Lana Del Rey - “Music To Watch Boys To” (Official Video)

In her great “High By The Beach” video, Lana Del Rey blew up a paparazzi helicopter with a grenade launcher. That’s a hard act to follow. She doesn’t do anything nearly as spectacular in her new video for “Music To Watch Boys To,” another single from her glamorously bored new album Honeymoon. Instead, she and a few of her friends twirl around underwater while the boys of the title appear, anonymous and in silhouette, playing basketball or skateboarding. It’s both a narcotically dreamy video and one that’s steeped in old-Hollywood signifiers, which means it’s very in keeping with the whole LDR aesthetic.

My Morning Jacket - “Compound Fracture” (Official Video)

When most bands release music videos made up of live footage, it’s usually a pretty good sign that they’re near the end of their album-release cycle and that they’re running low on ideas and promo money. But given that the band’s live show is really the main point of My Morning Jacket’s existence, the live video makes more sense for them than it would for most bands. This morning, the band shared director Danny Clinch’s video for “Compound Fracture,” a song from their new album The Waterfall. They taped the video at Colorado’s generally stunning Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the sort of place that MMJ was born to play. And Clinch threw enough psychedelic effects into the video to keep it from getting visually static. 

J Fernandez - “Between The Channels” (Official Video)

J Fernandez makes the sort of hazy, golden-tinged bedroom pop that you either love or hate. I happen to love it, specifically “Between The Channels,” a mumbly, jangly track off his debut album Many Levels Of Laughter. Now, the track has a warped video to go along with the wandering melody.

!!! - “Bam City” (Official Video)

!!! announced the release of their sixth album, As If, all the way back in the middle of the summer, and now the release date is fast approaching: The record comes out in two weeks, and the dance-punk group has just shared another new single, “Bam City,” to join the tracks we’ve already heard (“All U Writers,” “Freedom ’15,” and “Sick Ass Moon“). The bouncy new song comes paired with a video made in the same charmingly homemade way as their recent “Freedom ’15” lyric video. It was shot in band member Dan Gorman’s kitchen while him and frontman Nic Offer goofed off. Even goofier animations were added afterwards. 

Here’s a message about the video from the !!! blog:

Hey out there. Here’s “BAM CITY“, the latest video from the forthcoming ‘AS IF‘. We did it the same way as OUR LAST VIDEO, goofed around on the laptop cam for an hour, this time in Gorman’s kitchen, and then had our friends at Mad Ruffian and our other friend Luke Crotty trip it out with some animation. We did 3 takes this time and I swear Mr. Meow was more excited about dancing in the earlier takes. And the song, well it’s glammy, slammy, and bound to win a Grammy, or 20 (say it with an accent and the rhyme scheme stays intact…. Sammy). Just a taste of the many surprises we have in store for u on ‘As If’. Hope u like and if u don’t I’ll simply just die. Or maybe just keep on like I usually do. K, bye. Xoxoxoxoxo

Disclosure - “Magnets” (Feat. Lorde) Video

Behold the power of a great music video. “Magnets,” the Lorde collab from Disclosure’s Caracal, struck me as another of the album’s disappointing singles at first. But what once felt lifeless and stilted suddenly seems sleek and vibrant accompanied by these visuals, which depict Lorde embarking on a torrid affair with another woman’s man before teaming up with her for some fiery “Two Black Cadillacs”/The Other Woman-style revenge.

Bully - “Too Tough” (Official Video)

When Bully dropped their debut record, Feels Like, back in June, we named it Album Of The Week, and Tom wrote about Alicia Bognanno’s inability to filter her thoughts in any way that would make them more digestible to an offending party. Bully is constantly on the defensive, but Bognanno’s songs have all of the wide, open-hearted spirit of someone willing to give you all of herself if you just let her in. The video for “Too Tough,” which debuted today at NPR, is a stripped-down suburban performance.

Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - “The Light Is Clear In My Eyes” (Official Video)

Moby is up to something. Publicists for the veteran dance-music producer have been sending around a new track called “The Light Is Clear In My Eyes” with basically no information. It’s credited to Moby & The Void Pacific Choir, and it’s merely being accompanied by the photo above and a quote from D.H. Lawrence: “California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.” The song is a driving postpunk number, and its video is a VHS pileup of cryptic images. As it turns out, Moby and his Void Pacific Choir also have another new song: “Moonlit Sky,” a collaboration with the German tropical house producer Robin Schulz, which sounds like the synth-rock Moby that we’ve come to know so well in the years since Play. Check out both “The Light Is Clear In My Eyes” and “Moonlit Sky” .

There’s a website for the project here, and it seems likely that we’ll have some idea what’s going on soon enough.

Ricked Wicky - “Poor Substitute” Video (Feat. Rob & Nate Corddry, Matt Jones, & Seth Morris)

Ever since they officially broke up (again) last year, Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard has kept extremely busy. He’s been releasing songs under his own name, as well as with his new band Ricked Wicky, who released their latest album, Swimmer To A Liquid Armchair, this past Friday. We premiered the album’s single “Poor Substitute” back in August, and today the band has debuted its accompanying video. This clip features four actors/comedians — Rob Corddry and Nate Corddry from The Daily Show, Matt Jones of Breaking Bad, and Seth Morris of Comedy Bang Bang — performing as “poor substitutes” for the inimitable Pollard.

No Joy - “Judith” (Official Video)

No Joy’s new record, More Faithful, dropped back in June on the Brooklyn-based label Mexican Summer, and it’s been awhile since we’ve seen a new video from the band. They released a strange, collage-like visual interpretation of “Everything New” back in June, and now No Joy have debuted a video for “Judith.” Filmed in soft focus, this clip mimics that of a shoddily-made, late-afternoon soap opera in the moments before its predictable drama unfurls.

Watch Ceremony Cover Oasis

A.V. Club’s Undercover series has, as per usual, been running all summer, and we’re starting to get towards the end of the list that the site drafts up every year for the bands to pick from, which means we’ll get to see some truly weird/inspired pairings as things wrap up. This week, Ceremony took on Oasis’ “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star,” turning the Britpop track into a post-punk dirge. Check it out below, compare it with the original, and watch an interview with the band in which frontman Ross Farrar sheepishly admits he’d never heard the song before the day of the performance.

Guy Garvey - “Angela’s Eyes” (Official Video)

Earlier this month, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey announced that he was releasing his first solo album, Courting The Squall, at the end of October. Today, he unveiled the record’s first single, “Angela’s Eyes” — which was previously available to those who pre-ordered the album in the UK — and an accompanying music video, showing Garvey playing the new track in a lounge.

Sarah Bethe Nelson - “Fast Moving Clouds” (Official Video)

This past spring, when we premiered Sarah Bethe Nelson’s rollicking, emotionally vulnerable country-rock album Fast Moving Clouds, I noted that her detachment moved this record from breakup album territory into something more nuanced. The slight separation between Nelson and the stories of heartache she’s telling are on full display in the video for the album’s title track, which she shares today. Reminiscing on a relationship that doubles as a getaway and a journey moving fast enough that she can’t break free, Nelson remains deadpan throughout the shadowy clip. The video was directed by Justin Frahm.

Young Thug - “Power” (Official Video)

Earlier today, we got a slightly underwhelming video for “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times),” Young Thug’s great collab with Jamie xx and Popcaan. And now, Thug has shared a new video for “Power,” off of his new Slime Season mixtape. Directed by the usual team of Be El Be and Thug himself, it continues the washed out, trippy aesthetic that he’s been going for in his recent videos. Thug plays some basketball (he can dunk pretty impressively), hangs out around some cool, old looking architecture, and rides the same kind of “hoverboard” that got Wiz Khalifa in so much trouble a month ago. Watch below via MissInfo.

