The Range - “Five Four” Video

The Brooklyn-based producer James Hinton — bka the Range — will release his new album Potential at the end of March. We heard its first single, “Florida,” last month and today the Range debuted the video for “Five Four.” This song is a collaboration between Hinton and two up-and-coming UK-based grime artists (Ophqi and Superior Thought), and the accompanying video was directed by Daniel Kaufman. It’s a spiraling, tension-fueled track;.

The I Don’t Cares - “Whole Lotta Nothin” (Official Video)

The most famous Replacements video is hardly a video at all. The official clip for Tim anthem “Bastards Of Young” comprises footage of a stereo system playing the song for three and a half minutes. So although we would usually skip a half-assed submission like the I Don’t Cares’ new “Whole Lotta Nothin” video, which is indeed a whole lotta nothin’, it seems only right to recognize Paul Westerberg’s continued dedication to this aesthetic. Plus, considering Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield never did a pre-release stream for their album Wild Stab, this shamelessly insubstantial video is at very least a chance to remind you that the album exists and is quite good. To sweeten the deal, Westerberg does show up for a brief introduction that was apparently recorded on his phone.

Chief Keef - “Superheroes” (Feat. A$AP Rocky) Video

A$AP Rocky showed up to provide one of the few guest features on Chief Keef’s 2015 album Bang 3, and now the two rappers have joined forces again to share a new video for the collab, “Superheroes.” Directed by Phil Jackson, the clip finds them and their crews hanging out in a garage by a Lamborghini.

Ben Watt - “Between Two Fires” (Official Video)

Ben Watt, formerly half of Everything But The Girl, is getting to release a singer-songwriterly new solo album called Fever Dream. It features contributions from people like Marissa Nadler, Suede’s Bernard Butler, and Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor. We’ve already posted the compelling narrative video for first single “Gradually,” and now Watt has made a clip for the strummy, propulsive, José Gonzalez-esque new song “Between Two Fires.” Edward Bishop directs, and the clip intercuts black-and-white footage of Watt performing with black-and-white footage of London at night, as seen through a car’s windshield.

Giant Sand - “Texting Feist” Video

Howe Gelb recently announced that Giant Sand are breaking up after more than three decades releasing music. Along with their final tour and soon to be released vinyl box set The Sun Set, the band has also released their final video for the song “Texting Feist” off their current and final album Heartbreak Pass. The song is an honest exploration of Gelb’s correspondence with Leslie Feist, and its video is equally as intimate. In the video — directed by Lonna Kelley and Jon Jenkins and co-directed by Laura Martinova and Edu Perez — we see Gelb alone in the barren stillness of the desert, reflecting on a relationship of his past by revisiting the old letters that he carries in his wallet. Distorted, dizzying cinematography brings us into Gelb’s memory, illustrating the vicissitude of his distant love as we see their tumultuous relationship become tainted. Though Gelb is faced with nostalgia, he cannot help but release from his grasp the letters that his lover once wrote, finally abandoning his past.

Chris Stapleton - “Fire Away” (Official Video)

“Fire Away” is a heartbreaking ballad on Chris Stapleton’s trophy-accumulating country masterpiece Traveller, and now the song has an even more heartbreaking video. Director Tim Mattia gives us the story of a broken man drinking at a bar, remembering the good times with his wife before tragedy struck. It’s a newer, more depressing spin on classic tears-in-your-beers country. Grab a box of tissues and watch.

Watch Dave Grohl Play “Blackbird” For Oscars’ In Memoriam

It turns out that Dave Grohl’s previously announced “special performance” at the Oscars was an acoustic rendition of the Beatles’ “Blackbird,” which he played during the Academy’s annual In Memoriam tribute. The montage paid homage to actors, filmmakers, and composers who passed away over the past year, including Alan Rickman, James Horner, and David Bowie, who was represented by a brief clip of his appearance in Zoolander. Somehow, legendary character actor Abe Vigoda was left out. Watch Grohl’s performance below.

Jack Ü - “Mind” (Feat. Kai) Video

Diplo and Skrillex released their surprise debut under the name Jack Ü, the uncreatively titled but musically solid Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü, exactly one year ago today. In celebration of that anniversary, they’ve shared a new video for album cut “Mind,” featuring vocals from Canadian singer Kai and Skrillex himself. Directed by Liam Underwood, the clip is a globe-trotting montage of the past year of Jack Ü’s existence, including footage shot at landmarks like Machu Picchu and Thailand’s Grand Palace.

Migos - “Commando” Video

In their new video for “Commando” off of last month’s YRN2, Migos call out all the rappers who imitate their signature “Migos flow.” Directed by Joe Yung Spike, the clip opens with a reporter for Atlanta’s Channel 5 News giving an update on an ongoing hostage situation: “Migos have taken hostage members of several rap groups in Atlanta who have copied their style.” (They don’t mention anybody by name.) Watch below via Pitchfork.

Fraternal Twin - “Boil” Video

The plaintively confessional songwriting mode that Tom Christie inhibits on Skin Gets Hot, his debut album as Fraternal Twin, is the sort of introspection tailor-made for long night drives thinking about where everything steered off course, a mood that his new video for “Boil” tries to capture. Most of it consists of shots of highway lights zooming by, slightly out-of-focus like they get when your eyelids start to droop. Christie makes an appearance for a moment in snowy daylight, but the rest of the video is a solitary affair. The album is being reissued on vinyl via Ghost Ramp, and you can watch the “Boil”.

The 1975 - “The Sound” (Official Video)

Everyone’s a critic, and the 1975 confront said critics directly in their new video for “The Sound,” the sleek disco jam off of your newest Album Of The Week I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it. In the clip, the band perform inside a glass box while white-clad critics look on and various disparaging remarks flash across the screen — “they’re essentially making robotic Huey Lewis tunes,” “there’s no danger in this music at all,” “unconvincing emo lyrics,” “this band thinks it has a charismatic singer…they are mistaken,” “terrible high-pitched vocals over soulless robo beats,” “punch-your-TV obnoxious,” “genuinely laughable,” and “I only heard ‘Chocolate’ once, but I hated it.” By the end of the video, however, the tables have turned, with the critics trapped inside the box while the band sit outside and judge silently. Take that, haters!

Yo Gotti - “Hunnid” Video (Feat. Pusha T)

Memphis rap veteran Yo Gotti has been getting some serious burn lately thanks to his single “Down In The DM,” and he just released his album The Art Of Hustle on Friday. On the album track “Hunnid,” he bravely teams up with Pusha T, a man who has a history of annihilating other rappers on their own songs. And now, as Nah Right points out, director and Pusha collaborator Kid Art has made a video for “Hunnid,” showing Gotti and Pusha in inky, gothic black-and-white, the camera occasionally flashing on whatever they’re talking about.

Twin Peaks - “Walk To The One You Love” (Official Video)

Chicago rockers Twin Peaks have a new album called Down In Heaven coming out later this year, and they’ve just unveiled their video for the first single, the amiable choogler “Walk To The One You Love.” For this one, director Ryan Ohm has put together a long, elaborate tracking shot that never breaks. It follows a number of people around a single Chicago neighborhood, stealing a trick from Richard Linklater’s Slacker where the camera drifts from one passerby to the next. In this one, we mostly see people’s feet walking, and the band cast all their friends. Check it out below and read a statement about it from frontman Cadien Lake James.

James writes:

When Ryan [Ohm, director], Jackson [James, director of photography], and I began to tackle coming up with a concept for the video, we started with a few simple ideas (moving feet, odd settings), playing with the idea of overlapping them. As we continued to flesh it out, we realized we could unite them fluidly while also challenging ourselves to do something new for us (both the artist and the filmmakers) by doing a one-shot video with feet leading you between these different scenes. Ryan and Jackson did some scouting and we landed on a stretch of Ravenswood St. here at home in Chicago where there would be enough variation in setting to keep a one shot video visually grabbing; abandoned house, sidewalk, viaduct, stretch of fence, an alley underneath the elevated train. It was fun casting a video with friends and doing a video where the band wasn’t the center of attention, it felt more like a making a piece of art from our end of things. We made it in an afternoon, everyone pulling their weight and executing well together. It was a lot of fun and a very gratifying experience!

