Depeche Mode – “Soothe My Soul” Video

If one had to invent a film genre for Depeche Mode’s “Sooth My Soul” video, perhaps it would be New Wave Voyeurism. The black and white clip plays like a choppy, living slideshow, all square-shaped peep holes viewing the band performing in shadows, slithering snakes and glimpses of naked bodies — although, primarily stomachs, giving a whole new meaning to “navel-gazing.”

When Saints Go Machine – “Love And Respect” (Feat. Killer Mike)

“Love And Respect,” the eerie, minor-key new single from the Copenhagen electro-pop group When Saints Go Machine, has an out-of-nowhere conscious-rap guest verse from the all-conquering Atlanta rap firebrand Killer Mike. Mike sadly does not appear in its video, but that video is pretty badass anyway. Directors Frederik Hviid and Sebastian Birk give us surreal scenes from a harrowing, thugged-out Scandinavian crime underworld that may or may not actually exist. It’s filmed beautifully, and it has a few images that I won’t get out of my head anytime soon.

Lana Del Rey – “Chelsea Hotel No. 2″ Video

In a new video, and for no discernible reason, Lana Del Rey has given us her take on Leonard Cohen’s ridiculously great 1974 song (and possible Janis Joplin tribute “Chelsea Hotel No. 2.” LDR has left all of Cohen’s gendered pronouns intact, but it doesn’t come across like a gender-fucking stunt; it’s more a languid tribute to a song so perfect that nobody needed to do anything to change it. Musically, it’s faithful to the original, just Del Rey’s voice and a florid guitar line. And in the simple video, from director Ant Shurmer, she sings the song in flickering candlelight. If you’re still looking for further reasons to hate Lana Del Rey, you probably won’t find them here.

Phosphorescent – “Song For Zula”

Along with Djuna Wahlrab, Matthew Houck, the craggy-voiced country-rock rambler behind Phosphorescent, co-directed his own video for “Song For Zula,” the stately and pretty first single from his very good new album Muchacho. The whole video plays out as one single six-minute tracking shot, telling the tale of a wild-eyed woman who uses a rock to pound away at the chains shackling her, causing waves of pixelated digital distortion with every blow. I’m not exactly sure what the video’s supposed to represent, but it’s definitely supposed to represent something.

Team Spirit – “Jesus, He’s Alright”

Former-Passion Pit member Ayad Al Adhamy’s band Team Spirit are prone to heavy riffs, as evidenced by “Phenomenon” from their 2012-released self-titled EP. With “Jesus, He’s Alright” they’ve gone full-throttle toward house party jam. The kind of thing that catapults the party from remembering to throw out their empties to absent-mindedly leaving half-drank tallboys on top of the fridge. For the video — which is on the other side of the coin from Passion Pit’s released-today, somber clip for “Cry Like A Ghost” — Team Spirit takes the bash to church. If you’ve ever wondered what the Ten Commandments would be like if they were rules for partying, then this is the video for you. Directed by Ian Perlman featuring animation from Swedish duo HannesJohannes.

Thee Oh Sees – “Minotaur”

Thee Oh Sees are set to release new LP Floating Coffins later this month and have given visuals to its first single “Minotaur.” The marauding track is perfect for a clunky kind of adventure and the band has knocked it out of the park with a tale of wonky knights in search of a sleeved-up half-man, half-beast.

The Coathangers – “Merry Go Round”

Atlanta four-piece the Coathangers were one of the most fun bands I saw during SXSW — four women who euphorically trade instruments like a riot grrrl band, refuse to put forward a single bandleader figure, and bash out a slapdash and deranged form of garage punk. The band recently dropped a split single with the great Vancouver noise-punks Nü Sensae, and now they’ve got a video for “Merry Go Round,” their half of the single. The video itself is nothing special — mostly murky footage of a guy in a creeped-out latex mask lamping at a playground and presumably making any nearby parents very uncomfortable. But the song is catchy as all hell, and this is a band we should all be paying more attention to, so check it.

Big Black Delta - "Side of the Road" (Official Music Video)

Big Black Delta dance in the digital world.

Stylish, minimal music video for Big Black Delta from Warren Kommers

Passion Pit - "Cry Like a Ghost"

The new video from Passion Pit's Gossamer, this time for "Cry Like a Ghost", is a high-tech dream sequence directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (or Daniels). As the directors explain in a making-of video, "The idea is this girl is dancing through her relationships... we're trying to show how messy, confusing, funny, and sad and weird that is." The video was created in partnership with Sony's Music Unlimited service.

