Jagwar Ma - “Uncertainty” (Official Video)

Aussie glam-psych-dance outfit Jagwar Ma released their Madchester-lovin’ debut album Howlin’ last summer, when it was actually winter Down Under. Now the tables have turned — or rather, the axis of the globe has — and just in time for peak koala-hunting season (j/k, I think), here comes the video for “Uncertainty.” This is the song that yielded the album title with the lyric, “When you’re gloomy, howlin’ looks so good to me,” and indeed, Gabriel Winterfield and the boys are under the moon in the clip.

Justin Bieber - “Confident” (Feat. Chance The Rapper) Official Video

You know that moment where you’re playing Grand Theft Auto and you get bored, so you basically just commit suicide by shooting as many random things as you can, attempting to get your wanted level high enough and stay alive long enough that police are sending tanks to kill you? Justin Bieber appears to be going through a real-life version of that now. But Bieber is still, at least nominally, a musician, and last year he made the canny decision to record “Confident” with an appearance from the rising rap star Chance The Rapper. “Confident” now has a slick Colin Tilley-directed video, in which Bieber admits to Taki ignorance, pays homage to Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” stalk-fest, and give Chance his biggest-yet opportunity to show up in front of kids’ eyeballs.

Potty Mouth - "Black and Studs" (Official Video)

Video and animation by Faye Orlove
Camera by Akhil Bhatt

Seekae - "Another" (Official Music Video)

Directed by: Ian Pons Jewell
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Deerhoof - “Flower” (Official Video)

The clip, directed by Yuan Liu and Owen Donovan, takes place in a laundromat filled with shady characters and one young lady with wet feet. Leather, a toy doll, and (yes) a flower are involved. Some words on the clip from drummer extraordinaire Greg Saunier:

filmed after hours in a new york chinese laundromat
directed by yuan liu
asian gang girls’ leather outfits handmade by sometime singer of morbid angel
some have noticed that this was deerhoof’s second album to have a song called flower but actually it is the third

Dr. Dog - “Distant Light” Video

Philly retro pop-rockers Dr. Dog have built a large following slowly but steadily over the past decade, largely by keeping up a maniacal touring schedule. They’ve just embarked on another lengthy jaunt in support of last fall’s B-Room, and to herald that run of concerts, they’ve graced us with a new video from the album. “Distant Light” is a bouncy, freewheeling track that would fit in well in The Last Waltz or late on the first disc of the White Album. Its visuals are suitably playful and subtly psychedelic, apparently the product of green screens, painted hoodies, and lots of nifty animation. 

Bob Dylan Hooks Up With Chobani & Chrysler For Super Bowl Ads

You wouldn’t think Bob Dylan was hurting for either money or attention, but he’ll get plenty this Sunday when he’s prominently featured in two different Super Bowl ads. Billboard reports that Dylan is set to star in a Chrysler commercial, the latest in a series of Super Bowl ads that has featured Eminem, Clint Eastwood, and Berry Gordy. (Dylan has a fraught history with motor vehicles, but his music has turned up in plenty of car commercials over the years, including one for Chrysler’s Jeep Cherokee.) Meanwhile, Dylan’s 1966 Blonde On Blonde single “I Want You” is in a Chobani yogurt Super Bowl ad that’s already on the internet, and you can watch that one below. It has a bear in it.



OFFICIAL Chrysler and Bob Dylan Super Bowl Commercial 2014 - America's Import 

Architecture In Helsinki - “Dream A Little Crazy” (Official Video)

Aussie blog-rock veterans Architecture In Helsinki have been relatively quiet since the release of 2011′s Moment Bends, but they’re about to swing into action again, starting with a video that’s anything but quiet. The Melbourne indie-pop collective has been in the lab making fifth LP NOW + 4EVA, and the colorful clip for lead single “Dream A Little Crazy” finds them… in the lab, mixing up paints and getting their splatter on.

Hospitality - “Going Out” (Official Video)

Directed/Edited: Scott Jacobson
Director of Photography: Tristan Nyby
Grip/Electric: Jesse Curl
Art Department: John Dugan Barrett, Andrew Meredith

Cast: Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips

Thanks to: Lisa Whiteman and Todd Levin, the Glendale Tap, Mike Benner, Lizzie Molyneux, Faris McReynolds, Will Milner, Robert Rexx, Tanisa Brown, Evan Kindley, Jason Reich

Be Forest - “Captured Heart” Video

The music of Be Forest drifts and floats like a dream; even when it speeds up it still sounds like the soundtrack to something in slow motion. You may have heard “Colours” a few weeks ago and now you can see the video for another song, “Capture Heart,” which is even prettier, but maybe that’s because the MUTE-directed clip pairs it with all the images their music already evoked so well.

Pop Danthology 2013 - Mashup of 68 songs!

"Pop Danthology 2013"
Music and video mashed-up by Daniel Kim (http://www.facebook.com/danielkimmusic)

SONGLIST, LYRICS, FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD:
http://giftofocpd.com/2013/12/03/pop-danthology-2013/

SONG LIST
(In alphabetical order by artist)

1. Anna Kendrick – “Cups (When I’m Gone)”
2. Armin van Buuren feat. Trevor Guthrie – “This Is What It Feels Like”
3. A$AP Rocky feat. Skrillex, Birdy Nam Nam – “Wild For The Night”
4. Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
5. Avril Lavigne – “Here’s To Never Growing Up”
6. Bastille – “Pompeii”
7. Bauuer – “Harlem Shake”
8. Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement – “Get Up (Rattle)”
9. Britney Spears – “Ooh La La”
10. Britney Spears – “Work B**ch”
11. Bruno Mars – “Locked Out Of Heaven”
12. Bruno Mars – “Treasure”
13. Bruno Mars – “When I Was Your Man”
14. Calvin Harris feat. Ayah Marar – “Thinking About You”
15. Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding – “I Need Your Love”
16. Capital Cities – “Safe And Sound”
17. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky”
18. Demi Lovato – “Heart Attack”
19. Drake feat. Majid Jordan – “Hold On, We’re Going Home”
20. Drake – “Started From The Bottom”
21. Ellie Goulding – “Burn”
22. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX – “I Love It (I Don’t Care)”
23. Imagine Dragons – Demons
24. Jason Derulo – “The Other Side”
25. Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake – “Holy Grail”
26. Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors”
27. Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z – “Suit & Tie”
28. Katy Perry – “Roar”
29. Kelly Clarkson – “Catch My Breath”
30. Ke$ha – “C’mon”
31. Ke$ha feat. will.i.am – “Crazy Kids”
32. Krewella – “Alive”
33. Lady Gaga – “Applause”
34. Lana Del Rey – “Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix)”
35. Lorde – “Royals”
36. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
37. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton – “Can’t Hold Us”
38. Maroon 5 – “Daylight”
39. Maroon 5 – “Love Somebody”
40. Martin Garrix – “Animals”
41. Martin Solveig & The Cataracs feat. Kyle – “Hey Now”
42. Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
43. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
44. Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith – “La La La”
45. One Direction – “Best Song Ever”
46. One Direction – “Story Of My Life”
47. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
48. OneRepublic – “If I Lose Myself”
49. Passenger – “Let Her Go”
50. P!nk feat. Nate Ruess – “Just Give Me A Reason”
51. Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera – “Feel This Moment”
52. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha – “Timber”
53. Pitbull feat. TJR – “Don’t Stop The Party”
54. PSY – “Gentleman”
55. Rihanna – “Pour It Up”
56. Rihanna feat. David Guetta – “Right Now”
57. Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko – “Stay”
58. Robin Thicke feat. Kendrick Lamar – “Give It 2 U”
59. Robin Thicke feat. T.I., Pharrell Williams – “Blurred Lines”
60. Selena Gomez – “Come & Get It”
61. Selena Gomez – “Slow Down”
62. Taylor Swift – “22”
63. Taylor Swift – “I Knew You Were Trouble”
64. will.i.am feat. Britney Spears – “Scream & Shout”
65. will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber – “#thatPOWER”
66. Ylvis – “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)”
67. Zedd feat. Foxes – “Clarity”
68. Zedd feat. Hayley Williams – “Stay The Night”