Daughter - “How” (Official Video)

Today, Daughter release the video for their single “How,” off their recent album Not to Disappear. For this, their sophomore album, the band commissioned acclaimed writer Stuart Evers to create three stories off of which the music videos would be based, and this video comes from a story called “5,040.” To complement the elevated narrative, the band utilized cinematic elements that encompass the sonic vibrancy of their work from a visual standpoint. Here, the atmosphere of both the story and the music come together through a grayish, washed-out color palette, which allows audiences to become engulfed by the band’s far-off and melancholy sound.

Cool Uncle - “Never Knew Love Before” (Official Video)

Cool Uncle, the excellently monikered team-up of R&B veteran Bobby Caldwell and producer Jack Splash, put out their self-titled debut late last year. Today, they’re sharing a new video for album cut “Never Knew Love Before,” pairing their retro-soul sound with some funky animation, backup dancers, and a Yo! MTV Raps-inspired colored palette.

Parquet Courts - “Berlin Got Blurry” (Official Video)

Parquet Courts will release a new album in April, and we already heard its first official single “Dust” as well as live versions of a few other songs. Parquet Courts boast the kind of slumped-over, lackadaisical delivery that might suggest they don’t stress much over anything, but lyrically, their songs are fraught with anxiety. “Berlin Got Blurry” is a jumbled series of contemplations, and its accompanying video finds Andrew Savage exploring the city of Berlin. Claes Nordwall-directs.

Wussy - “Dropping Houses” (Official Video)

On “Dropping Houses,” Ohio rockers Wussy applied their unique blend of Midwest roots-rock and gauzy melodic swirl to a story about being inside a house carried away by a tornado. I loved how singer-guitarist Lisa Walker explained the aesthetic: “Our dorky dual fandom of ’90s shoegaze + tom petty has fully surfaced and become a really singable wall of noise.” And I furthermore enjoy what director Scott Fredette has done with the visuals, turning a simple performance video into something ominous and flashy via a black background and colorful bursts of light.

Junior Boys - “Big Black Coat” (Official Video)

Canadian duo Junior Boys have shared a video for the title track of their most recent album, Big Black Coat, their first in five years. It was directed by Tim Saccenti, who had this to say about its conception in a press release: “It evolved from mine and the band’s mutual love for early analog video and experimental film art, industrial techno, and the audio/visual performances of seminal DIY electronic band The Severed Heads. Following the beauty and driving movement of the track, I wanted to create a piece of emotional innocence to run through the grinder of distortion.”

Watch FKA twigs’ Incredible “Good To Love” Performance On The Tonight Show

Last week, without any sort of warning, FKA twigs dropped the video for a new single, a woozy R&B reverie called “Good To Love.” And last night, twigs performed it on The Tonight Show. Twigs has a sharp theatrical sensibility, and she knows how to use a moment like that for all it’s worth. She wore a glittery, bright white custom outfit that she designed with Grace Wales Bonner and Swarovski. The lighting and staging were immaculate, with twigs’ tiny backing band playing on a disco-style riser behind her. And she sang most of the song motionless, building up to the moment when she went into this incredible vogue-ball tai chi dance. This is one of those rare great and memorable late-night performances, and you should really watch.

Watch Lorde Cover David Bowie At The BRIT Awards

The BRIT Awards paid tribute to David Bowie tonight with a performance from Lorde and some members of Bowie’s backing bands over the years, including Mike Garson, Gerry Leonard, Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Catherine Russell, and Sterling Campbell. The segment kicked off with a medley of some of his most enduring hits before Lorde came out to sing “Life On Mars?” Bowie was posthumously awarded the Icon Award at the show — Annie Lennox introduced Gary Oldman, who accepted the award on his behalf.

Watch Rihanna & Surprise Guest Drake Perform “Work” Live For The First Time At The BRIT Awards

After cancelling her Grammys appearance at the last minute, Rihanna gave her first public performance at the BRIT Awards today following the release of her new album, ANTI. She brought along Drake to do her ANTI single “Work,” which just hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and got two videos to go along with it). It was the first time they performed it live, and they recreated some of the moves and lighting in the new video. She also brought out SZA to perform ANTI opener “Consideration.”

Livestream The 2016 Brit Awards

Hey, the Brit Awards! They’re the UK’s equivalent to the Grammys, except lower-stakes and often much livelier and more interesting. (They couldn’t very well be less interesting than this year’s Grammys. This year’s Brit Awards are tonight, which means that, for those of us in North America, they’re actually on in the mid-afternoon. And because of the magic of the internet, we get to watch them while they’re happening. Performers on this year’s show include Adele, Rihanna, the Weeknd, Coldplay, Justin Bieber, and an all-star tribute to David Bowie. This year’s show will also feature no grime whatsoever, which seems really stupid. And starting at 3PM Eastern, you can livestream the whole show below.

Ryan Vail - “Wounds” Video

Irish musician and composer Ryan Vail combines modern classical music and electronic sonics for a sound all his own. After a few stellar, smaller EPs he’s ready to offer his full-length For Every Silence this spring. The first single, “Wounds” is highly conceptual, blending classical and electro in a more direct and unexpected way than the intertwined zooming synths and grand piano chords. The song is about a piano’s journey from England to Ireland 89 years ago, the same piano Vail uses throughout his album. Here’s Vail on the song’s concept:

The track is about a piano who wants to be played but is ignored in his own room, the previous owner was a radio enthusiast so this explains the radio sample. It’s one of the most electronic tracks on the album.

Michael Barwise’s clip departs from the song’s inspiration, developing a silent narrative between a couple. The images are a great play of light and shadow using only natural and reflected light from a compact mirror to highlight interactions and communicative facial expressions. The already penetrating refrain “Over time it’s clear to me/ All I need is love to heal my wounds” is given much more gravity as the man in the couple sits alone, lost in nostalgia and good times past, while twirling the compact mirror around. The clip is a great incongruous spin on the song.

Muncie Girls - “Respect” (Official Video)

In a few weeks, UK pop-punk trio Muncie Girls are releasing their debut album, From Caplan To Belsize. They’ve been sharing singles over the past few months — “Gas Mark 4,” “Balloon,” and “Gone With The Wind” — and their latest is “Respect,” in which Lande Hekt pulls no punches in tearing down society’s degradation of women and rampant sexism: “You weren’t taught it: respect, or a sense of value of your equivalents,” she venoms on the opening line. “And it has a knock-on effect: misogyny and tolerated violence.” The video for the song shows her sitting in a room with Bukowski on the bookshelf and naked posters on the wall, two surefire signs to run the other way when you’re dealing with a dude. The track is searing and undeniably catchy and, in a lot of ways, makes me feel like they could be a spiritual successor to the dearly departed Chumped. High praise!

Watch Wilco’s Tiny Desk Concert

Wilco stopped by one of NPR’s offices to perform a few songs for Bob Boilen’s Tiny Desk Concert series. The band has been on and off tour over the course of the past year after they surprise-released Star Wars in July of 2015. Wilco played “This Joke Explained,” “Misunderstood,” “I’m Always In Love,” and “A Shot In The Arm” for their hosts. Watch below.

Santigold – “Can’t Get Enough Of Myself” Interactive Video

Santigold’s new album 99¢ comes out this week, and in her new video for the sparkly first single “Can’t Get Enough Of Myself,” she has a lot of fun sending up selfie culture. As Pitchfork points out, this is an interactive video, one that constantly throws a photo of you, the person watching it, into the environment. Santi bops cheerfully around New York while images of you show up all around her. (It didn’t work for me, but i still got the basic idea.) You have to use Chrome to watch the video, and you can check it out here.

Freddie Gibbs - “Freddie Gordy” Video

Freddie Gibbs just released the video for his song “Freddie Gordy” off his most recent album Shadow Of A Doubt. The video directed by Jonah Schwartz begins with a spoken introduction from Gibbs that gains us entry into his honest, personal thoughts of oppression and hope to persevere. Alternating between sequences of Gibbs walking around the Bay Area and a seductive scene in which he’s smoking, the video illustrates Gibbs’ internal struggles with contradicting values in his career and battle with addiction. As the video ends, Gibbs visits the Oakland memorial paying tribute to the late rapper The Jacka and we find him trying to look at himself in the mirror, coming to terms with the issues he feels he must face.

