Jeff Buckley - “I Know It’s Over” (The Smiths Cover) Video

A new posthumous collection of Jeff Buckley rarities is coming out next month, and today a video has been revealed for his cover of the Smiths’ “I Know It’s Over.” It was directed by Amanda Demme, and follows a mother and son in a dusty, old-timey house. “When I first heard Jeff, he gave me permission to feel fully and with contradiction,” the video’s producer, Amy Redford, told Rolling Stone. “He inspired me to fight for authenticity, and to feel confidence in simplicity. To collaborate on these songs coming to life, and to see the community of people who Jeff touched, has been a privilege.”

River Tiber - “No Talk” (Official Video)

Toronto electronic musician River Tiber’s “No Talk” is best-known for being sampled on Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late highlight “No Tellin’,” but the song is perfectly great on its own, and it now has a gloomy video to go along with it. Crisp black-and-white cinematography highlights Tommy Paxton-Beesley’s home base, but casts it in a paranoid and and unsettling light.

Behind-The-Scenes Of OK Go’s Zero Gravity “Upside Down & Inside Out” Video

OK Go’s music videos always come out executed flawlessly, which means that the level of planning that goes into them is downright absurd. If you haven’t already, you should go watch the band’s new video for “Upside Down & Inside Out,” which features the power-poppers and two S7 Airlines flight attendants trained as aerial acrobats somersaulting around in zero gravity. To create this spectacle, OK Go spent three weeks testing and filming at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for ROSCOSMOS, the Russian equivalent of NASA. An Il-76 MDK airplane is capable of flying in parabolic maneuvers to generate brief periods of weightlessness, but these periods only last up to 27 seconds, and the song is over three minutes long. “Because we wanted the video to be a single, uninterrupted routine, we shot continuously over the course of eight consecutive weightless periods, which took about 45 minutes, total,” explains Trish Sie, who directed the clip with her brother, OK Go frontman Damien Kulash, Jr. “We paused the action, and the music, during the non-weightless periods, and then cut out these sections and smoothed over each transition with a morph.” Check out some behind-the-scenes footage from the last segment of the shoot below.

Morly - “The Choir” (Official Video)

Minnesota electronic artist Morly has shared a video for her new single “The Choir,” which we first highlighted when it was released last month. The video, which was directed by Gina Gammell, is as tender, haunting, and muted as the song itself, featuring a man dancing in slow-motion in a church and getting blessed by some spiritual figure.

Quilt - “Roller” (Official Video)

Boston psych-pop janglers Quilt have been around for a little while now, and there’s a decent chance that you’re underrating them. In that case, please allow me to direct you to “Roller,” the brisk, efficient, catchy-as-hell, deeply likable single from their forthcoming album Plaza. The song has a new video from director Adi Putra, and it’s full of sunny ’70s-cinema surrealism. There’s a scene with choreographed dancing, and another scene in which a big bowl of Jell-O hits the floor in ecstatic slow-motion.

Ulrika Spacek - “Strawberry Glue” (Official Video)

Berlin indie rockers Ulrika Spacek just dropped their debut LP, The Album Paranoia, last week. They shared two examples of the excellent guitar work they are capable of in “She’s A Cult” and “Beta Male.” Their latest offering from the album is a video for another guitar-dominant track, “Strawberry Glue.” The song leans shoegaze with plenty of dirty distortion, and the energy is high all the way through. The matching clip is the opposite of that, featuring a very low-key chill session where everyone is doing their own thing. The camera moves through rooms of a house in a continuous black-and-white one-shot a la Birdman interjecting as people converse, argue, relax, and geek out to the music.

Black Mountain - “Mothers Of The Sun” (Official Video)

Vancouver-birthed psych-rock greats Black Mountain haven’t released a proper studio album since 2010’s Wilderness Heart, but they’re coming back later this year with a new LP that comes bearing the appropriately-epic title IV. The first song we’ve heard from the album is the sprawling, eight-minute “Mothers Of The Sun,” which starts out narcotized and builds up to some prime universe-crushing riffage. The video, from directors Ben Jacques and Justin Gradin, is a surreal, mystical thing that captures the band in cult-leader robes, playing in insane asylums and mountain caves. All in all, this whole thing is fucking badass, and it’s the sort of staring-into-the-abyss heaviness that some of us might need in our lives right about now.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - “Astonished Man” (Official Video)

Thao Nguyen has been putting out consistently great off-kilter rock with her the Get Down Stay Down band for over a decade now. Her latest release is A Man Alive, which was produced by tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus. We heard lead single “Nobody Dies” last year, and today she’s following that up with another new song (and video!) for the scratchy, oddly likable, and St. Vincent-esque “Astonished Man.” The video is a violent piece of work, showing Nguyen cutting straight through her head with a knife, but it also breaks the fourth wall a bit and shows you how the fake blood is put on. It was directed by Brook Linder.

