Deltron 3030 - “Melding Of The Minds” (Feat. Zack De La Rocha) (Official Video)

Deltron 3030, the sci-fi rap supergroup that unites Del The Funky Homosapien with Dan The Automator and Kid Koala, came back together earlier this year to release the star-studded reunion album Event II. Today, they give us the video to “Melding Of The Minds,” a collaboration with Rage Against The Machine’s Zack De La Rocha. The animated clip, from director Justin Ian Lee, is a Powerpuff Girls-style adventure about a girl traveling through a dystopic urban landscape full of giant smiling robots.

Louis Vuitton Venice Fim - David Bowie & Arizona Muse (Full Movie)

David Bowie, who’s been awfully busy lately, is the star of a new short film called L’Invitation Au Voyage, which doubles as an advertisement for Louis Vuitton. Romain Gavras, who’s made great music videos for Justice and for M.I.A., directed it. The American model Arizona Muse (no really, that’s her name) plays a lady who lands a hot air balloon in Venice and ends up at a fancy-dress party, where Bowie is playing the Next Day song “I’d Rather Be High” on a harpsichord. This is all tied in with a new Vuitton ad campaign, which also features Bowie. The movie’s only a minute long, and you can watch.

Night Beds - "Lost Springs" (Official Video)

“Ramona,” the last music video from the Nashville country-rockers Night Beds, was a lovely little indie-film story that didn’t feature the band at all. The group’s new video for “Lost Springs” has a very different concept — it’s all footage of the band on tour — but it’s got a similarly elegiac vibe working for it. The video is more interested in the play of light on an airplane wing, for instance, than in what the live show looks like, and there’s way more plaintive window-staring than you usually get in a video like this.

Born Ruffians – “Permanent Hesitation” Video

“Permanent Hesitation,” a track from Ontario indie band Born Ruffians’ recent album Birthmarks, is a deeply twitchy song, and its video uses just-off split-screens to mirror that nervous energy. We see frontman Luke Lalonde throughout, but his image is chopped up and reassembled, like a paragraph that’s been translated back and forth in Babelfish and lost all its shape.

Wymond Miles – “Night Drives” (Official Music Video)

Wymond Miles is best known for his work in the Fresh & Onlys, but damn if he didn’t put out another great solo album this year. Cut Yourself Free has many nice moments, but “Night Drives” is still the best and now there’s a video for it. Director Ryan Browne nails it by making a clip that is as colorful and dramatic as Miles’ song.

These New Puritans – “V (Island Song)” (Official Video)

The British art-rockers These New Puritans dropped their Field Of Reeds album over the summer, and their videos for “Fragment Two” and “Organ Eternal” are crystalline examples of calm, composed filmmaking. The new clip for “V (Island Song)” takes a different track. The animated clip, which PICNIC directed from a script by Jack Barnett, tells the story of a sad, solitary woman who steps through a movie screen and goes on a dark, watery vision quest. Be warned: There’s an eyeball-sushi scene that might have your stomach doing flips.

Paramore - "Daydreaming" (Official Video)

Two friends fly to London to see Paramore live in the group's latest video, "Daydreaming," or is it all a dream? The clip focuses on a blonde and a brunette who look to live in what frontwoman Haley Williams describes in the lyrics as "a city of sleepless people who all know the limits and won't go too far outside the lines," which comes off the group's latest, self-titled album. They pack their bags, go to the airport, needlessly block the expanse of a moving sidewalk and kiss the airport floor. Meanwhile, Williams & Co. perform the song, in black and white, and huddle up backstage. When it's revealed that the young women have arrived in London, the clip depicts them navigating the tube and riding the city's giant Ferris wheel known as the London Eye, all with clips of them back in their small town.

Eventually they make it to the venue, and that's when the real daydreaming begins. Somehow, the couple is able to sneak in backstage, peer in at Paramore in their dressing room, get a wave and a smile from Williams and then, respectfully, move their way to the main, audience-saturated concert area and ultimately find a spot up front to watch the band (now in color). It's a fun fantasy, and it's really never quite clear what's real and what's not.

Quilt – “Arctic Shark” Video

When Quilt released “Arctic Shark” last month it was one of first exciting hints at what music we’d be hearing in 2014. Now we have a video for the track, directed by Merideth Hillbrand & Brandon Andrew which finds the trio sitting in the sun on blankets (QUILTS?!), eating fruit, strumming guitars. It’s a warm, gentle video with subtly psychedelic moments like grapes being picked in reverse. However, camera tricks don’t stand up to singer Anna Rochinski, whose lyrical lysergia comes delivered with a knowing confidence making the most surreal phrases here sound true and grounded.

RockAndBol Awards 2013 - Best Video list of Nominees

RockAndBol Awards are awards for excellence in the national production of rock, in Bolivia, in different categories, given annually since 2002 in a special ceremony.