A Giant Dog - “Sex & Drugs” Video

Texas quintet A Giant Dog are set to drop their cleverly-titled album Pile later this spring. Today, they share the first video off the album for the bouncy “Sex & Drugs.” The song is dense mix of springy guitar strums, bright vaudeville-esque piano, and shimmer galore balanced by rumbling drums and bass. Director John Valley’s video is pure energy, featuring the band silver-faced in all-white everything performing the track in repetitive, jerky motions. It is just as frenetic as the song, giving you a taste of how difficult it is to play at such a skittering pace but maintain the precision for it not to careen out of control.

White Lung - “Hungry” (Official Video)

It’s been a of couple years since Vancouver’s White Lung unleashed the awesomely thrashing controlled chaos that was their third album, Deep Fantasy. It landed in the top 10 our best albums list that year, and we haven’t been the only ones fiending for more in the interim. Well, the wait for new White Lung is over. A new album called Paradise is due out this spring on Domino, and today they’ve shared a video for the surprisingly poppy lead single “Hungry.”
The song comprises exquisite layers of guitar perfectly colliding over punishing drums and plenty of crashing cymbals — a sign of the quick, furious 28 minutes the album contains. As for the video, it stars Amber Tamblyn as a vain, ornery socialite who can’t seem to look good enough for herself despite all of the batshit desperate measures she takes to improve her look. Justin Gradin directed the clip and co-wrote it with White Lung’s Mish Barber-Way. Also look out for a cameo from Deafheaven’s George Clarke.
In the video, Tamblyn’s character combs her eyelashes with egg yokes, douses her face with Paradise brand condensed milk (which has her face on the package), and is transfixed by her reflection at every opportunity. She never quite sees what she hopes, though, because her mirrored self is Barber-Way screaming the lyrics at her harshly. The particularly resonant first half of the refrain “Baby you’re weak/ Baby your starvin” seems to follow her wherever she goes. Unable to escape her mild fame as the girl on the condensed milk can, she eventually falls into a pool trying to rid herself of the haunting image she sees looking back at her. Killer song. Killer video. Hell yes. Welcome back, White Lung!

Frankie Cosmos - “Is It Possible / Sleep Song” Video

Frankie Cosmos will release her next album, Next Thing, in a few months. We’ve already heard lead single “Sinister,” and now Greta Kline has shared a video for “Is It Possible / Sleep Song,” a combo of tracks from her upcoming record. The clip, which was shot by Kline, features her friends and bandmates dancing and goofing around in front of a grainy backdrop. In a press release, she explains the pair of songs are “about questioning your surroundings and wondering about change, so I saw it fitting to have all the band members, past and present, be singing in the video, together & alone, floating in front of scenes that show movement & rest.”

Katy B x Craig David x Major Lazer - “Who Am I” (Official Video)

On her upcoming project Honey, the great London dance-pop singer Katy B teams up with producers and collaborators from across the aesthetic map, including Four Tet and Floating Points on “Calm Down” and Kaytranada on the title track. On the single “Who Am I,” she links up with Major Lazer and with Craig David, the voice of the early-’00s UK garage crossover-pop moment. In the song’s brand-new video, David appears next to Katy, both of them singing hard. The video itself is low-budget pop-video boilerplate, with time-lapse imagines of city streets and cloudy skies. But it’s cool to see David looking a little more grizzled than he was when he made “Seven Days” all those years go.

Car Seat Headrest - “Vincent” (Official Video)

Car Seat Headrest’s Matador debut Teens Of Style made it onto our top albums of the year list even though it’s a loosely strung together highlights reel of his storied Bandcamp output, so suffice to say we’re excited to see where Will Toledo goes next with a minor-league budget and some extra fire under his ass to prove his worth on his new label. Thankfully we won’t have to wait too long for the results as his follow-up, Teens Of Denial, is due out later this year.
“Vincent” is the first we’re hearing from that album, and Toledo’s ambition bleeds through the song, which comes attached to a video that personifies the manic energy of the track into a protagonist who downs a few too many and gets into a dark headspace. We’ve all been there! Here’s what Toledo says the track is about: “Fighting to hold one’s place in the crowd, to hold one’s drink. Shouting to be heard, but what’s the point, no one’s saying anything worth listening to. Wanting to leave, not wanting to go home. Music is too loud.” Listen and watch below.

Gold Panda - “Time Eater” (Official Video)

Derwin Schlecker, bka Gold Panda, will release his third full length this spring, the follow-up to 2013’s Half Of Where You Live. Good Luck And Do Your Best is due out in May and “Time Eater” is its first single. The song comes accompanied by a short promotional film made by Israeli visual artist Ronni Shendar, who shot footage for it in New York, Berlin, Cologne, Hong Kong and Las Vegas.

Computer Magic - “Fuzz” Video

From hitting it big in Japan with 2015 single “Mindstate” to becoming the face of Coppola’s clothing brand Milkfed, Computer Magic’s Danz (aka Danielle Johnson) has come a long way since her Band To Watch profile back in 2010. It shows in her new video for “Fuzz” from her recent album Davos. Pulsating, funky ’80s synth lines hold down the low end beneath clean, bright melodies that complement her vocals throughout the chorus. With this Danz sets the tone for what may be the next progression of her original bedroom synth-pop sound. In keeping with this upgrade, director Joseph Carlin’s video for “Fuzz” is high definition eye candy, complete with lights, fog, and a dramatic futuristic wardrobe, through which Danz splits her time between playing what looks like the Virgin Mary and Cat Woman of the future. With this play between light and dark taking place between an overlay of glitchy effects, one can only imagine the kind of theatrics that Computer Magic has in store for the future.

Massive Attack - “Voodoo In My Blood” (Feat. Young Fathers) Video (Feat. Rosamund Pike)

Massive Attack have already gotten one name actor to stagger around an ominously deserted cityscape in the John Hawkes-starring video for their Tricky collab “Take It There,” and now they’ve tapped Rosamund Pike to star in the video for “Voodoo In My Blood,” another track off of last month’s Ritual Spirit EP featuring Scottish rap experimentalists Young Fathers. Pike already demonstrated her incredible knack for bugshit intensity with Gone Girl, and she makes use of that talent again here, wrenching her body around in a violent dance routine as she’s manipulated like a puppet by a floating metal sphere. It’s a very creepy video, and Pike’s performance is made all the more impressive by the fact that the sphere must’ve been CGI’d in later and she’s literally reacting to nothing the whole time. Acting! Ringan Ledwidge directs.

Sea Ghost - “Dog 69″ (Official Video)

When we first heard young Georgia rockers Sea Ghost, they were collaborating with iLoveMakonnen. And like Makonnen, they’ve taken a step into higher production values since then, as their “Dog 69″ video demonstrates. Director Mike Ellwood shot the footage at a house show last December, but there’s also a cool narrative passage involving firecrackers in the woods. Also check out SG album opener “Cowboy Hat,” which you should also check out after you watch this video below.

Julio Bashmore - “Let Me Be Your Weakness” (Feat. Bixby) Video

The UK dance-pop producer and Jessie Ware collaborator Julio Bashmore released his Knockin’ Boots album last year, and he’s got a new video for the propulsive, disco-indebted “Let Me Be Your Weakness,” one of that album’s tracks. The clip, from director Daniel Brereton, feels like a disconnected series of vivid images: Beauty-pageant kids, cosplay swordfighters, a vaguely ominous furry, a poodle with its fur dyed hot pink. None of it fits together, but all the images, for whatever reason, make me think of provincial England. And while there’s not much connective thread, the video always gives you something to look at.

Rihanna - “Work” (Feat. Drake) Videos (NSFW)

Rihanna and Drake have shared the video for sneakily awesome ANTI single “Work” — or videos, I should say, because there are two separate clips for the song. For the first, Director X, who recently helmed Drake’s iconic “Hotline Bling” meme-farm, presents the two superstars at Toronto’s Caribbean food spot The Real Jerk. The second, by Tim Erem, depicts them in private; it sorta reminds me of Drake’s cameo in Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” video, and it probably qualifies as NSFW thanks to Rih’s see-through shirt. Some filming allegedly happened at LA shopping mall Eagle Rock Plaza last month, but I’m not seeing a mall or any horses for that matter.