Algiers - “And When You Fall” (Official Video)

We made the intense, politically driven, impossible-to-categorize trio Algiers a Band To Watch earlier this year, and we’ve posted their videos for “Blood,” “Irony. Utility. Pretext.,” and “Black Eunuch.” And now they’ve got a new one for “And When You Fall,” which I guess you’d have to call a gospel-punk throwdown. The video is scratchy and disorienting, with black-and-white footage of the band performing chopped up with VHS images of London at night. It all looks very dark and ambiguous and off. To hear the band and directors Lamb & Sea describe it, the video is an homage to early experimental filmmakers and to postpunk/industrial greats like Cabaret Voltaire and the Normal.

Jamie xx - “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)” (Feat. Young Thug & Popcaan) Video

A month ago, Stereogum’s readers voted “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times),” Jamie xx’s lightweight and effervescent collab with Atlanta rap bugout king Young Thug and Jamaican dancehall star Popcaan, as 2015’s Song Of The Summer. So it seems weird that the song, easily the biggest track from Jamie xx’s great In Colour album, is only now getting a video. But the video arrived this morning. It’s got scenes of Thug and Popcaan flexing on different rooftops, Jamie xx DJing a club somewhere, and a few pretty women lying by a pool. It’s a brisk and visually pleasant video, but I can’t shake the feeling that this song deserved something way more epic than that. Rollo Jackson directs.

Heems - “Pop Song (Games)” Video

Heems, formerly of Das Racist, released the very good and sorely underrated solo album Eat Pray Thug earlier in the year. And now, after making videos for “Sometimes” and “Damn Girl,” he’s got a new one for the smeary club track “Pop Song (Games).” As The FADER reports, he says he recorded it in less than an hour with no budget, and you can sort of tell. Big Rebz directs, throwing psychedelic filters on a scene of Heems and a young lady having a living-room dance party. Heems also shared a new track “Coconut Oil (London),” a flirtatious jam about wanting a “bad Punjabi girl to put coconut oil in my hair.”

Other Lives - “Easy Way Out” (Official Video)

Other Lives are playing two shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a couple weeks, and they’re dropping a video to “Easy Way Out” from their lavish LP, Rituals, just in time to get the word out. The spooky, unsettling video has the pace and mood of a crime-thriller, and it’s pretty exhilarating to watch its plot unfurl. The song’s intricate orchestration circles around nervously in an ominous and bewildering way, which plays perfectly alongside the video’s eerie atmosphere. It would be a treat to catch Other Lives play in this newly refined, fully orchestrated form. A bulk of their European shows support Belle & Sebastian, which sounds like a dream bill for those who savor the elegance of strings, horns, and other classical instruments with indie rock.

The Libertines - “Heart Of The Matter” (Official Video)

The Libertines play the role of torturers in their new video for “Heart Of The Matter,” a track off their recently released new album, Anthems For The Doomed. They act out their 50 Shades fantasies in a blood-red room as spectators pay to stare through a peep show window to watch the mayhem. For the most part, the band just threatens violence, until the bloody final few seconds where everything unleashes.

Major Lazer - “Too Original” (Feat. Elliphant & Jovi Rockwell) Video

Major Lazer’s album Peace Is The Mission has already been responsible for big hits like “Lean On,” with DJ Snake and MØ, and “Powerful,” with Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley. They might have another winner in “Too Original,” a hectic song with big drum breaks and farting horn samples and assistance from Swedish singer Elliphant and Jamaican singer Jovi Rockwell. In the track’s goofy, fun new video, we see Elliphant and Rockwell starting a party in what appears to be an Eastern European cafe. Guests include a dancing little kid with a mustache. And in the kitchen, Diplo and the other Major Lazer members party as hard as their customers. Tim Erem directs.

Baroness - “Chlorine & Wine” (Official Video)

After the triumph their 2012 album Yellow & Green and the trial of their devastating tour-bus crash, Baroness are coming back later this year with the much-anticipated new album Purple. First single “Chlorine & Wine” is a total monster, a monumental, melodic seven-minute riff-stomp anthem that’s just as pretty as it is pulverizing. And now they’ve made a video for it, showing themselves at work on putting this song together in the studio. In most cases, the band-in-studio video is pure boringness. In this one, however, the song is so elaborate and so great that it’s cool to see all the work that went into assembling it. The footage of the band recording group-shout vocals feels like a real climax. Jimmy Hubbard directs.

José González - “Let It Carry You” (Official Video)

In the body-horror videos for Calexico’s “Falling From The Sky” and his own “Open Book,” the Argentine-Swedish singer-songwriter José González co-starred with a truly disgusting alien worm creature. González just shared the video for the prettily pulsating “Let It Carry You,” another song from his new Vestiges & Claws album. This one is animated, but the star of the video isn’t much prettier. It’s a misshapen elephant-human hybrid who experiences deep loneliness but then finds some kind of transcendence. Malin Johansson directs.

The Staves - “Steady” (Official Video)

The Staves have just shared a video for “Steady,” a track off the English trio’s stellar Justin Vernon-produced album If I Was. The Brian & Karl-directed clip sets their intricately arranged folk music against a picturesque, subtly violent vision of suburban discontent. It makes their anxieties feel palpable, represented here by an ominous smoke that comes through and clouds all of the scenes.

INHEAVEN - “Bitter Town” (Official Video)

Seething British shoegazers INHEAVEN burst into 2015 with “Regeneration” in late March, and that remains my favorite song by the band. But “Bitter Town” comes close, and swells to the same screaming, infectious chorus. Their balance of post-punk and dreamier, gossamer harmonies remains perfectly intact, and unlike the more abstract conception of their previous videos, the visuals for “Bitter Town” have something of a narrative. Desperate housewives and watchful eyes follow a rebellious, guitar-playing protagonist around the presumably small town he lives in. It’s full of angst and huge emotions, two components that make for a great, super-earnest indie-rock music video.

Yassou - “To Sink” (Official Video)

“To Sink” is the third of five installments. Rather than release a conventional EP, the Bay Area/upstate New York band Yassou decided to spread six new songs over five videos by three directors, trickling them out gradually over the course of an “album cycle.” Today’s segment follows “Fall Again” and “Two Win/Youngblood.” It finds Lilie Hoy gently unfurling lyrics about bravery and longing and the brink destruction against an astral piano ballad reminiscent of Radiohead’s “All I Need.” Hoy collaborated with director Peter McCollough on the clip’s stirring array of urban and seaside images. Combined with Yassou’s truly gorgeous musical work, the footage makes for a consuming experience.

Hoy submitted this poem to accompany the video:

Lost in the world, lost in love the warrior wanders
What is the source of true power?
What is the worth of your final hour?
Conclusion draws her towards the brink
To embrace her fear
To want to sink
On the barren cliffs
Where the waves break
She questioned the keepers of the gate
For the price of her lover
They show her the way.

Skylar Spence - “Affairs” (Official Video)

Las week Skylar Spence released his disco-infused dance album, Prom King, which marks his first full-length release since changing his name from Saint Pepsi . All of the singles off of Prom King have been fun and indulgent in their own way, and the video for its first, “Can’t See You,” was named one of the best of the week when it was released back in July. The new clip for “Affairs” is a bubbly amalgamation of romance footage directed by David Dean Burkhart.

Dej Loaf - “Like A Hoe” (Official Video)

Detroit’s Dej Loaf, capable of being hard one minute and lovestruck the next without much changing her delivery, is one of the most vital rap voices to come along in the past year or two. The dinosaur-bone-hard “Like A Hoe,” from her new And See That’s The Thing EP, is one of her hard tracks. And in director Jerry Production’s new video for the track, she flexes with goons and blows her nose on money.

