Sam Smith - "Stay With Me" (Official Video)

The British soul singer and Disclosure collaborator Sam Smith has already topped the UK’s singles chart with “Money On My Mind,” and he’s the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend. But for a star on the rise, Smith isn’t exactly crackling with electric charisma. Instead, he’s a slightly schlubby Rick Astley type with a fantastic haircut, and therein his charm lies. That’s the Smith we see in the video for his deeply satisfying new single, the gospel-inflected ballad “Stay With Me.” The clip follows Smith strolling forlornly through London streets and mixing it up with the song’s gospel choir.

Black Lips - "Nightmare Field" (Official Video)

Fresh from the pressing plant, and fresh off some interesting comments about hip-hop, the Black Lips have a new video for “Nightmare Field.” Directed by Bryan Bankovitch, and recorded at Living Room Studios in Atlanta, the video shows the Black Lips all dressed up as the Pink Angels — greaser-ed up and motorcycle-ready.

Sisyphus - “Booty Call” (Official Video)

Sufjan Stevens helped to make a song called “Booty Call,” and now he’s acting like someone who helped make a song called “Booty Call.” Earlier this month, Sufjan’s side-project trio Sisyphus, which also includes Son Lux and art-rapper Serengeti, released their self-titled full-length debut. And now Sufjan is in the video for the Serengeti-led “Booty Call,” dancing for a fisheye lens and wearing a “BOSS” medallion and hanging out with girls who are making out with each other. Does Sufjan’s youth pastor know about all this? What happened to that boy?

Amen Dunes "Lilac In Hand" (Official Music Video)

Damon McMahon’s murky psych group Amen Dunes are getting ready to put out their most worked-over album Love, but that  doesn’t mean we’re dealing with something polished to a sheen. Rather the songs we’ve heard have used the band’s fogginess as a strength. Case in point: the hazy and warm “Lilac In Hand,” which now has a Karl Lemieux-directed video that almost makes a stop-motion animation out of grainy black and white stills as we follow our subject through city streets.

Lolawolf - “Jimmy Franco” (Official Video ftr A$AP Rocky)

Zoë Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet’s daughter, is a model, and she did a pretty OK job playing Tempest in the movie X-Men: First Class. She also leads the synthpop trio Lolawolf. And in her group’s new video for their song “Jimmy Franco,” she and A$AP Rocky (who doesn’t rap on the song) snuggle up to each other in artist Kenny Scharf’s Brooklyn loft space. They look like a very cute couple, and I enjoy the song roughly infinity times more than I’ve ever enjoyed a Lenny Kravitz song, which is to say it’s not bad. Jon Hoeg directed the video.

Born Ruffians - “Oceans Deep” (Official Video)

It has been a little over a year since Born Ruffians dropped Birthmarks, and today they have a new video. Directed by Alphabrette, the “Oceans Deep” video captures a dark night filled with bright glowing puppets used by the band. Simulating big bioluminescent flies, they bounce around until they eventually come across an even bigger, brighter frog.

King Khan & The Shrines - “Born To Die” (Official Video)

The garage-rock animals King Khan & The Shrines’ new video for their pounding rave-up “Born To Die” pays tribute to Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean psychedelic surrealist filmmaker whose movies are holy texts for stoners worldwide. The clip, directed by Hylas Films, piles on the weirdly eroticized imagery — powdered wigs, machine guns, electric chairs — and Khan himself plays a Minotaur.

Shakira - "Empire" (Official Video)

Shakira performing Empire. (C) 2014 Ace Entertainment S.ar.l

Lady Gaga - "G.U.Y." (Official video)

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Music video by Lady Gaga performing "G.U.Y." ©2014 Interscope

Calle 13 - "Adentro" (Official Video)

Official Music Video for Calle 13's "Adentro"

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Director: Kacho López Mari

Concept - René Pérez Joglar

Executive Producer: Tristana Robles

Line Producer: Cynthia González

Editor: Kacho López Mari

Production Company: Filmes Zapatero

Kurt Cobain, Tupac, John Lennon Are Still Alive And Shilling For Dutch Beer In This Bad Commercial

Conspiracy theorists have long speculated that dead celebrities like Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur are actually alive and well — living in luxury on a secluded desert isle, perhaps? And while such ideas might play as harmless whimsical fantasy in a vacuum, recreating them in service of selling beer seems more than a little crass — particularly when some of the celebs were so actively trying not to sell out, and especially if the execution is less than stellar. Alas, Bavaria Radler learned nothing from the great Doc Martens debacle of ’07. The Dutch beer company’s new spot depicts Elvis, Tupac, Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee, John Lennon, and Kurt Cobain alive, well, and enjoying many delicious swigs of Bavaria together on a deserted island somewhere. Marilyn rubs suntan lotion on Pac’s stomach. Lee uses martial arts to knock down a tree and shield himself from a passing ship. Lennon — who barely even looks like Lennon, let’s be honest — greets the bartender as Jude, as if he would ever pay tribute to one of Paul’s sentimental anthems with a straight face. Altogether it’s a mess that does dishonor to all involved, so hatewatch it below and save your heartiest ridicule for the comments section.

Tokyo Police Club - “Hot Tonight” (Official Video)

On the same day as the release of their new album Forcefield, Tokyo Police Club post the music video for album track “Hot Tonight.” In the video, the band members spend a day in a dimly lit bar adorned with retro arcade machines, playing video games and having drinks with friends. There are all-around good vibes and even some brief cultural references, like the Rob Ford video game “Manic Mayor,” where players can earn a “crack pipe bonus,” and the presence of a Miley Cyrus avatar in a video game titled “Twitter Beef.”

Odonis Odonis - “Order In The Court” (Official Video)

The blistering Toronto industrial punk combo Odonis Odonis is nearing the release of their new album Hard Boiled Soft Boiled. And while the recent “Angus Mountain” video showcased the record’s prettier second half, “Order In The Court” is pure abrasive ugliness akin to Ministry or Odonis Odonis’ friends and neighbors, Metz. This may just be personal bias speaking, but the wild whimpers and frantic undercurrents could pass for a Dismemberment Plan freakout beefed up to Fucked Up levels of sonic girth. Director Lee Stringle sets the song against animated versions of Hieronymus Bosch paintings. It’ll drive you crazy in a good way when you watch.

Sylvan Esso - “Coffee” (Official Video)

Sylvan Esso is the synthy, textured side-project duo from two people whose main bands — Mountain Man for Amelia Meath, Megafaun for Nick Sanborn — are about as rootsy and ramshackle as it gets. Their new video for the breathy, beautiful “Coffee” works as an ode to the power and importance of communal dancing, whether in its country line-dancing or choreographed musical-number forms, though the bit at a vomit-spattered college rager gets a bit dark. Dan Huiting directs with slo-mo assurance.

