Marissa Nadler - “Was It A Dream” (Official Video)

In Marissa Nadler’s video for the spectral folk lullaby “Was It A Dream,” we see a man using a film-editing machine to rediscover some ancient bits of silent movie. And on that old film, we see Nadler lurking like a ghost. The video itself is made to look like some old horror movie, like it’s a story about the unwitting awakening of an old spirit. Ryan Hamilton Walsh of Hallelujah The Hills directs, and the video work as a nice visual complement to July, the haunting album that Nadler released last week.

Gardens & Villa - “Bullet Train” (Official Video)

Dunes was Gardens & Villa’s coming out as analog fetishists, and nothing celebrated that more than “Bullet Train.” Its new Tony Katai-directed video embraces that quality, envisioning the band in a grainy, decaying VHS world. There’s visual static, bad color, and general public access weirdness, but the video makes all that datedness oddly attractive.

Phantogram - “Fall In Love” Video

The upstate New York duo Phantogram seems poised to blow the fuck up this year, and that’s largely on the strength of their sharp, arresting big-beated hit “Fall In Love.” The song’s brand-new video is a glamorous black-and-white swirl of lights and geometric patterns and spiky leather gloves, and it will only help in this group’s continuous rise.

Chelsea Wolfe - “Feral Love” Video (NSFW)

Chelsea Wolfe – “Feral Love” Video (NSFW) (Dir. Mark Pellington)

Chelsea Wolfe is going to be in the movies. The dark-pop singer-songwriter has teamed up with the director Mark Pellington, who did Pearl Jam’s iconic “Jeremy” clip and the pretty-great thriller Arlington Road, for an hour-long film called Lone. Wolfe wrote the movie, and all of the dialog comes from the lyrics to her 2013 album Pain Is Beauty. Wolfe’s new video for “Feral Love” serves as an excerpt from the movie. There are flashes of nudity, so be warned, and the whole thing is creepily badass. Werewolves, You’re Next/Wyatt Family-style animal masks, and Wolfe’s own death-mask swagger all feature prominently.

Annie - “Russian Kiss” Official Video (NSFW)

Amid all of the controversy surrounding the Sochi Olympics, Norwegian pop singer Annie has decided to add her voice to the mix. She’s teamed up with New York-based artist Bjarne Melgaard and director Richard Kern to create “Russian Kiss,” a protest video that aims to challenge the Putin administration’s stance on LGBT rights and encourage people to boycott this year’s Olympic games. The video is a little heavy-handed, but the song itself is great: a slow-building, slick Euro-pop jam that sounds like it could be a leftover from last year’s excellent A&R EP.

Lily Allen - “Air Balloon” (Official Video)

In Lily Allen’s new video for her bubbly new single “Air Balloon,” she dresses like a 1997-era candy raver and hangs out with a zebra, a cheetah, and a swarm of CGI butterflies. She also goes into space. I have no idea what any of it means, but it’s fun, and it seems unlikely to start any fights, the way her “Hard Out Here” video recently did.

Watch The Flaming Lips & Sean Lennon Cover “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” On Letterman

David Letterman continued his week-long tribute to the Fab Four with a performance from the Flaming Lips, who were joined by Sean Lennon to cover “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.” Throughout the week, Broken Bells, Sting, and Lenny Kravitz have also graced the Late Night stage to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America. Lauryn Hill will perform the final show tonight and CBS will air The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute To The Beatles on Sunday.

Broken Bells with Ringo Starr: "And I Love Her"(David Letterman Show) 

Prodigy - “IMDKV” (NSFW-ish)

Prodigy – “IMDKV” (NSFW-ish) (Dir. Tha Profitt)

Prodigy more or less brought rap videos into the internet age with his awesomely horrific “Mac 10 Handle” video, so when he points a blood-crusted spiked bat at the camera, I pay attention.

Watch The Russian Police Choir Perform “Get Lucky” At Sochi Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

As they famously did last year (which you can catch in our “Get Lucky” supercut) the Russian Police Choir performed Daft Punk’s Grammy winning megahit during the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics. It’s pretty silly and charming, and many of the policemen are sporting hats that are sure to make Pharrell extremely jealous. Watch below or head to nbcolympics.com for more.

The Julie Ruin - “Goodnight, Goodbye” (Official Video)

The first video from the Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna’s new band, was for “Oh Come On,” and it was a fun and riotous burst of color. But their new “Goodnight, Goodbye” video goes a very different route. This one is all grainy, warm Super-8 footage of the band playing a show and spending time in Olympia, Washington, Hanna’s old stomping grounds. I’ve spent enough time in Olympia to know that Hanna is like a god there, but surprisingly, she doesn’t spend the entire video running from hordes of screaming Evergreen students. Instead, she and her band just kind of hang out and have fun. Silly Cinnamon directs.