HeCTA - “Sympathy For The Auto Industry” (Official Video)

The delectably pulsating disco beats of “Sympathy For The Auto Industry” are probably the opposite of what you’d expect from three members of prolific alt-country band Lambchop. But after nearly 20 years of writing tear-jerking, soulful chamber rock, it seems clear that Kurt Wagner, Ryan Morris, and Scott Martin are all itching to dance a little. This year, the three reorganized as HeCTA and released their robotically inclined debut, The Diet.

 
The video for “Sympathy For The Auto Industry” arrives at the tail of that publicity cycle, and it’s equally surprising in how offbeat it is compared to anything they’ve done before. The blocky, computer-animated video, directed by previous collaborator Christopher Shepard, suits the song’s retro electronic vibe. It features a sullen boy running away from his grumpy father at a gas station, wandering into a garbage dump and then discovering that everything he touches turns into colorful, prismatic vegetation. It’s weird, funny, and a little dark, and it complements the somewhat Orwellian humor behind the lyrics’ main refrain, “You shouldn’t have to change a thing, except your mind.”

Shelf Life - “Sinking Just Right” (Official Video)

Are you ready for the one about pouring vodka into a swimming pool? That’s how Shelf Life’s video for “Sinking Just Right” starts. The video goes on to unspool a surreal, deeply sad montage of this dejected man dumping cheap vodka into a pool, chucking his phone in there, too, and surveying the expanse of empty liquor bottles that litter the area. “Does everybody hate me?” Scotty Leitch wonders in the lyrics, before musing about finding pools, cinder blocks, and tightropes for purposes that seem dire at best. This video clearly seems designed as a commentary on depression, suicide, and the pressures of 21st century capitalism. His suit, cell phone, calculator and brief case point to some sort of dismal business failing. This is all quite depressing, but the good news for Leitch is solo musical venture has done anything but. A few weeks ago the band officially released their slowcore psych-folk album Everyone Make Happy and revealed Leitch — a former engineer, drummer, and behind-the-scenes sort of guy — for the talented frontman he is. Good Boy Audiovisual directs.

Gun Outfit - "Legends of My Own" (Official Video)

Dusty, lazily melodic Olympia punks Gun Outfit have a new album called Dream All Over coming out next month, and we’ve already posted their songs “Gotta Wanna” and “Only Ever Over.” The glimmering rambler “Legends Of My Own” also appears on the album, and the band just shared its new video via NPR. Gun Outfit’s own Carrie Keith shot the video’s vintage-looking footage around Los Angeles, the duo’s former home.

Small Black - “Boys Life” (Official Video)

Brooklyn-based dreampoppers Small Black have a new record coming out next month, and we’ve already heard a few of its singles. “Boys Life” was the first, and the band’s frontman Josh Kolenik described it as a reflection on growing up and into your adult self. Fader premiered the new accompanying video, which was directed by Nick Bentgen and chronicles a young woman’s relationships from her teen years on. It’s the kind of video that makes you feel like you’re not having as much fun as you should be, and that the world looks a whole lot better when filtered through faded film.

Fetty Wap - “My Way” (Feat. Monty) Video

Fetty Wap managed to become something like a pop star, with three major top-10 hit singles to his name, without recording a single big, glitzy video. The clip for “Trap Queen,” his breakout hit, looks like something that somebody shot on a phone. And now he’s made a clip for “My Way” months after it got its Drake remix. It should be Fetty’s first big video moment, but even this looks cheap and grainy, like something that would’ve been buried on the second half of Rap City once upon a time. (It also has a lot of product placement.) With its shots of expensive cars under busted-up overpasses, though, the video does have some memorable imagery. Danny Erb directs.

Bing & Ruth - “Rails” (Official Video)

Bing & Ruth are a minimalist indie-classical ensemble led by pianist and composer David Moore. Following the release of Tomorrow Was The Golden Age last year, they’re reissuing their debut full-length, 2010’s City Lake, in remastered and expanded form, and they’ve just shared a new video for “Rails,” the album’s most immediate and pop-adjacent cut. Unlike the amorphous ambient textures of Tomorrow Was The Golden Age, “Rails” sharpens the abstraction into forward-driving motoric momentum reminiscent of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. A circling piano figure, rhythmic handclaps, upright bass, strings, clarinet, and wordless vocals ebb and flow over the course of eight minutes, coalescing into — as the title suggests — a piece of music perfect for watching the landscape pass by through a train window. Fittingly, director Seba Cros matches it with a lovely, impressionistic visual paean to rail travel. It may be eight minutes long, but those eight minutes wash over you like a warm sigh.

Dilly Dally - “Purple Rage” (Official Video)

While Dilly Dally’s last video had them skateboarding around and looking all aggressive, their new one for “Purple Rage” is all about curiosity and fear. It stars a gooey purple swamp monster that looks like something out of a Goosebumps book (or maybe that dude from the Power Rangers Movie) and follows it through the streets of the band’s home base of Toronto as it takes in all the sights. The video ends with a mad dash through the city, as the monster returns to the woods from whence it came, unimpressed with our world. Watch the Adam Christopher Seward-directed video.

Height Keech - “Don’t Die” (Official Video)

The Baltimore rapper Dan Keech has been recording as Height for more than a decade, and he’s been a longtime staple of his hometown’s still-thriving DIY scene. Earlier this year, he used the name Height Keech to release the personal real-talk album Talk Singer, and we’ve posted his perfectly lovely video for “Bring Your Soul (To The Function).” Now we’ve got his video for the angular “Don’t Die.” Justin Barnes directs, and the video shows a ghost dancing in front of screen projections of Keech rapping around Baltimore.

YACHT - “L.A. Plays Itself” (Official Video)

YACHT have always loved the gimmicks, and they’re embracing them even more in the rollout for their latest album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler. They announced the record through Periscope, and shared the album’s title track via an unnecessarily hi-def lyric video. Now, they’re unveiling their next single through a new website, playsitself.la, that will only display the track’s new video when Uber surge pricing in Los Angeles is active. Appropriately, the new song is called “L.A. Plays Itself,” a name derived from the 2003 documentary of a similar name. A Darq E Freaker remix of the track will play on the website when the city climbs above a 2x surge. Check out the website here.

Tindersticks - “We Are Dreamers!” (Official Video)

Tindersticks, the long-running dark-and-stormy British rock project, have just announced plans to release The Waiting Room, their tenth album. The new LP will feature appearances from Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth and from the late Lhasa De Sela. Each track will come with a visual accompaniment from a different filmmaker, and the first is for “We Are Dreamers!,” a clanging throb that should give you some idea of Tindersticks’ scorched-earth sound. The accompanying short film, from Brazilian director Gabriel Sanna, shows terrifyingly huge trucks rolling back and forth over a desolate landscape.

Låpsley - “Hurt Me” (Official Video)

British singer Holly Fletcher aka Låpsley recently “Hurt Me,” the A-side to her other new track “Burn.” The split furthers her glitchy, sky-high pop, and the new video for “Hurt Me” brings all that emotion to an abandoned wood and expansive green fields. In the clip, which was directed by Cherise Payne, Låpsley perfects the studied scowl. Again, it’s impossible not to hear and see the Adele influence here, but the production on her songs ventures toward footwork and house in a totally different way.

Autre Ne Veut - “The Age of Transparency” (Official Video)

Avant-R&B auteur Autre Ne Veut is being featured on Yours Truly this week. Along with an interview, some photos, and a breakdown of the unreleased track “Cold Winds,” they’ve just premiered a new video for the title track off of his upcoming LP The Age Of Transparency. It’s the third video we’ve seen from the album and the third to be directed by Allie Avital, and it’s not as retina-clawingly disturbing as the bugfuck “World War Pt. 2” video or quite as weirdly tense as “Panic Room,” but it’s still plenty unsettling. Arthur Ashin dances with a loose-limbed, sinister ease around an office full of gray, motionless corporate employees, and things take a turn for the horrifying towards the end. Also, the song itself is great, a big, cinematic, emotional thing, and you can download an also-very-good electronics-free “jazz version” here.