The Julie Ruin - “Just My Kind” Video

Last year, Kathleen Hanna’s new band the Julie Ruin released Run Fast, their debut album, and they brought in James Murphy to mix one of its tracks, the real-talk love song “Just My Kind.” That song is now the band’s third music video, following “Oh Come On” and “Goodnight, Goodbye,” and it shows the different band members playing outdoors in various different locations: New York, Australia, the Catskill Mountains, Hawaii. Hanna filmed some of it, as did Brendan Kennedy, editor Carmine Covelli, and Hanna’s husband, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz. And you probably won’t see anything more romantic today than Kathleen Hanna fighting to stay upright while waves pummel her, singing directly to the King Ad-Rock while he films her.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - “Simple And Sure” (Official Video)

Kip Berman’s Brooklyn indie-pop group the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have been away for a while, but they’re back this spring with their new album Days Of Abandon, and first single “Simple And Sure” is an absolute ray of sunshine. The song’s new BANGS-directed video is built on the idea of live-action animated gifs, with the guests at a fancy banquet acting out various domestic dramas by keeping their bodies on real-time loops. Things take a few unexpected turns toward the end.

Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - “Kentucky” (Official Video)

The collaboration album Foreverly, between Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and jazz-pop artist Norah Jones, was a strange and yet endearing release that arrived at the end of last year. The two singers created their version of the Everly Brothers’ album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us; when we talked with the duo about the project, Armstrong described his invitation to Jones to work together as being like a “blind date.” Months after the album’s release comes this video to accompany the track “Kentucky.” The serene video follows a young couple embarking on multiple outdoor adventures.

Small Black - “Real People” (Feat. Frankie Rose) Video

New York synthpoppers Small Black will release their new EP Real People next week, and the title track, like first single “Lines Of Latitude,” has backing vocals from fellow starry-eyed synthpopper Frankie Rose. The new “Real People” video, from director Nick Bentgen, doesn’t have any particular story, or at least it doesn’t have one that I can follow, but it’s heavy on ’80s B-movie aliens-are-among-us iconography. The clip is beautifully photographed, with atmosphere for days. And if it turned out that it was nothing but out-of-context clips from a European thriller, I would absolutely watch that movie.

Scumdogs Of YouTube: 10 Memorable GWAR Moments

GWAR singer and mastermind Dave Brockie, who died Sunday at the far-too-young age of 50, will be remembered as a shock rock innovator. An obnoxious spitball in the face of Marilyn Manson’s humorless pretension, GWAR followed the tradition set by Alice Cooper, bringing a strong sense of tongue-in-cheek humor alongside savage wit, broad comedy, and social satire. Only in GWAR’s case, they cranked up the theatrics a hundredfold, their shtick loaded with elaborate foam-latex costumes, hilariously simulated violence, Borscht Belt gags, and best of all, gallons upon gallons of fake blood and goo that would be sprayed and spewed all over audiences wherever the band played. Aside from creating wildly entertaining music — starting off as straightforward punk but quickly adopting a style that was equal parts traditional heavy metal and thrash — Brockie was one of rock’s great wits, a tremendous interview, and an all-around funny guy, always around to provide some much needed levity in a genre that, especially in recent years, tends to dwell too much on negativity. The metal scene is a hell of a lot less fun without the man. As a little tribute to Brockie, here are ten GWAR moments, in somewhat chronological order, that won’t be soon forgotten.

“Sick Of You”

This video from 1990 was the introduction to GWAR for many. The eye-popping costumes, the violence, the broad comedy, and a very catchy song — arguably the band’s catchiest song ever — made an indelible first impression. The album on which it appears, Scumdogs Of The Universe, remains the band’s biggest seller.



Live From Antarctica

Released on VHS in 1990 and becoming a cult favorite soon after, this full GWAR concert remains a classic document of the band’s outlandish, messy stage show.



Beavis & Butt-head

“You watch videos, you watch TV, watch TV, and everything sucks, and something like this comes on, and it’s like, it’s cool.” Amen, Beavis. Amen.



GWAR Vs. Joan Rivers

GWAR quickly became a favorite on the talk-show circuit, starting with Jerry Springer in the 1990s and carrying on to everything from Fox News to The Dan Patrick Show in recent years. However, the sheer incongruousness of Oderus Urungus and Beefcake The Mighty appearing on The Joan Rivers Show in the early 1990s remains an absolute delight, Brockie matching wits with one of the funniest ladies of all time.



Empire Records

Panned by critics but loved by teens at the time, the 1995 Liv Tyler vehicle was made even more memorable thanks to a funny cameo by Brockie and GWAR.



Nardwuar

In which Oderus nearly meets his match in the inimitable Nardwuar The Human Serviette on Canadian television in 2002. “I didn’t play golf with Tommy Lee. He wouldn’t get in the same party with me, he wouldn’t ride around in a golf cart. But, I did go to his house and we went to the hot tub and drowned a child.”



Brockie Interviews Oderus

Who better person to interview Oderus than Brockie himself?



GWAR Play Dance Central

“One of the guys I worked with for awhile had been a roadie/member of the slave pit for awhile, when they came through town he got us on the guest list and I got to see my friend get eaten by a giant vagina. Great show. Later on we talked to their management and got them to come by on an afternoon before a show and play the game Dance Central, you could tell they were tired as shit but when the camera went on they were totally and funny … kind of defined them to me, taking time out of their day for no money to come do something silly at a video game magazine.” –Matt Helgeson



Oderus Reads Goodnight Moon

Pure comedy genius.



GWAR Meet Billy Ocean

Always good sports, Brockie and GWAR made waves when they covered Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son” as part of The A.V. Club’s Undercover series. As fun as that performance was, it could not compare to the band’s return a year later, when they performed a psychotic rendition of Billy Ocean’s “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car.” The clip was a viral hit, so much so that GWAR performed it on their subsequent North American tour.

Via: Stereogum.

Fear Of Men - “Luna” (Official Video)

Fear Of Men have shared three great tracks from their upcoming debut full-length Loom, all of which inject some life into the dream-pop genre. The video for “Luna” is absolutely transfixing, as lead vocalist Jessica Weiss stares fearlessly ahead as an arrow is pointed straight at her heart. The video recreates works from performance artist Marina Abramovich, including “Rest Energy” and “Dragonhead.”

Garden City Movement - “Move On” (OfficialVideo)

“Move On” is a hazy ballad from the Israeli trio Garden City Movement, and its gorgeously shot new video tells the story of an affair between two young girls. But then, the video isn’t really about that affair; it’s about significant eye-contact and soft sunlight and Leonardo DiCaprio posters. Almost any isolated shot from the video could be an album cover (though a few of them would be vaguely NSFW album covers). Michael Moshonov and Lael Utnik direct. It is a very, very pretty piece of work, and you can watch it below.

Tinashe - “2 On” (Feat. Schoolboy Q) Video

With its DJ Mustard beat and its Schoolboy Q guest verse, “2 On,” the new single from the Los Angeles R&B singer Tinashe, is a song that aims for Tumblr cool and down-the-middle pop appeal at the same damn time. Similarly, the song’s new video, recreates some of the tropes of the late-’90s/early-’00s teenpop/R&B crossover era, but it does it within quotes. The backlit scenes, in particular, feel like tributes to Aaliyah.

