari” (NSFW)

Sigur Rós: Valtari

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

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

Via:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Driftin’ Back”

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

Purity Ring – “Lofticries” Video

A series of characters encounter surreal moments.

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

Azealia Banks – “Atlantis” Video

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

Stereolove - "I Wish That"

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

Kazaky - "Last Night" Video

Kazaky - Last Night (Director: YevgeniyTimokhin)

Two door cinema club - "Sleep alone"

Two door cinema club - Sleep alone (Official Video)

Gotye - "Dig Your Own Hole" Video

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

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

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

Ellie Goulding - "Only You"

 

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

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

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

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

Kate Boy - "Northern Lights"

Northern Lights by KATE BOY

Directed by SIKOW. Additional animations by Oskar Gullstrand at NAIVE

Sufjan Stevens – “Silver & Gold”

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

Rihanna – “Diamonds” Video

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

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

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

Lana Del Rey – “Bel Air” Video

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

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

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

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

Tame Impala – “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”

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

King Krule – “Rock Bottom”

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

King Tuff – “Keep On Movin” Video

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

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

The Weeknd – “The Zone” (Feat. Drake)

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

Scott Walker - 'Epizootics!'

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

TKTTSM - Plastic Fantastic (Official Music Video)

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

Muse - "The 2nd Law Isolated System" Video

Muse - The 2nd Law Isolated System video (dir. Richard Fenwick)

The Lake Poets - 'Rain'

The Lake Poets - 'Rain' (Dir: Gavin Randall)

Featuring Barry Hyde & produced by Mick Ross. Recorded at Chairworks Studios by James Mottershead.

Video Directed by Gavin Randall of Melting Point Media http://www.meltingpointmedia.co.uk

Actors: Graham Wynn, Luke Maddison, Billie Leigh Hogg, Ollie Dog.

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra “Do It With a Rockstar” (FULL UNCENSORED - NSFW)

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra “Do It With a Rockstar” (FULL UNCENSORED - NSFW)

“Do It With a Rockstar”

From “Theatre Is Evil”

Available NOW on CD/vinyl/pay-what-you-want digital download: bit.ly/AFPshop

STARRING:

-The Grand Theft Orchestra-

• AMANDA FUCKING PALMER (@amandapalmer): vocals, piano, intimacy issues

• CHAD RAINES (@radchaines): guitar, vocals, spear

• MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (@quilken): drums, vocals, sausage

• JHEREK BISCHOFF (@jherekbischoff): bass, vocals, socks

FEATURING:

-A Special Appearance By Stoya Doll (as Hipster Girl #2)-

DIRECTED BY: Amanda Palmer, Wayne Coyne, George Salisbury, and Michael McQuilken

SCRIPT WRITTEN BY: Amanda Palmer (with improv/dialogue input from everyone on the shoot)

VIDEO PRODUCERS: George Salisbury & Leslie Hensley

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Delo Creative

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tate James & Alan Novey

ACTORS:

• KIZSHA - Tarren Clarke

• ROSA - Dan Helm

-Drag Queens-

• Che MF Lucci

• Bebe Adams

• Renee Hilton

-Hipsters-

• Michael Davis

• Stephen Elmore

• Adina Verson

• Stoya Doll

This massive chaos-fest of a video was co-created and directed by Wayne Coyne, Amanda Palmer, George Salisbury, and Michael McQuilken. Everybody did shit, art happened! It was filmed over two 105-degree days in Oklahoma City in the summer of 2012, in five locations: Kamps, The Conservatory, The Boom, Wayne's house, and The Colcord Hotel. Massive thanks to the awesome video extras of Oklahoma City (and many lands beyond!) who gave their time shouting, dancing, getting glittered, and giving us their beautiful faces. YOU ARE AMAZING...OKLAHOMA CITY FTW!!!!! And an extra special thank you to Wayne Coyne for opening up his house, his crew, his brain, and his extra boxes of gold glitter to our band of freaks. ROCK.

JEFF The Brotherhood - "Leave Me Out"

In the video for their supercharged jam “Leave Me Out,” a song that leaves me with a weird and intensely welcome D.C. post-hardcore aftertaste, Tennessee fuzz-rock bros JEFF The Brotherhood play in front of a whole bunch of green-screen images: Space, fireworks, motorcycle jumps.

Green Day - "Stray Heart" Video

Green Day have released the video for new single 'Stray Heart'

The track is the first to be taken from the band's latest album '¡Dos!', which is due to be released on November 12. The trio of albums will be completed on December 10 when the '¡Tré!' album is released.

FaltyDL – “Straight & Arrow”

“Straight & Arrow” is the first single from NY producer FaltyDL’s 2013 LP Hardcourage. He’s releasing it via Ninja Tune and his own label, Blueberry Records, and the single comes with remixes from all-star beat-minders Gold Panda and Four Tet. You can sample those remixes below, along with the freshly released official video, which is all hands and snaps.