LYRICS & SONG TITLES
(In order of appearance)

Elbow - “New York Morning” (Official Video)

English rockers Elbow have put together a short documentary/music video chronicling the story of Dennis and Lois, a couple who grew up in the New York music scene in the heyday of CBGB and the Ramones. The video serves as a tribute to old New York: “This was where the music was, and this was where the intelligent people were, and this was just where life was. That’s it. Most of the things we knew and loved are gone but we’re still here,” says one half of the couple. Elbow’s music takes a backseat to the story of this couple and their experiences, from their first date to the time they didn’t pick up Andy Warhol on a street corner.

Pontiak - “Wildfires” Video

Virginian brother trio Pontiak will release their new album, INNONCENCE, tomorrow, but first they’ve shared the contemplative video for “Wildfires.” The low-key visuals find lead vocalist Van Carney strumming away in a motel room while members of labelmates Guardian Alien fool around in the background.

MØ - “Don’t Wanna Dance” Video

With less than a month until the release of her debut album, MØ has released a badass video for infectious lead single “Don’t Wanna Dance,” which sees the Danish pop singer busting some moves in a pretty sweet furry pink coat with a car compactor in the background.

Watch Taiwanese Animators’ Dramatization Of Daft Punk’s Grammy Victory

TomoNews has done a funny little feature on Daft Punk’s big Grammy wins for their impeccably crafted Random Access Memories. And if there’s one thing that network is known for it’s animated dramatizations of news stories that rest (un)comfortably in the uncanny valley. That’s Daft Punk above, after deciding to go “all live” with the new album, burning their laptops and turntables in a garbage can before high-fiving over it. Pharrell’s hat gets animated, too. Watch below.

Nai Harvest - “Hold Open My Head” Video

We posted “Rush” from the British emo/alt-rock duo Nai Harvest’s Hold Open My Head EP last week. Now comes the video for the title track, a low-budget affair assembled by the band and Christian Sinclair. Musically, “Hold Open My Head” is another guitar-pop winner that could be a time capsule from 20 years back. This one starts out sounding like your average cathartic emo slow-build, but it blooms into a vibrant angst-ridden pop song when the chorus hits. I’m still picking up a Lemonheads vibe from these two, which is just stupendous. Maybe a little Soul Asylum and Nirvana too? Pick your own delightful ’90s reference point as you watch.

Albert Hammond Jr. - “Strange Tidings” (Official Video)

Albert Hammond Jr. continues the streak of interesting visuals for songs off last year’s comeback EP. The video for “Strange Tidings” paints the Strokes guitarist as a guilty party, exchanging sideways glances with the camera as he travels through the streets of a blurred-out Paris. Watch the Laurent Briet-directed video.

of Montreal - “She Ain’t Speakin’ Now” (Official Video)

of Montreal put out the solid country-tinged album Lousy With Sylvianbriar last year, and now have released a video for album track “She Ain’t Speakin’ Now.” Directed by Nina Barnes — wife of frontman Kevin Barnes — the video layers different images of people over a ton of filters, colors, and psychedelic images.

Simian Mobile Disco - “Snake Bile Wine” (Official Video)

With last year’s “Tong Zi Dan,” Simian Mobile Disco resumed their trend of making songs inspired by obscure dishes from around the world — which started in 2010 with Delicacies — and now they have a new one. Snake bile wine, the beverage, is exactly what it sounds like, where the gall bladder of a snake is steeped in wine, or sometimes the bile and venom is squeezed directly into the vino. The song, though, is pure deep-house bliss, with a strikingly minimal video by Jack Featerstone to go with it.

Pixies - “Magdalena” (Official Video)

In the Pixies’ video for “Magdalena,” we follow Nando Messias, a London-based performance artist, as she gets out of bed, sticks some dude for his sandwich, takes a shower in some rice, and stages a one-person egg-and-spoon race in an underground walkway. Yeah, I don’t get it either. Pixies gave us their surprise EP2 earlier this month, and “Magdalena” is the second of the four EP tracks to get a video, following “Blue Eyed Hexe.” Judy Jacob directed the video.

Pixies - "Blue Eyed Hexe" (Official Video)

Grammys 2014: Winners List

UPDATE: Check out GIFs and performance videos from the Grammys here.

Here we go! The festivities are underway and the hardware is being handed out, and in this space we’ll keep track of your 2014 Grammy award winners as they are announced. Of course, a crushing-majority percentage of those winners were announced earlier today in an untelevised ceremony. (There are 82 categories total, and only 10 of those will actually be announced during the televised Grammys’ three-and-a-half-hour running time. In this way, the Grammys both diminishes its ostensible purpose and demeans the majority of its nominees, but also offers some mercy to its viewing audience, for whom the actual handing-out-and-accepting-of-awards is the worst part of the whole night.) So we’ll start here with a list of the winners whose names were called before the cameras started rolling, and update this space as the envelopes are opened in real time.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
Sara Bareilles, The Blessed Unrest
Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Heist
Taylor Swift, Red

RECORD OF THE YEAR
Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers), “Get Lucky”
Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive”
Lorde, “Royals”
Bruno Mars, “Locked Out Of Heaven”
Robin Thicke (feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams), “Blurred Lines”

SONG OF THE YEAR
Lorde, “Royals”
Pink (feat. Nate Ruess), “Just Give Me A Reason”
Bruno Mars, “Locked Out Of Heaven”
Katy Perry, “Roar”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert, “Same Love”

BEST NEW ARTIST
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox
Lana Del Rey, Paradise
Lorde, Pure Heroine
Robin Thicke, Blurred Lines
Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
Jay Z (feat. Justin Timberlake), “Holy Grail”
J. Cole (feat. Miguel), “Power Trip”
Jay Z (feat. Beyoncé), “Part II (On The Run)”
Kendrick Lamar (feat. Mary J. Blige), “Now Or Never”
Wiz Khalifa (feat. The Weeknd), “Remember You”

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
Lorde, “Royals”
Sara Bareilles, “Brave”
Bruno Mars, “When I Was Your Man”
Katy Perry, “Roar”
Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors”