Pixies - “Snakes” (Official Video)

So that’s what happened to Arcade Fire’s mask. Pixies’ video for EP2 closer “Snakes” features a number of humongous papier mâché bobbleheads that remind me of Sesame Street and a desert showdown that reminds me of Breaking Bad. Watch director Mark Locke’s work below.

UPDATE: It seems a third surprise Pixies EP, EP3, is now available, and EP1, EP2, and EP3 will be combined into an album called Indie Cindy, due out 4/28. It’ll be Pixies’ first album since 1991′s Trompe Le Monde, and first without Kim Deal. Watch an album trailer below.

Young Knives - “White Sands” (Official Video)

The spastic British rock trio Young Knives is releasing “White Sands,” a highlight from last year’s Kickstarter-funded Sick Octave, as a limited edition 7-inch. To herald the occasion, they’ve produced a zany video accompanied by this statement from singer/guitarist Henry Dartnall:

This is the new video for our single “White Sands.” It was shot in an old granite quarry on Dartmoor. The video itself is based on a strange dream I had: We had started a cult but it was just us three in the cult and we were really into insect husbandry. There was some meditation but we also just liked doing jackass style stunts and drinking Coke. It was really good fun but our wives were not so keen on it; they thought we spent enough time together what with the band and everything. The video is sponsored by a few big brands so you’ll have to excuse the gratuitous product placement shots, but in this day and age…
An interesting fact: The granite from this quarry was used to build London Bridge.

“White Sands,” a bracing experimental clatter with a giddy energy that reminds of Oxford Collapse, will be backed by a new song called “I Only Want Your Love” on the 7-inch, which will be on white vinyl and limited to 300 copies.

Diarrhea Planet - “Babyhead” (Official Video)

The members of Nashville guitarmy Diarrhea Planet are obviously a bunch of goofballs, or else they never would have named their band Diarrhea Planet. Now they’ve provided further proof of their refined sense of humor by releasing a video for I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams rager “Babyhead” featuring their adult heads attached to babies’ bodies from their old family home videos. Directed by Robin Comisar, it’s both fun and ridiculous, which is what this band’s all about.

Thee Oh Sees - “The Lens” (Official Video)

Even as frontman John Dwyer stays busy with his solo project Damaged Bug and his reunited old band the Coachwhips, on-hiatus garage-rock standard-bearers Thee Oh Sees will drop their new album Drop next month. Their new animated music video for the single “The Lens” is every bit as much as much a psychedelic bugout as the song itself. The clip, from director Alex Theodoropulos, concerns the adventures of an astronaut who’s traveling across a late-’60s rock-show poster, or something like that. And because of sprouting dicks that turn into flowers and other assorted nudity, you’d probably do best to consider it NSFW.

Rick Ross - “The Devil Is A Lie” (Official Video)

Rick Ross’s new album Mastermind is far from being his best work, but “The Devil Is A Lie,” its stormy and horn-stabbed Jay Z collab, is an easy highlight. You’d think a track like that would demand the typical bajillion-dollar Rick Ross video, with all the car chases and helicopters and leashed lions that would imply. Instead, the song has a murky new video with no Jay, and it only has the song’s first verse and its first two choruses. Ross raps alongside flaming garbage cans, which, I mean, have you ever seen a flaming garbage can in real life? Do they only exist to connote hardness in rap videos?

Vince Staples - “Nate” (Feat. James Fauntleroy) Official Video

This week’s reigning Mixtape Of The Week is Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2, the short but stunning effort from the young Long Beach rapper Vince Staples. And the tape’s best song is probably “Nate,” a collaboration with the R&B singer James Fauntleroy about the way Staples, as a kid, would idolize his criminal father even though he came to understand that his father was nobody to idolize. The song’s slow, sharp, devastating new video, from director Alexi Papalexopulos, shows a very young Staples, or a kid with similar experiences, experiencing some things at home that he should not have to experience.

Justin Timberlake - “Not A Bad Thing” Video

Hate-Watch Alert: Justin Timberlake doesn’t appear in his own video for “Not A Bad Thing,” a pretty boring song from his thoroughly unnecessary second 2013 album The 20/20 Experience – 2 Of 2. Instead, a pair of spectacularly incompetent documentary-filmmaker detectives sets out to find a mythical couple who apparently got engaged, using that song, on the Long Island Railroad. The filmmakers accomplish nothing. They do, however, find a bunch of people in couples to mouth vague platitudes about love to the camera. That sounds like something you’d want to watch, right? For six minutes? With Ellen DeGeneres introducing it? And a sadistic “to be continued” tag at the end? And riveting scenes where our two heroes text each other about not being able to find the couple? Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry James’s “Lana Del Rey” now has competition for the title of “most fucking hate-worthy video of 2014.”

Kevin Gates - “Arm & Hammer” Video

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Le1f - “Boom” (Official Video)

As long as we’ve been doing Album Of The Week, we’ve only granted the prize to two EPs, and one of those was Le1f’s fantastic Hey, which took it last week. Now, director Sam B. Jones has made a video for “Boom,” the club-rap anthem that served as the EP’s first single. Le1f only ever makes great, theatrical videos, and this is one of them. It’s got Le1f and friends working in a particularly freaky fast-food restaurant, and it does awesome things with neon lights and window reflections.

Tomas Barfod - "Happy (feat. Eddie Chacon)" (Official Video)

On Danish producer Tomas Barfod’s gorgeously glimmering house track “Happy,” Eddie Chacon, the still-living half of the early-’90s R&B duo Charles & Eddie, sings about how his friends keep dying and about learning to accept the loss. It is an emotional gutpunch of a song, and it makes me want to read a profundity into the video that maybe isn’t there. In director Jakob Marky’s clip, a severely mustachioed middle-aged man dances his way through a room of pulsing lamps. Maybe he’s expressing his inner pain and exhaustion, or maybe he’s just trying out his badass new lighting system.

Kim Deal - “The Root” (Official Video)

Over the last year or so, Kim Deal has been working on a singles series, dropping two songs every couple months. In the past we’ve heard tracks like “Hot Shot,” “Walking With A Killer,” and most recently “Are You Mine?” Today she has a new one out with Morgan Nagler (whose band, Whispertown, has toured with the Breeders) called “The Root.” Watch the quick and dirty music video, shot with a cameraphone in a parking lot.

Kishi Bashi - “Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!” (Official Video)

We heard an early version of “Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!” last August, when violinist/singer/loop-experimentalist Kishi Bashi released it as the A-side of a then-new 7″, but an updated, more robust version of the song now serves as the lead single for his forthcoming sophomore album, Lighght. In any form, the track is a total joy: Kishi Bashi’s delirious melodies, multi-tracked vocals, and soaring violin are capable of producing a sensation very similar to actual chemical intoxication. The song’s new animated video does a nice job capturing the acid-peak qualities of Kishi Bashi’s music. I encourage you to check out the song and video, and I especially encourage you to see the guy when he plays your town, because it’s a really magical experience.

