G-Dragon – “Coup D’Etat” (Video)

G-Dragon – “Coup D’Etat” (Dir. Suh Hyun Seung)

K-pop boy genius comes gunning for Nicki Minaj’s “evolutionary Missy Elliott” crown, gets beat from Diplo and Baauer, makes four-minute Jodorowsky movie. And it’s still not the week’s best movie, because amazing things happen all the time.

Team Spirit – “Phenomenon” (Official Video)

Team Spirit – “Phenomenon” (Dir. HannesJohannes)

An epic saga concludes with the sight of a dicknosed Nazi lady being sucked down a portal to hell, after the guy from the ’80s Big Mac commercials shoots Hitler’s brain through the back of its skull. So yeah, they stuck the landing.

Kitty – “Hittin Lixx” Video

Delinquents breaking glass and throwing glitter in an industrial space is the perfect treatment for Kitty’s ode to love hazards “Hittin’ Lixx” — and it is exactly that, with the Florida rapper smashing light bulbs with a group of friends. The clip includes a stoic cameo from producer Hot Sugar and rowdy appearance from her “Ay Shawty“-collaborator Lakutis.

They Might Be Giants – “You’re On Fire” (Official Video)

The Johns (Flannsburgh and Linnell) behind They Might Be Giants have just put out a music video (directed by Hoku Uchiyama and Adam Bolt) for “Your On Fire”. The video is sweet and romantic or grisly and horrible depending on who’s perspective you’re taking it from. On the one hand it’s about a girl (played by Lauren Lapkus from Orange Is The New Black) cooking dinner for her significant other, but from the perspective of the sentient food she’s cooking, well, things are about to get unpleasant.

There are some great effects here, from the singing ground beef (that has to turn back to normal every time she looks at him, Toy Story style) to the broccoli and carrots, which take turns playing each other as horns and guitars, respectively. It’s a very strange video.

Vattnet Viskar – “Breath Of The Almighty” (Official Video)

New Hampshire post-black metal band Vattnet Viskar’s debut album, Sky Swallower; I think it’s a great album, and a fucking remarkable debut, and I don’t know what else to say. It dropped earlier this week to uniformly enthusiastic praise (inexplicably it’s nowhere to be found on Metacritic — damn you, lamestream media and your anti-metal bias! — but I’m guessing it’d average somewhere in the mid-80s). Today the band released a video for the album’s gargantuan centerpiece, “Breath Of The Almighty.” Directed by Josh Graham — who served a crucial role as Neurosis’s visual and graphics artist for many years, and who also directed the new Soundgarden vid — the clip nicely reflects the qualities of music: extreme contrasts; towering scope; infinite space.

Empire Of The Sun – “DNA”

Aussie dance-pop duo Empire Of The Sun have gone all operatically ridiculous for their new album Ice On The Dune, and their new video for “DNA” gets the overblown absurdity of their whole act just right in ways that their too-serious “Alive” video couldn’t manage. In the video, we see both band members, in full-on glammed-out space-pirate uniform, partying their way through the more desolate edges of near-future Los Angeles.

TV On The Radio – “Mercy” Video

TV On The Radio have come off of their hiatus to give us two new songs this summer, “Mercy” and “Million Miles,” and they’ve both been awesome. “Million Miles” already had a video, and now “Mercy” does too. Director Dawn Garcia uses some truly tactile special effects to tell the story of an anthropomorphic asteroid that visits Earth and does its best to fit in. It’s a trippy but heartfelt clip.

Soundgarden – “Halfway There” Video

Reunited grunge titans Soundgarden returned last year with the shockingly solid comeback album King Animal, and they’ve already made a video for the stomping “By Crooked Steps.” Now there’s also a clip for the strummy and satisfying “Halfway There,” and it serves as a sort of stoner sci-fi mini-movie, telling the story of a space traveler who pushes his ship so hard that he starts getting visions of pretty ladies and Soundgarden dudes.

