Hercules and Love Affair - Painted Eyes

Hercules and Love Affair -Painted Eyes [Moshi Moshi]: Check the video for "Painted Eyes", a prettily kaleidoscopic affair that features fashion models becoming psychedelic imagery.

The Strokes - Taken For A Fool

The Strokes "Taken for a Fool" dir. Laurent Briet

The Vaccines - Norgaard

Music video by The Vaccines performing Norgaard.

Defective Detective

A film by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis debuting exclusively in the the Cartoon Brew's 2nd Student Animation Festival.

Visit the filmmakers' websites at:

Avner Geller: AvnerGeller.blogspot.com

Stevie Lewis: Chocosweete.blogspot.com

Sufjan Stevens – “Get Real Get Right”

Sufjan Stevens directed this frenetic stop-motion clip for The Age Of Adz‘s “Get Real Get Right,” extending the album’s visual aesthetic, linking to the colorful Adz live show, and offering momentary corpse paint in a Kabuki makeover.

Via: http://stereogum.com/

Handsome Furs - "What About Us" (highly NSFW)

Scott Coffey put together a pretty excellent (highly NSFW) video for Handsome Furs’ “What About Us.” Coffey, who’s clearly drawn to couplings, previously directed Wolf Parade’s cosmonaut romance “Yulia” and the Furs’ zombified “I’m Confused” videos. He’s also an actor who appeared in Mullhulland Drive and Inland Empire, etc. Make sense: You get a cinematic, strange, grubby, apocalyptic feel in this clip, one that features a number of beautiful shots and colors, an eerie atmosphere, male/female nudity, dry humping, and some humping of the wetter sort.

Warpaint – “Warpaint”

Warpaint the band is a relatively simple yet effective dream pop act. “Warpaint” the video, however, is anything but simple, featuring everything from girls wearing mustaches to women who cry crystals and lots of creepy Alice in Wonderland-inspired mermaids. We may not know what’s going on, but it matches the ethereal vibe of the song and sure is a Technicolor dream (courtesy of director Ted Newsome). Well done, Warpaint. And “Warpaint”.

Arctic Monkeys – “The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala”

Focus Creeps are again at the helm for this new, Super 8 video from their bbfs4evr Arctic Monkeys’ favorably prematurely evaluated fourth LP, Suck It And See. See it:

Origins

A character made of scraps wonders though the woods until he comes across a sign that will help him discover where he belongs.

Lonely Dogs

Short Movie : Lonely Dogs
On an oil platform, a story of friendship between two workers is compromised by the insanity paranoiac of one of them. A short movie by Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Deghani, Jonathan Djob-Nkondo, Paul Lacolley, Nicolas Pegon, Jérémy Pires, Kevin Manach from Gobelins School.

Skoda - Curriculum Vitae

weareflink crafts a stunning paper world for Skoda in “Curriculum Vitae”

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "The Body"

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "The Body"

Kurt Vile – “Baby’s Arms”

“Directed and filmed by Todd Cole entirely on the Windows Phone.” Download the song courtesy of Matador after the jump…

Skindred - Cut Dem

Skindred get all day of the dead on us in their new video for 'Cut Dem'

Johnny Cash - 'Hurt"

To celebrate the launch of NME Video - a new standalone site dedicated to the best music videos - we're counting down the greatest examples of the artform.

Director: Mark Romanek

The montage of shots of Cash served a poignant purpose at the time; after Johnny’s death seven months later it became even more powerful. A fitting audiovisual epitaph.

Best bit: Those opening chords and that opening line ”I hurt myself today / to see if I still feel” – near perfection.

This poignant performance of Nine Inch Nail's, "Hurt" is almost haunting, as it was recorded just prior to Cash's untimely death. Whether or not a Johnny Cash fan, this performance is powerful and deep with emotion. Produced by Rick Rubin, The Man Comes Around is the fourth and final Grammy Award-winning album Cash and Rubin have collaborated on.

dOP - 3 Suitcases

“3 Suitcases” by dOP is a bizzare stop-motion animated music video.

The Subways - It's A Party

The Subways - Its A Party (dir. Blake Claridge)

Beastie Boys Team With Spike Jonze Again for New Music Video, Starring Action Figures

On their website, the Beastie Boys report that they're working on a new video with an old buddy, "Sabotage"/"Sure Shot" video director Spike Jonze. For "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win", the Santigold collab from their Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 album, Jonze is making both a short and an "epic length" video. According to the Beasties themselves, the video is "an explicit action adventure spectacular," and it'll feature action figures of all three Beasties. ("yes, they are ACTION figures, NOT dolls!") The clip will arrive this month-- hopefully sooner rather than later.

For some idea of the magic that happens when these guys get together, watch the "Sure Shot" video below.