Watch the standard version below, along with a behind-the-scenes clip. Sony will also post an extended version over on its YouTube channel.

Making-of video:



Passion Pit - "Cry Like a Ghost" (Exclusive Extended Cut)

An exclusive extended cut of the latest single from the album, Gossamer, featuring almost two minutes of additional intro footage to see the whole story.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Sacrilege” (Feat. Lily Cole)

This morning, Yeah Yeah Yeahs unveiled the video for “Sacrilege,” the epic and stormy first single from their forthcoming album Mosquito. The British model and actress Lily Cole stars in the Megaforce-directed clip, playing a woman whose appetites get her into some trouble in a very strange small town. The level of plotting and characterization is deeply impressive for a four-minute music video, and those townspeople look unsettlingly predatory as all hell.

Cold Cave – “A Little Death To Laugh”

The clip focuses tight on Wes Eisold singing the song, but two nearly identical film reels are laid on top of one another and played concurrently, giving the thing a weird superimposition effect that makes Eisold look like he’s drifting out of his own skin.

Marnie Stern - "Immortals"

In the video for “Immortals,” one of the many heavenly shredfests on her new album The Chronicles Of Marnia, we see the head-spinning guitarist and sharply melodic songwriter Marnie Stern at home in her New York apartment. She’s imagining herself besieged by adoring shirtless male fans, and she’s somehow missing the angelic kids appearing in her living room. I’m not quite sure what the video’s supposed to represent, but it seems like it might have something to do with the idea that Marnie is, at the same time, a fun and relatable lady and the second coming of Angus Young. Allie Avital Tsypin directs the video.

Wavves – “Afraid Of Heights”

Here’s the BLACK // DOCTOR-directed clip for Wavves’ “Afraid Of Heights” from their new album of the same name and yowza what a video! At first I was getting very serious John Waters Fever Dream But Without The Polish vibes from its beginning but it goes a wholly different route that is more on par with a vignette from indie horror flick V/H/S if Gregg Araki had made one when he was doing things like Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation and not the lovable high gloss of Happy Face. Which is to say, there’s cross-dressing, dive bars, and — well, I won’t spoil it for you. Watch the fuzzy, bizarre thing.

A$AP Rocky – “Wild For The Night” (Feat. Skrillex)

As a rapper, A$AP Rocky’s greatest gift is for creating a sticky bad-dream sort of atmosphere. And on Long.Live.A$AP, his debut album, only one song rips right through that carefully cultivated vibe: “Wild For The Night,” a blaring dance-rap banger produced by bro-step titan Skrillex. Rocky and the veteran rap video director (and auteur of the underrated T.I. vehicle ATL) Chris Robinson have now teamed up to make the video, shooting it in the Dominican Republic. It’s a delirious throwback to the days when record labels would happily blow seven figures on a rap video. The immaculately filmed video takes place in Dominican slums and clubs, and it looks amazing. Also, the sight of Skrillex attempting to look cool while perching atop a rubble-pile isn’t one I’ll soon forget. And: Bonus Skrillex bass drop!

Ghost B.C. – “Year Zero” (NSFW)

The theatrical, absurdist Swedish metal band Ghost B.C., previously known as just plain Ghost, are the latest band to find international fame by scaring the hell out of parents and authority figures, dressing up as cult members and demon-priests and plying an infernally catchy form of craftsmanship. Last year, we posted their Dave Grohl-abetted cover of Abba’s “I’m A Marionette,” and now they’re getting ready to unleash the sophomore album Infestissumam upon the planet. Watch, we’ve got the super-NSFW video for their song “Year Zero.” It’s gleefully Satanic silliness about a coven of witches who welcome a dark stranger into their midst. Nudity abounds.

Ghost B.C. - Year Zero (Censored)

Toro Y Moi - "Never Matter"

Toro Y Moi has shared his latest video from his new album Anything in Return. This one, directed by Steve Daniels for "Never Matter", features a motley crew of randos listening to the track on headphones and dancing along. Watch it below, via GvsB.

Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - "Easy"

London duo Louis & McCourt create a futuristic Anime music video for Mat Zo & Porter Robinson’s “Easy”.

