How to destroy angels_ - "How long?" (Official Music Video)

Trent Reznor's How to destroy angels_ have shared the brutal, dystopian video for their track "How long?", directed by Shynola. It's off their upcoming album Welcome oblivion, which is out on March 5 via Columbia. Watch it below, via NPR.

The band, which also includes Reznor's wife Mariqueen Maandig and longtime collaborators Rob Sheridan and Atticus Ross, will make their live debut at Coachella.

Animal Collective - "Applesauce" (Official Music Video)

In making their video for the frantic Centipede Hz track “Applesauce,” Animal Collective enlisted Gaspar Noé, the filmmaker behind the fucked-up movies Irreversible and Enter The Void (as well as Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ recent “We No Who U R” video). The whole video is just a close-up on a woman’s lips as she eats fruit and the screen behind her furiously strobes in different colors. In order for the video to properly break your brain, watch it in the dark.

Hem – “Tourniquet”

While Hem’s “Tourniquet” is born of the troublesome past they had as a band — “Everything about who we were, where we lived, and how we related to each other seemed beyond repair,” band pianist-songwriter Dan Messe told NPR — its video is one of the most delightful things to come across our screens in 2013 so far. The animated cityscapes inhabited by anthropomorphic townspeople are meant to symbolize functioning in society while maintaining your own primal desires and need to survive. And with its bright colors and whimsical paper cutouts, it’s hard to fall victim to the track’s somber tone.

Jamie Lidell – “You Naked”

Jamie Lidell is essentially the Warp Records D’Angelo — a master-craftsmen of genre hybrids packing potent lyrical punches of love. With “You Naked,” one would think Lidell would deliver something a little bit more salacious, but this video is extremely safe for work. In fact, if anything, it’s as if he’s gotten trapped in an iTunes Visualizer, each new laser pattern mimicking the waves of the song.

Bob Mould – “Star Machine”

Bob Mould’s terrific 2012 album Silver Age opens with three flawless tracks — “Star Machine,” the title track, and “The Descent” — none of which are especially lighthearted, but now two of them have been paired with genuinely funny videos. “The Descent” vid featured Bob as a corporate-drone-turned-off-the-gridster; the new “Star Machine” clip finds Mould’s band participating in the First Annual Bring Your Kids To Work Day — except that drummer Jon Wurster has just received some devastating news: Karen wants a divorce. In real life, that would be some seriously harrowing shit to deal with, but Wurster gets to play it for (legit) laughs, getting an ill-advised perm in the process.

Syron – “Here”

I don’t know much about Syron, the young London pop singer behind the irresistible single “Here,” but I have a feeling we’re all about to know a whole lot more. “Here” is about as perfect as debut singles get these days: An absolutely luminescent bit of club-pop that effortlessly cycles in about five different recent dance-music trends and still works on classical pop-music terms. The video is all London party-life stuff, and it’s fun; I like her earrings.

Jagwar Ma – “The Throw”

Aussie duo Jagwar Ma are psych-pop profiteers. For the video for “The Throw,” the band cuts down the track from its seven minute lucid journey of dance movements — similar to Matthew Dear’s “Black City,” as it goes from David Bowie-gleaned pop into its David Lynchian hymnal conclusion — into three minutes of sepia-toned bouncing and flashing lights.

Yo La Tengo – “I’ll Be Around” (Feat. Mac McCaughan)

Phil Morrison, who directed the movie Junebug, made the video for Yo La Tengo’s minimal-but-aching Fade ballad “I’ll Be Around,” and it’s a weirdly powerful piece of work. It starts out with Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan lip-synching the song in some beautifully-shot verdant woods while text flashes on the screen, and it ends up with a tough-to-figure bit of domestic drama involving Yo La Tengo themselves.

Star Slinger – “Ladies In The Back” (Feat. Teki Latex)

“Ladies In The Back,” British producer Star Slinger’s warped club-rap collaboration with funny-looking Parisian rapper Teki Latex, is months old, and we’re only now getting the video. Maybe that’s because it took months to line up the exact right French model girls to grind on each other while Taki and Star Slinger comically jeer. This would be a standard, cliched club-rap video, except, I mean, look at these goofy motherfuckers.

Little Daylight – “Overdose”

Indie pop trio Little Daylight made their mark with a grip of remixes for bands like Penguin Prison, Passion Pit, and Freelance Whales but they prove their dancefloor acumen with their own track “Overdose.” Fans of the new movement of esoteric pop — HAIM, Sky Ferreira — should find a new favorite with this one. It’s glossy, catchy, and full of the kind of thick, radio-ready bass and chirpy, yearning hook that will glue itself to your brain.