Movement - “Like Lust” (Official Video)

Australian R&B trio Movement grabbed a lot of attention for two recent singles, “Us” and “Like Lust,” and this Mike Daly-directed video for the latter should do the same. It’s simple, just footage of the band performing, but that’s what makes it so satisfying. When first hearing Movement it would be understandable to assume it was just one producer weaving hazy, smooth sounds while repeating vocal phrases like mantras. But this is a band, and watching them play this music and sing these vocals in front of you is breathtaking.

S. Carey - “Crown The Pines” (Official Video)

“Crown The Pines,” Bon Iver member S. Carey’s latest gorgeous orchestral folk-rock suite from the upcoming Range Of Light, now has an appropriately pretty music video. Director Kron has bathed Carey and his compadres in vibrant color and flickering light, a simple but evocative visual treatment that does a great song justice.

Bleeding Rainbow – “Images” Video

The video the band directed for the song, which sees them playing through shifting filters and layers of themselves.

Hear London Grammar Cover INXS’ “Devil Inside” In Game Of Thrones‘ Season 4 Trailer

If we were the sort of website that posted more than just music, we would be absolutely all over every single trailer for the forthcoming Game Of Thrones season. As it is, we now have a reason to post about the show. The new trailer for the show’s fourth season features a new song: British pop trio London Grammar covering INXS’s 1989 single “Devil Inside.” That’s a song about man’s capacity for evil, a theme that this show has explored plenty. And after that deeply goofy mixtape, it’s the second musical endeavor the show has made to promote the coming season. Watch the trailer, whether or not you care about the idea of London Grammar covering INXS.

RATKING (Feat. King Krule) - “So Sick Stories” (Official Video)

The trio known as RATKING are a hip-hop group, but as an early collaboration with Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and the recent single “Canal” have shown, they definitely lean more toward the experimental side of things a la groups like Death Grips and clipping. Their newest video is for the track “So Sick Stories,” their collaboration with King Krule, and it’s still remarkable to hear how comfortably King Krule can shift from crooning to rapping.

Lolawolf - “Drive (Los Angeles)” Official Video

When Brooklyn trio Lolawolf (Zoë Kravitz, James Levy, and Jimmy Giannopoulos) released the single “Drive,” it sounded a bit like something you’d find on the soundtrack to the film Drive. But while the song already had a dreamy romanticism, these qualities come across even stronger in its new Jordan Harkins-directed video. Bathed in bright pink lights, it’s filled with closeups of lips, thighs, and — yes — driving.

Black Lips - "Justice After All" (Official Video)

Black Lips’ woodsy, Patrick-Carney-assisted Underneath The Rainbow is out today, and the garage rockers have marked the occasion by releasing a video for album track “Justice After All.” Directors Andy Capper and Danilo Parra filmed the band in concert and roaming the streets in their hometown of Atlanta and interspersed those images with clips from classic movies. The song, meanwhile, is a bouncy bit of twang-inflected rock that just might make you want to check out the LP.

Ex Hex - “Hot And Cold” Official Video (Feat. Ian Svenonius)

One of the best bands I saw at SXSW this year was Ex Hex, the new trio led by former Helium/Wild Flag member Mary Timony. I seriously can’t say enough good things about this group; it’s Timony doing Ramones/Cheap Tricks riffs and blazing guitar solos with a fully locked-in rhythm section, and everyone I know who saw them developed instant devastating crushes on bassist Betsy Wright. In the band’s new video for their debut single “Hot And Cold,” Timony shares an awkward date with a fellow D.C. punk legend, Nation Of Ulysses/Make-Up frontman Ian Svenonius, and things don’t become fun until her bandmates show up. Lara Gallagher directs.

Future - “Covered N Money” (Official Video)

Last week we heard Future’s latest dose of hard-hitting street rap from Honest, “Covered N Money.” Today comes the song’s video, which features Future as a mafioso under FBI investigation. So, pretty basic rap video stuff carried by a heavy dose of charisma, which is fitting for a meat-and-potatoes banger reshaped in Future’s own image.

Bishop Nehru - “You Stressin” (Prod. Disclosure) Video

Disclosure made their first-ever foray into rap production when they put together the beat for “You Stressin’,” the new single from the young New York rapper Bishop Nehru. It’s a good song, but it’s a bit of a shame that Bishop couldn’t recruit any of Disclosure’s video directors to make the song’s video. The clip is, more or less, just a lyric video, with words flowing out of animated studio speakers. It is, however, another chance to hear the song.

Chromeo - “Jealous (I Ain’t With It)” (Official Video)

Synth-funkateers Chromeo are getting ready to release their new album White Women, and it’s already yielded the great ’80s-kitsch video for the Toro Y Moi duet “Come Alive.” Now they’ve made an equally cartoonish clip for the new single “Jealous (I Ain’t With It).” In this one, Dave 1 plays the lonely, green-with-envy pastor of a Las Vegas wedding chapel. And while I’ve never been to an actual real-life Vegas wedding chapel, I’m guessing most of its patrons aren’t as pretty as the people in this clip.

Neneh Cherry (Feat. Robyn) - “Out Of The Black” (Official Video)

On “Out Of The Black,” a track from her new Four Tet-produced comeback album Blank Project, eternal badass Neneh Cherry linked up with Robyn, a fellow Swedish pop-music tough-chick. But the song isn’t the technicolor pop explosion it could be; it’s a tense and downbeat seether. The song’s new video, from director Dario Vigorito, looks like a sensory-overload pop video, placing Cherry and Robyn into a frantic cut-up kaleidoscope. But instead, it works as a meditation on the idea of sensory overload; it’s not exactly a celebration.

Franz Ferdinand - “Fresh Strawberries” (Official Video)

Franz Ferdinand recently released Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action track “Fresh Strawberries” as a single with an entirely German-sung B-side. Now they’ve got a music video shot in stark black and white, filled with strange, surreal imagery.

Fito Paez - "Margarita" (Official Video)

Music video by Fito Paez performing Margarita.

Guión y Dirección: Azul Lombardía y Julieta Otero
Director de Fotografía: Eric Elizondo
Dirección de Arte: Eugenia Díaz
Ilustraciones y Animación: Eugenia Díaz e Ismael Mon
Edición: Teikyrisi / Emiliano Serra
Vestuario: Sol Canievsky
Asistente de Dirección: Juan Martín Zubiri
Maquillaje: Rocío Baldonedo
Sonido Directo y Mezcla de Sonido: Juan Pablo Ferreiro
Producción: Nina Horowitz
Productor General: Lucas Mirvois
Producido por: La Maldita ®

BANKS - “Brain” (Official Video)

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Back in January we heard up and coming singer BANKS drop the ghostly pop single “Brain,” produced by the Shlohmo. Now “Brain” has a video that provides darkly beautiful visual compliment to the song’s amorphous music while BANKS delivers an impassioned performance.

Johnny Cash - "She Used To Love Me A Lot" (Official Music Video)

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On March 25, Columbia/Legacy will release Out Among the Stars, an album of lost songs recorded by Johnny Cash in the early 1980s. Now, a video has been released for the album cut "She Used to Love Me a Lot", directed by filmmaker John Hillcoat (the man behind The Proposition, The Road, and Lawless as well as music videos for Nick Cave, How to Destroy Angels, Depeche Mode, and more). It collects images from the grittier side of the American landscape, filmed during a month-long journey across the country.