Crystal Stilts – “Star Crawl” (Official Music Video)

Brooklyn postpunkers Crystal Stilts are a couple of weeks away from releasing their fuzzed-out new album Nature Noir. And for the video for first single “Star Crawl,” director Daniel Fetherston has put together a series of shots of landscapes and animals and band members, all seen through fucked-up color filters.

Brendan Canning – “Plugged In”

Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning will soon release his solo album You Gots 2 Chill, and his new video for the floaty acoustic track “Plugged In” tells the story of a deaf man who makes his living by selling those sign-language cards to random strangers on the streets. This seems like a deeply shitty way to live, but it sure seems like he’s getting by on it. Canning is in the video, but his appearance is limited to a cameo. Edward Fawcett Sharpe, Joel Barnes, and Steve Jones directed the video.

M.I.A. – “Come Walk With Me” Lyric Video

M.I.A.’s mutating new-wave jam “Come Walk With Me” made its way to Tumblr earlier this week, but obviously, the best way to hear the song is by reading the lyrics and looking at trippy CGI images of Hindu deities while you do it. To that end, M.I.A. has posted a lyric video of the track, one that looks like what would happen if a Spencer’s Gifts black-light poster could move and change camera angles.

Moby – “The Perfect Life” (Feat. Wayne Coyne) Video (NSFW)

'the idea for 'the perfect life' video is pretty simple...wayne and i in mariachi costumes walking around l.a picking up a very random
and disparate bunch of disenfranchised oddballs and leading them via trolley to a giant party on a roof overlooking l.a while the sun sets.'
- moby

Moby's 'The Perfect Life' is taken from new album 'Innocents', which comes out on 30 Sep and is available to pre-order now. It features vocals from Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips

Sleigh Bells – “Bitter Rivals” (Official Video)

Last week we heard a teaser of “Bitter Rivals,” the crunchy, Dickens-quoting title track from Sleigh Bells’ forthcoming third LP. Now Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller have unveiled the full song and its Creators Project music video, which they directed.

Eleanor Friedberger – “When I Knew” (Official Video)

Eleanor Friedberger has released a video for Personal Record track “When I Knew.” The clip was directed and animated by Ryan Junell and features a carefree Friedberger mostly frolicking in the grass in red, white, and blue (well, Canadian tuxedo) outfits.

Pixies – “Indie Cindy” (Official Video)

Almost a decade after they first reunited, and 22 years after their final album Trompe Le Monde, the Pixies are back with a brand-new studio release, with absolutely no warning, and you can buy the fucker now. On the band’s website, they’re selling a new EP called EP-1 — a title that suggests there’s even more of this on the way. They recorded it in Wales, with Gil Norton producing and someone called Ding playing bass.

“Bagboy,” the new song that the band released earlier this summer, isn’t on the EP. Instead, all four songs are brand-new. And one of them, “Indie Cindy,” already has a music video. The song swings back and forth between classic Black Francis ranting and sudden spangly beauty, and on first listen, it’s easily the best song that the Pixies have put together since reuniting. The song’s video, from directors Lamar + Nik, jumps around temporally to tell a murder story.

Natasha Khan & Jon Hopkins – “Garden’s Heart” (Official Video)

Following a collaboration with Purity Ring, Jon Hopkins has a new song out with Natasha Khan (bka Bat For Lashes) from the upcoming film How I Live Now for which Hopkins provides the score. The gorgeously shot video (directed by Kevin Macdonald) is built from film footage featuring Saoirse Ronan, yet doesn’t seem to be out of context at all. There’s obviously more going on that we’ll see in the film, but this still tells a sad and beautiful story in just a few minutes.

Dent May – “Born Too Late” Video

Dent May’s newest album Warm Blanket is out now via Paw Tracks. Here’s a video for album cut “Born Too Late,” shot at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi.

Hodgy Beats – “Karateman” (Feat. Left Brain)

Odd Future associate Hodgy Beats released a new video today for his track “Karateman” featuring Left Brain. The video was directed by Rob Haffey and Etienne Maurice. The track is from the Hodgy Beats Untitled 2 EP, released in June.