Oscar - “Sometimes” Video

In British pop-rocker Oscar’s new video for the song “Sometimes” he takes a “fantastic journey through the West,” exploring some of the quirkiest niche communities of America. Back when we premiered an earlier version of “Sometimes” in 2014, it had a different video built around shots of Oscar and several crying women in a bathtub. In this new, significantly different clip directed by Bryan Schlam, Oscar is seen dancing and playing his guitar in front of classic California roadside attractions like the eccentric Cabazon Dinosaurs and the ever-popular Randy’s Donuts. The video follows Oscar as he meets some of “the finest clubs and organizations our great nation has to offer,” including true American gems like the Cloudy Knights Vape Team and The Cow Town Singles Squaredance Club. As vaulting tweens clad in spandex unitards chase Oscar through the street and rollerskaters breakdance around him in a neon-lit roller rink, the video inevitably encapsulates the song’s glimmering joy.

Puff Daddy - “Auction” (Feat. Lil Kim, Styles P, & King Los) Video

Late last year, Diddy, going back to his old Puff Daddy moniker, released the shockingly strong free mixtape MMM. The videos he’s released since have, by and large, been a lot of fun. Today, he’s got a new clip for “Auction,” a posse cut that features old Bad Boy roster fixtures Lil Kim and Styles P, as well as Baltimore up-and-comer King Los. For the clip, Puff linked up with another old collaborator: Hype Williams, arguably the greatest rap-video director of all time. Like Williams’ classic “Flava In Ya Ear” clip, this one shows nothing but the rappers, in crisp black-and-white, against a plain white background. And it works on charisma and quick-cutting momentum, even if it does force you to confront the sad reality that Kim has had so much plastic surgery. Check it out below, via Complex.

Minor Victories - “A Hundred Ropes” (Official Video)

Minor Victories, the supergroup comprising Rachel Goswell from Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai, Justin Lockey from Editors, and his brother James Lockey, teased some piquing new music last summer. Well, the wait is over today as the group announces their self-titled debut album slated for this summer in tandem with the single “A Hundred Ropes.”

Melding sensibilites from each members respective outfits, the song opens with a deep grooving bassline and dark yet bouncy synth pattern. Then vicious shoegaze, rhythmic rolling drums, classical string flourishes, and Goswell’s wispy but powerful vocals come in for a jolt to the energy level. Goswell repeats “We’ve got to find our own way out” on the hook, but it’s easy to get lost in well-blended array of sonics.

The video is simple but striking. Filmed by the Lockey brothers in conjunction with Hand Held Cine Club, It features samurai ominously emerging from a tall wheat field in extremely slow motion wielding weapons and war flags, ending with the leader on the verge of unsheathing his sword.

Saul Williams - “The Noise Came From Here” (Official Video)

The inimitable Saul Williams just released a video for “The Noise Came From Here,” a single off of his recent album MartyrLoserKing. In the clip, Williams walks barefoot through the streets of Ferguson, MO, a city that’s been the center of highly publicized conflict over the course of the past year when a white police officer walked free after killing Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in 2014. As The FADER points out, Williams is accompanied by the poet Marcellus Buckley (a friend of Brown’s) and the local Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, who commented on Williams and the role of artists as activists:

They are in strategy sessions, holding politicians accountable, and offering programmatic and proximate solutions to our insufferable and insoluble problems. Art not only prefigures possibility—it acts as a salve to a wounded people—transforming them into wounded healers.

He then added:

As a front line activist in the Mike Brown movement the role of music has been one of our biggest inspirations, but over time our actions have influenced musicians and artists to speak out against injustice and inequality everywhere.

Matmos - “Ultimate Care II Excerpt Nine” Video

Matmos made their most recent album entirely out of washing machine sounds, and since they announced it, they’ve been sharing a few music videos that serve as abstractions on that washing machine theme. Their latest is for album track “Ultimate Care II Excerpt Nine,” and it’s filled with a lot of spin cycle graphics and intensely photographed piles of lint. Fun! It was directed by Ed Apodaca.

Chvrches - “Clearest Blue” (Official Video)

Chvrches put out their excellent sophomore LP Every Open Eye late last year, and we’ve already gotten visuals for the tracks “Leave A Trace” and “Empty Threat.” Now they’ve given us a new video for album highlight “Clearest Blue,” which finds frontwoman Lauren Mayberry alternately hanging out in a misty forest wearing plate armor pauldrons and letting loose at the club. Watch the Warren Fu-directed clip below.

TOKiMONSTA - “Put It Down” (Feat. Anderson .Paak & KRNE) Video

LA producer TOKiMONSTA is releasing a new mini-album in a few weeks, and one of the songs featured on it is a collaboration with Anderson .Paak (who recently released his debut album, Malibu) and producer KRNE. The song was released back in November (and it’s not the first time she’s worked with .Paak), but now it has a video to go along with it. The video was directed by Mike Dempsey and Rami Hachache, and .Paak stars.

New Order - Singularity (Official Video)

Footage taken from 'B-Movie: Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 1979-1989’
http://www.b-movie-der-film.de/

Synthpop originators New Order debuted their song “Singularity” at Lollapalooza Chile in 2014, and it was part of Music Complete, the comeback album that they released last year. Today, they’ve got a new video for “Singularity,” and it consists entirely of footage taken from the 2015 documentary B Movie: B-Movie: Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 1979-1989. The doc takes a look at the creative underground in West Berlin, the walled-in city that was a free oasis in what was otherwise Soviet-controlled country. And at least judging by what we see in the video, it was a fun place to be. Check out the video below.

Pantha du Prince - “The Winter Hymn” (Feat. Queens) Video

Ahead of their upcoming album The Triad due this spring, Berlin electro minimalists Pantha Du Prince revisit their stellar The Winter Hymn EP by giving its title track the visual treatment. “The Winter Hymn” is a gorgeous song full of shimmering mysticism and the video echoes that appeal. A trio of monk-like figures perform spiritual rituals and dances in black-and-white against contrasting cuts of colorful images that seem magnified though a microscope. The combination of the video and song will numb your senses through a soft, subtle, but mesmerizing plea.

LNZNDRF - “Future You” (Official Video)

LNZNDRF is the side project from the National’s Scott and Bryan Devendorf plus Beirut’s Ben Lanz. Just a quick month after announcing their self-titled debut album, they’ve released it today and given the opening track “Future You” the visual treatment. The song is epic, with huge rhythmic guitar strokes, ambient sounds, and deep bass colliding and bouncing off of each other like heated atoms to create a gorgeous, heavy aesthetic. The matching clip is just as pretty, with long, sweeping, picturesque shots of landscapes and slow motion images of wildlife in all of Earth’s different ecosystems. It’s like watching the Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth with a much improved soundtrack.

Tim Hecker - “Castrati Stack” (Official Video)

Experimental electronic artist Tim Hecker has been quiet since 2013’s Virgins, but today he’s back with a new track called “Castrati Stack” off of his upcoming album Love Streams due this spring. Virgins was bold poetry in sound, but it was also an attack on the ears. “Castrati Stack” is much more chill but just as adventurous sonically. Atmospheric sweeps, elongated synth chords and progressions, and fuzzy static combine for a cinematic effect, transporting the listener to another place and time entirely. The haunting, dreamy vocals make the song feel like it is floating somewhere in the ozone. It’s light and airy, with only the static to anchor it from floating into another galaxy. From this first foray, Love Streams seems like it will be mesmerizing. Listen.

TEEN - “Free Time” (Official Video)

OG Band To Watch TEEN are releasing their new album Love Yes today, and to mark the occasion, the group have shared a new video for the burbling, ’80s-inspired “Free Time.” According to Becca Kauffman of Ava Luna, who directed the video and appears in it as a dancer, “‘Free Time’ was inspired by the 1980s public access television performances of R. Stevie Moore, the post-punk choreographer Michael Clark’s videodance collaborations with his musical contemporaries, and the barebones production quality and interpretive dance accompaniment to Sid Harvey Fisher’s Astrology Songs.” Watch the charmingly lo-fi VHS clip below.