Dante - "Swampthing"

Album: The Rorschach Manifesto Directed by: Jorge Jaramillo

Captain Murphy – “The Killing Joke”

Captain Murphy is the alternate moniker of Flying Lotus, a Californian who has both performed and produced tracks with Earl Sweatshirt. (We first heard from Captain Murphy on a Flying Lotus-produced collaboration with Sweatshirt for Adult Swim.) Now, here’s a new video from Murphy, “The Killing Joke”, which finds his verses wandering between dark, delicate female vox. It comes from the Duality mixtape he released last year. “This was a fan made video so good I had to make it official,” he told SPIN. “Be on the look out for ‘V’ this fall.”

Watch Noel Gallagher And Damon Albarn Perform “Tender” Together In London

Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn took the stage together last night in London at the Royal Albert Hall to play a charity event for Teenage Cancer Trust. The former frontmen of Oasis and Blur collaborated for a version of Blur’s “Tender.” According to NME, the performance was a surprise to the sold-out audience; Albarn started the show by saying “Noel? Noel?” during what was originally supposed to be a set with Graham Coxon, Paul Weller and American author Michael Horowitz.

Kurt Vile – “Never Run Away”

Kurt Vile – “Never Run Away” (Dir. Don Argott)

Maybe not a proper music video, but fuck it. This is some real dad shit right here, and speaking as an actual dad, it’s a total heart-melter.

The Thermals – “Born To Kill”

The Thermals – “Born To Kill” (Dir. The Thermals)

Effective, weirdly polemic low-budget filmmaking that riffs on some fucked-up American political conversations without actually saying anything about them. But the real reason this one goes on the list is Hutch Harris’s utterly convincing performance as a crazy-eyes zealot. If he ever decides that the whole punk rock thing isn’t working out anymore, someone should give him work as a killer-of-the-week on Law & Order.

Sigur Rós - “Brennisteinn”

Icelandic dream-rock heroes Sigur Rós released Valtari, their last album, less than a year ago, and they’ve already announced plans for the follow-up. Kveikur, out in a couple of months, is the band’s first album as a trio, now that multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson has left the band. The new album will include a bunch of songs that the band has been playing live lately, and the members of the band have been calling the LP’s sound “more aggressive.”

That certainly applies to their latest eight-minute swoonathon “Brennisteinn,” which welds the band’s trademark falsetto swoops to a serious low-end churn. The band has just shared director Andrew Huang‘s video for the track, and it’s a cryptic, muddy epic allegory about something or other. Combined with the song’s prog-metal undercurrents, it’s enough to convince me that they’ve been spending some time with old Tool videos lately.

Death Grips – “Lock Your Doors”

Last week, noise-rap shit-starters played a reportedly-anarchic SXSW set that none of your Stereogum correspondents managed to see because the line to get in was too goddam long. From all accounts, though, it was nuts. And the group’s members made some recordings by wearing cameras over their faces, and they used that footage to make a brain-destroying “no hands” video for the NO LOVE DEEP WEB track “Lock Your Doors.” Watch, and have fun trying to pick out a single discernible shape.

Biting Elbows - 'Bad Motherfucker' Video

Official music video for Biting Elbows' 2013 single 'Bad Motherfucker' (Insane Office Escape 2) based on a First-person shooter video game

"Bad Motherfucker" has the immediacy and POV of a first-person shooter, while also featuring the dark-suited gangsters of the typical first-wave Tarantino knockoff. What it has in common with both media, though, is that it’s almost cartoonishly violent.

The new video is a sequel to 2011's "The Stampede," better known as "Insane Office Escape." The original video had a tough guy slaying many a goon in the effort to secure some red herring device kept in an office vault. At the end of the video, our unnamed hero is caught. Part two picks up immediately where the first video left off, but takes the violence to an upper register that might be startling to gamers in it’s cinematic realism.

Created by director (and band frontman) Ilya Naishuller and post-production designer Sergey Valyaev, "Bad Motherfucker" retains the gauzy, color-drained look of the first video, in addition to its nihilistic carnage. From the first moment, wherein our hero seems about to die, all that can be heard is opera music. After the condemned makes an initial escape, however, involving German shepherd damage and a useful billiard cue ball, things get seriously twisted--with a body count that explains why YouTube may have pulled the video hours after its release.

Watch the first video in the Insane Office Escape series below.

Biting Elbows - The Stampede (Insane Office Escape)

Kvelertak – “Månelyst” (NSFW)

Around this corner of the internet, Michael has long been touting the Norwegian metal band Kvelertak, and with good reason; their combination of big, dumb hooks and all-out speed-freak mayhem is a seriously good time. The band’s new album Meir has already yielded one fun-as-hell video, the “Sky’s The Limit”-esque “Bruane Brenn,” and now there’s another one. The band’s “Månelyst” clip is a giddy, context-free pileup of horror-movie tropes: Werewolves, zombies, burning bodies, demonic possession, a guy who cuts open his belly and eats his own innards. It is absolutely grisly stuff, but it’s all done in the spirit of grossout fun.