BEST ROCK SONG
Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear, “Cut Me Some Slack”
Gary Clark Jr., “Ain’t Messin ’Round”
The Rolling Stones, “Doom And Gloom”
Black Sabbath, “God Is Dead?”
Muse, “Panic Station”

BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE:
Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers), “Get Lucky”
Pink (feat. Nate Ruess), “Just Give Me A Reason”
Rihanna (feat. Mikky Ekko), “Stay”
Robin Thicke (feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams), “Blurred Lines”
Justin Timberlake & Jay Z, “Suit & Tie”

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park
Jason Aldean, Night Train
Tim McGraw, Two Lanes Of Freedom
Blake Shelton, Based On A True Story
Taylor Swift, Red

BEST ROCK ALBUM
Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin
13, Black Sabbath
The Next Day, David Bowie
Mechanical Bull, Kings Of Leon
…Like Clockwork, Queens Of The Stone Age
Psychedelic Pill, Neil Young With Crazy Horse

BEST METAL PERFORMANCE
God Is Dead?, Black Sabbath
T.N.T., Anthrax
The Enemy Inside, Dream Theater
In Due Time, Killswitch Engage
Room 24, Volbeat Featuring King Diamond

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
Pharrell
Rob Cavallo
Dr. Luke
Ariel Rechtshaid
Jeff Tweedy

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
Modern Vampires Of The City, Vampire Weekend
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, Neko Case
Trouble Will Find Me, The National
Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails
Lonerism, Tame Impala

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
Radioactive, Imagine Dragons
Always Alright, Alabama Shakes
The Stars (Are Out Tonight), David Bowie
Kashmir, Led Zeppelin
My God Is The Sun, Queens Of The Stone Age
I’m Shakin’, Jack White

BEST COUNTRY SONG
Merry Go ’Round, Kacey Musgraves
Begin Again, Taylor Swift
I Drive Your Truck, Lee Brice
Mama’s Broken Heart, Miranda Lambert
Mine Would Be You, Blake Shelton

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
Wagon Wheel, Darius Rucker
I Drive Your Truck, Lee Brice
I Want Crazy, Hunter Hayes
Mama’s Broken Heart, Miranda Lambert
Mine Would Be You, Blake Shelton

BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
From This Valley, The Civil Wars
Don’t Rush, Kelly Clarkson Featuring Vince Gill
Your Side Of The Bed, Little Big Town
Highway Don’t Care, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift & Keith Urban
You Can’t Make Old Friends, Kenny Rogers With Dolly Parton

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Suit & Tie, Justin Timberlke Ft. Jay Z
Safe And Sound, Capital Cities
Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film, Jay Z
Can’t Hold Us, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Ray Dalton
I’m Shakin’, Jack White

BEST RAP SONG
Thrift Shop, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
F***in’ Problems, ASAP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar
Holy Grail, Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
New Slaves, Kanye West
Started From The Bottom Drake

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
Thrift Shop, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Started From The Bottom, Drake
Berzerk, Eminem
Tom Ford, Jay Z
Swimming Pools (Drank), Kendrick Lamar

BEST RAP ALBUM
The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Nothing Was The Same, Drake
Magna Carta…Holy Grail, Jay Z
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, Kendrick Lamar
Yeezus, Kanye West

BEST DANCE ELECTRONICA ALBUM
Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
Settle, Disclosure
18 Months, Calvin Harris
Atmosphere, Kaskade
A Color Map Of The Sun, Pretty Lights

BEST DANCE RECORDING
Clarity, Zedd Featuring Foxes
Need U (100%), Duke Dumont Featuring A*M*E & MNEK
Sweet Nothing, Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch
Atmosphere, Kaskade
This Is What It Feels Like, Armin Van Buuren Featuring Trevor Guthrie

Those are the categories we’re mostly interested in. Check out all the winners at grammy.com.

Grammys 2014: GIFs & The best performances videos

The Grammys aren’t about Grammys — the vast majority of them aren’t even given out during the televised ceremony.  No, the Grammys are about the performances, and this year is looking pretty stacked. Here we’ll be posting videos of the live sets including Daft Punk (with Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, and Stevie Wonder), Beyoncé and Jay Z, Paul McCartney (Ringo’s there too!), Kendrick Lamar, Katy Perry with Juicy J, Taylor Swift, the potential-clusterfuck of Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Lindsey Buckingham, and Dave Grohl, and others. Plus, all the best GIFs in case a four minute video is too long for you.

GIFs

PERFORMANCE VIDEOS

Beyoncé & Jay Z


Lorde


Katy Perry & Juicy J


Robin Thicke & Chicago


Kendrick Lamar & Imagine Dragons


Ringo Starr


Pink & Nate Ruess


Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, & Stevie Wonder


Taylor Swift


Kacey Musgraves


Metallica & Lang Lang


Sara Bareilles & Carole King


Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr


Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert, Madonna, Queen Latifah


Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dave Grohl, & Lindsey Buckingham

Music's biggest night... to be disrespected.  A heartfelt FUCK YOU guys.
— Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) enero 27, 2014

Ty Dolla $ign – “Never Be The Same” (Feat. Jay Rock) Video

This week, the awesomely crass cult-hero R&B auteur Ty Dolla $ign released his Beach House EP. And for the inspirational fuck-the-haters song “Never Be The Same,” the EP’s most serious moment, Ty$ joined forces with Jay Rock, the most straightforward and least famous member of the ridiculously talented Black Hippy crew. For the song’s video, director Jerome D filmed both of them in crisp black and white and dropped them into a bombed-out ruin full of extras who are all supposed to symbolize something or other.

Kevin Morby - “Harlem River” (Official Music Video)

As a member of both Woods and the Babies, Kevin Morby has spent serious time in the lo-fi trenches. Morby released Harlem River, his debut solo album, late last year, and now he’s made a video for the simmering seven-minute folk-rock title track. Adarsha Benjamin directed the video, which is made up of Super-8 style footage of Morby and a girl (Jena Malone) together in what looks like a California apartment. There’s a lot of hula dancing and no hint of the actual Harlem River.

TCTS - "These Heights" (Official Video)

Manchester dance producer TCTS released his superb These Heights EP last year, at which point we heard a pair of melancholy house cuts, the title track and “Over”. Now, to herald the arrival of a new “These Heights” remix collection featuring reworkings by Kry Wolf, Detroit Swindle and Greco-Roman Soundsystem, the original version of “These Heights” gets a video treatment. The clip features what appears to be a voyeuristic old-fashioned lass watching some kind of dancing mime character (no makeup, though) while a carefully styled uptight psychoanalyst takes notes. Or maybe I’m reading it completely wrong. Decipher for yourself — and enjoy what remains a stupendous song — below.

Sun Glitters - “Only You” (Official Video)

Starring Jil Devresse and Felix Adams

Sun Glitters (aka Victor Ferreira) makes music that sounds almost exactly like his moniker. The foggy, downtempo “Only You” is a good introduction and its video, directed by Ben Andrews, fits perfectly. Through a hazy and washed out lens we follow a young couple as they walk around, meet some friends, play video games, hold hands. There’s an ending, but no real twists or shocks. It simply captures a nice moment, and that’s enough.