Hillcoat shared a statement about the video in a press release:

The lyrics seemed to speak to America as it is now, to the nation that loved him and to the great divide he fought so hard against. This divide has only grown exponentially since he died, so we wanted to show America under this stark light and as a homage to the very reason Cash always wore black: to the shameful increase of the disenfranchised and outsiders. At the same time, we wanted to reference the great man's own struggle and journey from the love of his life to the burnt out ruins of his infamous lake house home, personal photographs, the cave where he tried to take his life but then turned it all around, the place he last recorded in and his last photo before his passing.

"She Used to Love Me a Lot" was written by Dennis Morgan, Charles Quillen, and Kye Fleming. In 1984, a recording of the song by David Allan Coe was released on Columbia. 

The Griswolds - "Red Tuxedo" Video

The Griswolds “Red Tuxedo”  music video directed by Kristian Mercado — fun, illustrative and nostalgic experience.

Dog Blood - "Chella Ride" (Official Video)

Golden Wolf’s latest project is a frenetic, collage-inspired music video for Dog Blood, a collaborative project between Skrillex and Boys Noize.

Art directed by Primary, “Chella Ride” features secret government experiments, dogs in space and, of course, lots of lasers. What’s not to love?

Says Golden Wolf:

We jumped at the chance of working with them and set out on a journey to create our most elaborate and detailed animation to date, mixing multiple techniques such as 3d, 2d, cel animation and live action footage to create a hybrid style that feels unique to the project. It was a rare chance to get the entire studio involved as well as a chance to collaborate with our sister company ilovedust on the design.

Monsieur Cok

Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic labourers. But one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily.

Ecirava (Animated Short Film)

An animated short film about a covetous homeless and a mysterious mirror.

The So So Glos - “Blowout” (Official Video)

The So So Glos had a great 2013. They put out our Album Of The Week pick, Blowout, and dropped a series of great music videos including the surreal B-movie adventure of “Wrecking Ball.” Now they have a video for that album’s title track in the form of a chaotic cut-and-paste cartoon that features screaming fans, a pencil-and-paper devil, Street Fighter’s Zangief, and the Beatles.

Watch Beth Sing Waxahatchee On The Walking Dead (Because They Couldn’t Get Neutral Milk Hotel)

The Walking Dead takes place in a tragic, apocalyptic reality where armies of corpses are after flesh and the fellow survivors are even more dangerous, so you’d think the show’s characters wouldn’t have much time for indie rock. Apparently, they do, though! The character Beth Greene (played by Emily Kinney) has already established herself as the show’s resident hipster; she sang Tom Waits’s “Hold On” on the show last season. And on last night’s episode, she sang “Be Good,” a song from Waxahatchee’s debut album American Weekend, to her kinda-boyfriend Darryl. Radio.com reports that the show had attempted to license a Neutral Milk Hotel song for the moment, but they ended up with “Be Good” because of what music supervisor Thomas Golubic calls a “licensing hurdle.” But that’s OK; “Be Good” is a great song! Also of note: American Weekend came out in 2012, when The Walking Dead had already been on TV for two years, so I guess the show takes place in the very near future?

These New Puritans - “Island Song” Live Video

 These New Puritans: Island Song

A Cinematic Live Session From the Uncompromising British Musicians

These New Puritans give a taste of their forthcoming American tour in today’s live music video, co-directed by the experimental band and Phil Poole. The performance of “Island Song” at Electric Brixton in London was captured by multiple cameras, showcasing the group's elegiac third record Field of Reeds, which has drawn high praise from such notable figures as Elton John and Björk. “The motivation for coming to the US this time was the positive reaction to the two Hollywood Bowl shows we played with Björk last year,” says songwriter Jack Barnett, who formed These New Puritans while at school in Essex, southeast England with his twin, drummer George Barnett, and their friend Thomas Hein. This ‘septet’ incarnation of the group includes honey-voiced Portuguese singer Elisa Rodrigues alongside French horn, flugelhorn and keyboard players. Before they leave for the States, the band will embark on their most ambitious show yet at the Barbican in April, with a corresponding exhibition at the Strand. “There will be thirty or more musicians on stage,” says Jack. “From chromatic gong players to Adrian Peacock, the basso profundo singer who has one of the lowest voices in the country: during the album recording, it was amazing to hear some of the frequencies that came out of him.”

KEN mode - “The Terror Pulse” (Official Video)

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Winnipeg’s KEN mode released one of our favorite metal albums of 2013 — the career highlight Entrench — which they toured the fuck out of all year long. They’re gonna spend plenty of 2014 on the road, too, including their current jaunt with Helms Alee and Russian Circles, which winds up at the end of this week in Chicago. They’ve just released a new video for Entrench track “The Terror Pulse”; it’s an animated clip created by Christopher Mills, and as far as I can tell it depicts a nightmare of road life — something that’s gotta be pretty familiar to KEN mode’s collective subconscious by now.

SZA - “Babylon” (Official Video)

“I can’t recall the last time I took advice from anyone,” is the way SZA begins her entrancing new single “Babylon.” Her last words? “Crucify me.” In between, she gracefully emits breathy sighs that suggest she doesn’t need anybody’s advice over a gurgling, ominous beat from DJ Dahi, who’s done work for her TDE brethren Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q as well as Drake’s “Worst Behavior.” (Apparently Mac Miller helped too.) SZA co-directed the clothes-removing, water-submerging video with APLUSFILMZ. Immerse yourself in it below.

Lily Allen - “Our Time” (Official Video)

Lily Allen - Our Time (Official Video)

The clip starts out as an ode to London at night, but it turns into a bit of a drunken bacchanal, with Allen playing multiple characters.

Rick Ross - “War Ready” (Feat. Jeezy) Explicit Video

Rick Ross’s new album Mastermind tends to sag under the weight of its own opulence, but it finds one of its few moments of true shout-along catharsis with “War Ready,” a six-minute shout-along death-threat anthem that unites Ross with former foe Jeezy. Now, that track gets an appropriately low-budget and violent video. The clip has a warehouse gun battle, a lot of goons in creepy metallic masks, and cameos from street-rap luminaries like Meek Mill and YG. TAJ_TPK directs.

A$AP Ferg - “Let It Go” (Official Video)

A$AP Ferg takes on Trap Lord as a superhero alter ego and makes his own live-action video game in the clip for “Let It Go.” He catches some over-the-top enemies in his crosshairs including “The Evil Twins” and “The Ninja Villains” and saves a damsel in distress. If you ever wanted to see Ferg shoot missiles out of his sleeves, here’s your chance.

TEEN - “Not For Long” (Official Video)

Psych-pop quartet TEEN, who will release The Way And Colour this spring, have shared a new video for “Not For Long.” Roland von Tessin’s video takes frontwoman Kristina Lieberson and recreates her as a disembodied head with an insect-like headdress. In some of the shots, like the one above, the symmetry and severity of the design seem oddly reminiscent of Fuck Buttons’ iconic album covers.