Rilo Kiley - "Let Me Back In"

Rilo Kiley pull together archival tour footage in the clip for their L.A. ode "Let Me Back In" off the rkives compilation of rarities.

Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors”

Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors,” the gorgeously floaty eight-minute love song with the vaguely narcissistic underpinning, now has a video, and it’s dedicated to Timberlake’s grandparents, together for 63 years. The clip tells the story of a couple from different points in their lives, and even if the chronological math doesn’t actually work out, I love the idea that JT’s grandparents were rockabilly kids. The best part of the video is the last few minutes, where Timberlake and some models dance in a hall of mirrors. Floria Sigismondi, who directed the terrible movie The Runaways and David Bowie’s fascinating “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” video, helms this one.

The Men – “I Saw Her Face”

“I Saw Her Face,” the excellent new single from the Brooklyn band the Men, sounds like the sort of classic rock song that’s been on rotation on certain stations for decades, except covered in a couple of coats of grimy scuzz. It makes sense, then, that the song’s music video, the first proper one the band has made, shows them playing, but layers on enough crude video effects that you can barely see them half the time. The band themselves direct, so they can thank themselves for the scene where smoke comes out of a guitar during a solo.

Django Django - "WOR"

The amusement park clip for Django Django’s “WOR” is a far cry from the jubilance of Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” or the Internet’s “Cocaine” (although, that one’s got a creepy factor to it). The Always Up For World Travel VICE Magazine indulged the band’s recent infatuation with daredevils in India who perform a carnival trick called the Well Of Death. The “WOR” video takes a look into the death-defying stunt (and the people of Allahabad with the courage to perform it) while set to the band’s urgent riffs. Are motorcycle stunts trending? Because this is perfectly timed with the upcoming release of Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine follow-up, The Place Beyond The Pines which features Ryan Gosling as a carnival stuntman-turned-bank robber.

The Joy Formidable – “Little Blimp”

If, say, you’re the type of person who gets nauseous while watching found-footage movies, you might want to proceed with caution here. The Joy Formidable, the Welsh power-trio who would make stadium alt-rock if stadium alt-rock were still a thing that existed, have a new video for “Little Blimp,” the second single from their sophomore album Wolf’s Law. (It follows “This Ladder Is Ours.”) The footage in the video comes from different Joy Formidable shows, but all of it comes from a fisheye-lens camera lashed to the end of frontwoman Ritzy Bryan’s guitar neck, and this turns out to be a pretty visceral way to make a live video. Also of note: This song rules.

Natalia Lafourcade y Meme - "Limosna"

Dir. Floria Gonzalez - Dir. Art. Alejandra Alarcón

Music video by Natalia Lafourcade a Dueto con Meme (Emmanuel Del Real) performing Limosna. (C) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment México, S.A. de C.V.

The Strokes – “All The Time” Video

The Strokes’ new single “All The Time” sounds like an old Strokes song, with its urgently metronomic rhythm and its excellently rumpled Julian Casablancas mutter-wail. And the video seems bent on reminding us who, exactly, the Strokes once were and on pounding home the idea that these are still the same guys. The clip edits together old footage of different stages of the Strokes’ career — van trips, video tapings, playing with Lou Reed — and edits out that whole extended-hiatus thing. Then it shows them gearing up for a festival show together, apparently best friends again. I hope that’s exactly what they are, but I’m not sure a video is enough to convince me.

Husbands - "Dream"

Typography crazy Cauboyz create this sweet, simple music video for Husbands “Dream“. Plus epic wiring in the Making Of.

Mumford & Sons - "Whispers In The Dark"

'Whispers in the Dark' is the new single from Mumford & Sons

Earl Sweatshirt – “Whoa” Video (Feat. Tyler, The Creator)

Late last year, the recently returned and ferociously talented young Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt — who, let the record show, is still a teenager — gave us the introspective, endlessly compelling “Chum” and its stark, creeped-out video. But as Earl gleefully shows on “Whoa,” his new collab with old buddy Tyler, The Creator, he hasn’t pulled some complete aesthetic switchup. It’s the first recorded use of the phrase “that old fuckin’ 2010 shit,” and it’s a gallumphing and awkward Tyler synth beat with some fired up but densely compacted verbiage from Earl (“the misadventures of a shit-talker / Pissed as Rick Ross’s fifth sip off his sixth lager”). Tyler, under his Wolf Haley alias, also directed the track’s new video, which returns Earl to Odd Future’s antic junk-shop style, as he cuddles a top-heavy middle-aged ballerina and reclines in a stagnant trash-puddle at the bottom of an empty pool while someone skateboards all around him. Members of the extended Odd Future family, including Trash Talk, make cameos.