Bruce Springsteen - “Just Like Fire Would” (Official Video)

Bruce Springsteen’s new re-recorded odds-and-ends collection High Hopes is now the #1 album in the country, and he’s made a quick-and-dirty video for one of the album tracks, his cover of Aussie punk legends the Saints’ “Just Like Fire Would.” Springsteen’s video for the song is entirely a live affair, and it shows him and his band — the version that includes Tom Morello instead of Little Stevie — playing a small audience-free room somewhere. It doesn’t really give a sense of the life-affirming exuberant generosity of Springsteen’s live show, but it’s still a chance to watch some professionals do a job they do very well.

Poliça - “I Need $” / “So Leave” (Official Music Video)

The Minneapolis synthpop trio Poliça released their very good sophomore album Shulamith a few months ago, and their new video strings together the last two songs on that LP, “I Need $” and “So Leave.” In the clip Poliça frontwoman Channy Leaneagh plays a dual role — as a hotel maid who dreams of other lives and as, I think, herself. It’s a doppelgangers-cross-paths storyline that leads interesting places, and like Poliça’s videos for “Tiff” and “Warrior Lord,” it’s got an odd sort of power to it. Isaac Ravishankara directs.

Disclosure – “F For You” (Feat. Mary J. Blige) Video

Director: Kate Moross
Animation: Ruff Mercy, Patch Keyes & Kate Moross
Producer: Jamie Clark, My Accomplice
Editor: Kate Moross & Linus Kraemer
Compositor: Linus Kraemer

Mary J Blige directed by Kate Moross
DP: Ness Whyte
Focus Puller: Theo Berman
Gaffer: Adam Slater
Assistant: Joe Munz
Playback Op: Linus Kraemer
DIT: Pasawat Chatmaleerat

Disclosure Live action directed by Ben & Ross
Producer: Bonnie Anthony
Production Manager: Drew O'Neill
Production Assistant: Douglas Cox
1st AD: Rob Thorpe
DOP: Sam Goldie

Music video by Disclosure performing F For You.

Peter Morén – “Say My Name” Video

Last month we heard “Constant Reaction,” a track from Peter Bjorn And John frontman Peter Morén’s new solo release Broken Swenglish, Vol. 1, for which he translated songs originally sung in Swedish into English. Today Morén released another song from the project in the form of a video for “Say My Name.” Moren explained the video’s genesis in an email to Soundcheck:

Me and my friend Tomas Nordmark from Fanatic did this video in exactly one hour. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. I’m lying a little ’cause I’m not sure how many hours he spent editing. But the shooting took an hour. We went up the little ski slope that is situated close to my apartment in the southern suburbs of Stockholm just by a nature reservation park.
It’s called Hammarbybacken and got a great view. This was last fall before the snow made its grand entrance but it was still pretty damn cold. At least if you’re wearing a really thin summer suit with a t-shirt as I had set up my mind to do. But we thought it would look good with the scenery in B&W. I think it did. The only script idea was walking up the slope and walking down again. It suits the desolate mood of the track I think. Sort of desperate but calm all at once!

Soundcheck also notes that “Say My Name” was originally written in English and translated into Swedish for the original recording, then translated back to English from Swedish for this version.

Black Lips - “Boys In The Wood” (Official Video)(NSFW)

When the newest single from Black Lips came out we were promised two things: it would be about “bathtub drugs” and “bathtub gin.” It delivered, and now its video features even more of that. What starts out as a video about just getting super duper high in the woods (recommended) turns into an orgy of murder, sex, violence, and golden showers (not recommended). There’s not any actual nudity in this one, but I’m gonna go ahead and say it’s probably NSFW. The video was directed by Matt Swinsky and the ATL Twins (James Franco’s sidekicks in Spring Breakers).

Young & Sick - “Magnolia” Video

Last week we heard “Magnolia” and “Willow,” a pair of sleek, soulful synth-pop songs with R&B and new wave overtones courtesy of L.A. multimedia artist Young & Sick. Both tracks are fucking magnificent; I called them “familiar yet oh-so otherworldly,” but honestly I could spend all day coming up with adjectives to praise this stuff. Today we’re pleased to present the “Magnolia” video in all its splendor. Young & Sick has done acclaimed visual work for clients including Maroon 5, Robin Thicke, Foster The People, and, um, Andy Dick and Jerry Stiller, so he ably handles the directorial duties here. The clip’s quick-hitting stream of images focuses heavily on bubbles, ice blocks, and the tide — fitting enough for such liquid music. It’s almost as mesmerizing as the song itself. Whoever he is, this guy is doing it right; I can’t verify whether he’s young or not, but his music is most definitely sick. Watch the “Magnolia” video.

Cass McCombs - “Unearthed” (Official Video)

Almost all of the video for “Unearthed,” a ghostly acoustic blues song from Cass McCombs’s new double album Big Wheel And Others, is a single serene shot of clouds billowing across a mountaintop. But when that show changes — and I don’t want to spoil how it changes — it forever alters the entire tone of the video, and maybe of the song too. Eric Fensler directed the video, and it follows McCombs’s videos for the Big Wheel songs “Morning Star,” “Big Wheel,” and “Brighter!” If you’re watching it close enough, it’s a remarkable, disquieting piece of work.

Cass McCombs – “Morning Star” Video

If you’ve watched enough skateboarding videos, you’ve probably come to expect certain things on the soundtrack, like bruising hardcore or breezy rap. So it’s a welcome juxtaposition to see skating footage set to “Morning Star,” a softly gorgeous new song from softly-gorgeous-song specialist Cass McCombs. The song’s video, from director Patrick O’Dell, cobbles together a whole lot of old skateboarding footage — some of it ancient, almost all of it gorgeous. If you pay enough attention to that corner of the world, you may see some familiar faces.

Marissa Nadler - "Dead City Emily" Offical Music Video

“Dead City Emily” was the first thing we heard from Marissa Nadler’s forthcoming July, and now it’s the first thing we see. Directors Derrick Belcham and Emily Terndrup concocted shadowy visuals to match Nadler’s eerie balladry, turning her and Austin Tyson loose on a modern dance routine that evokes what Snoop Dogg might call sensual seduction. It reminds me of Ghost a little bit, though I don’t think either character is supposed to be dead.

Painted Palms - “Forever” (Official Video)

Painted Palms’ new video for “Forever,” a song that marries laptop electronica with Beatlesque songcraft, switches effortlessly between starkness and pastoral trippiness. It’s directed by the ours&yours team.

EMA - “Satellites” Video

The majestic, gothic, epically tense “Satellites” is the first single from The Future’s Void, former Gowns leader Erika M. Anderson’s second album as EMA. The LP follows the heart-shattering 2011 solo debut Past Life Martyred Saints, and Anderson co-produced it herself with Leif Shackelford, her violinist, who’s also a DIY dance producer in Portland. The album is set to arrive this spring, and now Anderson and Shackleford, together, have directed a video for “Satellites.” The clip works as a sort of basement-punk take on low-budget ’80s sci-fi, and it makes great use of Anderson’s absolutely magnetic on-camera presence.