OK Go - “Upside Down & Inside Out” (Official Video)

When a music video begins with the disclaimer “What you are about to see is real,” you know you’re in for a wild ride. Power-poppers/OG YouTube stars OK Go have been crafting viral videos for over a decade now, seemingly determined to somehow top themselves every time, and their latest effort is no disappointment. Shot in a plane repeatedly nose-diving towards the ground in Russia, the new video for “Upside Down & Inside Out” takes the song’s “gravity’s just a habit that you’re really sure you can’t break” line as a direct challenge, with the band members and two flight attendants (who happen to be trained aerial acrobats) gleefully somersaulting around in zero gravity. It’s not necessarily as intricately choreographed as one-take wonders like “I Won’t Let You Down” or “The Writing’s On The Wall,” but come on, zero fucking gravity! Frontman Damian Kulash, Jr. and his sister Trish Sie direct.

Arcade Fire Share David Bowie Tribute Parade Video

Last month, after the passing of their friend and collaborator David Bowie, Arcade Fire paid tribute to the man in traditional New Orleans style. Inside and outside the famed Preservation Hall, they gave him a second line parade, a jazz funeral. We posted a bunch of videos immediately after the parade, but now Arcade Fire have put together their own professionally shot and edited video of the whole affair. It’s quite a spectacle, and it includes the band’s funked-up cover of Bowie’s “Heroes.”

DMA’s - “Too Soon” (Official Video)

After two years of building anticipation, Australian Britpop lads DMA’s are finally getting around to putting out their debut full-length. Hills End will be out later this month, and today, the trio are sharing a new video for their latest single, the swaggering “Too Soon.” Directed by Mitchell Grant, the clip is fairly simple but visually striking, with all three members hanging out and looking casually badass in various locations. “We’ve worked with Mitch a few times, so we completely trusted him with his vision for the video,” the band say. “We like that it’s a purely visual clip and not conceptual or based on a narrative. Sometimes you can get lost in that.”

together PANGEA - “My Head Is On Too Tight” (Official Video)

Los Angeles garage-rock crew together PANGEA worked with producer and Replacements bassist on The Phage, the EP they released last year. And now they’ve got a brand-new video for the lovably snotty EP track “My Head Is On Too Tight.” In the clip, the members of the band amble through a small town, projecting dirtbag charisma everywhere. A special shout-out goes to the bassist with the mustache; that guy is owning it. Zoe Reign directs.

Julia Holter - “Everytime Boots” (Official Video)

LA-based experimental pop auteur Julia Holter had an incredible 2015. Her beautiful offering Have You In My Wilderness cracked our list of the best albums of 2015, and we received a lot of insight on the creation of that album when we spoke to Holter. It makes sense to linger on such a wondrous project for a while, so in her first act of the new year, she revisits one of the many standouts from the album.

“Everytime Boots” is a wandering, artful song with captivating storytelling and instrumentation that magnifies the feelings the lyrics evokes splendidly. Ramona Gonzalez’s matching clip is a more literal take with Holter’s avant-garde sensibilities laced throughout. A cowboy falls for a a cowgirl in a 99 cent store as Holter follows without his knowledge. She throws a wrench in his romantic pursuits as the third wheel and he eventually returns to his bedroom alone to sadly eat a sandwich. The subtlety of Holter’s audacious, off-kilter songs is a great underlying element in the video.

James Blake - “The Sound Of Silence” (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)

James Blake returned to BBC Radio 1’s Residency tonight, and he was joined on air by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, as Pitchfork points out. The two chatted about a number of topics, and Blake closed out the show by playing a new cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence,” which he dedicated to a friend who passed away on New Year’s Eve. Although he swaps out the original’s rippling guitar for his usual mournful synths, it’s a pretty minimal, faithful cover — which is good, because the original is gorgeous, and so is this. Listen below, and hear the entire mix here via the BBC.

Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (with lyrics)

A-Trak - “We All Fall Down” (Feat. Jamie Lidell) Video

A-Trak has shared a video for his Jamie Lidell collaboration “We All Fall Down.” It takes place in a country bar and features a bunch of girls riding a mechanical bull and inevitably falling off of it because that’s what happens when you ride a mechanical bull. A-Trak himself acts as the MC for the night. The clip was directed by Nicolas Randall.

Kevin Gates - “Pride” (Official Video)

Islah, the proper major-label debut from Baton Rouge underground rap monster Kevin Gates, is selling better than anyone expected. And now Gates, who has made countless zero-budget rap videos, suddenly has a halfway-slick clip to his name. The video for the intense relationship lament “Pride” involves Gates imagining himself in prison, missing his family.

U.S. Girls - “Navy & Cream” (Official Video)

U.S. Girls released their immersive new album, Half Free, last year, and today Meghan Remy is sharing a video for “Navy & Cream.” It’s a slow-motion haze, much like the song itself, and is hypnotizing in its own weird and comforting way as Remy plays the guitar and sways around in warm pinks and blues. It was directed by Emily Pelstring.

James Blake – “Modern Soul”

While the rest of humanity was busy digesting The Life Of Pablo, James Blake was DJing on BBC Radio 1’s Residency, and he took the opportunity to slip an absolutely gorgeous new track of his own into the world. Like the “Sound Of Silence” cover that he shared a few months ago, “Modern Soul” is a minimalist slow-burn, starting with some faded piano chords and that ethereal croon and gradually expanding out into a crystalline cavern of sound.