Jessie Ware & BenZel – “If You Love Me”

The London soul singer Jessie Ware released the utterly amazing debut album Devotion earlier this year, and now she’s teamed up with BenZel, a duo of teenage Japanese producers based in New York, to cover “If You Love Me,” a 1994 hit for the R&B group Brownstone. That might not look particularly exciting on paper, but I assure you: This is an absolutely gorgeous reading of this song, and you should hear it. Their version comes with a trippy video from director Kate Moross, and you can watch it (and, more importantly, hear the song).

Angel Haze – “Gossip Folks”

A couple of weeks ago, Angel Haze released her Classick mixtape, on which she interpolates a whole pile of fondly-remembered rap songs. Haze’s staggering, brave version of Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” is getting all the attention, and rightfully so. But Haze also deserves credit for resuming Missy Elliott’s ridiculously fun 2002 single “Gossip Folks” and for charging through it all twisty fast-rap style. (Fun fact: The Ludacris guest verse on the original “Gossip Folks” is the best shit ever. “Still ridin’ chrome! Got bitches in the kitchen, never home alone!”) Director Arnaud Miller’s new video for Haze’s version of the song is as bare-bones as it gets — just Haze rapping on a rooftop and in a doorway — but it gives her a chance to show serious presence.

The Black Keys – “Sister”

Experiencing an Election Day hangover like I am? Then The Black Keys’ new video for “Sister” should provide a nice jolt. The (presumably) fan-created video is how Noisey describes these visuals which depict a group of rebellious young women’s trip to the laundromat.

Update: Looks like the video has been pulled, via copyright claim. Maybe not official after all.

Myles Manley & the Little People - Easter Morning

"In the song, I compare the resurrection of Jesus Christ to managing to get myself out of bed. In the video, we compare the paintings of Caravaggio to pop music"

Music video for "Easter Morning" by Myles Manley & the Little People from the Album "Rocknroll Vicar/ Rocknroll Priest", directed by Bob Gallagher, Produced by Tony Flynn.

This Frontier Needs Heroes - "2012"

Here's the video for "2012" from brother/sister Brooklynites This Frontier Needs Heroes, in which a group of pre-teen runaways unite to combat a massive meteorite with mystical minerals. In this year of impending doom as foretold by the Mayans, these crystal kids will be our salvation.

Directed by L. Gustavo Cooper

Taylor Swift - Begin Again

Taylor Swift: Begin Again（DIR/Philip Andelman）

Fear Of Men – “Mosaic”

Directed by Williams & Tardo & Fear of Men. A 4eyes.tv Production.

Foals - "Inhaler"

Official video for Inhaler by Foals

Lushlife – “Magnolia”

“Magnolia,” a song from Philly rapper/producer Lushlife’s pretty-great 2012 album Plateau Vision, has a deceptively pleasant float to it, but it’s also a showcase for some truly serious verbal calisthenics. And with its new video, Lushlife has found a ridiculously inventive way to approach the already-tired convention of the lyric video. Directors Lamar+Nik film a cast of extras wearing cardboard cutouts of every single one of the song’s words, all of it piling up into a dizzy and sometimes beautiful collage. Seriously, this video is so great.

Telepathe – “Destroyer”

Last month, Brooklyn postpunk mystery-groove duo Telepathe released their new single “Destroyer,” and Trent Reznor enlisted some friends to help him remix it. And now the song has a new video from Youth Hymns TV. It’s the band performing the song in a studio somewhere, and the footage is all purposefully grainy and messed-up, made to look like local low-budget ’80s TV.

No Doubt - "Looking Hot" (Video Official)

“Looking Hot” is the official second single from No Doubt‘s comeback record Push and Shove. The official music video was uploaded onto No Doubt’s VEVO YouTube channel, but as of November 3rd, No Doubt announced through their website that they have decided to remove the video due to its possible offensive nature to Native Americans, despite their efforts to include expert input on Native American culture. 

* Because all things are now digital files, and because of the power of the internet, and because of the fact that Gwen Stefani might possibly be the hottest f*ing 43 year old walking on the planet earth, the video has been found.

or.



Or: Watch Looking Hot - No Doubt (Tu.tv).

The Killers – “Miss Atomic Bomb”

Usually, superstar bands will make for or five videos from an album’s songs before reaching the point where they just slap together a bunch of tour footage and call it a music video. But the Killers have only released one video from their new album Battle Born, and they’ve apparently already reached the tour-footage stage. Fortunately, Giorgio Testi shot and edited the band’s live footage for the “Miss Atomic Bomb” video beautifully, and the song is cheesily great.

Gossip - "Melody Emergency"

 

Watch Beth Ditto at Stella McCartney's Bruton Street store to a soundtrack of Melody Emergency from Gossip's new album, A Joyful Noise. Video directed by Mary McCartney.