Fort Lean - “Might’ve Misheard” (Official Video)

Brooklyn indie-rock outfit Fort Lean have unveiled the video for new track “Might’ve Misheard” from forthcoming album Quiet Day via Noisey. The band stacks doomed guitar-based choruses in between layers of electro-pop and psychedelia, all grounded by characteristic soft rock riffs. Fort Lean’s exploration into the experimental and outlandish within their track is mirrored in their music video, a daring and wonderfully weird visual endeavor that involves Chinese takeout coming to life, tentacles exploding from bathroom plumbing, and being turned into a bizarre plasticine sculpture — all of which stems from the basis of loser almost-boyfriends and perennial parental disappointment.

Modern Baseball - “Rock Bottom” (Official Video)

My favorite thing about You’re Gonna Miss It All, Modern Baseball’s very good sophomore album from last year, is how it simultaneously embraces and wallows in adolescent clichés while acknowledging the nasty roots of all those bitter emotions. Their songs are filled with a familiar and juvenile caustic irreverence that’s as fun to sing along to as it is troubling, but the Philadelphia band manage to slide past any negative connotations thanks to the strength of their songwriting and the likability of lead vocalist Brendan Lukens.

Those vocals are a dismissal point for a lot of people — it’s one of the most distinctive voices we’ve had in a while, whiny enough to almost read as an over-the-top pop-punk satire if it weren’t so earnest and affecting. Nowhere — besides maybe “Your Graduation” or “Apartment” — are the charms of the band better captured than on “Rock Bottom,” which serves as the origin point for the band’s eventual mantra (“Whatever, forever”) and the eminently quotable line “We can watch Planet Earth and brainstorm tattoos,” which has become a calling card for the lovesick and desperately disconnected.

The band takes another opportunity to mess around with clichés in their new Kyle Thrash-directed video for “Rock Bottom,” which sees Lukens first getting some questionable career advice about the millennial market, then sitting down to wail against a backdrop of archetypal high school takeaways. The video ends in chaos, as the band says fuck the whole thing and runs away from the nostalgic box that they could so easily be placed into. Watch it below via Pitchfork, and check out the band’s recent one-off “Revenge Of The Nameless Ranger”:

Naughty Boy - “Runnin’ (Lose It All)” (Feat. Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin) Official Video

UK producer Naughty Boy, who’s worked with Mary J. Blige, Sam Smith, Emeli Sandé, and Leona Lewis, has just shared a new collab with Beyoncé. Also featuring singer-songwriter Arrow Benjamin, “Runnin’ (Lose It All)” begins as a huge, emotional piano ballad before exploding into a higher gear when Bey’s chorus hits. The accompanying video, directed by Charlie Robins, shows two pretty people running through a scenic underwater vista to unite with each other.

Jamie Woon - “Message” & “Thunder” Video

British crooner Jamie Woon came up on the strength of a single co-produced by Burial called “Night Air.” After five years, that song still feels like it could’ve come out yesterday. But Woon hasn’t released much since his debut album mirrorwriting came out in 2011, and this summer he announced his return with “Sharpness,” a surprisingly soft, woozy track that doubles down on disco-funk vibes — like many many other artists this year. It premiered on Beats 1 Radio, and as we suspected, “Sharpness” was just the beginning. Today he’s announced his full-length Making Time will be out in early November. It features production throughout from Lexxx, and guests like Robin Hannibal, Royce Wood Junior and Willy Mason. Another new track from Woon, “Thunder,” surfaced on Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 this weekend, and it’s a lilting, jazzy track that you can hear right here around 4:50. He’s also shared a live studio version of “Message,” a song full of yearning that contemplates the future.

Rae Sremmurd - “Come Get Her” Explicit (Official Video)

Thus far, SremmLife, the debut album from Mississippi swag-rap duo Rae Sremmurd, has produced four fairly big hit singles: “No Flex Zone,” “No Type,” “Throw Sum Mo,” and “This Could Be Us.” That is an absolutely ridiculous hit rate, one that’s practically unheard-of for rap albums nowadays. And now they’re working on their fifth. The duo just shared a video for the strip-club jam “Come Get Her,” and it’s an absolutely ridiculous one. The video’s plot, such as it is, revolved around Rae Sremmurd being accidentally booked to perform at a country-music line-dancing club, and it involves deeply goofy stereotypes about horses and pigs being allowed into the bar. It’s about as over-the-top as a video like this should be, and I cackled pretty much the whole way through.

Beat Connection - “Illusion” (Official Video)

Seattle four-piece Beat Connection have shared the video for their latest track, “Illusion“. The song is a vibrant electro-pop offering from their upcoming record Product 3. Set in the abandoned underbelly of urban New York, the video features the incredible dancing of Sean Douglas — known as Brixx — amidst backdrops of empty parking lots, barren streets, underground tunnels, and faraway skylines. Brixx’s fluid choreography brings life and color to the derelict scenery, his smooth moves paired brilliantly alongside Beat Connection’s catchy, electro-pop sound.

Watch The Killers Cover “Finding Out True Love Is Blind” With Louis XIV Guitarist In San Diego

The Killers played a show at San Diego’s Observatory North Park last night. During the encore, they brought out Louis XIV guitarist Brian Karscig to perform a cover of Louis XIV’s “Finding Out True Love is Blind.” Watch some fan-shot footage and compare the Killers’ version to the original below.

Diet Cig - “Sleep Talk” (Official Video)

Band To Watch Diet Cig are one of my favorite new bands of 2015. Their chirpy, smart twee-pop is filled with just enough cutting one-liners to keep it from ever veering too far into earnest territory. But there’s an innocence and straightfowardness to their sound that’s refreshing in the current, cluttered world of pop. The duo composed of Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman already released an EP called Over Easy this year, and their follow-up Sleep Talk is officially out today. In the video for “Sleep Talk,” the duo are predictably adorable, fake-driving/green-screened through frame after frame of famous roadside scenery, and even making it as far as the cosmos itself. Too Many Mangoes, the team of Christopher Daly and Alex Antiuk, direct. Side note: Where can I get a pair of sunglasses like Alex’s?

PWR BTTM - “1994” (Official Video)

Listening to PWR BTTM will fuck you up — that’s the whole point. Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins make the kind of music that challenges you to dig into your own pain, to really get inside of your wounds, and emerge stronger for having done so. Their debut album Ugly Cherries is out today, and it’s one of the most honest, affecting records I’ve heard this year. For anyone who is struggling with issues that stem from being an outsider, or interrogating the bullshit facades of culture, this record is a salve. Bruce and Hopkins identify their music as “genre-queer,” but honestly, the emotions and struggles they grapple with here will appeal to anyone who is struggling with grief or loss, pain or oppression. Each song is a little vignette of bright pop-punk that spits in the face of life’s petty injustices, and does so in bright, hooky punk riffs.

Noisey premiered the video for “1994” today, and like the song, the visuals shift through cultural signifiers from the ’90s that are both unsettling and sweet in their strangeness. Each cult icon featured is altered slightly though to include some influence from the members of PWR BTTM themselves, a clever, cutting visual argument that we’re constantly remaking the past in our own image. PWR BTTM remind us that’s our power, that’s our prerogative. So yeah, listening to Ugly Cherries will fuck you up, but it’ll also be the record that helps put you back together. This video was produced, directed and edited by Rufus Paisley; I don’t even know what a triple threat is if it’s not that.