Future Islands - "Seasons (Waiting On You)" (Official Video)

Earlier this month, the Baltimore art-pop trio Future Islands announced their new album Singles, the Chris Coady-produced follow-up to their great and ridiculously underrated 2011 LP On The Water. This morning, they shared the video for first single “Seasons (Waiting On You).” Frequent Future Islands collaborator Jay Buim directed the video, and it’s a loving and lyrical tribute to the life of the present-day cowboy, documenting the rodeos, church services, and early farm mornings that make up his everyday life. It’s a touching and beautifully photographed piece of filmmaking and a wonderful complement for the slow, homespun majesty of the song, which we’re hearing for the first time right now.

Girl Band - "Lawman" (Official Video)

The young Dublin quartet Girl Band plays noisy, cymbal-crashing post-punk that will click for fans of the genre’s huge revival of a decade ago — The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, and especially early Liars — but feels utterly present and alive. The band’s recent single “Lawman,” a feral beast of a no wave song driven by insistent low-end skronk, is out this week on a limited edition 7-inch, and today we have its video from the production company Second/Frame. It’s a gritty, grayscale affair befitting the song’s repetitious aggression. Have a look below.

Kwes. - “Rollerblades” (Official Video)

Last year, the British singer and producer Kwes. released his ilp. album, which featured a lovely and off-kilter pop song called “Rollerblades.” To tell you anything much about the song’s striking, surreal video, which Kwes. shared today, would be to spoil it. So I’ll just say that it involves an expressive modern-dancing, rollerskating backup singer and a mysterious piece of jewelry. Ian Pons Jewell directs.

Temples - “Mesmerise” Official Video

Two months ago, the U.K. psych-rock quartet Temples released “Mesmerise,” the breathlessly melodic lead single from their album Sun Structures. (As previously noted, Tame Impala fans ought to proceed in this general direction.) Now “Mesmerise” has an animated video by director Benjael Halfmaderholz that matches the song’s colorful character and mystique. It tells a weird, wild story that begins with an airborne glowing pyramid entering an ancient maze in the desert.

Damon Albarn - “Everyday Robots” (Official Video)

After detailing his upcoming solo album Everyday Robots, Damon Albarn has shared the title track. The video for "Everyday Robots" was directed by artist Aitor Throup, using "CGI software and actual cranial scans to create a unique digital portrait of Damon." Watch it below.

Albarn has also revealed that the album will feature contributions from Brian Eno and Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan. It was produced by XL Recordings head Richard Russell. A press release says, "The songs' subject matter is more directly personal than before and is inspired by Albarn's experiences from early childhood to now, including the trappings of our modern existence, computer games, mobile phones and nature versus technology."

The album is out April 28 in the UK and April 29 in the U.S. via Warner Bros.

Bibio - “Dye The Water Green” (Official Music Video)

Last year, the British psych-popper and Boards Of Canada disciple Bibio released his Silver Wilkinson, and next week, the album track “Dye The Water Green” will anchor a new follow-up EP called The Green EP. Bibio’s made a video for the track, and it’s made up entirely of grainy, hazily edited nature footage. Under his Stephen Wilkinson government name, Bibio directed the video himself with Michael Robinson.

Pusha T - “Suicide” Video (Feat. Ab Liva)

Pusha T already released more videos off My Name Is My Name than you can count on one hand, but why not one more when the song bangs like this? “Suicide” rides menacingly squeaky Pharrell production and features Pusha’s Re-Up Gang buddy Ab Liva, known to contribute enjoyable color commentary on classic Clipse releases. Director Nathan Brown’s video is probably not the best thing to watch if you’re epileptic, but it also manages to maintain the menacing black-and-white color palette of other recent Pusha videos. A satisfying package all around.

Schoolboy Q – “Man Of The Year” Video

After a long wait, Schoolboy Q, the most perma-energized member of the great California rap crew Black Hippy, is ready to release his new album Oxymoron next month, and today he debuts his video for the drunken, staggering, Chromatics-sampling “Man Of The Year.” The video pretty much goes straight into T&A overdrive, with Q spending time on tropical beaches with a whole mob of underdressed ladies. He looks happy.

Rick Ross – “Bound 2 (Freestyle)” Video

Rick Ross doesn’t top “Step back, can’t get spunk on the mink” on his freestyle of the Yeezus album closer, but it’s decent enough. He trades the soft glow of Ye’s infamous video for flashing carnival lights. No motorcycles here, but he still manages to namecheck a Kardashian (Khloe in this case — “Lamar loves her feet”).

Austra - “Hurt Me Now” Official Video

Gauzy Tornoto synthpoppers Austra have a history of making deeply strange and absorbing music videos, and their latest is for “Hurt Me Now,” one of the tracks from last year’s very good Olympia album. In director M. Blash’s video, the band plays in the middle of the day in a room full of a very motley assortment of dancers, one of whom, I’m pretty sure, is supposed to be Medusa. There are some great faces in this video, and you can watch.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - “Run” Official Music Video

The video for Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr’s “Run” is begging to be GIFed — the fact that it premiered over on Buzzfeed really tells you all that you need to know. It features Tumblr-ready art patterns, a dog with a gold chain around its neck, and what Buzzfeed calls an “adorable egg.” The track is off the eternally optimistic Detroit duo’s second album, which came out last October.

Disclosure - “Grab Her” (Official Video)

Pretty soon, I would not be shocked to learn that Disclosure have made great music videos for every track on their excellent 2013 debut album Settle. The latest of those videos comes from director Emile Sornin, and it’s for the J Dilla-sampling instrumental dance track “Grab Her!” It tells the story of a cheery, harassment-prone office capo who possesses the unfortunate power to make stuff fly up into the air. You’d think this would negatively affect his career-advancement prospects, but apparently not. The video is for-real funny, and you can watch. (There’s an NSFW moment or two in there, so be warned.)

Savages - “Strife” (Official Video)

Savages’ Silence Yourself was one of last year’s great debut albums, and the band’s cold, severe aesthetic works just as well visually as it does musically. The band’s live show is still the best example of that, but their new video for “Strife” is another. It’s a hard, conceptually rigorous piece of work, and it shows us nothing but two male bodies on a beach, photographed in beautiful black-and-white, struggling violently for physical supremacy. There’s no explanation given, and only a touch of actual emotion in the final shot. Antoine Carlier directs, taking inspiration from Camus’ The Stranger.

Dornik – “Rebound” Video

Dornik, a UK singer/songwriter/producer in the same camp as Disclosure and Jessie Ware, shared the smooth and sweet single “Rebound” late last year. Now that single will be getting an official release this year and there’s a music video to go along with it.

Break Horses – “You Burn” Video

Sweden’s I Break Horses dropped two tracks last year without much word of where they might end up. There was the bright synth pop of “Denial” followed by the frozen severity of “Faith.” They seemed like two sides of a coin which makes a lot more sense now that we know they’ll both be appearing on the duo’s second album, aptly titled Chiaroscuro (an art technique that uses drastic contrasts between light and darkness). Now you can check out the video for album opener “You Burn” which plays with those contrasts visually by clipping together footage of everything from ballerinas to bombs exploding. Watch the David Dean Burkhart-directed video.