Shit Robot - “Do That Dance” (Official Video)

Between her work with Shit Robot and the Juan McLean, 2013 was the year Nancy Whang began her ascension to becoming one of the great current dancefloor divas. And 2014 — the year both those projects drop long-awaited new albums — seems to be her chance to really claim that title. Whang’s great strength, as this video for “Do The Dance” proves both visually and musically, is her complete sense of cool as she effortlessly sing-speaks her way through the track. She completely owns this song, as she has every song on which she’s appeared recently.

Obits - “I’m Closing In” (Official Video)

The music video for “I’m Closing In,” a track off Obits’ 2013 album Beds & Bugs, plays out like every doodle in a little boy’s notebook vividly come to life. It’s filled with dinosaurs, space battles, undersea submarines getting eaten by whales, and a fiendish villain who has to go up against our adolescent hero for control of a massive crystal. All this, mind you, is soundtracked by the fired-up punk rock of the band, who appear here as a bat, a skeleton, a dinosaur, and a fish with a cool hat. Watch the Paul Clark-directed video.

YG - “Who Do You Love” (Feat. Drake) Official Video

Director Benny Boom sets these guys at a house party that makes this song feel even more fun than it did before.

Mark McGuire - "The Human Condition (Song For My Father)" (Official Video)

Last month, the former Emeralds guitarist Mark McGuire released Along The Way, a soft, thoughtful, wonderful mostly-instrumental album, and it was our Album Of The Week when it dropped. McGuire has now put together a video for the album track “The Human Condition,” and he’s done it by editing together old footage of his father. McGuire’s family held a sort of celebrity roast for him one night, and most of the footage in the video comes from that night. But you don’t have to know the backstory to see a certain familial warmth in the images or to hear the way it translates to McGuire’s music.

Dum Dum Girls - “Are You Okay” Short Film (Written By Bret Easton Ellis)

Dum Dum Girls didn’t just make a music video for “Are You Okay,” a humid sigh of a song from their new album Too True. Instead, they got the famed American Psycho/Less Than Zero author Bret Easton Ellis to script them a creepy, inscrutable 11-minute psychological-horror short film for it. Dum Dums leader Dee Dee stars as a woman who, under hypnosis, conjures a demonic blonde doppelganger. Or at least, I think that’s what happens. Desert landscapes and strange art installations also figure heavily. Brewer directed the film, and Tamaryn and Drew MacDowall contributed the interstitial score.

Future - “Move That Dope” (Feat. Pharrell Williams & Pusha T) Official Video

Future’s trap-spaceship banger “Move That Dope” is easily my favorite rap song of 2014 thus far, and it’s probably my favorite song period. For a music video, it deserves nothing less than, like, a Paul Thomas Anderson film, and that’s more than director Benny Boom is capable of. But Boom has still put together a fun clip for the song, with screaming sirens and Point Break-inspired president masks and Zack Morris cell phones. This is sadly the Casino-free version of the song, but Future and guests Pusha T and Pharrell all display dangerous levels of charisma. Also, Pharrell is still wearing the Smoky The Bear hat, and Schoolboy Q and Tyler, The Creator show up for why-are-they-there cameos.

Schoolboy Q - “What They Want” (Feat. 2 Chainz) Video

Schoolboy Q’s great new LP Oxymoron is the #1 album in the country, but it’s also a rough and clattering rap record with precious few concessions to Q’s new Interscope overlords. Even a track that would seem to scream “next single” — like “What They Want,” which has a Mike Will Made-It beat and a 2 Chainz guest verse — comes out fractured and tense. And Q’s new video for “What They Want” fits the song’s tone. He filmed it in New Orleans, looking extremely blunted in a strip club and wandering dessicated post-Katrina wastelands and hanging out with skull-faced reapers.

Viejo Smoking - "Jugando de 5" (Official Video)

Jugando de 5
Perteneciente a "GOLAZO"
Obra conceptual de historias de fútbol con música.

TW: @viejo_smoking
Facebook: www.facebook.com/viejosmokingrock

Holograms - “Lay Us Down” Video

Swedish band Holograms release the music video for the track “Lay Us Down” from their sophomore album, Forever. The 7-minute, black-and-white video has intense visual moments. It starts with an introduction saturated with the ethereal sounds of a church choir, photographs and fast-forwarded videos flashing on the screen. After a brief quote from the late poet Salvotore Quasimodo, the track kicks in, along with slow-motion shots of wrestling matches and a Holograms show.

Summer Camp - “Crazy” (Official Video)

Their video for the song “Crazy” finds Sankey putting on her best crazy eyes as the two reenact scenes from Psycho, Fatal Attraction, and Misery. Watch the Ozzie Pullin-directed video.

Esben And The Witch - “No Dog” (Official Video)

One of the most dumbfoundingly awesome live shows I ever saw at SXSW was by British rock trio Esben And The Witch, whose monstrous swirl of noise threatened to chew up and swallow everyone within earshot. Esben’s new black and white performance video for “No Dog,” from their upcoming split 12-inch with Thought Forms, captures the band’s sheer tumultuous power. They’ve parted ways with Matador and will be releasing the single on Invada, the label run by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow. Further down the line is a new album later this year, and they’re planning a pledge drive to fund recording with Steve Albini. But first there’s this video, which deserves your full attention.

Night Flowers - “Neverland” (Official Video)

The London quintet Night Flowers plays glimmering guitar music that manages to be bright and poppy without giving up its melancholic mood. They’re releasing a self-titled EP next month on Dirty Bingo Records, the label that helped launch Woman’s Hour and Paradise, and today we’ve got the first video. “Neverland” strikes a balance somewhere between English pop balladeers the Clientele and the sparkling sounds of Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. It’s matched with bizarre yet evocative imagery by director Iain Marcks.

Odonis Odonis - “Angus Mountain” (Official Video)

The last video we saw from Odonis Odonis was a creepy story set to the noisy and chaotic “New Obsession,” so it would totally understandable if you were to watch this and think it was the work of a completely different band. But that’s just the way Odonis Odonis’ new album, Hard Boiled, Soft Boiled, works. Side A is all industrial punk, followed by a smooth and sweeter second half. “Angus Mountain” comes from that second half and it’s a prettier track than “New Obsession,” set to a visual that’s a little easier on the eyes. The Jesse Yules-directed video folds up images of the band like origami while using a hypnotic mirroring effect that makes everything fold in on itself. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but with that symmetrical effect, it brings to mind Nicolas Provost’s classic experimental short film “Papillion D’Amour.”

Tweens - “Be Mean” Video

Just about a year after they first ended up on our radar, Tweens will drop their debut album this spring. You already heard “Be Mean,” which was destined to be a single even back when it had only been released in lo-fi demo form, and now you can watch the Perry Shall-and-Eddie Austin-directed video. It takes the form of a grainy old instruction video with tips on how to slap a member of Tweens, proper phone etiquette, and how they blink (answer: they don’t).