Best Video: Nominee - RockAndBol Awards 2013

Los Salmones – "Me Pase de la Raya" (Dir. Dirección: José Luis Cabruja e Ytalo Cabruja)

Krauss – "Ella" (Dir. Gory Patiño)

Karloz de La Torre  – "Piano en Llamas" (Dir. Martín Boulocq)

Karloz de la Torre – "Malos Tragos" Dir. Martín Boulocq)

Doble A – Desubicado (Dir. Eduardo Aguilera & Hugo Cabrera)

Matamba – "Sobrenatural" (Dir. Ian Pons jewell)

Santiago Laserna Ft. Chelo Navia – "Never Let Me Go" (Dir. Álvaro Gumucio Li)

ElectroShock – "Deberías Dejarme Respirar" (Dir. Humberto Paye)

Tóxico 4 – "Te Fuiste" (Dir. Martín Bouloq)

Chvrches - “Lies” (Official Video)

The Bones Of What You Believe, the emotively wide-open debut from the Glasgow synthpop trio Chrvcrhes, was one of this fall’s most immediately likable albums. Director Sing J. Lee‘s video for “Lies,” one of the album’s catchiest songs, has some vague story that involves virtual reality and illusory promises of love. But the real reason to watch is the visual aesthetic, which matches the song’s clean lines with its own.

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - “Bad Dancer” (Official Video)

Yoko Ono’s video for “Bad Dancer,” a track off her recent album Take Me To The Land Of Hell, might be the most diversely star-studded video of the year. Reggie Watts, Heems, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, Ad Rock and Mike D of the Beastie Boys, Ira Glass, Questlove (slow dancing with Ono above), it just goes on and I’m still probably forgetting someone. While it does feature some pretty bad dancing, when you get this many people doing it all together (famous or not) it ends up turning out pretty cool. Watch the video, directed by Ben Dickinson.

Ty Segall - "The Man Man" (Official Video)

Bay Area garage rock don Ty Segall released his spacey, sinister stripped-back psych album Sleeper a few months ago. His new video for the album track “The Man Man” would’ve been perfect for Halloween, but it’s still pretty badass a few days later. In the LEAF-directed video, a quartet of terrifying monster-masked gunmen stalk Segall through a dark street.

Metric – “Synthetica” (Official Video)

The Canadian pop group Metric released their album Synthetica last year, and today they give us the video for the album’s slick title track. Director Justin Broadbent’s video focuses almost entirely on singer Emily Haines. But thanks to a split-screen and a mirroring effect, we get a quadruple-view of Haines the entire time, which effect gives the video a glossy kaleidoscopic feel.

Frightened Rabbit – “Holy” (Official Video)

Frightened Rabbit released their fourth album, Pedestrian Verse, earlier this year and now have a video for the track “Holy.” It follows a business woman who breaks down during a meeting and leaves to walk through the Scottish countryside, carry-on in tow.

Woods – “It Ain’t Easy” (Official Music Video)

The New York campfire-psych band Woods came out with their album Bend Beyond more than a year ago, but that LP has lost no luster in the time since its release; if anything, it sounds better now than when it came out. Artist Adarsha Benjamin, who directed or co-directed the band’s previous videos for “Cali In A Cup” and “Size Meets The Sound,” has a new video for the acoustic rampble “It Ain’t Easy.” And like those two previous videos, it’s all Super 8 footage of pretty things happening in California. This time around, it’s images of an outsider-art sculpture garden and of sunflowers swaying in breeze. And if your office is freezing fucking cold, like mine is right now, it’s a nice little burst of escapism.

Califone - "Frosted Tips" (Official Video)

Califone have released a video for their August-released single “Frosted Tips” and not a single person in the clip has the hair dye atrocity for which the song is named. Instead, the video features a falling flowerpot making its way to the ground from atop an extremely tall high rise, giving the viewer a glimpse into everything that’s going on in the building. There are people partying, dudes taking selfies, a couple doing an aerobics video together, and a cult meeting, among other things, some of which are not safe for work. 

Rick Ross - "No Games" (Explicit) ft. Future

The thunderous Future collab “No Games” is Rick Ross’s biggest song in a minute, and someone must’ve realized that a song like that needs a video that’s better than the shitty one that’s just a bunch of Scarface clips and footage of Ross rapping in a hotel. So now we get the real video: Mad Max car-chases, underground fighting rings, fireballs, girls whose white catsuits turn transparent in the rain, milk-colored assault rifles, Future looking like Blade. Colin Tilley, the current holder of the Hype Williams amazing overblown theatrical rap-video director crown, is the man to thank.

Juana Molina - "Eras" (Official Music Video)

“Eras” is the first track Argentine singer Juana Molina gave us from her new album Wed 21 and now she has released an accompanying visual treatment. The clip features a dinner party so out of the norm that you really just need to watch it in all its bizarre glory. But the image above should give you a good preview of food prep — yes, that is a masked figure sewing together lettuce leaves — and how the whole fantastical thing proceeds. Check it out below and read our Q&A with Molina here.