Father John Misty - “The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment” (Official Video)

Although it makes room for moments of genuine sweetness and connection, Father John Misty’s great I Love You, Honeybear is a very bitter, very funny album, and “The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment” is perhaps its bitterest and funniest song, a petty, scathing laundry list of a lover’s flaws. It starts out amusing — and it keeps being amusing — but as it drags on and on, it becomes almost uncomfortably mean-spirited, and then you realize that, hey, this guy is kind of a dick — but that’s the point. Josh Tillman himself is guilty of the same crimes he’s accusing this poor girl of, and the song is a testament to the thinness of the line between narcissism and self-loathing. The track’s new video, which he teased a couple of days ago, makes this abundantly clear by casting Tillman as his own conquest: He picks himself up at a bar, brings himself home, hooks up with himself, and then leaves in the morning. “This video is partially inspired by the LeBron James quote ‘It is precisely the superficial differences between people who are otherwise alike that inform the hostilities between them,'” Tillman says in a press release. “Special thanks to my body double Tyler who I had to kiss no fewer than two dozen times and whose breath I can still smell in my mind’s eye.” Director Drew Pearce adds: “It has been an honor to explore the palpable sexual chemistry that exists between Josh Tillman and himself. I hope this video does their enduring love affair justice.”

Ought - “Sun’s Coming Down” (Official Video)

We named Ought’s excellent sophomore effort, Sun Coming Down, Album Of The Week on Tuesday, and Tom wrote at length about its many intricacies and subtle intensity. The video for the record’s almost-title track “Sun’s Coming Down” follows suit. A bicycle gang rides through urban streets in search of something undefined, encountering many absurdist situations in the process. The Aaliyeh Afshar- and Max Taeuschel-directed video is intriguing without resorting to pageantry. 

Mac Miller - “Brand Name” (Official Video)

Today, Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller releases his seriously impressive new album GO:OD AM, and he also follows up his video for first single “100 Grandkids” with a new one for “Brand Name.” On that song, he talks openly about his place in the world, and the video is similarly introspective, in its own way. In a way, the video is sort of an imagined image of what would’ve happened if Miller had taken a different path, if he’d become an office drone in Pittsburgh. But it’s also built around a fake sitcom and a Truman Show idea that Miller is living this whole imagined life for everyone to watch. There are layers to this thing!

Travi$ Scott - “Antidote” (Official Video)

Travi$ Scott’s hyped-up new album Rodeo is a turgid, overlong, feelings-free mess, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing redeemable about it. “Antidote,” the big hedonist summer-jam single, is sort of a banger, and now it has a video. In the clip, Scott visits a spooky carnival, the type where dust clouds blow everywhere and expensive cars do donuts and CGI bats are always flying in front of a full moon. Scott doesn’t really do much in the video — he smokes weed and looks at women in scary makeup — but it looks cool anyway.

Future - “The Percocet & Stripper Joint” (Official Video)

While we wait for the rumored Drake/Future mixtape, Future is still dropping new videos for tracks off of his great new album DS2. The latest to get the visual treatment is “The Percocet & Stripper Joint,” and I bet you can guess what happens in the languid, hazy clip. Watch below via MissInfo.

Lady Gaga - "Til It Happens To You" Video (Lady Gaga’s New Video Is A Powerful PSA About Campus Rape)

Lady Gaga has spent much of the past two years hanging out with Tony Bennett and making amiable throwback big-band music. But in January, she contributed a big, searching orchestral power ballad called “Till It Happens To You” to The Hunting Ground, a documentary about campus rape and sexual assault. Power ballad specialist Diane Warren wrote the song, and it treats a very important topic with big, cinematic emotional power. Catherine Hardwicke, the filmmaker behind Thirteen and the first Twilight movie, directed a stately black-and-white video for the track. Nikki Reed costars, but Gaga herself doesn’t appear in the video. Instead, it focuses on the stories of a few women who go through terrible things at college, with a special emphasis on how they can find help.

Made Of Oak - “Pinebender” (Official Video)

Made Of Oak is Nick Sanborn’s post-Sylvan Esso solo project, and he teased his debut EP, Penumbra, back in August. Today he shares the video for Penumbra song “Pindebender.” The crisp production that made Sylvan Esso stand out is evident here, but it’s weighted down by more bass and a deeper exploration of squiggly synth-mania. Sans Amelia Meath, Sanborn turns the instruments themselves into voices, telling a jagged call-and-response story. Watch the abstract video below, which was directed, shot, and edited by Adam Heathcott and Sara Padgett Heathcott and Endless Endless.

Georgia - “Kombine” (Official Video)

Weirdcore don’t have a monopoly on glitchy, green-screened visuals, but they do seem to be among the ones who does them the best. The production company has lent their talents to artists like Tame Impala, M.I.A., Aphex Twin, and even Miley Cyrus, and they throw in an equally inspired effort for up-and-coming Georgia’s new “Kombine” video. The track comes off her very good debut album, and it matches her glitchy energy with Eastern World-inspired visuals and some regal-looking 3D sprites that look like they could’ve been taken straight out of one of the Civilization games.

Wavves - “Way Too Much” (Official Video)

The pro-wrestling clip is practically a music-video subgenre now, and Wavves’ new video for the fired-up song “Way Too Much” is a fine addition to it. If you follow Wavves frontman Nathan Williams on Twitter, then you already know he’s a big wrestling fan. He and director Jack Wagner filmed the “Way Too Much” video at an event put on by the L.A. indie wrestling promotion Underground Empire. The wrestling we see in the video is the uncommonly brutal death-match type, the kind where people get slammed through tables covered in barbed wire. At the end of the video, we see one wrestler, Max X, getting thumbtacks pulled out of his head after a match. Wagner films everything so that it looks mythic and awe-inspiring, rather than tawdry and gross. (Indie wrestling is all of those things, most of the time.)

Kanye West - “Fade” (Feat. Post Malone & Ty Dolla $ign)

During Kanye West’s spring fashion show to debut his Adidas Yeezy Boost shoes among other items, he previewed a new song called “Wolves” that features Sia and Vic Mensa. At today’s Yeezy Season 2 runway show, West debuted another song to an audience that included Drake, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe, Debbie Harry, Lorde, Seth Meyers, Common, 2 Chainz, Pusha T, Chromeo’s Dave 1, Fabolous, Miguel, Riccardo Tisci, and Anna Wintour. Full audio of the song has leaked and Post Malone confirms that he appears on it along with Ty Dolla $ign. The house-inspired track includes samples of Fingers, Inc.’s “Mystery Of Love” and Hardrive’s “Deep Inside.” Pitchfork reports that the song is titled “Fade.”

Stay young.

Un vídeo publicado por @virgilabloh el 16 de Sep de 2015 a la(s) 9:57 PDT

TOPS - “Anything” (Official Video)

TOPS are a Montreal shoegaze-pop four-piece whose 2014 record Picture You earned a spot on our Top 50 Albums Of The Year list. Listening to their brand new moonlit-nightmare of a song “Anything,” you’ll start to get a sense of why. Somewhere between Dirty Dancing and Twin Peaks, “Anything” starts moody and low before building to a dramatic chorus full of loss. Despite this undercurrent despair, the track is sprinkled with bright, sprightly moments. “I don’t have anything,” Jane Penny laments, condensing her entire universe into the loss of a romance. Boy, does that ring a bell. The video is similarly dark and lonely, with Penny appearing solo for most of it. Watch the Tommy Keith-created clip below and look for news of more new material from the band, which must be coming soon..

Kelela - “Rewind” (Official Video)

After a long delay, Hallucinogen, the much-anticipated space-R&B EP from the young L.A. phenom Kelela, is finally coming out next month. And now she’s followed the stunning video for her Arca-produced “A Message” with a new clip for “Rewind,” the lucious and breezy dance track that she shared a couple of weeks ago. Eric K. Yue directed the video, pointing his camera at Kelela to the exclusion of all else. We see her floating down abandoned hallways and dancing through nightclubs, with harsh flickering electric light following her everywhere. The video makes her look iconic, which, if you’ve ever seen her perform, is not that difficult of a task.