Vic Mensa & Skrillex - “No Chill” (Official Video)

Last year, Chicago rapper Vic Mensa teamed up with dance-music king Skrillex for the energy-bomb single “No Chill.” Today, we get a video for that track, directed by the great music-video auteur Colin Tilley and taking place entirely in Tokyo’s cool-kid underground. The video is shot fast and blurry, with tons of shots of outdoor festivals, tattoo parlors, and extremely fancy lit-up hallways. It makes Tokyo look like a very, very fun place to be inebriated.

FKA twigs - “Good To Love” (Official Video)

FKA Twigs has released a new single called “Good To Love,” and it comes with a new black-and-white video that she self-directed of her writhing around in bed. It’s her first new song since last year’s excellent M3LL155X EP and, unsurprisingly, it sounds great. It was originally played on during her Soundtrack 7 Residency at last year’s Manchester International Festival, and was co-produced by Twigs and Rick Nowels. She’ll perform the track live next week (Wednesday, 2/24) on Jimmy Fallon.

Miguel - “Waves (Remix)” (Feat. Travis Scott) Video

Miguel turned in a great album in last year’s Wildheart and is rightly getting some good mileage out of it. He revisited the seminal single “Waves” by recruiting Travis Scott for the electro leaning, low-end heavy remix. Today, he gives the remix a matching video with he and Scott performing the song on the roof through a blurred, hallucinogenic overlay. The lo-fi footage through the cult-like scene in the beginning stays through the entire clip for an old-school VHS feel, and the performance on the roof looks like a lot of fun. Scott tones down his normally commanding high energy and meets Miguel at the suave, sexy sophistication he is known for.

Shura – “Touch (Remix)” (Feat. Talib Kweli) Video

“Touch” was the song that put Shura on our radar two years ago, and now that the Artist To Watch is moving ahead with her full-length debut, the song is getting a fresh promotional push. In addition to making its way to Annic Mac’s BBC radio show and Spotify this week, “Touch” also gets a remix featuring Talib Kweli guest verses. Kweli’s overly intense presence kind of ruins the song, but the appeal of the original version’s misty ’80s pop remains evident. Check out the Kweli remix below in the form of an animated video by Lewis Kyle White.

Baauer - “Day Ones” (Feat. Novelist & Leikeli47) Video

The dance/trap producer Baauer is moving past his “Harlem Shake” infamy, and he’ll release his new album Aanext month. The thundering first single “Day Ones,” which features London grime MC Novelist and masked New York art-rapper Leikeli47, just came out, via Apple Music. It comes from the great director Hiro Murai, and it’s a murky, surreal vision about a Revolutionary War battle breaking out on a desolate, deserted city street.

The So So Glos - “A.D.D. Life” (Official Video)

Brooklyn’s the So So Glos released their most recent single “A.D.D. Life” back in January and announced that their forthcoming album Kamikaze is due out this spring. The song is a meditation on distraction and anxiety, and it’s as brash and bratty as the band’s earlier work. Today they debuted an accompanying Chris Elia-directed video via Noisey which shows the band recording in the studio and strolling through New York during the making of their new album. It has a swaggering, Beastie Boys quality to it.

Protomartyr - “Dope Cloud” (Official Video)

Protomartyr have shared a video for “Dope Cloud” off their excellent recent album The Agent Intellect. It was directed by the legendary Lance Bangs, who shot it without the band’s input and then submitted it to them for approval. The clip is a whirlwind via the exceedingly elusive telephone booth, as a kid inside gets pummeled by a crew wearing masks and dressed in ratty clothes.

Aesop Rock - “Rings” (Official Video)

Underground rap veteran Aesop Rock is back in full effect, gearing up to drop his new album, The Impossible Kid, later this spring. The new album will be his first solo effort since 2012’s Skelethon, which was excellent.

Our first foray into the new album is “Rings,” a song that is more revealing and introspective than Aes has been in the past. The roots of The Impossible Kid stem from a tumultuous period in the MC’s life when he left his adopted home of San Francisco to live in a barn in the deep woods after a close friend passed away. Aes harnessed that grave, somber mood on “Rings” with menacing low-end bass, knocking boom-bap drums, and colliding synth patterns that bolster his piercing lyrics. He has always been a gifted lyricist, but to hear those skills combined with honest vulnerability and contemplation hits you in your head and gut at the same time. Aes is seemingly returning to a fonder self while moving forward as an artist. If this song is even the slightest indication, The Impossible Kid will be magnificent.

The matching clip is as dark as the MC’s inspiration. Aes is struck by a car in the street for starters. Then some nifty CGI of his face split open on an operating table while he spits, and alluring animation cut fluidly for a series of memorable images and moments.

Death Index - “FUP” (Official Video)

Merchandise frontman Carson Cox has a new band, a duo called Death Index with the Italian punk Marco Rapisarda. Next week, they’ll release their dark, heavy self-titled postpunk debut. We’ve posted first single “Dream Machine” and their video for the song “Little ‘N’ Pretty,” and now they’ve got another video for another new song. “FUP” is an 86-second whirlwind brooding session. Cox himself directe the video, which shows a triple-screen image of a young woman, both drunk and high, staggering around her apartment and a rooftop. Check it out below, via Brooklyn Vegan.

Mossy - “Electric Chair” (Official Video)

MOSSY is the project of Sydney-based Jamie Timony, and he makes theatrical and hard-hitting pop music filtered through a filmy and distorted lens. “Electric Chair” is his debut single, and will be featured on his debut EP later this year — it’s an oddly soulful psychedelic track that cascades outwards, and an atmosphere that’s meditative but not too pensive. It’s built around the wondering refrain “the feeling evades me so far.” The song comes attached to a video that was directed by Kris Moyes, who has also done videos for the likes of Grizzly Bear and The Rapture, and features people artfully dancing around and laying with skeletons and staring out into the abyss as it stares back at them.

Bleached - “Wednesday Night Melody” (Official Video)

California punks Bleached are set to drop their sophomore full-length, Welcome The Worms. They’ve already shared the lead single, “Keep On Keepin’ On,” and gave it the visual treatment. Today, they do the same with the followup, “Wednesday Night Melody.” The song is all fuzz and rhythm with infectious harmonies that amount to a super groovy tune despite such a hard edge. The video is a clever narrative with lead singer Jen Calvin completely out of it, possibly even dead, before the band has to play a gig. They apply some quick makeup, tape her hands to her guitar, and prop her up with a series of pulleys and ropes so no one is the wiser. Honestly, I would still love to be at that show. It seemed lit!

Tricky Presents Skilled Mechanics - “Boy” (Official Video)

British trip-hop OG Tricky just dropped his latest full-length Skilled Mechanics last month. He shared the lead single and Porno For Pyros cover “Diving Away” and the intensely personal, deadpan “Boy.” Today he gives the latter the visual treatment, stepping behind the camera alongside Darrel Pursey. “Boy” is a somber autobiographical song about Tricky’s rocky relationship with his father and the loss of his mother at a young age which he delivers without flinching in the slightest. The video keeps that stoicism, trailing a boxer as he trains in the gym, runs through the streets, and goes to visit his mother’s grave — all with the same emotionless look on his face. Tricky makes a brief appearance looking gravely into the camera.

Big Ups - “National Parks” (Official Video)

When Big Ups released “National Parks” earlier this year, I wrote a short but impassioned screed about how much this band means to me and why this single in particular gives me that happy/sad feeling that only expertly crafted, thoughtful lyrics give you. This is a song about lead singer Joe Galarraga’s mom, but it’s also a song about the freedom we sacrifice in order to live comfortably, care for our children, or just stay alive. In the accompanying video (which premiered today on NPR), a young woman navigates the chaos of her day-to-day through dance. Robert Kolodny of House Of Nod directs.

Eleanor Friedberger - “Because I Asked You” (Official Video)

The (former?) Fiery Furnace Eleanor Friedberger released her New View album last month, and we’ve posted her recent videos for “He Didn’t Mention His Mother” and “Sweetest Girl.” Today, Noisey has debuted the new clip for her album track “Because I Asked You,” which Friedberger will perform on Seth Meyers tonight. The clip is a fairly conceptual one: An unbroken close-up on an old TV that just shows Friedberger and her band performing in a bar. Below, watch it and read some words about it from Friedberger.