Watch Bob Dylan's Super Bowl Commercial for Chrysler (Extended Cut)

A great many Super Bowl viewers were shocked to see Bob Dylan in a Chrysler commercial last night, but they really shouldn't have been. This was far from his first appearance in a televised ad, and it wasn't even the only time his music was heard in one last night (his 1966 classic "I Want You" appeared in a commercial for Chobani yogurt).

Back in 1965, a reporter at a San Francisco press conference asked Dylan what product he'd ever think about endorsing. The singer promptly responded with two words: "women's garments." It got a good laugh, but 39 years later he fulfilled that prophecy when he appeared alongside model Adriana Lima in an ad for Victoria's Secret. "Was I not supposed to do that?" he snapped at Rolling Stone the following year. "I wish I had seen it. Maybe I'd have something to say about it. I don't see that kind of stuff. That's for other people to see and make up what they will."

The 2004 Victoria's Secret ad – which used his 1997 song "Love Sick" — was Dylan's first physical appearance in a commercial, though back in the 1990s Richie Havens' cover of "The Times They Are A'Changin'" was used in an ad for a Canadian bank. Around that same time, Apple used a 1963 photo of Dylan in their "Think Different" ad campaign.

Last night's Chrysler ad wasn't even Dylan's first appearance in a car commercial. In 2007, he appeared in an ad for the Cadillac Escalade, and was even shown driving the sport utility vehicle. That angered many people, but it's hard to imagine that Dylan cared one bit. If anything, the negative feedback probably only encouraged him to do another one.

Jorge Elbrose (Jorge Elbrecht & Ariel Pink) - “Called To Ring” (Official Video)

Directed by Jorge Elbrecht
Co-director: Ron Winter
Producer: Mindy Lubert
DP: Jake Magee
1st AC: Bayley Sweitzer
2nd AC/DIT: Govinda Angulo
PA: Andrew Krasniak, Kurt Csolak
Stylist: Kat Typaldos
Animation: Zach Shukan/Omega Darling
Face Rig: Drew Arnold/Show Studio

Featuring:

Holly Hayden
Holland Brown
Stephanie Levy
Rebecca Fourteau
Dani Griffiths
Kristy Muniz
Adele Thibodeaux
Natalie Mering
Sonja Mauro

Location: The Otherside Studio

Special thanks to Alejandro Cardenas, Tim Koh, Daniel Cardenas, Ghost Robot, Hello World, Handheld Films, Lauren and Mike at the Otherside Studio.

Tree - “Like Whoa” (OfficialVideo)

Chicago is a truly great city, but it’s currently deep into a winter that sounds incomprehensibly hellish, and the town could probably use some reason to feel good about itself. So I give you the raspy-voiced Chicago rapper/producer Tree’s video for “Like Whoa.” Tree’s The MCTreeG EP earned Mixtape Of The Week last week, and the video capitalizes on his plainspoken blue-collar charm, showing him in both his hometown’s grimier slums and in its sparkling, beautiful downtown. If you’ve spent some time in the city, it will make you want to go back.

Andrew W.K. & Lil Bub - “Star Party Animal” Video

Human party machine Andrew W.K. and celebrity cat Lil Bub both seem like certain corners of the internet made flesh, so it makes sense to see them, um, duetting on a new song called “Star Party Animal.” A music video for this particular jam, a Meat Loaf-esque operatic piano banger, will air on the Animal Planet show Lil Bub’s Special Special this weekend, but lucky you; you get to watch it right now.

Eternal Summers - “Gouge” (Official Video)

With their new full-length record The Drop Beneath hitting shelves next month, Eternal Summers have tapped their single “Gouge” for a music video rich with imagery. Lead vocalist Nicole Yun ponders some heavy lyrics (“Gouge my eyes out”) in front of projector screens displaying various serene nature scenes; and facial closeups and video overlays create a dream-like haze over the whole affair.

Tomas Barfod - “Pulsing” (Feat. Nina K) (Official Video)

There’s a video for “Pulsing,” directed by Cherise Payne, which cuts between a pretty young couple spending time together and shots of meat and fish being butchered. It’s grotesque, but also difficult to look away from.

Snowbird - "All Wishes Are Ghosts" (Official Video)

Snowbird, the project from Simon Raymonde (of the Cocteau Twins) and singer Stephanie Dosen, have given us some extremely dreamy music since first arriving with “Porcelain” last year. Today, they pair the song “All Wishes Are Ghosts” with a video that has some ghosts of its own. Though it doesn’t quite explain to the viewer why its two main characters are in the strange situation they are in, it grips you nonetheless.

Chastity Belt – “Full” (Official Video)

Directed by Shaun Libman and shot in exquisite black and white by Eleanor Petry, it’s a pleasure to see and hear. Watch it below.