White Lung - “Drown With The Monster” (Official Video)

White Lung - Drown With The Monster (Official Video)
Buy Drown With The Monster at:
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/DWTMiTunes
Domino - http://smarturl.it/DWTM-DM

Directed by Steven Andrew Garcia

After releasing two incredible, hard-hitting albums and countless singles on various indie labels - White Lung are thrilled to make their jump to the Domino family. Vancouver's resilient rock'n'roll outfit hit the ground running with their new, powerful single 'Drown With The Monster' which articulates prevailing lyrics and infectious guitars whirled in relentless drum beats.

White Lung's singer Mish Way discusses "Drown With The Monster":

"I was looking at these pieces by Andrea Mary Marshall in The New Inquiry and there was this quote from her, 'Toxic Women are toxic to themselves. They are Tragic Heroines who blow dry their own wounds. I aspire to be the opposite.' This song is about kicking habits and running away with a new distraction. It's a song about my two biggest vices, but I'd rather drown with the monster than blow dry my wounds."

Hundred Waters - “Cavity” (Official Video)

A few weeks ago, out of nowhere, Gainesville impressionists Hundred Waters shared an absolutely spellbinding new song called “Down From The Rafters.” As it turns out, that song was the opening shot from the band’s as-yet-untitled sophomore album, which will be arriving shortly. This is awesome news. And now the band has shared a video for a new song, the warm and glimmering “Cavity.” The clip is hypnotic and mostly abstract, and it focuses on the play of light across night-time desert landscapes and across singer Nicole Miglis’s face. Michael Langan directs.

Pixies - “Greens And Blues” (Official Video)

After a decade of inactivity followed by another decade of touring the nostalgia circuit, Pixies have spent the last few months churning out new content with Pollard-esque frequency. “Greens And Blues” is included on the band’s January release, EP2, and it’s now the third video to have been spawned by the 4-song release. The clip was directed by Josh Frank, and its surrealist imagery and conceits — underwater video, astronauts walking around Los Angeles, the French title card — will be familiar to fans of the band.

Pixies - “Blue Eyed Hexe” (Official Video)

Director, Animator, Editor: Mount Emult
Awesome Little Dude Assistant Animator: Holdyn Newman-Long
http://mountemult.tumblr.com/

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - "Little Fang" (Official Video)

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks is Animal Collective's Avey Tare, ex-Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian, and ex-Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman. Their debut LP Enter the Slasher House is out April 8 in the U.S. and April 7 internationally via Domino. Now, they've shared a video for "Little Fang" directed by Avey Tare's sister Abby Portner. It stars a "Little Fang" puppet, made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, inside its own bizarre horror movie.

The Men - "Pearly Gates" (Official Video)

Brooklyn noise-rockers the Men have shared a video for their recent track "Pearly Gates" from Tomorrow's Hits. In the clip, directed by Brian Chillemi, you'll find a police chase that ends in an unexpected motel scene involving a sacrificial cult and some casual initiation-related bloodletting.

The War on Drugs - "Red Eyes" (Official Video)

The War on Drugs have shared a video for their track "Red Eyes", from the album Lost in the Dream, which comes out March 18 via Secretly Canadian. In the video, produced by Woodshop Films, the band members are judges in a talent contest with unlikely contestants. They end up recruiting a little kid to play guitar.

Bok Bok - “Melba’s Call” (Feat. Kelela) Video

Last year, the London producer Bok Bok worked on “Guns & Synths,” the opening track from the L.A. future-soul singer Kelela’s wonderful Cut 4 Me mixtape. Last week, Kelela returned the favor, singing on Bok Bok’s new glitch&B single “Melba’s Call.” Kelela is also in the song’s brand-new video, beaming her image into a futuristic recording studio that’s otherwise cold and deserted.

CREDITS:

art-direction by Sushon.org
production by Nic Hamilton www.nichamilton.info

LA team:
producer: Lane Stewart www.lane-stewart.com
DP: Ryan Kunkleman
camera assistant: Will Dintenfass
styling: Teena Sahebi
makeup: Jacqueline Lea Duffy
thanks: James Flemons

Arctic Monkeys - “Arabella” (NSFW) (Official Video)

Arctic Monkeys just dropped a sweaty, glamorous video for “Arabella,” a song from their badass 2013 album AM; it follows “Do I Wanna Know?,” “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” and “One For The Road” as the album’s fourth video. In the black-and-white clip, the band plays for a house full of leather-jacketed gearheads. There are a few flashes of boob, so be advised. I’m a little sad that it doesn’t end with everyone in the house going to fight a gang of mods, but it’s still a tough, effective video.

CYMBALS - “Erosion” (Official Video)

Last fall we premiered “Erosion,” a pulsating synth dream by the superb British new wave band CYMBALS. Months later, that song swooshes back into our consciousness with a hallucinatory performance video by Matthew Reed meant to satirize internet culture. Explains Stephen Pietrzykowski of Tough Love Records, which released the band’s The Age Of Fracture this year: “the Buzzfeed/clickbait/endless-rivers-of-meaningless-shit aesthetic that’s come to dominate how a majority of people engage with the internet, and the way this was subsequently seeping into the production of art.” In this case the meaningless shit is quite striking, though.

Run The Jewels - “Run The Jewels” (Official Video)

El-P and Killer Mike's chain-snatching, poodle-shooting, antihero anthem "Run The Jewels" gets an appropriately bugged out animated video courtesy of Bristol's RUFFMERCY. Watch this at high volume, preferably in a residential area.

Directed by RUFFMERCY
DOP - Tim Crawley
Animated by Patch Keyes & RUFFMERCY
Produced by RUFFMERCY STUDIOS
With thanks to Jonatan Jonson, Linus & Studio Moross

Dude York - “Cannibal” Video

Seattle indie-rock trio Dude York dropped their debut album, Dehumanize, in January and now, they release the video for “Cannibal.” Filmed in a tiny apartment, the band plays in front of a mattress sitting up against plastic window shades, while an out-of-place scenery painting hangs on the wall and a piece of pizza sits on top of a bong. The untidiness of the space matches the edgy vocals and the anxious guitar in “Cannibal,” and the whole scene eventually turns into a cramped house party.

OFF! - “Hypnotized” Official Video (Feat. David Yow & Jack Grisham)

 

OFF! is a band of grizzled, aging punk veterans who now pay the rent by bashing out early-’80s-style trashcan hardcore. And their new video for the single “Hypnotized” features two fellow members of their old-punk tribe: The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow and T.S.O.L.’s Jack Grisham, both of whom play rival off-brand superheroes who get into a Hollywood punch-up. It’s just as violent and squalid as you would hope from anything involving this bunch of middle-aged miscreants. Chris Grismer directs.