Watch Beck Cover Bowie With Nirvana Members At Pre-Grammy Gala

Nirvana reunions take the strangest forms these days. Last night, music-biz icon Clive Davis threw his annual pre-Grammys gala, and the party featured surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear getting together to honor the late David Bowie. This time around, they had Beck filling in for their late frontman Kurt Cobain. Together, they covered Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World,” a song that Nirvana had famously played on MTV Unplugged In New York.

Hozier - “Cherry Wine” Video (Feat. Saoirse Ronan)

For Valentine’s Day, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier has shared a new video for his song “Cherry Wine” to raise awareness of domestic violence. The song is written from the perspective of someone in an abusive relationship, and the Dearbhla Walsh-directed video is a complex portrait of the cycle of abuse starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan and Vikings actor Moe Dunford. “Domestic violence is an ongoing issue in our society, the statistics of which are shocking and the effects of which damage whole families, communities and span generations,” Hozier says. “With the song ‘Cherry Wine,’ I tried to get across the difficulty of coming to terms with and facing up to domestic violence and the dynamic of an abusive relationship.” Hozier, Columbia Records, Island Records and Sony/ATV Music Publishing are donating all proceeds from the single to international domestic abuse charity organizations.

Young Thug - “Worth It” (Official Video)

Just a few weeks after his I’m Up mixtape, Young Thug’s already gearing up to release Slime Season 3. “Worth It” is the first song we’ve heard that is confirmed to be on it, and it’s an ode to his fiancée Jerrika Karlae and was released close to Valentine’s Day for that reason. The track also comes paired with a video, which sees the two getting intimate. London On Da Track produced and Be EL Be directed.

Kevin Morby - “I Have Been To The Mountain” (Official Video)

Kevin Morby – “I Have Been To The Mountain” (Dir. Phillip Lopez)

I’ll have what he’s having.

Hinds - “Bamboo” (Official Video)

Hinds, the Spanish four-piece who released their debut Leave Me Alone last month, have shared a video for album track “Bamboo.” It’s a charming slice-of-life portrait that features the two lead singers dancing around to the song. “We only had one day of shooting and as we needed more we started to shoot what we were living while Carlotta [Cosials, band member] was editing at the same time,” the band explain in the video’s Youtube description. “So it’s a mix between Madrid and Barcelona because of Primavera Sound Fest. Exactly, seeing concerts until 6am and then shooting and editing and… that’s why it appear so many sleepy people.”

The Staves - “Horizons” (Official Video)

I stay stanning for the Staves; maybe somebody the rest of the world will catch up, especially now that the Stavely-Taylor sisters are official members of the reactivated Bon Iver. Your latest chance to get on board with this extremely talented band is Kelly Teacher’s video for French horn-laden If I Was highlight “Horizons,” which features the Staves having a blast at last year’s Eaux Claires festival. (They’ll be back for year two, teamed with the classical ensemble yMusic.) The footage is fun; the music is fantastic.

Tim Vocals - “The Things You Do For Love” (Official Video)

When considering Tim Vocals’ 2014 mixtape Timtations, we noted that the Harlem singer often employs his lithe falsetto in service of the kind of street-life stories usually reserved for rappers. But Valentine’s Day is this weekend, a day when even the hardest R&B singer offers up something romantic. So here’s a video for “The Things You Do For Love,” a booming midtempo ballad from Vocals’ recent album RNB (Real Nigga Bars). Directed by Angel “Oz” Navarro, the clip does a lot with a little, setting Vocals against a couple striking backgrounds and letting his charisma do the heavy lifting.

Jeff Buckley - “I Know It’s Over” (The Smiths Cover) Video

A new posthumous collection of Jeff Buckley rarities is coming out next month, and today a video has been revealed for his cover of the Smiths’ “I Know It’s Over.” It was directed by Amanda Demme, and follows a mother and son in a dusty, old-timey house. “When I first heard Jeff, he gave me permission to feel fully and with contradiction,” the video’s producer, Amy Redford, told Rolling Stone. “He inspired me to fight for authenticity, and to feel confidence in simplicity. To collaborate on these songs coming to life, and to see the community of people who Jeff touched, has been a privilege.”

River Tiber - “No Talk” (Official Video)

Toronto electronic musician River Tiber’s “No Talk” is best-known for being sampled on Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late highlight “No Tellin’,” but the song is perfectly great on its own, and it now has a gloomy video to go along with it. Crisp black-and-white cinematography highlights Tommy Paxton-Beesley’s home base, but casts it in a paranoid and and unsettling light.

Behind-The-Scenes Of OK Go’s Zero Gravity “Upside Down & Inside Out” Video

OK Go’s music videos always come out executed flawlessly, which means that the level of planning that goes into them is downright absurd. If you haven’t already, you should go watch the band’s new video for “Upside Down & Inside Out,” which features the power-poppers and two S7 Airlines flight attendants trained as aerial acrobats somersaulting around in zero gravity. To create this spectacle, OK Go spent three weeks testing and filming at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for ROSCOSMOS, the Russian equivalent of NASA. An Il-76 MDK airplane is capable of flying in parabolic maneuvers to generate brief periods of weightlessness, but these periods only last up to 27 seconds, and the song is over three minutes long. “Because we wanted the video to be a single, uninterrupted routine, we shot continuously over the course of eight consecutive weightless periods, which took about 45 minutes, total,” explains Trish Sie, who directed the clip with her brother, OK Go frontman Damien Kulash, Jr. “We paused the action, and the music, during the non-weightless periods, and then cut out these sections and smoothed over each transition with a morph.” Check out some behind-the-scenes footage from the last segment of the shoot below.

Morly - “The Choir” (Official Video)

Minnesota electronic artist Morly has shared a video for her new single “The Choir,” which we first highlighted when it was released last month. The video, which was directed by Gina Gammell, is as tender, haunting, and muted as the song itself, featuring a man dancing in slow-motion in a church and getting blessed by some spiritual figure.

Quilt - “Roller” (Official Video)

Boston psych-pop janglers Quilt have been around for a little while now, and there’s a decent chance that you’re underrating them. In that case, please allow me to direct you to “Roller,” the brisk, efficient, catchy-as-hell, deeply likable single from their forthcoming album Plaza. The song has a new video from director Adi Putra, and it’s full of sunny ’70s-cinema surrealism. There’s a scene with choreographed dancing, and another scene in which a big bowl of Jell-O hits the floor in ecstatic slow-motion.

Ulrika Spacek - “Strawberry Glue” (Official Video)

Berlin indie rockers Ulrika Spacek just dropped their debut LP, The Album Paranoia, last week. They shared two examples of the excellent guitar work they are capable of in “She’s A Cult” and “Beta Male.” Their latest offering from the album is a video for another guitar-dominant track, “Strawberry Glue.” The song leans shoegaze with plenty of dirty distortion, and the energy is high all the way through. The matching clip is the opposite of that, featuring a very low-key chill session where everyone is doing their own thing. The camera moves through rooms of a house in a continuous black-and-white one-shot a la Birdman interjecting as people converse, argue, relax, and geek out to the music.

Black Mountain - “Mothers Of The Sun” (Official Video)

Vancouver-birthed psych-rock greats Black Mountain haven’t released a proper studio album since 2010’s Wilderness Heart, but they’re coming back later this year with a new LP that comes bearing the appropriately-epic title IV. The first song we’ve heard from the album is the sprawling, eight-minute “Mothers Of The Sun,” which starts out narcotized and builds up to some prime universe-crushing riffage. The video, from directors Ben Jacques and Justin Gradin, is a surreal, mystical thing that captures the band in cult-leader robes, playing in insane asylums and mountain caves. All in all, this whole thing is fucking badass, and it’s the sort of staring-into-the-abyss heaviness that some of us might need in our lives right about now.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - “Astonished Man” (Official Video)

Thao Nguyen has been putting out consistently great off-kilter rock with her the Get Down Stay Down band for over a decade now. Her latest release is A Man Alive, which was produced by tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus. We heard lead single “Nobody Dies” last year, and today she’s following that up with another new song (and video!) for the scratchy, oddly likable, and St. Vincent-esque “Astonished Man.” The video is a violent piece of work, showing Nguyen cutting straight through her head with a knife, but it also breaks the fourth wall a bit and shows you how the fake blood is put on. It was directed by Brook Linder.