Creative Adult - "Deep End" (Official Music Video)

Directed by Alex Henery

Man Man – “Loot My Body” Video

Man Man put out On Oni Pond last year and have now shared a video for the jazzy and wild “Loot My Body.” Combining animated song lyrics with various footage of their live show, it gives you a glimpse at how crazy Man Man concerts can get.

John Grant - “Glacier” (Official Video)

Last year former Czars frontman John Grant released Pale Green Ghosts, an intensely emotional album of disco styled tracks. The album closed however with the appropriately named “Glacier,” a nearly eight-minute piece of chamber-pop about being LGBTQ in America that has now been given an epic video. A sort of visual mosaic, the clip arranges photos, newspaper clippings, interviews, and news segments with Grant’s song as a soundtrack to the constant struggle.

Stone Jack Jones – “State I’m In” Video (Feat. Patty Griffin)

Self-described “ambient folk musician” Stone Jack Jones’ third album Ancestor is coming this March via Western Vinyl, and its single “State I’m In” now has a video. The song is a smoky lament that comes off like a slightly jazzier Spiritualized, its bleary swoon marked by lightly flickering trumpet parts. Legendary folk singer Patty Griffin lends backing vocals to the track. And if “State I’m In” reminds you of a gently sighing Yo La Tengo ballad, that’s partially because longtime YLT producer Roger Moutenot was behind the boards for Ancestor. Here’s Jack on the video:

at play with the muse is the “state i’m in,” and the muse at play with me; “let the music begin.” my friend elle long as my muse…type casting, with long time collaborator & friend zack spiger behind the super 8! camera.
after some lazy moody play with elle as the puppet master, we come to the looking glass and transport to “long hunter park” and nature illustrates play in the imagination as nature seems to be someones’ imagination at play with us.
the musical conversation in the instrumental section between sven regener & ryan norris as i muse through nature is one of my favorite moments of “ancestor.”
i rejoin elle & we are both at play and now the puppet master is the mysterious one and elle & i are both being mused upon in the entwining vines.
we end with the proverbial party in the head in the background. some recorded at roger moutenots’ studio in nashville and some with sven in berlin. hence the lovely light mix of german & english.

Killer Mike - “Ghetto Gospel” (Official Video) Explicit

Before Killer Mike and El-P teamed up as the fearsome rap duo Run The Jewels last year, El produced all of Mike’s great 2012 album R.A.P. Music. And today, for whatever reason, Mike has given us the video for the rumbling album track “Ghetto Gospel.” In directors Trevor Kane and Carlos Haynes’s clip, Mike dons his Sunday best and drives a pickup truck to a backwoods church before engaging in a few more illicit activities.

Cities Aviv – “Don’t Ever Look Back” Video

While Cities Aviv’s last video saw him surrounded by friends, the video for “Don’t Ever Look Back” finds the producer completely alone and vulnerable. The clip, directed by Rimar Villaseñor, mainly converses in flashing lights and shades of grey. “This piece was meant to speak as a coordination between the internal and extraterrestrial nature of portals,” the Memphis native says in a Facebook post. “If “Come To Life” is to be the total mantra, then this piece stands as its title track in that it embodies the personal crossover one must take to step out of one’s self. Merge with the void and don’t ever look back.”

7 Days Of Funk – “I’ll Be There 4U” Video

Snoop Dogg and DâM-FunK’s 7 Days Of Funk project has already yielded retro-looking videos for “Faden Away” and “Hit Da Pavement.” Now comes a third, more modern clip, this time for the exceptionally hazy album closer “I’ll Be There 4U.” Director Dah Dah Baker shot the video during a late night in Amsterdam after MTV’s European Music Awards. It features a scantily clad lady with an E-Cig who watches the funk unfold on TV and, being so inspired, rocks out in her bedroom dressed up like George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. Perhaps you’ll be moved to similar exploits when you watch below.

Midlake - “The Old & The Young” (Official Video)

The video for Midlake’s “The Old & The Young” matches the band’s pastoral-psych sound and was shot on the English-countryside childhood home of director Oliver Murray. The video follows the transformation of a cranky, old recluse into a joyful, young dancer — all because of the power of music! The Texas band released their fourth album, Antiphon, last fall, their first since guitarist Eric Pulido took over vocal duties.

Javeon - “Give Up” Video

UK singer Javeon’s new single has a lot of things going for it outside of the fact that it just sounds great. It’s produced by Tourist, the newest signee to Disclosure’s label Method Records, but it also comes with this video directed by Ben Strebel. The song’s place in the video is incidental, just a song on the radio as the story unfolds, so the song cuts off when our protagonist leaves the room, and it wildly fluctuates in volume as the two characters fight over the dial. It’s a good story, as sweet as it is simple.

A$AP Ant – “See Me” Video

Now that A$AP Mob members Rocky and Ferg are already good and famous, the rest of the crew will get a shot at the spotlight when the release their L.O.R.D. EP compilation later this year. A$AP Nast already got a chance to shine in the Method Man collaboration “Trillmatic,” and now A$AP Ant, the hungry, fierce, Baltimore-bred member of the group, goes solo on the new track “See Me.” The song has a jumpy, paranoid beat and a video, from director Andrew Hines, that plays out as a mini-horror movie, complete with ghostly surveillance footage and creep-effect white ski masks.

YACHT – “Plastic Soul” Video

While 2011′s Shangri-La was primarily marked by frenetic bursts of energy like “Utopia” and “I Walked Alone,” YACHT’s new single is probably the softest and most laidback song they’ve released to date. It’s filled with YACHT’s typical New Age platitudes, such as “Hey, the world is old / But I am young and dumb and rightful free” and “We’re indifferent to where, when, and how money’s spent.” The video was shot in Gulf Shores, Alabama and sees the band playing on the beach and setting off fireworks. It’s not clear if this is the start of another album cycle or another one-off like last year’s “Second Summer,” but it’s a welcome return for the duo.

Diplo – “Revolution” Video

Last year, Diplo released his Revolution EP, and the honking, dubsteppy title track — a collaboration with Faustix, Imanos, and Kai — gets its own video today. The clip is full of vivid but disconnected imagery: Nightclub bacchanals, speeding motorcycles, feverish Pentecostal services, boxers warming up, glass breaking, office drones getting baked. I would not be shocked to learn that the nascent weed-vaporizer industry had a hand in financing this one, but it’s worth a look even without the aid of one of those glowing-blue-light masks. 

RJD2 - "Descended From Myth" (Official Video)

RJD2′s 2013 LP More Is Than Isn’t found the Columbus-seasoned, Philly-situated musician in fine form, compiling a bunch of the exultant horn-laden breakbeats that made him a household name circa 2002. One of the best songs on that album was a triumphant instrumental called “Descended From Myth.” The song is a brass-blasting machine, so it only makes sense that its video features what appears to be a brass-blasting machine. Actually, the contraption on display here involves more than just trumpets. Like many of RJ’s best songs, it’s got a lot of moving parts.