The Ruby Suns – “In Real Life”

Ruby Suns are celebrating the release of their new album, Christopher, today by releasing a new video for its single, “In Real Life.” The clip condenses an entire season of an American Idol-style show into four minutes, with Ruby Suns frontman Ryan McPhun playing contestant, judge, and audience member. It’s exactly as weird and funny as it sounds.

John Grant – “Black Belt”

The former Czars frontman John Grant is a world traveler who’s made a ton of music in a bunch of different genres. His last solo album, 2010′s Queen Of Denmark, was meditative folk-rock, recorded with Midlake as his backing band. But now Grant is living in Iceland, and he’s about to release a chilly disco-house album called Pale Green Ghosts, recorded with Biggi Veira of Gus Gus — and as it turns out, the style fits his voice perfectly. As dance albums go, this one is about as emotionally intense as you can imagine, with Grant singing about being HIV-positive.

Soundgarden - "by Crooked Steps" (directed by Dave Grohl )

"By Crooked Steps", the new Soundgarden video directed by Dave Grohl has made it’s online premiere.

Rock and roll insomniac Dave Grohl recently found time to assist Soundgarden in directing their music video for “By Crooked Steps”. And like a true pal, he’s helped smooth the edges of the band’s occasionally pompous tendencies by instilling some Foo Fighters-inspired humor and casting the band as a Segway-driving biker gang. They drink, they smoke, they rock crowds, and somehow make a 15 mph car chase more exhilarating than the entirety of The Fast and The Furious. Watch them Soundgarden boys raise hell over at Antiquiet. And stay tuned for a special cameo by a certain mouse-like DJ.

Deerhoof - "We Do Parties" (Official Music Video)

Deerhoof play with glowsticks, don light-up raver glasses, and do karaoke in this clip for their Breakup Song cut "We Do Parties", directed by Michinori Saigo.

Soundgarden - "by Crooked Steps" (directed by Dave Grohl )

"By Crooked Steps", the new Soundgarden video directed by Dave Grohl has made it’s online premiere.

Rock and roll insomniac Dave Grohl recently found time to assist Soundgarden in directing their music video for “By Crooked Steps”. And like a true pal, he’s helped smooth the edges of the band’s occasionally pompous tendencies by instilling some Foo Fighters-inspired humor and casting the band as a Segway-driving biker gang. They drink, they smoke, they rock crowds, and somehow make a 15 mph car chase more exhilarating than the entirety of The Fast and The Furious. Watch them Soundgarden boys raise hell over at Antiquiet. And stay tuned for a special cameo by a certain mouse-like DJ.

Tame Impala – “Mind Mischief” (NSFW)

Big morning for new music videos! We already got new clips from the Knife and Grizzly Bear, and now here’s Tame Impala’s bug-out clip for the head-blown Lonerism riff-stomper “Mind Mischief.” The video, from director David Wilson, tells the story of a young private school boy having a moment with a ridiculously sexy stoner teacher. A good third of the video is pretty much an extended slo-mo ass-shot of said teacher, and another huge chunk of it is a gloriously NSFW psychedelic animated sequence. The whole idea of the Urban Outfitters-produced video is just dumb fun, but it’s all done pretty expertly. Watch the video and a making-of featurette below.



Director David Wilson reports from the set of Tame Impala's video for "Mind Mischief," co-produced by Urban Outfitters along with Modular Recordings. Read an exclusive interview with the band about the video at http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/tameimpala.

The Flaming Lips – “Sun Blows Up Today” [Lyric Video]

Yesterday, we learned that the Flaming Lips have a new album called The Terror coming in a few months. The album’s first single is actually a non-album bonus cut called “Sun Blows Up Today,” a euphoric burst of white-noise keyboard explosions and feedback. This song will also soundtrack a Super Bowl commercial this year, which makes sense, since historically gigantic TV audiences love avant-psych freakouts. The band just debuted the song with a lyric video that looks like a laptop exploding inside your brain.

Grizzly Bear – “gun-shy”

Kris Moyes directs the video, and shows the band in all sorts of body-horror situations: Eyes melting, skin bubbling, veins jumping. There’s a part about toenails that seriously queased me right out. And yet Moyes films everything in gorgeous bucolic early-evening light in the middle of verdant woods, its beauty making all these medical tricks somehow harder to turn away from.