OK Go - “Upside Down & Inside Out” (Official Video)

When a music video begins with the disclaimer “What you are about to see is real,” you know you’re in for a wild ride. Power-poppers/OG YouTube stars OK Go have been crafting viral videos for over a decade now, seemingly determined to somehow top themselves every time, and their latest effort is no disappointment. Shot in a plane repeatedly nose-diving towards the ground in Russia, the new video for “Upside Down & Inside Out” takes the song’s “gravity’s just a habit that you’re really sure you can’t break” line as a direct challenge, with the band members and two flight attendants (who happen to be trained aerial acrobats) gleefully somersaulting around in zero gravity. It’s not necessarily as intricately choreographed as one-take wonders like “I Won’t Let You Down” or “The Writing’s On The Wall,” but come on, zero fucking gravity! Frontman Damian Kulash, Jr. and his sister Trish Sie direct.

Arcade Fire Share David Bowie Tribute Parade Video

Last month, after the passing of their friend and collaborator David Bowie, Arcade Fire paid tribute to the man in traditional New Orleans style. Inside and outside the famed Preservation Hall, they gave him a second line parade, a jazz funeral. We posted a bunch of videos immediately after the parade, but now Arcade Fire have put together their own professionally shot and edited video of the whole affair. It’s quite a spectacle, and it includes the band’s funked-up cover of Bowie’s “Heroes.”

DMA’s - “Too Soon” (Official Video)

After two years of building anticipation, Australian Britpop lads DMA’s are finally getting around to putting out their debut full-length. Hills End will be out later this month, and today, the trio are sharing a new video for their latest single, the swaggering “Too Soon.” Directed by Mitchell Grant, the clip is fairly simple but visually striking, with all three members hanging out and looking casually badass in various locations. “We’ve worked with Mitch a few times, so we completely trusted him with his vision for the video,” the band say. “We like that it’s a purely visual clip and not conceptual or based on a narrative. Sometimes you can get lost in that.”

together PANGEA - “My Head Is On Too Tight” (Official Video)

Los Angeles garage-rock crew together PANGEA worked with producer and Replacements bassist on The Phage, the EP they released last year. And now they’ve got a brand-new video for the lovably snotty EP track “My Head Is On Too Tight.” In the clip, the members of the band amble through a small town, projecting dirtbag charisma everywhere. A special shout-out goes to the bassist with the mustache; that guy is owning it. Zoe Reign directs.

Julia Holter - “Everytime Boots” (Official Video)

LA-based experimental pop auteur Julia Holter had an incredible 2015. Her beautiful offering Have You In My Wilderness cracked our list of the best albums of 2015, and we received a lot of insight on the creation of that album when we spoke to Holter. It makes sense to linger on such a wondrous project for a while, so in her first act of the new year, she revisits one of the many standouts from the album.

“Everytime Boots” is a wandering, artful song with captivating storytelling and instrumentation that magnifies the feelings the lyrics evokes splendidly. Ramona Gonzalez’s matching clip is a more literal take with Holter’s avant-garde sensibilities laced throughout. A cowboy falls for a a cowgirl in a 99 cent store as Holter follows without his knowledge. She throws a wrench in his romantic pursuits as the third wheel and he eventually returns to his bedroom alone to sadly eat a sandwich. The subtlety of Holter’s audacious, off-kilter songs is a great underlying element in the video.

James Blake - “The Sound Of Silence” (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)

James Blake returned to BBC Radio 1’s Residency tonight, and he was joined on air by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, as Pitchfork points out. The two chatted about a number of topics, and Blake closed out the show by playing a new cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence,” which he dedicated to a friend who passed away on New Year’s Eve. Although he swaps out the original’s rippling guitar for his usual mournful synths, it’s a pretty minimal, faithful cover — which is good, because the original is gorgeous, and so is this. Listen below, and hear the entire mix here via the BBC.

Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (with lyrics)

A-Trak - “We All Fall Down” (Feat. Jamie Lidell) Video

A-Trak has shared a video for his Jamie Lidell collaboration “We All Fall Down.” It takes place in a country bar and features a bunch of girls riding a mechanical bull and inevitably falling off of it because that’s what happens when you ride a mechanical bull. A-Trak himself acts as the MC for the night. The clip was directed by Nicolas Randall.

Kevin Gates - “Pride” (Official Video)

Islah, the proper major-label debut from Baton Rouge underground rap monster Kevin Gates, is selling better than anyone expected. And now Gates, who has made countless zero-budget rap videos, suddenly has a halfway-slick clip to his name. The video for the intense relationship lament “Pride” involves Gates imagining himself in prison, missing his family.

U.S. Girls - “Navy & Cream” (Official Video)

U.S. Girls released their immersive new album, Half Free, last year, and today Meghan Remy is sharing a video for “Navy & Cream.” It’s a slow-motion haze, much like the song itself, and is hypnotizing in its own weird and comforting way as Remy plays the guitar and sways around in warm pinks and blues. It was directed by Emily Pelstring.

James Blake – “Modern Soul”

While the rest of humanity was busy digesting The Life Of Pablo, James Blake was DJing on BBC Radio 1’s Residency, and he took the opportunity to slip an absolutely gorgeous new track of his own into the world. Like the “Sound Of Silence” cover that he shared a few months ago, “Modern Soul” is a minimalist slow-burn, starting with some faded piano chords and that ethereal croon and gradually expanding out into a crystalline cavern of sound.

Watch The Trailer For Beat Bugs, Netflix’s Beatles-Themed Cartoon Feat. New Covers

Netflix has announced a new animated children’s show based around songs by the Beatles. It’s called Beat Bugs, and will feature covers from popular musicians including Eddie Vedder (“Magical Mystery Tour”), Sia (“Blackbird”), Chris Cornell (“Drive My Car”), the Shins (“The Word”), P!nk (“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”), and over forty more.

In an interview with USA Today, series creator Josh Wakely explained the difficulty of getting the rights for the Beatles catalog, which have been notoriously hard to pin down: “I would say, ‘I’ve got this amazing idea for a kids show, and all I have to do is get The Beatles rights.’ People would roll their eyes. … I thought it would take four months. It took three years.” (The band just came to streaming services last December.)

Netflix has ordered two seasons worth of 13 half-hour episodes, which will each feature two 11-minute segments that contain a Beatles song, making for 52 covers in total. The show has the rights to around 300 songs for use in the future if it is picked up for additional seasons.
Watch a trailer featuring clips of some of the new covers below.

Young Thug - “F Cancer (Boosie)” (Feat. Quavo) Video

Young Thug has just dropped a video for the Quavo-featuring Boosie Badazz tribute “F Cancer (Boosie),” off of his new mixtape I’m Up. Boosie recently recovered from a successful surgery to remove his kidney cancer, and Thug pays him a visit in the Be El Be-directed clip. Despite the stylish pink scrubs, Thug doesn’t seem like a particularly competent nurse, but he does throw Boosie a hell of a party. Watch below via Pitchfork.

Tyler, The Creator - “Perfect” (Feat. Kali Uchis & Austin Feinstein) Video

Tyler, The Creator has just shared a new video for his Cherry Bomb track “Perfect,” featuring Colombian singer Kali Uchis & LA singer/guitarist Austin Feinstein. The clip is fairly simple, consisting entirely of colorful split-screen showing the three musicians performing their parts while facing the camera. Also, there are butterflies crawling all over Tyler’s shirtless body, because sure, Watch below.

Beyoncé - “Formation” (Official Video)

Beyoncé has just pulled a Beyoncé and dropped a new single on the world without warning, her first new solo track since 2014’s BEYONCÉ platinum edition. “Formation” is produced by Mike Will Made-It and co-written by Swae Lee from Rae Sremmurd, and it features a vocal sample from New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia. Beyoncé and Jay Z’s daughter Blue Ivy pops up a few times in the accompanying music video. The song is supposedly a Tidal exclusive, but luckily for us, the video is also on YouTube, and the song is available as a free download here — kinda stretching the definition of “exclusive” there, but I am 100% OK with it.