Childbirth - “I Only Fucked You As A Joke” Video

This is a real better-late-than-never scenario. Childbirth — a Seattle trio that features members of Chastity Belt, Tacocat, and Pony Time — posted the video for their mean-as-hell garage-rock put-down “I Only Fucked You As A Joke” more than a month ago, and it even got some press back then. I only heard it this morning, and I wish I’d heard it earlier, since it’s awesome. The song is as charged and vital and absolutely withering as circa-2014 punk rock can possibly be, and it’s very funny, too. In the video, the band members wear hospital gowns and pick a Hendrix statue’s nose. It’s all too much. Band member Stacy Peck co-directed the video with Angela Herr, and you should absolutely watch.

Real Estate - “Talking Backwards” (Official Video)

Real Estate - Talking Backwards (Official Video)
Filmed by Charles Poekel
Edited by Uprising Creative

The Simpsons Apologize To Judas Priest In Chalkboard Gag

Until very recently, Stereogum/Black Market contributor Aaron Lariviere worked at Gracie Films, in the same offices as The Simpsons production team. Frequently, when a notable celebrity would stop by, Aaron would inform me via Gchat. The only time he seemed genuinely flustered by the appearance of a star, though, was last July, when Judas Priest singer Rob Halford came to the Gracie offices to work on a Simpsons guest spot. “ETIQUETTE BE DAMNED,” I wrote back to Aaron. “GET A PICTURE WITH HIM.” Alas, etiquette won, and Aaron merely sat there hyperventilating silently. Anyway, that Simpsons episode finally aired last Sunday, a week after Aaron left Gracie. And in it, unforgivably, one character referred to Priest as a “death metal” band.

Sam Smith - “Money On My Mind” Video

Sam Smith, the British soul singer who helped make Disclosure’s “Latch” what it was, shared his slick, fleet-footed single “Money On My Mind” late last year, and it was awesome. The song is specifically about not caring about money, so in filming the video, he’s naturally flown to the money-extraction capital of the known universe, Las Vegas. As Smith struts through the city, we see a few vignettes from the grubbier corners of the city, all of which might just reinforce the idea that doing it for the love is the only good reason to do it.

Cass McCombs - “Brighter!” (Feat. Karen Black) Video

Before she died last year, the great cult actress and singer Karen Black recorded vocals for “Brighter!,” a song from Cass McCombs’s double album Big Wheel And Others. After she passed, McCombs asked Black’s widower Stephen Eckelberry to direct a video for the song. Eckelberry used a bit of footage of Black and McCombs rehearsing the song together, but most of the video consists of images from Black’s films, projected in a dark room where McCombs is playing the song on guitar. And in those clips, we see the amazing magnetic presence that Black had in some of the best movies of the ’70s. The video works as a powerful tribute to a lady who was very, very alive, until she wasn’t. Watch it, and read some words about the video from Eckelberry.

Eckelberry writes:

Cass McCombs emailed me in late November 2013 and asked if I would create a music video for Brighter! – the song he recorded with Karen in December 2012 – using classic clips from her movies. It struck me as an opportunity to explore a theme that interests me – the relationship of film and memory. We watch a movie and the images from that movie become part of our memory stream.

My own memories of Karen are intertwined with memories of her in films – it gets messier for me since I directed several movies she was in – which memory is stronger; Karen during the making the film or what ended up on screen? An image came to me: Cass himself becoming a screen for the projection of images of Karen – as if his memories of her were playing themselves out over his body.

I found a clip I had shot with my iPhone when Cass was over at our house rehearsing the song with Karen, and I combined that with clips of her movies, some iconic, some more obscure, and I weaved in footage of fire, sparkes, burning… The song does seem to deal with hell, or is it the hell of fame?

(via Pitchfork)

Trentemøller - “Gravity” (Feat. Jana Hunter) Official Video (Feat. Oscar Isaac)

The actor Oscar Isaac is supposed to be great in Inside Llewyn Davis, but I haven’t seen that movie yet, so I mostly still know him as the husband from Drive. And I’m happy to report that the husband from Drive is once again great in Danish producer Trentemøller’s video for “Gravity,” a collaboration with Lower Dens singer Jana Hunter from last year’s Lost album. In the video, he’s once again involved in shady cash-only automotive business transactions in the city of Los Angeles. This time, though, his scheme seems way less practical, and only marginally less dangerous, than the dirt he was doing in Drive. Tue Walin Storm and Elvira Lind direct. It’s a great video, a total lock for the 5 Best Videos list next week.

Freddie Gibbs - “One Eighty Seven” (Feat. Problem) Video

Soon enough, Freddie Gibbs will release Piñata, his highly anticipated full-length team-up with Madlib. Meanwhile, though, Gibbs has made a video for “One Eighty Seven,” his collaboration with the very good Compton ratchet rapper Problem from ESGN, the album he released last year. The girls-and-guns video is nothing new, but it’s nice to see Gibbs doing something with some level of production value after so many murky camcorder videos, and the beauty-pageant twist is sort of fun. 

Glasser - "Shape" (Official Video)

Glasser’s placid electronic pop seems to emanate from a world inside Cameron Mesirow’s skull, and her new video for “Shape,” the single from her 2013 album Interiors, offers some idea of what that world might look like. In the clip, Mesirow dances across a CGI landscape, a place that looks like some combination of a mid-’90s Mac screensaver and Busta Rhymes and Janet Jackson’s video for “What’s It Gonna Be?!” Jonathan Turner directs for the Creators Project.

Wild Beasts - "Wanderlust" (Official Video)

British art-poppers Wild Beasts released their last album, Smother, in 2011, and since then, we’ve only heard a few stray tracks and remixes from the band. But now they’ve debuted a swollen, spacey new track called “Wanderlust,” sharing a video for the song. The clip, directed by the Barcelona collective NYSU, shows four broad archetypes as they run across a stylized landscape and have big, emotional moments.

Surfer Blood - “Say Yes To Me” Video

Surfer Blood put out the album Pythons last year and have just shared this new video for “Say Yes To Me.” According to Rolling Stone, the band received the news that they were dropped by Warner Brothers shortly before filming, and forced to make the clip for next to nothing. It finds frontman John Paul Pitts playing a diner employee with his fellow bandmates as bummed out diners before he provides then with some psychedelic condiments.

King Krule - “A Lizard State” (Official Video)

King Krule’s new video for “A Lizard State,” a fast beat-jazz workout from his 2013 debut album 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, opens with an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents introduction, one in which Hitch used rudimentary special effects to make gravity-related optical illusions and probably blew the minds of everyone watching TV when it first aired. The rest of the video plays out as a stately black-and-white homage to that moment, with Archy Marshall occupying some berserk gravity-field and a young lady in the next apartment doing some Rear Window-esque spying on him. There’s an iguana, too, and maybe that’s a Hitchcock reference that I just don’t recognize. Jamie-James Medina directs.

Lee Ranaldo And The Dust - “Late Descent #2″ Video

Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelly of Sonic Youth have been given more of a spotlight with their latest project and “Late Descent #2″ is a great example of how top-notch Ranaldo’s songwriting has always been. The song is built around harpsichord, acoustic guitar, and Ranaldo’s voice, while the video focuses on him in some intimate, dimly lit closeups.