Ibeyi - “Stranger / Lover” (Official Video)

Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz are the twin daughters of Buena Vista Social Club percussionist Anga Díaz, and together, they make music as Ibeyi. The duo’s self-titled debut, sung in both English and Yoruba, is a multi-tiered fusion of electronic beats, hip-hop vocal stylings, and Yorùbán music. Jezebel debuted Ibeyi’s new video for the song “Stranger/Lover,” whose lyrics navigates a complex relationship — the volatile, on-again-off-again kind. In the clip, the sisters are shaken and tussled by disembodied hands.

Watch Carly Rae Jepsen Cover Years & Years’ “King”

Ultra-pop sprite Carly Rae Jepsen is the sort of singer who’s better known for her songs — like the sparkling gems on her excellent new album E•MO•TION — than for the way she sings them. But give her some credit on the latter, too. On a recent visit to the BBC’s Live Lounge, Jepsen sang a song that’s not one of her own: Years & Years’ massive house-pop jam “King.” And she gave the song a beautifully vulnerable reading, singing it with only a keyboardist and an acoustic guitarist backing her up. The original song is pretty good, and I still like her version better.

George FitzGerald - “Full Circle” (Feat. Boxed In) (Video)

British whisper-house producer George FitzGerald put out his excellent solo debut Fading Love earlier this year. It’s a minimalistic house record concerned with interior emotional life brought out into the open space of the dance floor, and it absolutely deserves your attention. So in case you missed the featherlight “Full Circle” the first time around, you can catch this gorgeous song via the new accompanying video. It manages to capture the more surreal and cerebral elements of FitzGerald’s music with shots of a pregnant woman, ballet dancers and an operating table.

Kosherbeets - “Still Hoop Dreams” (Feat. Coodie Breeze) Video

The Awful Records collective is a living, breathing example of game recognize game. Sometimes I’m not sure how all these loosely affiliated creative people are pulled together; maybe it’s some sort of rap centrifugal force the rest of us are immune to. Anyway, Coodie Breeze (or The Artist Formerly Known As Pyramid Quince? Who knows if he’ll keep the Pyramid name around for something else) dropped a new song of his own earlier this week, “Fastest Way,” and he shows up to guest on Kosherbeets’ “Still Hoop Dreams,” too. The song is off Kosherbeets’ ¡kb! album, and the video features outdoor basketball courts that seem like they’d be a little too on-the-nose but actually work quite well. Watch the Mike Ellwood-directed video.

Bad Bad Hats - “Shame” (Official Video)

Bad Bad Hats released their debut full-length, Psychic Reader, back in July. Now they’re sharing a new video they made for one of that record’s most immediate singles, the nervy rocker “Shame.” Inspired by the internet-famous Tumblr Women Laughing Alone With Salads, which collects stock photos of women looking inordinately happy to be eating greens, the goofy lark of a video finds frontwoman Kerry Alexander grinning her way around Minneapolis, salad in tow.

Society - “Protocol” (Official Video)

Society’s “Protocol” is the rare instance of a music video elevating a song rather than bogging it down in high concept, low production quality, or plain old unmemorable mediocrity. The single itself is awesome, James Girdler and Brendan Lynch funneling the weary, art-damaged spirit of Achtung Baby-era U2 into a walloping trip-hop/Big Beat production with orchestral swoop. Director Laura Coulson’s visuals lend “Protocol” a more lighthearted nature — the whole thing comprises a gangly teenager named Luke intuitively grooving to the beat. As she explains, that wasn’t the original plan:

We actually cast a bunch of really great teenagers to be in the video. The idea being we would film them moving to the song, hearing it for the first time so we could capture their initial reactions. Luke’s take was so fun and really excited us. He embodied the spirit of the song so well we ended up using his take for the whole video, as none of us could take our eyes off him.

Luke’s movements are seriously mesmerizing. It’s just a guy dancing to a great song, but sometimes that’s all you need for a captivating creative work.

Watch The Full-Length “Why You Always Lying” Video

It appeared online sometime in the last few weeks: A young man with a huge, devilish grin howling about your lying ways over “Too Close,” Next’s 1997 R&B megahit about boner anxiety. The Vine went about as viral as viral gets, to the point where the image of Queens resident Nicholas Fraser’s face is enough to accuse someone of flagrant deception. And now, as Fuse reports, Fraser has made a full four-minute, 20-second video of the “Why You Always Lying” joke, someone stretching a tiny joke way beyond the length it should be and making it funny the entire time. Fraser is just fun to watch, and nothing I can write here will do justice to the moment the rain comes in, or the moment the backup dancers show up. It’s all just too perfect. Watch the video, and the original Vine.

It’s hard to imagine this being anything more than a glorious one-off, but careers have been made from less. And you can definitely lose your entire afternoon if you head over to Fraser’s Vine feed.

Shamir - “In For The Kill” (Official Video)

Shamir plays an alien in the new Anthony Sylvester-directed video for “In For The Kill,” which sees him piloting a UFO around our planet and catching the attention of a whole bunch of humans on the ground, drumming up a lot of press coverage in the process. It almost sounds like… woah, it’s like it mirrors Shamir’s meteoric rise to prominence behind his debut album, Ratchet, which was good enough to land itself in the top 10 of our best albums this year so far list. Appropriately, the video ends with an in-pursuit park ranger picking up a Ratchet cassette tape. It’s just as charming, goofy, fun, and inspiring as all of the music Shamir makes — watch it via Rookie below.

Emilie & Ogden - “What Happened” (Official Video)

Emilie & Ogden isn’t that much more than what’s there in the title — Emilie Kahn, singer and songwriter behind the whole project, and her harp that’s charmingly called Ogden. There’s some sparse instrumentation from her backing band on “What Happened,” the second single we’ve heard from her upcoming debut album 10,000, but the focal points are just her and her instrument, and it’s easy to hear why. The song’s about a sociopath, and it takes on the kind of circular logic that you need when dealing with someone like that — “what happened to you?” is asked over and over, with the only real answer being the sting of a drum. Listen via Popular.

Speedy Ortiz - "Swell Content" (official music video)

Buck’s Rock is a liberal choose-your-own-adventure camp for kids in Connecticut, and it’s where Speedy Ortiz frontwoman Sadie Dupuis spent her summers when she was a kid. (It’s also where she met Palehound leader Ellen Kempner, and the two recently interviewed each other for Rookie about the camp experience.) When it came time to make a video for “Swell Content,” a jittery guitar-blast from the recent Speedy Ortiz album Foil Deer, Dupuis and her band went back to the camp. Directors Boast Choan and Michael Falcone filmed them playing for and interacting with the kids there and assessing their own fine-arts skills. It’s an overwhelmingly happy video.

GABI - “Love Song” (Official Video)

Gabrielle Herbst, aka GABI, released her debut album earlier this year on Daniel Lopatin’s Mexican Summer imprint, Software. Sympathy is an experimental, operatic effort that almost solely depends on Herbst’s crystalline voice, with little additional instrumentation, and the album’s accompanying videos are similarly spare. In this new one for “Love Song,” Herbst sings alone on a highway in Marfa, Texas shrouded in white. David Fenster directs.

Hidrogenesse - "Siglo XIX" (Official Video)

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Canción incluida en el álbum “Roma” Austrohúngaro AH034, 2015.
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Disclosure - “Jaded” (Öfficial Video)

We’re a week and a half away from the release of Caracal, Disclosure’s long-awaited sophomore album, and we’ve already heard a whole pile of tracks from it. “Jaded,” the single that they’ve shared this morning, is one of the album’s few songs without a prominent guest vocalist, but it does have vocals. This time around, they come from Disclosure’s own Howard Lawrence, who sounds a whole lot like the sort of guest singer Disclosure might use. It’s a slick, breezy house-pop track like most of the other Caracal singles. The new music video completes a trilogy that started with Disclosure’s “Holding On” video and continued with their clip for the Sam Smith collab “Omen.” Like those two, it takes place in some futuristic dystopia where old, powerful white men aim to keep down the spirit of the kids. In this one, we see the aftermath of the raid on the rave in “Omen.” A hypnotist interrogates the woman who played the lead in that video, and the strategy backfires on him.