Wavves – “Demon To Lean On”

California punk rocker Wavves is about to release the new album Afraid Of Heights, and today he gives us the video for the polished and extremely catchy snot-anthem “Demon To Lean On.” BLACK//DOCTOR directs the video, which tells the story of a kid who wakes up in a junkyard and soon discovers the warlike scavenger society that exists there. It has to be said: Nathan Williams looks more and more like Bam Margera everyday, doesn’t he? I feel like Williams would regard this as a good thing.

Foals – “Late Night” Video (NSFW)

Foals have now released three videos from their new LP, Holy Fire, two of which have received the NSFW tag: first single “Inhaler” and now “Late Night.” That’s probably not a bad strategy; no television outlet (in the States, anyway) is going to give these things any airtime, and I’d bet NSFW vids on average get exponentially more clicks than those of the SFW variety. The “Late Night” clip is pretty damn explicit — as the band plays the lounge of a Lynchian hotel, we get a glimpse of what’s going on in the rooms around them, including a childbirth, a couple enjoying some rough sex, and a solo dude engaged in a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation-turned-unintentional suicide. In this sense, the NSFW tag is well-earned, but the song deserves it, too: It’s one of Holy Fire‘s most intimate moments, and the clip presents an honest-feeling visual representation of such intimacy.

The Knife – “A Tooth For An Eye”

The Knife’s first video from their forthcoming Shaking The Habitual took heteronormative attitudes and attire and turned them inside out. As of today, that sort of radical stance on gender-based thought is a recurring theme in the Knife’s Shaking videos: “A Tooth For An Eye,” directed by Roxy Farhat and Kakan Hermansson, focuses on a bunch of macho/lithe dudes in a dance class, being schooled by a lip-syncing, cornrowed girl. She’s their referee, their beacon, their Karin. By the Knife’s statement, “‘A Tooth For An Eye’ deconstructs images of maleness, power and leadership.” Today’s Deconstructing:

Dan Deacon – “Crash Jam”

In making the video for “Crash Jam,” a euphoric jitter-drone from Dan Deacon’s album America, Ben O’Brien has edited together a bunch of footage from Tony Horton’s P90X workout videos. In the process, he’s made a collage of grunting, flexing, impossibly stretched-out humanity that makes human beings look like the strangest animals that have ever walked the earth.

Beach House – “Wishes”

Eric Wareheim, one half of the absurdist comedy duo Tim & Eric, doesn’t direct music videos too often, but when he does, he can be relied upon to produce some grandly bizarre vision. That’s certainly the case with his video for Beach House’s majestic Bloom grower “Wishes.” It stars Ray Wise (Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks!), riding a horse and lit by fireworks, singing the song at some sort of futuristic martial arts/gymnastics/cheerleading exhibition in a soccer stadium. The clip feels like a peak into some alternate dimension’s ideas about mass entertainment, but thanks to Wise’s gravity, it comes across as something oddly moving.

Phoenix – “Entertainment”

Phoenix have just unveiled the big, sweeping, ambitious video for “Entertainment,” the first single from their new Bankrupt! album. Patrick Daughters directs, and it’s a series of intercut love stories, taking place throughout the ages but starring the same actors. There’s also a lot of fighting. We’re going to be puzzling this one out for a while, but you can watch.

Psychic Twin – “Strangers”

The video for Psychic Twin’s “Strangers” is weirdly the visual manifestation of both the band’s name and the song’s title. The video initially starts out with a double image of singer Erin Fein, one in a hazed-over natural state and the other a piecemeal rainbow girl following the “real” Fein’s movements. As the video continues, the rainbow Fein — the stranger — turns into a carbon copy of the seemingly human version. The dance-mimesis remains, but since they are both visually the same, it evolves from a stranger into the psychic twin. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into this corporeal vision, but it’s a nice hazy clip for the ethereal track.