Batwings Catwings - “Energy” Video

Last year Batwings Catwings put out a video for their song “September.” It didn’t have too heavy of a plot, but the magic of it was in how perfectly it captured the feel of their sunny, nostalgic rock song by showing a little girl getting ready to go back to school and playing with her cat. This new video for “Energy,” the third single off the same EP, is simply a parade of awesome things arranged to reinforce how awesome the song is. That means you will see Batman and Robin headbang, Jaws eating a pizza, and Miles “Tails” Prower (from Sonic The Hedgehog) jumping around. This video has a dozen Pikachus rocking out along with Tom Hanks in the late-’80s gem, The Burbs. Did I mention Worf from Star Trek TNG shows up? Because he does. That’s how great this video is: It has Worf AND Tom Hanks. Batwings Catwings’ guitarist pretty much made the whole thing on his phone. 

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - “Stranger To My Happiness” (Official Video)

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings had to delay the release of their new album Give The People What They Want because Jones was going through cancer treatments, but the album is now set for release next week. The band’s last video, for “Retreat!,” was an animated affair, presumably because Jones herself was unavailable. But now she’s back in the new video for the gloriously old-school album cut “Stranger To My Happiness.” It’s mostly a live-performance video — always a good thing for this group, since Jones is always a total dynamo onstage. This time, though, it’s special, since we see her chemo-bald but totally unbroken, a total badass and an absolute role model. Rob Hatch-Miller and Puloma Basu directed the video.

Ty Dolla $ign - “Ratchet In My Benz” (Feat. Juicy J) (Official Video)

When Ty Dolla $ign, arguably America’s ratchetest R&B singer, joins forces with Juicy J, arguably America’s ratchetest rapper, we get a song called “Ratchet In My Benz,” one where Ty$ croons “I’ma just pull it out / You’ll know what to do” like he’s making some sort of sweet romantic promise. The gleefully offensive, weirdly pretty track, from Ty$’s great Beach House 2 mixtape, has a sunny, happy-drunk new video, the sort of camera-zooming-in-on-butts thing that we haven’t seen much of since BET canceled Uncut. Mike Marasco directs.

Migos - “Jealousy” Video

One of the many, many slow-drip singles Atlanta rap trio Migos has unveiled in the leadup to their Y.R.N. 2 mixtape is “Jealousy,” an ominous diss track that threatens violence against the group’s allegedly envious enemies. As Spin points out, those threats are specifically directed at controversial young Chicago rapper Chief Keef, who tweeted late last year that he suspected Migos was sneak dissing him. Migos was in fact not sneak dissing Keef, and the mere suggestion that they would do such a thing inspired them to write this very intense, very unsneaky diss track including the chorus “Ain’t never did a sneak diss/ Called my hitman quick to put you on the hit list.” Now the song has a low-budget video featuring footage of Migos rocking a crowd and hanging out backstage.

Cass McCombs – “Big Wheel” (Official Video)

Cass McCombs put out a massive album last year, and now has a music video for the title track. Filtered images of nature, animals, bleeding fingers, and other visually manipulated shots wash over you as McCombs’ steady folk rocker pushes along. W

Cassorla - "Bona Fide (with Aubrey Plaza)" (Official Video)

Last month we brought you “Bona Fide,” an immensely pleasant yacht pop jaunt from Cassorla’s Amigos EP featuring Parks And Recreation star Aubrey Plaza on sax. Now that song has a video by director Louis Fried that comprises performance artist Nick Cregor body-movin’ in various transportation venues while Plaza mean-mugs and lip-syncs on a paddle boat. Cassorla describes it thusly: “Filmed in New York on the Staten Island Ferry and in L.A. in a paddle boat on Echo Park Lake, director Louis Fried shot a love story about two people who push and pull from each other on screen, who don’t even know they’re in love.” Not sure I’m picking up on the love story, but the video’s a lot of fun.

Califone - "Movie Music Kills a Kiss" (Official Video)

The rootsy Chicago band Califone gave us their Stitches album last year, and a new video for the album track “Movie Music Kills A Kiss” follows “Frosted Tips” and “We Are A Payphone” as the latest video from the LP. Band frontman and occasional filmmaker Tim Rutili directed this video. It’s a single slow-motion tracking shot, a cryptic and possibly symbolic look at a fiery domestic tableau.

Snoop Lion - "Get Away ft. Angela Hunte" (prod. Major Lazer) Video

Snoop Lion's homage to old school video games in his latest visual "Get Away," from his Grammy-nominated album REINCARNATED: http://smarturl.it/ReincarnatedDX

Directed by: Ashten "Whoopi" Winger
Animated by: Mykola Dosenko

Future - “Maison Margiela” (Official Video)

The Belgian fashion designer Maison Martin Margiela designed Kanye West’s Yeezus tour wardrobe, including the masks, and he’s shouted out in the “Niggas In Paris” lyric “What’s that jacket, Margiela?” So of course he’s getting repped by other rappers now, including Future, who named his new street single after the guy. Specifically, Future brags about spending $1,500 on a pair of Margiela shoes. It’s one of many boasts of the financial and non-financial variety to accrue atop an ominously triumphant post-40 pulse by Atlanta producer Metro Boomin, whose 19 & Boomin mixtape first included “Maison Margiela.” The song’s popped up again on DJ Esco’s No Sleep tape and now has a video featuring Future and Esco (Future’s tour DJ) on a private jet.

Your Worst Nightmare: A 407-Ft. “Hotel California” Vinyl Record

We, as Americans, have a fascination with taking a practical thing and expanded it to such a gargantuan size that its actual use or purpose becomes irrelevant. From the biggest boot to the world’s largest hammer these monuments serve no purpose other than to say, “Look how big we made it!” And that is … pretty damn cool. To add to that list of gigantic objects, we now present to you the largest vinyl record in the world. Bad news: It’s Hotel California. Good News: It doesn’t actually play.

The record now sits atop the roof of the Forum in Inglewood, CA, and measures 407 feet in diameter — or maybe it’s more appropriate to simply call it a 4884-inch. It was installed in anticipation of the six Eagles shows to mark the re-opening of the Forum since its purchase and renovation by the Madison Square Garden Company. The record took 10 days and roughly 75 workers to construct, and it actually rotates. Watch the pretty ridiculous video promotional video below and pray this isn’t the beginning of a really strange Kaiju-film.

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A$AP Ferg – “Hood Pope” Video

When I say A$AP Ferg’s “Hood Pope” was one of my favorite songs of 2013, I mean I couldn’t go 60 seconds some days without emulating the mournfully crooned multi-syllabic “Oooohhhhh” that kicks off the chorus. So I’m delighted to report that the song now has a video featuring Ferg cruising through Harlem, rounding up hard-luck children, baptizing them into the Church of Ferg, and… ascending to heaven? Sure, why not. Shomi Patwary and Ferg co-directed the clip, which accents pained emotional depth with slight absurdity in a way that matches the music. Belooooooow, watch him sing his song, and if you’re feeling shit, motherfucker sing along.