Deerhunter - “Breaker” (Official Video)

“Breaker” is the second single from Deerhunter’s Fading Frontier, but it’s also a first for the band. The song marks the only instance to date of frontman Bradford Cox and guitarist Lockett Pundt singing on the same track. Musically, “Breaker” forgoes the Southern funk of “Snakeskin” for something closer to Deerhunter’s dreamy wheelhouse, pulling influence from psych, power-pop, and new wave. Perhaps this is what Cox meant when he talked about the album’s heavy INXS influence? The video, also a collaboration between Cox and Pundt, mostly fades between their two faces, sometimes stopping in between or fitting in bandmates Moses Archuleta and Josh McKay.

Young Thug - “Best Friend” (Official Video)

Slime Season, Young Thug’s collaborative mixtape with Atlanta producer London On Da Track, was supposed to come out on July 4th. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but Thug’s been sharing material from it in dribs and drabs, and today we’re getting another drib, mere hours after a different track from the prolific rapper emerged online. Directed by frequent collaborator Be El Be and co-directed by Thug himself, as usual, the new video for “Best Friend” is a weird one. It opens with Young Thug walking in on himself hooking up with a female version of himself, and he keeps multiplying and popping up in different places — highlights include Thug in whiteface and Thug as his own dinner. The fact that the video for a song called “Best Friend” is mostly about Thug interacting with himself is hilarious to me.

Albert Hammond Jr. - “Caught By My Shadow” (Official Video)

Albert Hammond Jr.’s new video for “Caught By My Shadow” picks up right where his last one for “Losing Touch” left off. Both of them were filmed by Laurent Briet over two days in Morocco. The last time we saw Hammond Jr., he was being chased around the city before escaping to the woods and, eventually, the beach. Here, he starts off after collapsing from exhaustion near the shore. The whole video series is an homage to Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, and here they pay tribute and partially recreate the iconic scene in which the main character has to play a game of chess against death. Watch below.

Chris Cornell - “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” (Official Video)

Chris Cornell’s new solo album, Higher Truth, is due out next week, and in anticipation, he’s released an accompanying video for the single “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart.” The super-high production value clip features Cornell awaiting his hanging in a small cowboy town in the American West. There’s a bizarre plot twist midway through.

Tunji Ige - “Dark Liquor” (Official Video)

You are now watching the official music video for "Dark Liquor" by Tunji Ige from A3C Volume 5, in stores worldwide October 2nd via A3C / iHipHop Distribution.

Video directed by Glassface. Track produced by Tunji Ige.

Vacation - “I Wish I Could Be Someone Else” Video (Feat. Marissa Paternoster)

All the bands on Don Giovanni seem tight and value the same things, which is why it makes total sense that Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster would star in and co-direct (with Rebecca Henderson) a video for Cincinatti punks Vacation. They turn in a kind of gross, grainy clip for Vacation’s Non-Person track “I Wish I Could Be Someone Else” that attempts to justify that title at every turn. Hands are tied up tied with string, Paternoster squishes something gross (a tomato?) into her mouth, she holds out chips that echoes the songs sentiments about being more brave and free.

Autre Ne Veut - “Panic Room” (Official Video)

The version of “Panic Room,” a new song from the soul-baring R&B experimenter Autre Ne Veut, in the song’s new music video isn’t the one that’ll appear on his forthcoming album Transparency. Instead, Arthur Ashin, the man who records as Autre Ne Veut, sings an intense a cappella version of it for a panel of unimpressed judges. You may recognize one of those judges: Ian Cohen, the music critic and internet lightning rod. Allie Avital, director of Autre Ne Veut’s eyeball-searing “World War Pt. 2” video, also directed this one, and it’s just as tense in its own way. FADER debuted the video earlier today, and you can watch.

Ghost - “From The Pinnacle To The Pit” (Official Video)

Ghost, Swedish masters of theatrical metal silliness, just released their new album Meliora last month, and now they’ve followed their spectacular “Cirice” video with a new one for the album track “From The Pinnacle To The Pit.” For this one, director Zev Deans uses animation and what looks like manipulated silent-movie footage to tell a mythic origin story about Ghost frontman Papa Emeritus II. There aren’t many bands around these days who are this into maintaining their own mystique, and a video like this is a prime example of what they’ll do to keep it going.

Watch Ryan Adams, Norah Jones, & Jakob Dylan Cover Neil Young At Neil Fest

Last night, an all-star lineup of musicians converged on the Bowery Ballroom to pay tribute to Neil Young. The occasion was Neil Fest, a two-night benefit show that’s raising money for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund on behalf of the Jameson Neighborhood Fund. Last night’s show was the first of the two nights, and its lineup included Ryan Adams, Norah Jones, Jakob Dylan, Body/Head, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner. A few videos have shown up on the internet, and they include a badass, authoritative, stripped-down “Cinnamon Girl” cover from Ryan Adams. Norah Jones sang backup on that one, and she also joined Adams for a duet version of “Old Man.” Dylan took on “Southern Man.” And Valerie June led the night’s entire lineup through a singalong version of “Helpless.”

Jimmy Whispers - “I Get Lost In You In The Summertime” (Official Video)

Earlier this year, former Light Pollution frontman James Cicero struck out on his own under the name Jimmy Whispers and released his homespun solo debut, Summer In Pain. “I Get Lost In You In The Summertime” is one of the many catchy, affable tracks from the album, and now it has a video to go along with it. Cicero starts off soundchecking in empty Chicago venue/bar The Empty Bottle before wandering outside and taking in the scenes of the city: He plays with some kids in the park, stops for food, and ends up in the lake. The video features cameo appearances from a few of his friends, including members of Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It was directed by Alexa and Jessica Viscius.

Nicole Dollanganger - “Angels Of Porn (II)” Video

Directed by: Nicole Dollanganger, Kevin Jenkins, Matt Tomasi / Shot by: Nicole Dollanganger / Additional Shots: Kevin Jenkins

HUGE THANK U TO: Matt, Kevin, Tyler, Ben, Travis, Terrence, Alan, Isaac, Brendan & Natalya. U guys are the real deal.

John Grant - “Disappointing” (Feat. Tracey Thorn) (NSFW-ish) Video

John Grant – “Disappointing” (Feat. Tracey Thorn) (NSFW-ish) (Dir. David Wilson)

I haven’t seen a music video objectify men this flagrantly since Jennifer Lopez’s “I Luh You Papi,” or Salt-N-Pepa’s “Whatta Man” before it.

Ty Dolla $ign - “Blasé” (Feat. Future & Rae Sremmurd) Video

Although the release of his debut full-length Free TC has been pushed back to November, Ty Dolla $ign just dropped the Fetty Wap collab “When I See Ya” on Friday. Now he’s already following that up with a new video for the Future- and Rae Sremmurd-featuring “Blasé,” a grainy, desaturated VHS-style clip made up of lots of partying. Future is a no-show, but the Brothers Sremm turn up in some footage from Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint tour, and Dej Loaf and Tinashe both make cameos on the tour bus. Watch below via MissInfo.

Pinkshinyultrablast - “Kiddy Pool Dreams” (Official Video)

In theory, Pinkshinyultrablast’s must isn’t that off-putting — they’re on the loud side, sure, but the Russian quintet always have enough pleasing melodies peeking out from under the surface to suck the right person in. But, of course, the average person doesn’t listen to this kind of dense rock all the time, and I could understand how one could be taken aback. On top of that, a lot of their songs take their time — their latest, the one-off single “Kiddy Pool Dreams,” clocks in at a sprawling six minutes. Not that long, but longer than what you would typically hear on the radio.