Flatbush Zombies - “Bounce” Video

Grimy Brooklyn drug-rap group Flatbush Zombies will release the new album 3001: A Laced Odyssey next month, and last week, they shared the skittering single “Bounce.” But Flatbush Zombies singles often seem, more than anything else, like excuses for their generally-excellent videos, and “Bounce” is no exception. Directors Fredo Tovar and Scott Fleishman did everything they could to make the clip look like an old ’70s grindhouse movie, and the clip involves a strip-club crime spree, a crooked cop, a championship pitfight, and a baseball bat with nails sticking out of it. It is raw, nasty, narratively coherent, and just slightly NSFW. Check it out below, via Pitchfork.

Son Lux - “Undone” (Official Video)

Son Lux, aka Ryan Lott, is a classically trained electro artist who has quite the talent for evocative music videos. We’ve given him best video of the week honors a few times, most recently for “You Don’t Know Me” from last summer’s Bones. Today, Lott revisits that exceptional album, giving one of the more memorable tracks, “Undone,” the visual treatment.
The David Terry Fine-directed clip opens with a woman frantically running through a field before she is joined by what is presumed to be a lover and the narrative cuts to a blackened room where they perform enchanting interpretive dance choreography. The difference between the brightness of the shots outside running and the carefully constructed shadows of the inside scene makes for some brilliant light-and-shadow play. The man then chases the woman with his running form much more smooth and relaxed as hers is much more frenetic. The distance between them grows until the man disappears in a bright ray of light and she is left in the same field where she began, spent from the chase. This video is incredible.

Towkio – “Clean Up” (Feat. Chance The Rapper) Video

Towkio – “Clean Up” (Feat. Chance The Rapper) (Dir. [LL])

I have endless envy for anyone who can do those hyper-complicated lightspeed footwork dances while maintaining an exquisitely bored facial expression.

Spookyland - “God’s Eyes” (Official Video)

We premiered Spookyland’s single “God’s Eyes” last month, and today the Australian band is following it up with a video. In the accompanying clip, the members of Spookyland perform in a studio while assistants in all white, Gap ad-inspired garb rearrange the space. It’s a sparse, minimal accompaniment to a thundering track. Watch the Joel Burrows-directed video.

Parquet Courts - Dust (Official Video)

Video directed by Johann Rashid

The Dead Weather - “Impossible Winner” (Official Video)

Jack White and Alison Mosshart’s band the Dead Weather have released a new music video for “Impossible Winner,” a track from their most recent album, Dodge & Burn. They’ve been teasing the video over the past few days with a series of promo clips showing off the cast of characters they’ve assembled for their jailhouse horror show. Yesterday, the video debuted on Tidal, but now it’s available for all to watch.

Majid Jordan - “King City” (Official Video)

Majid Jordan’s self-titled debut album is out today. To mark the occasion, the Drake affiliates have shared a new video for “King City,” a ballad that promotes the same breathy, pillowy aesthetic they lent to “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” but slower and with way more synth ripples. Director Common Good’s video tracks the end of a doomed romance and involves lots of wistful window staring. The song is a low-key jam, so watch below.

Holy Ghost! - “Crime Cutz” (Official Video)

It’s nice to have Brooklyn disco dudes Holy Ghost! in full promo mode. A few days ago they shared a teaser for their single “Crime Cutz” and today they’ve paired the whole funky thing with a matching set of visuals by director Ben Fries. The clip is a spectacular polychromatic light show set in an space with an old warehouse vibe, not unlike the disco clubs of yesteryear. The lights flicker, flash, and blink with the super funky beat that builds to a monstrous crescendo before a cool down with soothing oohs and pretty synths. Aubrey Cook stars as the dancer.w.

Fusilier - “The Moment” Video

Blake Fusilier, now known as Fusilier, is the former bassist for Boston band RIBS. The name change accompanies a jump into the forefront on his solo dolo, and man, was it a good move. To imagine this guy strumming three notes over and over again behind someone else is pretty depressing. On his first foray, “The Moment,” Fusilier’s voice is smooth and sultry, accentuated appropriately by a sexy-ass driving bassline. Pounding drums, an agile electric guitar riff, and catchy blips come in to balance the low-end heavy sounds and lift the track’s pulsing energy. Jackie Zimmerman and Max Berger’s visuals ooze with a seduction to match the bassline. Fusilier is shrouded in darkness with a warm light bathing one side of his face, contrasting the switching polychromatic backdrops behind transgender women and men in subtle drag passionately enticing the camera. The sexual tension on the track and video is brazenly palpable, just as Fusilier intended:

The video transformed into a display of gender fluidity. How we can all exist on this spectrum and be individuals outside of these labels while still being in the same room. This is how revolutions start. The Moment was always supposed to be about a revolution in the end.”

Glint - “While You Sleep” (Official Video)

We posted Glint’s evocative single “While You Sleep” last spring, but we haven’t heard from them since then. However, the NY rock trio is back today, sharing visuals for “While You Sleep” and upgrading it to lead single status for their new album Inverter. The song overflows with emotion, and director Ryan Rothermel’s video inspires that same feeling — well, feelings. A sunburned man meanders through the desert exhausted and aimless as he finds gold objects on the ground. The objects entertain him briefly, but obviously have no real worth as he searches for sustenance. Just as he finds what he believes to be something to drink, he discovers it is gold flakes, leaving him frustrated and angry. The clip is a great expression of the longing and desire that hangs over the track, and aptly depicts the anguish that results from sustaining the damage from those feelings for too long.

Baio - “The Names” (Official Video)

Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij just announced his departure from the band, and Ezra Koenig and Chris Tomson are off campaigning for Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, bassist Chris Baio is off on his own. He’s been making twinkly dance music under his last name for a few years, and last year, he released The Names, his first full-length. Today, he’s got a new video for the title track, which he directed himself, filming it in London, where he lives now. Baio says that the video serves, “in a roundabout way,” as a David Bowie tribute. It’s a crisp, sparkly, enjoyable video, and it shows Baio spending a cloudy day wandering through the city, wearing a white dinner jacket and carrying a human skull. Check it out and read some words about it from Baio below.

Baio writes:

Last fall the image of a man walking around in a dinner jacket while holding a medical skull popped into my head. Why? Beats me! Your mind can take you to weird places. I’d wanted to take a stab at directing a music video for a while and thought “The Names” would be my chance.
I’ve lived in London for the past two and a half years and one thing I love about it is the green space. There’s so much of it. Crystal Palace Park in south London is the weirdest park I’ve ever been to with its huge dinosaur and gorilla statues. I thought it’d be the sort of place a man in a dinner jacket with a medical skull would hang out.
We also filmed in The George Tavern, a great pub in Shadwell. They told me Nick Cave’s performed there. I think that’s pretty cool!
On New Years Day, while I was nursing my hangover, I watched David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight tour film. In the performance of “Cracked Actor” he holds a skull that starts singing along. I had already finished editing this video but was really thrilled by the coincidence. In a roundabout way “The Names” is my tribute to David Bowie, my favorite artist of all time.

The Names is out now on Glassnote.

Timbaland - “Don’t Get No Betta” (Feat. Mila J) Video

Timbaland released a feature-heavy mixtape, King Stays King, at the end of last year and is following that up with a new full-length, apparently called Textbook Timbo, that is expected to come out sometime this year. Today, he’s shared an updated version of a track that appeared on last year’s mixtape, “Don’t Get No Betta,” with a sultry Sam Lecca-directed video accompaniment. The song features Mila J —.

Free Cake For Every Creature - “For You” (Official Video)

Free Cake For Every Creature make effortless, impassive indie pop that still finds its way to your gut through its easy relatability and into your brain due to some catchy melodies and phrases. It’s been less than a year since their stellar Moving Songs tape came out, but they are already back and gearing up to drop the full-length Talking Quietly Of Anything With You. The first offering comes in the form of the “For You” video. The song is more deadpan sincerity delivered in a delicate two-part harmony over subdued guitar strums and fun vocal flourishes. The video is a low-key chill session between friends shot in lo-def. The most fancy prop/effect are donuts hanging from strings and slow motion jumps. Sidewalk saunters with plenty of goofing around and genuine enjoyment of the company of friends make this clip too adorable. It looks like it was a lot of fun to make, and it will make you crave a donut or two.