MØ - Glass (Official video)

MØ, the moniker of Danish singer Karen Marie Ørsted, tackles the schism of carefree youthfulness and approaching adulthood with her skittering track “Glass.” The video is the perfect visual manifestation of end-of-the-line rebellion: A dirtier, lonelier version of Rihanna’s “We Found Love” that is especially gloomy due to its Scandinavian locale and the dearth of ribbon vomit. Say what you will about the surge of poptimism in the indie-sphere — and I know you will — but when we’re getting gritty and emotionally revealing infectious treats like this, I will gladly start putting Sky Ferreira, HAIM, and now, MØ posters on my bedroom wall.

Lil Wayne – “Love Me” (Feat. Drake & Future)

Damn, all the famous people decided to drop music videos today. Lil Wayne already enlisted Drake and Future for “Love Me” (formerly known as “My Bitches Love Me”), the Mike Will-produced single from his forthcoming I Am Not A Human Being II, without letting either of them throw an actual verse on there. And now all three are present and accounted for in the song’s ridiculous video, which also has models with CGI lizard-eyes and snake-tongues crawling through flooded bedrooms and paint-filled bathtubs. It’s, um, not subtle. Watch it at MTV.

Justin Timberlake – “Suit & Tie” Video (Feat. Jay-Z) (Dir. David Fincher)

Justin Timberlake spent a whole lot of time away from music so that he could try acting, but he really only made one good movie, The Social Network. That movie’s director, David Fincher, got his start making videos for people like Madonna and George Michael, and now he’s returned to the form for “Suit & Tie,” Timberlake’s big, slick comeback single. The clip, shot in gleaming black-and-white, doesn’t have much going on conceptually, just a whole lot of footage of light choreography and recording studios and models, with Timberlake and guest Jay-Z always getting to be the coolest motherfuckers in the room. But it’s fun to see a glossy big-budget video put together by one of the best ever to do it.

Passion Pit – “Carried Away”

Something that’s become increasingly apparent in the months since Passion Pit dropped sophomore album Gossamer: Passion Pit are really good at making music videos! Their latest, for the peppy “Carried Away,” stars frontman Michael Angelakos and One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush as a couple who seem to spend more time arguing than doing anything else. It starts out as a slice-of-life pocket-drama, but more and more loony touches gradually come in until it becomes this bizarrely inventive live-action sadness-cartoon. It’s actually the song’s second video; its Tiësto remix already has its own entertaining video.

Wild Nothing – “Only Heather”

Wild Nothing’s 2010 release Nocturne has not been laid to rest. The latest track from the LP to get visuals is “Only Heather.” No spoilers, but a video that just features a man walking down the street, it so adeptly displays the physical arrest one goes through when feeling overwhelmed by their own feelings.

Bad Religion - "True North" (Official Video)

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When old punk bands position themselves as some sort of youth thing, it becomes seriously fun and fascinating to parse the results. Case in point: SoCal lifers Bad Religion’s new video for “True North,” the title track from their new album. The video consist of a young punk kid, with circa-1982 show flyers all over his walls, throwing on the new Bad Religion record and engaging in a vigorous air-drumming session. At one point, we see the kid’s iPhone, so we know that it’s a present-day kid; Bad Religion didn’t somehow send their record 30 years into the past. So apparently that kid printed out all those old flyers? He didn’t just put up a bunch of flyers for shows that he actually went to? There’s nothing weird about the idea that a younger punk would be into an older band. Bad Religion were considered an old band in 1994, when they released Stranger Than Fiction, which means I was (a much uglier version of) that kid at one point. But when I was banging the new Bad Religion, I had, like Total Chaos and A.F.I. posters on my wall, not painstakingly recreated flyers from shows I’d never been to. So Bad Religion aren’t really doing themselves any favors here! They’re showing that the kids who like their new album are the ones bizarrely focused on past punk scenes! Which would’ve been like if the teenage Bad Religion members, rather than forming Bad Religion, had gotten really obsessed with Bill Haley And The Comets! Anyway. Watch the video at Rolling Stone.

Local Natives – “Heavy Feet”

The video for “Heavy Feet,” the harmonically rich single from Local Natives’ new Hummingbird album, follows the adventures of the Llandow Visually Impaired Harriers: Three blind guys, with superhuman senses of smell, who get together to build and fly model airplanes. They also eat sandwiches which, when not being eaten, sing to them. This is a deeply strange and dreamlike video, but it’s filmed with a sharp, patient visual style, one totally free of directorial tricks. Ben Reed directs.

Pissed Jeans – “Bathroom Laughter”

The video for Pissed Jeans’ “Bathroom Laughter” is sort of an insomniac’s dream. While most late night infomercial-viewing is pleasurable only for its soft glow from the box and the pseudo-camp factor of watching people shill absurd products, Pissed Jeans take it to another level here to disastrous results. To celebrate the release of their fourth album, Honeys, the band will be live-chatting on the YouTube page for this video from 12-12:30PM.

