Akron/Family – “Sand Talk” (Official Video)

The raging-out psych-rock trio Akron/Family released their new album Sub Verses earlier this year, and they’ve just dropped their new video for the headlong rocker “Sand Talk,” the album’s second clip after the one for “Until The Morning.” For this one, director Al Beletic throws together a dizzy collage of the band’s archival footage — of live shows, of car-lit night-time parties in fields, of heartfelt conversations on pickup truck flatbeds.

These New Puritans - "Organ Eternal" (Official Video)

British art-rock act These New Puritans have shared another video to accompany their latest record, Field of Reeds, released in June of this year. The "Organ Eternal" clip pairs the drama of the song with natural images of trees and grass, aerial shots of the band performing, and a woman running in the distance for what sublimely feels like forever. It was directed by Willy Vanderperre.

Draco Rosa Feat. Juan Luis Guerra - "Esto es vida" (Nueva version) Video

Music video by Draco Rosa Feat. Juan Luis Guerra performing "Esto Es Vida". Dir.  Jean Gabriel Guerra

Draco Rosa - "Esto es Vida" (2010). Dir. Angela Alvarado

Ra Ra Riot – “Binary Mind” (Official Video)

Ra Ra Riot clearly keep thinking about the future. The video for their song “Dance With Me” takes place in a post-apocalypse New York City where skeletons rule the town. But the clip for “Binary Mind” takes a much more positive spin on how the world will evolve, full of bright colors and Jetsons-esque architecture.

Anika – “In The City” Video

Earlier this year you may have heard journalist-turned-songstress Anika’s cover of Chromatics’ “In The City” for her Geoff Barrow produced EP on Stones Throw. It was a fantastic cover, and now it has been given a truly bizarre music video. Depicting a rather unorthodox wedding ceremony, we watch as suitor after suitor line-up to woo the bride with their impressive calf-muscles. It’s entertaining at first, but (much like Anika’s music) when you actually dig a little deeper it’s makes a subtly unsettling picture.

Butter The Children – “Spit It Out” Video

One of the best parts about Butter The Children’s new single was that while many shoegaze-inspired bands layer their sound in gauzy prettiness, they took a page from You Made Me Realise-era MBV and turned out something refreshingly raw. It was gritty, immediate, and catchy as hell. Now the band has a music video to match the sound. Not too much happens, but its simple focus on the band and who they are is appreciated because it’s pretty clear that we’ll be seeing a lot more of them in the future.

Starred - "LA Drugs" (Official Music Video)

A pair of puppets get high; Sky Ferreira and Jennifer Herrema make cameos.

Camera Obscura – “Break It To You Gently” Video

Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura dropped a new album, Desire Lines, in June, and have now released a video for that album’s single “Break It To You Gently,” in which a runaway shopping trolley takes a rolling tour of (what I assume is) Glasgow. At one point, the carriage has a run-in with a dog on wheels — perhaps a reference to countrymen and old pals Belle & Sebastian? I hope so. As you might expect, the clip is cute as hell, absolutely befitting the sweet, melancholic track.

Grooms – “I Think We’re Alone Now”

Brooklyn band Grooms’ forthcoming album Infinity Caller is out next month and the band is prepping for its release with “I Think We’re Alone Now.” The swirling track has also gotten visual treatment directed by the band in conjunction with creative team Captain Hippo, which new band member Steve Levine is also in.

Pop Danthology 2012 - Mashup of 50+ Pop Songs

"Pop Danthology 2012"
Music and video mashed-up by Daniel Kim (http://www.facebook.com/danielkimmusic)

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SONGLIST:
1. Adele - "Set Fire To The Rain"
2. Adele - "Skyfall"
3. Alex Clare - "Too Close"
4. Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo - "Let's Go"
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"
6. Cher Lloyd - "Want U Back"
7. Chris Brown - "Don't Wake Me Up"
8. Chris Brown - "Turn Up The Music"
9. Christina Aguilera - "Your Body"
10. David Guetta feat. Chris Brown & Lil Wayne - "I Can Only Imagine"
11. David Guetta feat. Nicky Minaj - "Turn Me On"
12. David Guetta feat. Sia - "Titanium"
13. Demi Lovato - "Give Your Heart A Break"
14. Ellie Goulding - "Lights"
15. Enrique Iglesias feat. Sammy Adams - "Finally Found You"
16. Far East Movement feat. Justin Bieber - "Live My Life"
17. Flo Rida - "Whistle"
18. Flo Rida feat. Sia - "Wild Ones"
19. Fun. - "Some Nights"
20. Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe - "We Are Young"
21. Gotye feat. Kimbra - "Somebody That I Used To Know"
22. Gym Class Heroes feat. Neon Hitch - "Ass Back Home"
23. Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - "Dance Again"
24. Jessie J - "Domino"
25. Justin Bieber feat. Big Sean - "As Long As You Love Me"
26. Justin Bieber - "Boyfriend"
27. Karmin - "Brokenhearted"
28. Katy Perry - "Part Of Me"
29. Katy Perry - "Wide Awake"
30. Kelly Clarkson - "Stronger"
31. Ke$ha - "Die Young"
32. LMFAO - "Sorry For Party Rocking"
33. Madonna feat. M.I.A. & Nicky Minaj - "Give Me All Your Luvin'"
34. Maroon 5 - "One More Night"
35. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa - "Payphone"
36. Nelly Furtado - "Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)"
37. Ne-Yo - "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)"
38. Nicki Minaj - "Pound The Alarm"
39. Nicki Minaj - "Starships"
40. One Direction - "Live While We're Young"
41. One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful"
42. Owl City & Carly Rae Jepson - "Good Time"
43. P!nk - "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"
44. Pitbull feat. Chris Brown - "International Love"
45. PSY - "Gangnam Style"
46. Rihanna - "Diamonds"
47. Rihanna - "Where Have You Been"
48. Rita Ora - "How We Do (Party)"
49. Swedish House Mafia - "Don't You Worry Child"
50. Tyga - "Rack City"
51. Usher - "Climax"
52. Usher - "Scream"
53. The Wanted - "Glad You Came"
54. Will.I.Am feat. Eva Simons - "This is Love"
55. Zedd feat. Matthew Koma - "Spectrum"