Houses – “Beginnings”

In Houses’ melancholic “The Beauty Surrounds” video, you can watch frontman Dexter Tortoriello build a tent in the desert and pine for the absent Megan Messina. Their latest video for “Beginnings” — the first track on their forthcoming album A Quiet Darkness — is a carefree prelude to the inevitable emotional disaster to follow. Messina smiles unblinkingly into the camera as she leans her head out of a car window, hair billowing in slow-motion.

Kate Boy – “In Your Eyes”

The four members of the Stockholm-based band Kate Boy make catchy electronic pop songs with heavy standard drum beats and crystalline synth lines. Their debut EP, Northern Lights, was released earlier this year. Kate Boy’s latest minimalistic video features vocalist Kate Akhurst surrounded by flashing fluorescent bulbs as she belts “In Your Eyes” while hesitantly dancing in a white jumpsuit/raincoat. Not surprisingly, Akhurst’s eyes are conspicuously absent, hidden under the brim of her black baseball hat.

CHVRCHES – “Recover”

The Glaswegian synth-pop trio CHVRCHES have released a music video for the title track of their forthcoming EP, Recover. The break-up song is equal parts distressing and danceable. Lauren Mayberry’s heart-achingly sweet voice almost manages to distract from the camera’s journey through an eerie industrial landscape.

Lulu James – “Closer”

British soul-force Lulu James knows how to do simplicity with a ton of panache. In the sparse black-and-white video for her electro-soul track “Closer,” she shows that gyrating in front of the camera is heightened not only by knowing how to move, but when adorned in a fur and studs.

Glass Candy – “The Possessed”

In Glass Candy’s new video for the slow, unsettled electro-pulse “The Possessed,” singer Ida No skulks around a carnival and performs to a fired-up crowd in a venue so immaculately designed that it doesn’t look real. Frequent collaborator Alberto Rossini films everything in his trademark grainy late-’70s/early-’80s horror-movie style.

Biffy Clyro - Biblical (Official Video)

Watch the official video for Biblical by Biffy Clyro.

Rick Ross – “Ashamed” Video

 

Usually, I can watch a rap video without being reduced to a puddle of jealousy from all the trappings of wealth. But fucking hell, Rick Ross gets to play with a tiger cub? (That’s a tiger cub, right?) How much money does it cost to hang out with a tiger cub? What decisions can I make in my life that’ll make that possible? In the DRE Films-directed video for “Ashamed,” a slow-burning soul-sampling highlight from last year’s God Forgives, I Don’t album, we also learn that Ross wears an entire dead fox on his shoulder and that he leaves his basketball jersey on in the swimming pool — a bit of a surprise, considering that he’s never been exactly shy about shirtlessness. Also, he seems to be a really big Sacramento Kings fan? He must be a League Pass guy.

T-ara - "Bunny Style"

T-ara - "Bunny Style", Director: Cho Su Hyun.

Aimed at the Japanese market, there's “Kawaii” and “Kawaii” n' this is most disappointin', since its from the director responsible for “Gangnam Style“.

Further the group's jus' got no vocal bite since rapper Hwa-Young was dismissed
Just hope there's a redeemable version on one of the other seven cuts

Psy - "Right Now" Video

Hmmmm clearly a man with form....

Song was banned for the lyric “Life is like toxic alcohol,” by the Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family!

Though it was cut in 2010, it would seem to be making a comeback, in the "Gangnam Style" aftermath

PSY - RIGHT NOW (Seo Woo Ver.)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark)” (NSFW-ish)

The video for “Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark),” a flinty and idiosyncratic indie-pop song from Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s new album II, has a cast made up entirely of marionette puppets, many of whom are seen perving out in vaguely NSFW ways. In particular, the clip tells the story of one alienated compulsive masturbator, telling his story in a way that feels weirdly heartfelt. Watch it below.

Watch The Simpsons’ Harlem Shake Parody

As you might know already, Baauer’s song “Harlem Shake” fueled an Internet meme last month, seeing hundreds of thousands of individuals posting YouTube videos of themselves doing random dances set to the song. It’s a cultural phenomenon for sure, but as the New York Times pointed out yesterday, the videos are not inspired by the actual Harlem shake, a dance that originated in New York City over 30 years ago. Now, the writers behind The Simpsons have picked up on meme as well. Check out “The Homer Shake” below, which sees a cast of characters from the show doing random dances set to a parody of the song. (Spoiler alert: still no actual Harlem shaking to be found.)
And in case you missed it on Videogum last month, also check out a video of Harlem residents responding to “Harlem Shake” videos.