Kool A.D. – “Jaleel White” Video

Earlier this year, the former Das Racist rapper Kool A.D. released two solo mixtapes, 63 and 19, on the same day. And in the new Weird Days-directed video for the 19 track “Jaleel White” — named for the guy who played Urkel on Family Matters — Kool A.D. does nothing but lie on a floor and blow vast clouds of weed-smoke at the ceiling. That’s literally all he does. Sometimes he’s double-exposed.

The Lonely Island – “Spell It Out” Video

The latest of the Lonely Island’s comedy-rap Wack Wednesday offerings is a solo showcase for group member Andy Samberg, who spends the entire very short song spelling out his latest alter-ego. You’re going to want a keyboard handy when you’re watching this one. It’s work! The end result, though, is worth it. This is minor Lonely Island, but minor Lonely Island is still well worth a couple of minutes of your time.

Waxahatchee – “Coast To Coast” Video

Directed by Ryan Russell
Edited by Josh Mikel

Deerhoof – “Breakup Songs” Video

Last we saw Deerhoof, they were running around Japan in their video for “We Do Parties.” They’re absent from this clip, the Pieter Dirkx-directed, dark visuals for their current album’s title(-ish) track “Breakup Songs.” Instead, a plague doctor visits a town that is afflicted with something that causes an array of rainbow-colored vomit. Fun! But this physician, appropriately attired in a cloak and beak mask, turns pestilence into a dance party.

Gauntlet Hair – “Human Nature” Video

In the video for Gauntlet Hair’s fluid “Human Nature,” the band runs through their hometown Chicago, mostly through train stations, as well as into some subtly wild house party scenarios. The track is a fitting soundtrack for a montage of late night, possibly troublesome, antics, so director Ryan Ohm’s visualization of the song is spot-on.

Prodigy feat. Domo Genesis - "YNT" (Young and Thuggin)

A few years ago, the veteran Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy linked with the producer Alchemist to release Return Of The Mac, a deeply excellent album of wizened soul-sampling New York tough talk. Prodigy and Alchemist have once again linked for a new collaborative album called Albert Einstein, and on the prettily slow-rolling track “YNT,” they link with low-key Odd Future rapper Domo Genesis, who released his own Alchemist-produced full-length No Idols last year. And in director Jonathan Andrade’s video for the track, P and Domo dodge some ski-mask-clad female assassins.

Joe Goddard Ft. Mara Carlyle - "She Burns" (Official Music Video)

Singer/songwriter Mara Carlyle is prepared for her funeral.

Kate Boy – “The Way We Are” Video

 

Like the video for “In Your Eyes,” the visuals for Kate Boy’s “The Way We Are” are shadowy, black-and-white, and feature lead singer Kate Akhurst utilizing the minimalist dance moves. The arm-heavy choreography here almost feels like slow motion, deconstructed voguing.

Joey Bada$$ & Pro Era – “Like Water”

In the haunting new video for the PEEP The aPROcalypse track “Like Water,” Steez’s group pays him tribute, ascending a building in a bombed-out downtown BK to paint a mural of Steez on the rooftop. Director Jonah Schwartz imagines a post-armageddon version of the borough, CGI’ing its most familiar landmarks into decay, and he finds real beauty in the rubble. The video works as a pretty powerful eulogy.

Thirty Seconds To Mars - "Up In The Air"

Thirty Seconds To Mars performing "Up In The Air" the short film by Bartholomew Cubbins.

WARNING: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

Thom Yorke - “Rabbit In Your Headlights” At Atoms For Peace Tour Rehearsal

Atoms For Peace are currently in rehearsals for a full band tour beginning next month, and Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich have been sharing video clips from them on YouTube. The latest features a performance of UNKLE’s “Rabbit In Your Headlights,” for which Yorke provided vocals on 1998′s Psyence Fiction.