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Just Blaze & Baauer feat. JAY Z - "Higher" (Official Short Film)

Just before the whole “Harlem Shake” thing really popped off, Baauer got together with Just Blaze, one of the greatest rap producers ever, to make “Higher,” a hard-as-fuck trap rave track that was all shot through with Jay-Z vocal samples. (Right now, it’s tagged as “featuring Jay Z,” but Jay doesn’t rap on it or anything, so no.) The track now has a video from director Nabil, and like most things directed by Nabil, it’s incredible. The clip tells the story about a little kid in India who tries to get his revenge on a drunk-asshole martial artist type. It all looks like it’s heading toward a situation like the one with Ben Affleck and the paint in Dazed & Confused, but then things take… another direction.

"This Must Be The Only Fantasy" | Rodarte & Todd Cole (Short Film Soundtracked By Beach House)

Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sister design duo behind the line Rodarte, and photographer Todd Cole have linked up for This Must Be The Only Fantasy, a short film soundtracked by Beach House. In the film, a disgruntled Dungeons & Dragons player (played by surfer/model Sidney Williams) liberates herself from the basement, only to have her world turned into a real-life fantasy. Elijah Wood, who we already know plays fantasy well, and model Guinevere Van Seenus co-star.

Youth Lagoon – “Raspberry Cane” (Official Music Video)

“Raspberry Cane” was the cathartic peak on the back half of Youth Lagoon’s Wondrous Bughouse, and now animator Stephen McNally has provided an appropriately wondrous video. Born from the same homemade intimacy that embodies YG mastermind Trevor Powers’s music, McNally’s video depicts awestruck people observing massive, beautiful, and terrifying creatures. The situation brings to mind such disparate influences — from the nature-inspired beasts in Fumito Ueda’s Shadow Of The Colossus to the magic clashed hidden within harsh reality that Jeff Lemire mastered in his Essex County trilogy. The above image even brings to mind the titular horrors of the popular comic Attack On Titan. The greatness of the video though is the fact that McNally can channel all this into a clip that perfectly matches the sound of Youth Lagoon, which can be as fragile and weary as people found here while as magical and towering as the giant.

HAIM – “The Wire”

It couldn’t have come at a more perfect time because today they’ve released the video for their you’ll-be-fine-without-me tune “The Wire” and it features a bunch of weepy and nostalgic exes, included one played by the Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone.

Arctic Monkeys – “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” (Official Video)

A wasted Alex Turner hallucinates after a late night at the pub in the Nabil-directed video for “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?,” the latest single from Arctic Monkeys’ forthcoming AM. “It’s all sparse, clean lines and plaintively conversational lyrics, and it finds unforeseen common ground with, say, the xx, and Jessie Ware and all the other towering figures in the UK’s recent wave of dark and slinky R&B-derived pop,” Tom wrote of the song last month.

Erlend Øye – “La Prima Estate”

Erlend Øye is a Norwegian musician who makes up one half of Kings of Convenience; he also records solo albums. Following 2003′s Unrest, Øye recently announced a new album, La Prima Estate, due out later this year and inspired by his time spent living in Italy over the past year. The first single is the title track, “La Prima Estate,” sung entirely in Italian. Watch a video for the song below, and read what Øye’s label wrote about the track on Facebook.

The Polyphonic Spree – “You Don’t Know Me” Video

The Polyphonic Spree have a new album out, Yes, It’s True. Surrounding its release, the band have made a video for “You Don’t Know Me.”

Bob Dylan – “Pretty Saro” Video

“Pretty Saro” is a previously unreleased Bob Dylan track that was recorded during March 1970 sessions for his album Self Portrait, but ultimately didn’t make the cut. According to Rolling Stone, Dylan’s take on the 18th Century English folk song has never even made it to bootlegs, unscathed for 43 years in the possession of Columbia Records. Now it, along with 34 other alternate takes, demos, and live versions from the Self Portrait and New Morning sessions, will be released in a box set at the end of the month. Check out the collage video below, which was made by filmmaker and previous Dylan collaborator Jennifer Lebeau from images and video stored by the Farm Security Administration in the Library Of Congress.