Captain Murphy – “The Killing Joke”

Captain Murphy is the alternate moniker of Flying Lotus, a Californian who has both performed and produced tracks with Earl Sweatshirt. (We first heard from Captain Murphy on a Flying Lotus-produced collaboration with Sweatshirt for Adult Swim.) Now, here’s a new video from Murphy, “The Killing Joke”, which finds his verses wandering between dark, delicate female vox. It comes from the Duality mixtape he released last year. “This was a fan made video so good I had to make it official,” he told SPIN. “Be on the look out for ‘V’ this fall.”

Watch Noel Gallagher And Damon Albarn Perform “Tender” Together In London

Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn took the stage together last night in London at the Royal Albert Hall to play a charity event for Teenage Cancer Trust. The former frontmen of Oasis and Blur collaborated for a version of Blur’s “Tender.” According to NME, the performance was a surprise to the sold-out audience; Albarn started the show by saying “Noel? Noel?” during what was originally supposed to be a set with Graham Coxon, Paul Weller and American author Michael Horowitz.

Kurt Vile – “Never Run Away”

Kurt Vile – “Never Run Away” (Dir. Don Argott)

Maybe not a proper music video, but fuck it. This is some real dad shit right here, and speaking as an actual dad, it’s a total heart-melter.

The Thermals – “Born To Kill”

The Thermals – “Born To Kill” (Dir. The Thermals)

Effective, weirdly polemic low-budget filmmaking that riffs on some fucked-up American political conversations without actually saying anything about them. But the real reason this one goes on the list is Hutch Harris’s utterly convincing performance as a crazy-eyes zealot. If he ever decides that the whole punk rock thing isn’t working out anymore, someone should give him work as a killer-of-the-week on Law & Order.

Sigur Rós - “Brennisteinn”

Icelandic dream-rock heroes Sigur Rós released Valtari, their last album, less than a year ago, and they’ve already announced plans for the follow-up. Kveikur, out in a couple of months, is the band’s first album as a trio, now that multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson has left the band. The new album will include a bunch of songs that the band has been playing live lately, and the members of the band have been calling the LP’s sound “more aggressive.”

That certainly applies to their latest eight-minute swoonathon “Brennisteinn,” which welds the band’s trademark falsetto swoops to a serious low-end churn. The band has just shared director Andrew Huang‘s video for the track, and it’s a cryptic, muddy epic allegory about something or other. Combined with the song’s prog-metal undercurrents, it’s enough to convince me that they’ve been spending some time with old Tool videos lately.

Death Grips – “Lock Your Doors”

Last week, noise-rap shit-starters played a reportedly-anarchic SXSW set that none of your Stereogum correspondents managed to see because the line to get in was too goddam long. From all accounts, though, it was nuts. And the group’s members made some recordings by wearing cameras over their faces, and they used that footage to make a brain-destroying “no hands” video for the NO LOVE DEEP WEB track “Lock Your Doors.” Watch, and have fun trying to pick out a single discernible shape.

Biting Elbows - 'Bad Motherfucker' Video

Official music video for Biting Elbows' 2013 single 'Bad Motherfucker' (Insane Office Escape 2) based on a First-person shooter video game

"Bad Motherfucker" has the immediacy and POV of a first-person shooter, while also featuring the dark-suited gangsters of the typical first-wave Tarantino knockoff. What it has in common with both media, though, is that it’s almost cartoonishly violent.

The new video is a sequel to 2011's "The Stampede," better known as "Insane Office Escape." The original video had a tough guy slaying many a goon in the effort to secure some red herring device kept in an office vault. At the end of the video, our unnamed hero is caught. Part two picks up immediately where the first video left off, but takes the violence to an upper register that might be startling to gamers in it’s cinematic realism.

Created by director (and band frontman) Ilya Naishuller and post-production designer Sergey Valyaev, "Bad Motherfucker" retains the gauzy, color-drained look of the first video, in addition to its nihilistic carnage. From the first moment, wherein our hero seems about to die, all that can be heard is opera music. After the condemned makes an initial escape, however, involving German shepherd damage and a useful billiard cue ball, things get seriously twisted--with a body count that explains why YouTube may have pulled the video hours after its release.

Watch the first video in the Insane Office Escape series below.

Biting Elbows - The Stampede (Insane Office Escape)

Kvelertak – “Månelyst” (NSFW)

Around this corner of the internet, Michael has long been touting the Norwegian metal band Kvelertak, and with good reason; their combination of big, dumb hooks and all-out speed-freak mayhem is a seriously good time. The band’s new album Meir has already yielded one fun-as-hell video, the “Sky’s The Limit”-esque “Bruane Brenn,” and now there’s another one. The band’s “Månelyst” clip is a giddy, context-free pileup of horror-movie tropes: Werewolves, zombies, burning bodies, demonic possession, a guy who cuts open his belly and eats his own innards. It is absolutely grisly stuff, but it’s all done in the spirit of grossout fun.