Linda Perhacs - “Prisms Of Glass” Official Video (Feat. Julia Holter And Nite Jewel)

Today, after 44 years of waiting, Linda Perhacs finally releases her second album. That’s probably the longest wait for a follow-up album in all of pop music; at Stereogum HQ we can only think of Dot Wiggins’ solo album from last year (44 years after the Shaggs’ Philosophy Of The World) as another possibility. Now she has a video for her collaboration with Nite Jewel (aka Ramona Gonzalez) and Julia Holter, “Prisms Of Glass.” The Jessica Hundley-directed video is similar in style to Kyle Safieh’s one for “Freely” in the way it piles multiple visuals to match Perhacs’ masterful weaving of vocal tracks. But while Safieh’s was more concerned with nature, “Prisms Of Glass” is all about light and movement. Cutting between three dancers and then the trio of Perhacs, Holter, and Gonzalez, the video overflows with prismatic effects and layers of visuals. It’s the same sensation as holding a crystal up against a window and watching the light come through.

ASAP Rocky - “Riot Rave” (Feat Baauer) (Official Video) & “Unicorns”

One of the highlights of A$AP Rocky’s Long.Live.A$AP was the Skrillex feature “Wild For The Night,” and Rocky’s new Gessafelstein collab “In Distress” ain’t half bad either. So I was hoping “Riot Rave,” Rocky’s new video with Baauer, would be another example of prime party-time PMF EDM. Alas, it seems to be an “art video” about Rocky and A$AP Mob rioting throughout NYC’s five boroughs set to minimal bass rumble. The video is directed by Rocky, Kostas Seremetis, and Danilo Parra, and the track is from Rocky’s long-promised instrumental collection Beauty N The Beast: Slowed Down Sessions Chapter 1. Shortly after the first video surfaced, Rocky released visuals another instrumental from the project called “Unicorn,” a slowed-down, purple version of Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.”

Pontiak - “We’ve Got It Wrong” Video

The Virginia power trio Pontiak released INNOCENCE, an absolutely thunderous slab of majestic psych-rock, earlier this year, and we posted the video for “Wildfires.” Drummer Lain Carney, the youngest of the three brothers in the band, directed the new video for “We’ve Got It Wrong.” In the video, frontman Van plays a baller-ass ’70s-style playboy, while his two bandmates loom as shadowy presences. I’m not sure if I can even explain why this thing is so badass, but it absolutely is. The band is on tour right now, and you should definitely go see them. (I’m friends with them, but I’d still say this if I weren’t.)

The Presets - “Goodbye Future” (Official Video)

A little over a month ago we heard “Goodbye Future,” the first in a series of 2014 singles by Aussie electronica duo the Presets. Now that hooky club track has a video in which figures from throughout history congregate on a very violent dance floor. The clip comes from Aussie filmmaker Prad Senanayake, who says his metaphor for world history is inspired by “a lot of dark things happening in Australia and around the world recently.”

Lykke Li - “Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone” (Official Video)

Lykke Li — Swedish indie-pop royalty and inspiration to rappers as disparate as Drake and Tyler, The Creator — released a trailer for her new album I Never Learn last week. Now comes the first video from the record, “Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone,” as well as a statement from Lykke:

Every song on the album is a power ballad. Like one of those old radio stations. This is a slow dance; a slow burner.
I wrote ["No Rest for the Wicked"] in Sweden when I was packing up my shit, and I’d just gotten out of a relationship and it was a horrible time. I just had the hurt, shame, sadness, guilt, longing. In the verse, I’m referring to myself pleading guilty but I’m referring to all of us.

You don’t need much time with “Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone” to find out Lykke’s description of her new album is on-point. It’s a stark, intimate, brokenhearted ballad with a video to match by director Tarik Saleh. It’s a thing of beauty.

Eagulls - “Possessed” (Official Video)

Tomorrow marks the release of Eagulls’ stellar self-titled debut, and to herald the occasion the Leeds post-punk ragers have released a video for Loveless-laced album highlight “Possessed.” Plastic Zoo’s video revolves around a kid lighting some lumber on fire in a shopping cart. Not sure what’s going on there, but the song continues to rule. Have a look.

JUNGLE. - “Busy Earnin’” (Official Video)

“Busy Earnin’,” the new single from the London synth-funk group JUNGLE. As far as I can tell, none of the members of the band show up in the song’s brand-new video. Instead, the video focuses on the dancers featured on the single’s cover art. The whole video is just one big, choreographed dance routine, all taking place in a big, white room. It’s a fun, unpretentious video, and if we’re entering a new age of people dancing in music videos, I’m not mad. Watch it below.

Damon Albarn - “Lonely Press Play” (Official Video)

We’ve heard two stripped-down acoustic versions of Damon Albarn’s achingly gorgeous “Lonely Press Play, and today he’s dropped not only the studio version of the track, but its video. Instrumentally, it’s nothing like the version he did only with an acoustic guitar on BBC Radio, or the performance he delivered at Sundance with a small string section; instead, it’s a whirring, bleep-bloopy pillow fort of electronic sounds. Of course, the melody, vocal, and lyrics are more or less identical, and its from that base that the song derives its graceful, melancholy beauty. The video is compiled from scenes captured by Damon on his tablet, and were filmed in Tokyo, London, Dallas, Utah, Colchester (UK), North Korea, Iceland and Devon (UK).

Rick Ross – “Nobody” (Feat. French Montana & Diddy) Video

Last week Rick Ross released the Mastermind track “Nobody” as a single, and Tom noted that French Montana’s hook repurposes the Notorious B.I.G.’s “You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You),” sending Rozay’s already high “Biggie Smalls corpse-humpery levels” through the roof. The Biggie homage is intentional — hence the presence of Mastermind executive producer Sean Combs under his Puff Daddy guise — and now the song has a video that connects it to the shooting that caused Ross to crash his Rolls Royce in Miami a year ago, further driving home the Christopher Wallace parallels. Unlike the late, great Biggie Smalls, Ross survived to star in many more big-budget rap videos like this one.

Kings Of Leon - “Temple” (Official Video)

Kings of Leon put out their new album, Mechanical Bull, last year, but have just dropped a new video for the song “Temple.” The clip is made up of shots of the band playing, intercut with grainy home videos of cars, bars, trains, and family. 

Katy Perry - Dark Horse (Official Video) ft. Juicy J

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Owen Pallett - The Riverbed (Official Video) & “On A Path” (Lyric Video)

Owen Pallett - The Riverbed (Official Video)
"The Riverbed"
Director • Eva Michon
Executive Producer • Jonathan Craven for the Uprising Creative
Producer • Alley Curran for the Uprising Creative
Cinematographer • Drew Bienemann
Editor • Aditya Nair

Owen Pallett’s original score for Her, performed by his former bandmates Arcade Fire, is up for an Oscar this weekend, but the masterful songwriter and composer has shifted his attention to new projects. His next album, In Conflict, is coming out in May, and today he’s revealed the video for lead single “The Riverbed.” Musically, it’s a torrential swirl of strings and percussion that, on first pass, stands among Pallett’s finest compositions. Director Eva Michon’s video is nearly as striking as the music; it follows a middle aged man through events including a date, an untimely encounter, and what appears to be a Rocky-like training regimen with revenge in mind. Make sense of it below, where you’ll also find a lyric video for the more understated In Conflict offering “On A Path.”