All of the above are the kinds of comments you’ll hear in the new video for the track. The band took around a pair of headphones and asked people on the street to listen to the song in full. Among the ambient background noise, we see everyone’s reaction as it happens: People complain about the loudness, some of them are into it, one says that “nobody makes tracks this long nowadays.” It’s criticism in real-time, and it’s a delight to watch. At the end, an old guy checks: “It’s not yours, is it?” before weighing in: “A lot of energy, no soul.” Judge for yourself —

Empress Of - “Standard” (Official Video)

Empress Of’s elliptical, fractured pop opus Me is our Album Of The Week, and today Lorely Rodriguez has capitalized on the momentum from her record release by sharing another new video for “Standard.” It opens “I’ve been living below the standard / With a hunger that feeds the fire,” and for anyone who lives in a roach-infested Brooklyn apartment — as Rodriguez might since she lives in Brooklyn — the line immediately hits right where it hurts. That’s the kind of jittery, restless jab that makes her songwriting fascinating, and a deft companion to the dark, shuddering pop she creates. The video, which was directed by Zaiba Jabbar and Rodriguez herself, is a jumble of wrestling bodies and upside down perspectives.

Coodie Breeze - “Fastest Way” (Official Video)

Atlanta’s Awful Records consistently put out new music via SoundCloud, and though their brand is strong, it’s hard to keep up with their breakneck release schedule. Pyramid Quince dropped his full-length, Coodie Breeze, last summer, and now he’s releasing new music under the Coodie Breeze alter-ego — kind of a Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Company or Microphones/Mount Eerie situation. “Fastest Way” was produced by SenseiATL, and the accompanying video chronicles the death and afterlife of Pyramid Quince. Pour one out for him and watch the Mike Ellwood-directed clip.

Slayer - “Repentless” (Official Video)

Slayer! Danny Trejo! A stab-happy prison riot! Do you really need more than that? In the off-chance that you do: Slayer, the long-running thrash pioneers, release their new album Repentless today, and we’ve already posted their songs “When The Stillness Comes” and “Cast The First Stone.” BJ McDonnell, director of the horror movie Hatchet III, helmed the video for the album’s title track, as Rolling Stone reports, and it’s a nasty piece of work. The video features Trejo, the eternally badass B-movie star, as well as a cast of familiar faces from various horror movies, including Derek Mears, Tyler Mane, and Vernon Wells. The video shows what happens when a whole lot of bloodthirsty convicts suddenly get a chance to do what they want to some guards and fellow inmates, and it is not pretty. This is a video with blood geysers and severed heads, so think about whether you’re the type of person who wants to see this sort of thing. If you are, though, it’s fucking badass. It also features Slayer playing in the prison yard for some reason.

Jay Rock - “Vice City” (Feat. Black Hippy) Video

Jay Rock’s 90059 is coming any day now, and he’s already shared a slew of singles off the record. We’ve heard the title track, the Kendrick Lamar-featuring “Easy Bake,” “Gumbo,” “Parental Advisory1,” and several others. Now the most anticipated song on the record has showed up online. On “Vice City,” Rock and his fellow Black Hippy members Kendrick, Ab-Soul, and Schoolboy Q take turns rapping over a sparkling, eerie beat. Their respective vices vary, but money and women are involved, of course. Watch the Joe Weil-directed video below.

Class Actress - “GFE” (Official Video)

Class Actress is Elizabeth Harper’s synthpop project, and she released a new EP Movies earlier this summer. Today she shared the video for “GFE,” which was co-produced by Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo (the whole EP is executive produced by Giorgio Moroder). The clip is designed to mimic the increasingly popular iPhone games that put characters in moral dilemmas. The concept was created by Class Actress and directed by Rachel Maude and Gabriel Reilich.

Raury - “Friends” (Feat. Tom Morello) Video

Raury announced his debut album, All We Need, and shared the Tom Morello-featuring lead single “Friends” just yesterday, and he already has released a music video to go along with it. This one was shot during a road trip with his friend that he took in the middle of August — to get from his home base of Atlanta all the way to Chicago, Raury reached out to his Twitter followers to get rides up there. The video shows the two of them meeting and hanging out with fans, enjoying life on the road, and going to parties, a county fair, and more on the way.

Kayla Painter - “Revert” (Official Video)

Turnstile Music announced today that they’ve signed the electronic producer Kayla Painter. The video that accompanied the announcement for the single “Revert” is a hyper-stylized, intriguing first glimpse of what Painter has to offer. She traipses through a contemporary cityscape dressed in all-white, at times enclosed by a massive plastic bubble. She hands out “Jushi mints” to strangers, and drinks water out of a plastic tube that wraps around her arm like a snake. The atmospheric, delicately wrought “Revert” plays throughout.

Kurt Vile - “Life Like This” (Official Video)

The great laconic guitar hero Kurt Vile has a new album called b’lieve i’m goin down… coming out in a couple of weeks, and he’s already shared his video for first single “Pretty Pimpin.” Today, we get to hear a new song from the album: A deeply insular number called “Life Like This,” which features Vile on piano as well as guitar and which seems to be about all the ways that you are not about that Kurt Vile life. The new song comes with a new video from director Adam Avilla, and it starts out with Vile bumming around the studio and ends with him visiting a psychedelic animated dreamworld. This guy knows what he’s doing.

Life Sim - “IDL” (Official Video)

Life Sim is one of the few names under the PC Music umbrella that we don’t know much about. It could be the moniker of “Finn Diesel,” judging by the contact info on the official label page, but as has been demonstrated time and time again, the collective doesn’t care too much about identity. So far, Life Sim has one mixtape, This Life, to their name, a dope “Call Me Maybe” rework called “Caladhort,” and a few spare tracks and mixes laying around the internet. 

Their latest song is “IDL,” the second “official” PC Music release, meaning that it can be bought instead of just downloaded — the first was Hannah Diamond’s “Every Night” last year — and it comes attached to a music video put together by Daniel Swan. It takes a bunch of similar shots from what the director calls “random post-y2k motion pictures” and splices them all together. Mainly, it makes me wonder if they had to get the rights to all these movies or if this falls under fair use. The song itself is the same kind of pensive, spacey electronica that occupies the other Life Sim releases. It also is accompanied by a Thy Slaughter remix, which gives it a dancier, classically-influenced spin. (I think that one could be better than the original, depending on what you’re going for.)

EZTV - “Pretty Torn Up” (Official Video)

The Children’s Museum of the Arts partnered with the Brooklyn-based trio EZTV to make a video for their single “Pretty Torn Up,” off of their recent Captured Tracks release Calling Out. In the cut-and-paste animated clip, the band gets rearranged into a variety of New York landscapes, and Michael Stasiak told The FADER the following about the making of the video:

Unlike most of our album, we recorded “Pretty Torn Up” completely at home, in Ezra’s old bedroom in Clinton Hill… [The video] was pieced together in a ramshackle sort of way; we loved that the kids came back to us with the simple, direct idea of literally tearing us up and tossing us around a New York skyline—it was just so perfect. And because so much of the video focuses on Ezra’s words, they really seemed to get at the heart of feeling romantically tumbled in the city.

Viet Cong - “Bunker Buster” (Official Video)

Viet Cong’s self-titled debut was named Album Of The Week when it was released back in January, and it made our mid-year list of the 50 best records of 2015 so far. “Bunker Buster” is one of the best examples of the band’s particular brand of blackened psychedelia, and its new accompanying video lends atmosphere to those dizzying sounds. A woman strolls through the neon-lit streets in the Yoonha Park-directed clip, and the footage’s grainy, urban landscape (hellscape?) recalls a Terry Gilliam film.