Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - “Lariat” (Lyric Video)

Malkmus is back! Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks made their big return to the stage last week in Portland, and now they’ve announced plans for their excellently titled new album Wig Out At Jagbags. Here’s what Malkmus has to say about the album in a statement:

Wig Out at Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas; Stephen-Malkmus-imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers, Sic Alps, UVA in the late 80′s, NYRB, Aroma Charlottenburg, inactivity, Jamming, Indie guys tring to sound Memphis, Flipper, Pete Townshend, Pavement, The Joggers, The NBA and home life in the 2010′s…

“Lariat” is the loose, scrappy, ebullient first single, and its video, directed by Leblanc + Cudmore, is a sort-of lyric video in which a charming young lady, in an apartment full of very serious people, translates the lyrics into French. I don’t know why it works, but it does.

Drake - “Worst Behavior” (Explitic Video)

Drake’s last video, “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” was a wonderfully silly short film featuring guest stars like A$AP Rocky. The one before that, Started From The Bottom, was also a narrative interspersed with skits. And the latest, a 10-minute clip for “Worst Behavior,” is just as gleefully goofy.
Director X’s Memphis-shot visuals include Drake’s father, Dennis Graham, strutting his stuff in a flashy white suit and lip-syncing Drake’s lyrics, as well as guest appearances from Juicy J and Project Pat in a ridiculous comedic interlude. Drake’s in there too carrying a baby, as is somebody wearing a costume of Drake’s signature OVO owl logo blown up to mascot size.

Future - “Real And True” (Feat. Miley Cyrus & Mr. Hudson) (Official Video)

Last week, we heard “Real And True,” the bizarrely Coldplay-esque piano ballad that the great Atlanta Auto-Tune gargler Future recorded with Miley Cyrus and Mr. Hudson. That song now has what might be the first post-Gravity music video. Director Rankin has cast Future and Hudson as astronauts, and Future has “Future” written across the back of his spacesuit, which I love. A bodysuited Miley plays a glittery glowing alien, which seems about right. The video is perfectly ridiculous, and you can watch it at YOUKU.

Arcade Fire – “Afterlife (YouTube Music Awards version)" (Dir. Spike Jonze)

Suggested course of action: (1) See Frances Ha. (2) Watch this video. (3) Formulate an alternate-universe mental narrative where this video is the best possible happy ending for Greta Gerwig’s character. You’ll feel better afterwards, I promise.

Arcade Fire – “Afterlife (YouTube Music Awards version)" (Dir. Spike Jonze)

Arcade Fire - "Afterlife" (Official Video)

The members of Arcade Fire don’t appear in their brand-new video for the powerful Reflektor track “Afterlife,” and nobody in the clip adheres to the band’s live-show dress code. Instead, the great music-video director Emily Kai Bock starts things off with a tense Spanish dinner-table conversation, then goes deep into the dreams and longings of all the people involved. Produced by the Creators Project, it’s an empathetic and visually ravishing piece of work — to my mind, a vast improvement over the band’s “Reflektor” video, if not the version of “Afterlife” that Spike Jonze staged at the YouTube Music Awards.

Guards – “Coming True” (Official Video)

Guards put out their debut album earlier this year and now have a video for “Coming True.” It features the band playing under some dramatic shifting lightning, along with the occasional burst of confetti.

Delorean – “Unhold” (Feat. Caroline Polachek) Video

Chairlift leader Caroline Polachek sings lead on “Unhold,” a song from the Barcelona dance-rock band Delorean’s new album Apar. She’s also the star of the song’s new video. Director Eric Epstein films Polachek, wearing a cape and looking like a mythical character, swanning around New York’s Opus 40 sculpture park. The members of Delorean appear in some other location, and both they and Polachek are shown through perspective-distorting camera lenses.

Vic Mensa - YNSP (feat. Eliza Doolittle) (Official Video)

Mensa’s new video is for “YNSP,” his collaboration with the British singer Eliza Doolittle, best known around these parts for being on Disclosure’s “You & Me.” But Doolittle isn’t in the video. Instead, director Nem Perez casts Mensa and his friends as glitches in the matrix, skittery computer-animated figures who never hang together for long.

SixToes – “Low Guns” (Feat. Dave Gahan)

Official video for SixToes' Low Guns Featuring Dave Gahan.

The word “cinematic” gets tossed around a lot for the sake of musical hyperbole, but it’s a fine fit for the awkwardly named London outfit SixToes, especially when their ornately dramatic folk-rock is set to a video like this one. The visuals for “Low Guns,” the sextet’s recent collaboration with Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan from forthcoming sophomore LP The Morning After, pay homage to Straylight’s short film “Glide2.” Like that clip, director Henry Cowling’s “Low Guns” video follows a single extended shot through a London train station, but this one involved coordinating a cast of dozens of fake military officers, dancers, circus performers and the members of SixToes themselves in slow-motion. Shot from the perspective of a high-speed train car (or “tube carriage” as they’re called over there) at the Ravenscourt Park court station, the clip spreads seven seconds of footage into three-and-a-half incredible minutes. The song is a masterpiece in its own right, and the video only multiplies the excellence.

Miami Horror ft. Sarah Chernoff - "Real Slow" (Official Video)

Directed by Victor Pakpour

Australian/LA-based psychedelic-dance four-piece Miami Horror are back with a wonderfully shot new-wavy video, "Real Slow," via Neon Gold.

According to band producer Benjamin Plant, "'Real Slow' was written around similar experiences that Aaron [Shanahan] and I were having at the time. It's about finding that place or person were you feel secure enough to take things slowly. We wanted to write a song that is more than just a concept, we wanted to write about something we were actually experiencing rather than something imagined. We wanted to see how that emotion translated into our music. I've never been a huge fan of listening to songs about love, no matter how painful or joyous they are, they can seem mediocre, but once you have those experiences for yourself then suddenly, all those songs make sense and become something you can really feel."

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)