Vampire Weekend – “Diane Young” Video (Feat. A Whole Bunch Of People)

Vampire Weekend already got plenty of attention for “Diane Young,” the frantic first single from their truly great new album Modern Vampires Of The City, when they burned a couple of Saabs in the lyric video. And now they’ve made a proper video for the song, setting it at an anarchic dinner party and filling it with indie-universe celebrities in cameo appearances. The party’s guest list includes Santigold, Sky Ferreira, both members of Chromeo, Dirty Projector Dave Longstreth, Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser, Despot, and quite possibly a couple of others I didn’t catch, as well as a mysterious ski-mask-clad figure. Primo Khan directs, extending Vampire Weekend’s unbroken streak of fun, energetic music videos.

The-Dream – “High Art” & “Pussy” (NSFW)

This week, the sorta-lost genius hitmaker Terius Nash was in NYC to perform and celebrate the release of IV Play, which is his fourth album and also a sex-pun because if y’all haven’t heard, The-Dream is into sex! Consequently, “Pussy” is about the thing you think it is, though its nonstop lubed-bikini-booty video is even less SFW than you’d imagine. Take that into consideration when you watch below, where you can also pull off a The-Dream video double-feature thanks to the clip for his Jay-Z-featuring track “High Art.”

TEEN – “Carolina” Video

The title-track to TEEN’s Carolina EP gets a video today, directed by and starring the performance art/body expressionist Megha Barnabas. She also directed TEEN’s outstanding “Electric” video (alongside Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors filmmaker Sam Fleischner), so there is a strong history already, but this one’s decidedly more Megha-centric. The results are, rosy: Flowers decorate her dress and bundle in her arms as she visits NYC’s symbolic sites and epicenters, offering blossoms to suits, coasting on “Carolina”‘s kraut-laced reverie until a climactic psychedelic freakout in Times Square, behind a sidewalk-strewn bouquet, in front of a backlit US flag. Honestly, the only thing that’s weird about it is that more people don’t have that reaction. It’s mesmerizing, symbolism abound.

Disclosure – “When A Fire Starts To Burn” Video

At this point, whomever’s it is investing in Disclosure is obviously well aware they have a special thing on their hands: two cute brothers steeped in UK garage making emotional, sincere, artful — and in the case of “When A Fire Starts To Burn,” outright banger — dance music that is incredibly smart but never suffers for it. They’re like what James Blake could have been, if he was more interested in filling dance floors rather than making them think. Also this is a good week for you if you like Disclosure, as the “When A Fire” video is our sixth post on them since Monday. So all of those things said, director Bo Mirosseni right with this clip, which is replayable as Disclosure is repeatable: an enviably diverse congregation sweats in an imagined church where the preacher morphs into the song’s vocalist, and each congregant feels the spirit goofily enough to warrant playbacks to focus on each. If Disclosure actually broke in the ’90s instead of just sounding like it, they’d have tapped Spike Jonze for this video.

Suede – “Hit Me” Video

Big year for Suede: The reunited Britpop icons dropped a new album Bloodsports. From the album is the track “Hit Me” for which the band has released a video full of museum-ravaging.

Cayucas – “East Coast Girl”

Zach Yudin’s Cayucas project pays tribute to an “East Coast Girl” in the sunniest, most SoCal way. The track is bright and punchy, an odd tone for a tune about subway rides in city that can be pretty dismal for half of the year. Its video is equally colorful, with Yudin and his band wearing all-white short suits.

Katy B – “What Love Is Made Of”

Katy B’s back! Or at least making overtures toward being back! This weekend she performed with Jessie Ware on a song they did for last year’s Danger EP, and earlier this month she unveiled a stand-along rave-pop track called “What Love Is Made Of,” presumably the precursor to a new LP. It’s got a video now which, speaking as someone who’s never seen a Fast & Furious, is something I imagine would appeal to someone who’s excited to see the new installment Fast & Furious. YOUTHS AND HOT RODS.