Rilo Kiley - "Let Me Back In"

Rilo Kiley pull together archival tour footage in the clip for their L.A. ode "Let Me Back In" off the rkives compilation of rarities.

Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors”

Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors,” the gorgeously floaty eight-minute love song with the vaguely narcissistic underpinning, now has a video, and it’s dedicated to Timberlake’s grandparents, together for 63 years. The clip tells the story of a couple from different points in their lives, and even if the chronological math doesn’t actually work out, I love the idea that JT’s grandparents were rockabilly kids. The best part of the video is the last few minutes, where Timberlake and some models dance in a hall of mirrors. Floria Sigismondi, who directed the terrible movie The Runaways and David Bowie’s fascinating “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” video, helms this one.

The Men – “I Saw Her Face”

“I Saw Her Face,” the excellent new single from the Brooklyn band the Men, sounds like the sort of classic rock song that’s been on rotation on certain stations for decades, except covered in a couple of coats of grimy scuzz. It makes sense, then, that the song’s music video, the first proper one the band has made, shows them playing, but layers on enough crude video effects that you can barely see them half the time. The band themselves direct, so they can thank themselves for the scene where smoke comes out of a guitar during a solo.

Django Django - "WOR"

The amusement park clip for Django Django’s “WOR” is a far cry from the jubilance of Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” or the Internet’s “Cocaine” (although, that one’s got a creepy factor to it). The Always Up For World Travel VICE Magazine indulged the band’s recent infatuation with daredevils in India who perform a carnival trick called the Well Of Death. The “WOR” video takes a look into the death-defying stunt (and the people of Allahabad with the courage to perform it) while set to the band’s urgent riffs. Are motorcycle stunts trending? Because this is perfectly timed with the upcoming release of Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine follow-up, The Place Beyond The Pines which features Ryan Gosling as a carnival stuntman-turned-bank robber.

The Joy Formidable – “Little Blimp”

If, say, you’re the type of person who gets nauseous while watching found-footage movies, you might want to proceed with caution here. The Joy Formidable, the Welsh power-trio who would make stadium alt-rock if stadium alt-rock were still a thing that existed, have a new video for “Little Blimp,” the second single from their sophomore album Wolf’s Law. (It follows “This Ladder Is Ours.”) The footage in the video comes from different Joy Formidable shows, but all of it comes from a fisheye-lens camera lashed to the end of frontwoman Ritzy Bryan’s guitar neck, and this turns out to be a pretty visceral way to make a live video. Also of note: This song rules.

Natalia Lafourcade y Meme - "Limosna"

Dir. Floria Gonzalez - Dir. Art. Alejandra Alarcón

Music video by Natalia Lafourcade a Dueto con Meme (Emmanuel Del Real) performing Limosna. (C) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment México, S.A. de C.V.

The Strokes – “All The Time” Video

The Strokes’ new single “All The Time” sounds like an old Strokes song, with its urgently metronomic rhythm and its excellently rumpled Julian Casablancas mutter-wail. And the video seems bent on reminding us who, exactly, the Strokes once were and on pounding home the idea that these are still the same guys. The clip edits together old footage of different stages of the Strokes’ career — van trips, video tapings, playing with Lou Reed — and edits out that whole extended-hiatus thing. Then it shows them gearing up for a festival show together, apparently best friends again. I hope that’s exactly what they are, but I’m not sure a video is enough to convince me.

Husbands - "Dream"

Typography crazy Cauboyz create this sweet, simple music video for Husbands “Dream“. Plus epic wiring in the Making Of.

Mumford & Sons - "Whispers In The Dark"

'Whispers in the Dark' is the new single from Mumford & Sons

Earl Sweatshirt – “Whoa” Video (Feat. Tyler, The Creator)

Late last year, the recently returned and ferociously talented young Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt — who, let the record show, is still a teenager — gave us the introspective, endlessly compelling “Chum” and its stark, creeped-out video. But as Earl gleefully shows on “Whoa,” his new collab with old buddy Tyler, The Creator, he hasn’t pulled some complete aesthetic switchup. It’s the first recorded use of the phrase “that old fuckin’ 2010 shit,” and it’s a gallumphing and awkward Tyler synth beat with some fired up but densely compacted verbiage from Earl (“the misadventures of a shit-talker / Pissed as Rick Ross’s fifth sip off his sixth lager”). Tyler, under his Wolf Haley alias, also directed the track’s new video, which returns Earl to Odd Future’s antic junk-shop style, as he cuddles a top-heavy middle-aged ballerina and reclines in a stagnant trash-puddle at the bottom of an empty pool while someone skateboards all around him. Members of the extended Odd Future family, including Trash Talk, make cameos.