Jackson Scott - "That Awful Sound" (Official Music Video)

North Carolina guitar-pop dude Jackson Scott released his debut LP Melbourne earlier this month via Fat Possum. Now, he's shared the video for album highlight "That Awful Sound". Directed by nautico, it features birthday candles, lips, and blood that all fluctuate between a series of trippy mood ring colors.

Scott also has a tour scheduled, with dates running into the fall.

Avicii - "Wake Me Up" (Official Video)

Directed by: Mark Seliger & CB Miller. Video production by At Night studios.

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Justin Timberlake – “Take Back The Night” Video

Justin Timberlake – “Take Back The Night” Video

The clip features three visions of Timberlake’s nighttime experience: at the club, the afterhours meal, and, of course, a live performance. Everyone’s shirts stay on this time.

Chance The Rapper – “Everybody’s Something” (Official Video)

Acid Rap, the new mixtape from the squeaky and inventive young Chicago rising star Chance The Rapper, might be 2013′s best mixtape to date. And now it gets another video, for the self-affirming jazzy lope “Everybody’s Something.” The Austin Vesely-directed clip shows Chance as a body floating through space, with images of his hometown projected over his own features, to weirdly moving effect.

Andrés Calamaro - Cuando no estás

Andrés Calamaro - Cuando no estás. Dir: Leo Damario.

Califone – “Stitches” Interactive Video

The Chicago roots-rock travelers Califone have a new album called Stitches coming soon, and they’ve taken an unorthodox approach in making the video for the album’s elegiac title track. Along with filmmaker Braden King and programmer Jeff Garneau, they’ve made an interactive video that draws imagery — both still and in gif form — from a bunch of curated Tumblrs. The idea is that the video will change every time you watch it. I don’t think I managed to make it work right, but you can give it a shot here.

William Tyler – “A Portrait Of Sarah”

Nashville-based William Tyler’s guitar meditations are steeped in Americana and ramble in a manner evocative of the open road, all winding highways and byways and uncanny valleys. And so the video for “A Portrait Of Sarah,” from this year’s Impossible Truth, is a fittingly filmic bit — and an overt homage to the 1971 roadtrip flick Two-Lane Blacktop. That film starred James Taylor. Here, William Tyler stars, as James Taylor. Sometimes life just makes sense.

Sebadoh – “All Kinds”

Sebadoh, the ’90s-indie greats led by Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou Barlow, are about to release Defend Yourself, the first studio album they’ve made since the ’90s ended. Last week, we posted the first single “I Will,” a very encouraging sign that this could belong to the Dinosaur Jr. school of reunions, the ones that effortlessly recapture the old band’s original grace. And now the band’s made a video for another album track, the short, fast, ramshackle “All Kinds.” Directed by Adam Harding, it’s an appealingly homemade video, full of pet close-ups and shots of band members goofing off in the studio. Also, Barlow throws a couch.

Night Moves – “Colored Emotions”

For the video for the title track from Night Moves’ album Colored Emotions, they maintained the ’70s feel from their “Country Queen” clip but with extra oddities. The Isaac Gale and David Jensen-directed video features a fast food backyard picnic on a waterbed which doesn’t end well.

When Saints Go Machine – “System Of Unlimited Love” (NSFW)

The new video by Danish electro-pop quartet When Saints Go Machine — for the dreamy, slow-burning, dance hymn “System Of Unlimited Love” on their new record, Infinity Pool — is probably not safe for work. But hey, it’s on YouTube — so it’s definitely art, right?

In any case, it’s a stunning and beautifully human clip for a truly otherworldly song. Erotic dancers slither around poles in a dark room, almost coordinated, carefully off-time; lazy dance-lights splash around the women’s bodies; and as the song drifts into its quiet, ballad-like outro, they glower at the camera in a deadpan and move slowly, like late night ballerinas.

Looks like art after all. Watch it now. (Or, really, don’t watch it at work).

KEN mode – “Secret Vasectomy” (Official Music Video)

The last video released by Winnipeg noise-metal trio KEN mode was legitimately, quite possibly, the most metal video I’ve ever seen, full of leather-clad warrior women and robed druid priests and images of Baphomet and winter landscapes. They’re following that up with a clip of … little kids brushing their teeth and drawing with crayons. It’s still pretty metal: The brushing and drawing is about as intense as the music, and the music is fucking intense; also, the drawings rendered by these kids are at least slightly disquieting. It’s “To Be Continued,” so the next phase of these kids and/or their creations could get a whole lot weirder.