Placebo - B3

The official video for the song B3.

Director - Eric Epstein
Produced by Gail Mosely & Mario Romeo
production company nice and polite

Kanye West - "Cruel Winter" Trailer (Feat. George Bush, Sr.)

Kanye West made a short film called Cruel Summer — he also built a pyramid for the occasion, cuz he’s Kanye — which served as a precursor to the eventual G.O.O.D. Music compilation record of the same name. Now, Kanye’s posted a short trailer to a new short called Cruel Winter which features a snippet George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” Gulf War speech draped over some stark nature footage. Do you think George H.W. Bush rents a Maybach, or owns? Watch the trailer below.

Via: Stereogum.

FIDLAR – “Cheap Beer”

“Cheap Beer,” the recent internet-hit from L.A. punk rockers FIDLAR, is arguably the best fuck-shit-up anthem we’ve heard since Waka Flocka Flame’s “Hard In Da Paint.” And in its new video, from director Ryan Baxley, a marauding biker exacts righteous revenge on anyone with bourgie taste in alcoholic beverages.

Class Actress – “Need To Know”

The video for slinky Brooklyn electro-poppers Class Actress’s track “Need To Know” is an experiment in ’80s-style VHS horror. Singer Elizabeth Harper looks sultry and entertains a gentleman caller, but the video continues to give off the impression that something terrible is about to happen. And even if it never quite does, the creep-vibes linger. Jessica Lauretti directs.

The Coup – “Your Parents’ Cocaine”

The melodically generous Oakland agit-rap institution the Coup released their latest album Sorry To Bother You this week, and we’ve already posted the Das Racist/Killer Mike collab “WAVIP.” Now there’s a video for the truly bizarre kazoo-driven punk-rap track “Your Parents’ Cocaine,” and it makes the song even weirder, using a cast of muppets to act out the lyrics about blow-addled rich-kid networks. Eat The Fish Presents serve as directors, and you can watch the insanity unfold below.

Ben Gibbard – “Teardrop Windows”

In his short but prolific video-directing career, Tom Scharpling has yet to make a bad video. His latest burst of inspiration comes in the form of a video for Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard’s soft-rocking solo single “Teardrop Windows.” In the video, Gibbard, on the advice from a record-label weasel, attempts to reinvent himself as a “bad boy,” and that description alone should really be all the motivation you need to click play.

Tamaryn – “The Garden”

“The Garden” is one of the blurrier songs on Californian narco-rocker Tamaryn’s new sophomore album Tender New Signs, and director Miko Revereza‘s video makes it even blurrier, going heavy on out-of-focus shots on Tamaryn’s face, lit dramatically, while flower petals blow past. It could only look more early-’90s if Tamaryn had a Parker Lewis haircut.

Young Dreams – “Fog Of War”

Young Dreams are a Norwegian orchestral pop collective, and their new single “Fog Of War” takes the sonic hallmarks of chillwave (faraway synths, pubescent sad-kid yelps) and turns them grand and epic, blowing them out to Arcade Fire proportions. In the song’s brand-new video, we learn what happens when you leave two French teenagers home alone and give them access to liquor, weed, a pool, a crossbow, and a Blu-Ray of Apocalypse Now. Hint: Nothing good! Director Kristoffer Borgli‘s video is gorgeously filmed, and its narrative is rendered with excellent cinematic economy, but you probably shouldn’t watch it unless you think you can handle the sight of a dead dog on fire. Below, watch the video and download both the original track and a rippling dance remix from Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio.

Feist – “Graveyard”

Leslie Feist made a video for “Graveyard,” a song from her album Metals. In the video, she and her backup musicians play on a sandy beach-forest landscape, looking terrifyingly small and insignificant while director Keith Megna films everything in stark high-contrast black-and-white and CGI crows fly around. It’s an eerie vision. And she waited until the day after Halloween to release it. What part of the game is that? Watch the video and read some of Feist’s words .

HEALTH - "Tears" (A Short by David Altobelli and Jeff Desom)

Earlier this year, the astrally inclined L.A. noise-dance band HEALTH released their score for the video game Max Payne 3, and now the Creators Project has produced a video for “Tears,” their single from the soundtrack. The video, from directors David Altobelli and Jeff Desom, takes place in a desolate apocalyptic hellscape where carnivorous zombie toddlers rule all that they see. As a father of two, I can tell you that fictional zombie toddlers are only marginally scarier than real non-zombie toddlers.

Melody’s Echo Chamber – “You Won’t Be Missing That Part Of Me”

Melody Prochet, the Parisian psych-popper who records as Melody’s Echo Chamber, released her self-titled album last month, with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker on board as producer. And given that her music is all woozy drift, it makes sense that the video for the album track “You Won’t Be Missing That Part Of Me” is full of psychedelic effects and sun-dazed cinematography.