Pusha T – “Millions” (Feat. Rick Ross)

Clipse rapper Pusha T recruited Rick Ross for “Millions,” the lead single from his Wrath Of Caine mixtape, and now both guys are here to rap animatedly in the song’s video. You’ll never believe this, but the clip is full of drug-dealer iconography: Guns, expensive cars, beautiful but duplicitous girls, police raids. You can tell Ross is a baller because the police don’t seem to mind if he smokes a gigantic cigar in the interrogation room. It’s a massively cliched video, but it sort of works anyway because Pusha and Ross show such charisma. Samuel Rogers directs.

Watch Beck Cover Bowie’s “Sound And Vision” With A 167-Piece Orchestra

There is so much going on here, I can hardly wrap my head around the whole thing. Beck and 160+ musicians have recorded a new, multi-instrument, yodel-filled version of David Bowie’s “Sound And Vision.” The cover has moments of awesomeness and “wow” but also feels like a scene in that episode of 30 Rock when Tracy Jordan decides that to make the most perfect song, you have to combine all the most popular genres of music. Messy. But what is most confounding about this — aside from Beck’s sequined blazer — is why this exists at all. This wasn’t a thing that Beck just wanted to do. He was enlisted by Ford as sort of a spokesperson for the revamped version of their Lincoln MKZ. The whole point of it is that Lincoln is innovating a classic and so is Beck with this fully immersive video experience that you will eventually be able to watch through different lenses and at different angles on their website. Watch the video and help me figure out if this is all an elaborate plot to get Lincolns to be more than just the car associated with cab services.

Jim James – “A New Life”

Last week, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James released his solo debut Regions Of Light And Sound Of God. Here, the album’s lead single “A New Life” gets a visual treatment. What starts off very sparse becomes super inventive as the track begins to liven up. Who would have ever thought to give James backup dancers? I don’t know who did, but it totally works. Read our interview with him here.

Drake – “Started From The Bottom”

Rap Album Of The Year winner Drake dropped a clip for his new single “Started From The Bottom” during the Grammys last night. Director X and C. Papi — a clear nod to Drake’s Instagram handle and what I am just going to assume is his own version of Nathaniel Hornblower — directed the video, which features Drizzy in all white in the snow contrasted with him working at a drug store, among other things. He also announced the title of his third album, which is Nothing Was The Same and will be out this year.

James Blake – “Retrograde”

I’ll have to watch James Blake’s video for his heady, luminescent new single “Retrograde” a few more times before I have any idea what’s going on. But the dark and mysterious clip, directed by Martin De Thurah, involves asteroids, alien visitors, bikers who fell to earth, and a few gorgeously rendered frozen moments of destruction. Watch, and then imagine the headfucking space-mystery sci-fi film that might result if Blake ever blew it out to feature-length proportions.

Kvelertak – “Bruane Brenn”

Kvelertak – “Bruane Brenn” (Dir. Stian Kristiansen)

As a society, we may not share too much common ground, but I think we can all agree on this: It was about time that Norwegian death n’ roll got its very own “Sky’s The Limit.”

Flatbush Zombies – “MRAZ”

Last year, the dazed Brooklyn rap duo Flatbush Zombies released a strong mixtape called D.R.U.G.S., but it almost felt like an afterthought to the ferocious run of videos they’d made, adding an eye-grabbing psychedelic sensibility to the old mid-’90s Rap City aesthetic. The group is getting ready to release their new Better Off DEAD mixtape, and now they’re back at the video game, giving us a dizzy and acid-fried clip for their recent track “MRAZ.” Phillip T. Annand directs.

Muse - "Supremacy" (Official Video)

The official video for Supremacy by Muse.

Liars – “WIXIW”

Liars frontman Angus Andrew is a tall guy, and like every tall guy who’s never been paid to play basketball, he probably has some history of b-ball failure. (I promise you, I know.) So maybe it’s not surprising that his band’s newest video, for the title track of their 2012 album WIXIW, focuses on a flowing-haired baller who tries, over and over, to dunk a basketball, while a small crowd looks on silently and a demonic witch-doctor type dances mockingly. Alex/2Tone directs, filming everything in mythic black-and-white slow-motion.

Frightened Rabbit - "Today's Cross" (Official Video)

Just yesterday, the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit released Pedestrian Verse, their fourth straight album of chest-beating emotional anthems. But the video they’ve released today isn’t for any of the album’s songs; it’s for “Today’s Cross,” the uncharacteristically rambunctious B-side of their “The Woodpile” single. The seriously entertaining video, from directors Ian Greenhill and Jordan Laird, tells the story of how Jesus Christ deals with a mean case of writer’s block.