Icona Pop – “Girlfriend”

After a triumphant run on the back of the delirious electro-pop anthem “I Love It,” Swedish duo Icona Pop are set to release a full-length LP, with the existentially affirmative title This Is … Icona Pop. This single, “Girlfriend,” came on 6/4, so it may make the This Is… cut, or it may be a glorified stopgap. “Girlfriend”‘s hook is pure Tupac (indeed he is one of this track’s 11 credited writers), the production is pure lite-EDM endorphin, and the lyric is for the girls (and the Girls.) In the video, the two are Thelma & Louise-ing it on trains, and in front of lasers, across the countryside.

Appaloosa – “Fill The Blanks”

The Berlin/Paris duo Appaloosa is one of the few acts on the Italians Do It Better label that doesn’t count Johnny Jewel as its musical mastermind, though their haunted electro certainly fits in with Jewel’s whole production aesthetic. Their “Fill The Blanks” was one of the sweeter, catchier songs on the great After Dark 2 compilation, released earlier this year. And its new video, from director Raphaëlle Chovin, has the grainy, glammy qualities of so many Glass Candy and Chromatics videos before it.

Born Gold – “Hunger” (Official Video)

Born Gold is the songwriting moniker of Cecil Frena, a resident of Montreal and staple within the city’s vibrant community of pop experimenters. Born Gold’s next record, I Am An Exit, is out October 8 via three different labels – Art Control, Hovercraft, and Chill Mega Chill. (Frena will support the record with a house-show only tour of North America this fall.) Here’s one super-hooky first cut from the record, “Hunger,” a song that is simultaneously more straightforward and more out-there than his previous releases. Check a wacky video for it, which I think is pretty crucial to understanding the stunning oddities of this sort of warped pop music.

King Khan & The Shrines – “Darkness” (Official Video)

King Khan’s about to release Idle No More, his first album in six years with the psychedelic garage-soul band the Shrines, and we posted their song “Born To Die” a little while back. That song sounded nothing like “Darkness,” a slow-burner ballad and the basis for the band’s new music video. The German animation crew Hylas put the clip together expertly, using a claymation circus strongman and human cannonball to ask some existential questions.

Franz Ferdinand – “Love Illumination” (Official Video)

Shortly after announcing their impending new album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, Franz Ferdinand shared a pair of singles, the mercilessly catchy “Right Action” and the saxophone-spiked “Love Illumination.” For the “Right Action” video, the band dug into its past, recruiting “Take Me Out” video director Jonas Odell for some slick graphic-design action. But for “Love Illumination,” they’ve gone a different route. Timothy Saccenti directed this one, filming the band in a freaky fantasyland full of elaborately costumed dancers. A few shots of a lady in pasties nudge this one slightly into NSFW territory.

Volcano Choir – “Bygone” (Official Video)

Volcano Choir: The rare Justin Vernon Bon Iver side project that makes it to a second album! Volcano Choir is Vernon’s project with the members of the Wisconsin post-rock band Collections Of Colonies Of Bees. “Bygone,” the first single from their sophomore LP Repave, is already more concrete and accessible than anything on their 2009 debut Unmap; it could almost be a Bon Iver song. The song’s new music video, from director Michinori Saigo, is just as gorgeously minimal and pastoral as the song. It shows a tree full of light-tubes that turn on and off in time with the song’s tidal rhythms.

Pixies – “Bagboy” (Version 2) Video

Look, the Pixies don’t release original songs too often, so when they do, they’re going to get as much mileage out of it as they possibly can. The hard-pounding and ranty “Bagboy,” the band’s first new song in nine years, already had one anarchic video. And today, they’ve released another video for the same one. This one is a dark and tangled animated clip from Kestrel Media, and it’s full of unnatural animal-singing and dancing cave paintings. Pixies frontman Black Francis says, “We didn’t set out to have two music videos for ‘Bagboy,’ but once we saw both of these, we knew we didn’t want to use just one. They’re so good, so creative, and each in its own way, and both made by up-and-coming filmmakers.”

Pixies – “Bagboy”