Split Single - “Last Goodbye” (Official Video)

There hasn’t been much talk about Split Single lately, as Britt Daniel has forsaken his bass duties with that band and returned fulltime to being the guy from Spoon. But Daniel was only ever there to play bass on the band’s debut album Fragmented World; Bob Mould Band’s Jason Narducy was and is the frontman. Narducy stars in the new video for the soaring, comforting indie track “Last Goodbye,” and director Wes Tabayoyong does all sorts of warped art-school things with his image.

Wayne Coyne & Miley Cyrus Did All The Drugs And Made This NSFW Movie With Moby

The Wayne Coyne/Miley Cyrus friendship continues to discomfit! Already today, we posted the queasy news of their matching chest tattoos, and now Cyrus and Coyne have teamed up with Moby to make a deeply and knowingly freaky short film called Blonde SuperFreak Steals The Magic Brain. Cyrus filmed her part in the short film, which isn’t even really for a song, while she was home sick in bed earlier this year, recovering from an allergic reaction to an antibiotic. It tells the story, sort of, of a naked blonde lady who steals a glowing gooey brain from Cyrus’s bedside while she’s asleep. But the film is less a narrative and more an example of what happens when amateur filmmakers try to do Jodorowsky. Below, watch it and read Coyne’s explanation of what the fuck is even going on.

Coyne tells Rolling Stone this:

The video story is something like this: Moby is an evil, power-hungry cult leader. He wants the world’s most valuable (according to our story) psychedelic supernatural possession… John F. Kennedy’s brain….the brain contains the original formula for the drug LSD!!!

Miley Cyrus has the magic brain!!! And Moby enlists a nympho Manson girl-type blonde superfreak to go steel the brain from Cyrus.

She steals the brain from Cyrus while Cyrus is still in bed in a drug-induced coma. Cyrus finally wakes up and is mega-pissed that her BRAIN has been stolen. She enlists a burned-faced Santa and a lesbian Bigfoot ( that are hovering in a nearby spaceship) to hunt down the blond superfreak that stole her brain. They have a relentless pursuit, all the while Cyrus laments the loss of her magic brain and Moby gains powerful rainbows from hell. In the end, the blond superfreak kills Santa and Bigfoot and a baby mole ends up with the brain…”

Oh yeah. And the Flaming Lips are disguised as rainbows, mushrooms and flowers watching from the sky room where a giant diamond explosion happens.

(via Rolling Stone)

The Presets - “No Fun” Interactive Video

The Australian dance duo the Presets put out a new single right at the beginning of this year, and now they’ve followed it up with another. “No Fun” comes with an interactive video featuring a cube that you can rotate. Depending on which side you’re looking at, you’ll see different images, and the mix shifts in different ways. It’s pretty fun to play around with and you can do that right now on their website.

The-Dream - “Black” (Official Video)( NSFW)

A couple of months ago, R&B auteur The-Dream shared a politically poignant new song called “Black,” a departure from a guy best-known for singing about sex. The song’s new video pushes it even further into “have to say something” territory, playing around with powerful imagery but coming up with something a big confusing and muddled. The clip revolves around what seems to be a generally anti-inequality protest through the streets of South Africa, and it has The-Dream staring down the soldiers who point guns at him. There’s a brief boob-flash in there, so you might want to consider this one NSFW.

Austra - “Hulluu” (Official Video)

Toronto electro-brooders Austra released their Habitat EP last week, and they already made a music video for its title track. Today, they’ve shared another video, and this one is for “Hulluu,” a menacing, whispery track that, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with watching TV shows online. The video, which Zeesy Powers directed, is an experimental dance performance set against a plain black background, with a few trippy in-camera effects.

Foxing - “The Medic” (Official Video) + Stream "The Albatross"

Foxing’s recently reissued The Albatross already yielded one memorable video in “Rory.” Now here’s another for the twinkly emo power ballad “The Medic.” It involves a blindfold, a bloody nose, and lyrics such as “And if you want me to slow down, just tell me to slow down.” Everybody’s also wearing formal wear again, so that’s cool.

Spank Rock - “Gully” Video (NSFW-ish)

After some time away, the Baltimore-bred dance-rapper Spank Rock returned earlier this spring with the pounding “Gully,” his first single in three years. He’s got a new video for the song, even though I don’t think he appears in it. Instead, director Sean Maung has collected a sequence of vaguely seedy New York street scenes, enlisting peep shows and pit bulls and a guy who’s happy to snort lines of blow in his kitchen on camera.

Little Dragon - “Pretty Girls” Official Video (Dir. Nabil)

The video for “Klapp Klapp,” the first single from idiosyncratic Swedish pop group Little Dragon’s new album Nabuma Rubberband, was a story of witchcraft and zombies. Nabil, the current reigning visionary in the music-video field, didn’t direct that video, but he did serve as creative director. And now Nabil has directed that video’s follow-up. Little Dragon’s clip for “Pretty Girls” is a straight-up sequel, starting in that same mysterious graveyard where the “Klapp Klapp’ video ended but going in some unexpected directions. Most of the clip, in fact, takes place at what appears to be a cartel-sponsored beauty pageant, and Nabil lays the atmosphere on thick.

Unreleased Music From Jason Molina, Volcano Choir, Mark Kozelek Offered To Carousel Crowdfunding

Looff Carousel, which sits in East Providence’s Crescent Park, was built in 1895, and it’s a beautiful piece of machinery. And to raise money for its upkeep, Shorebird is putting together a crowdfunded multimedia initiative called Project Carousel, which includes a collection of music. In that collection, you’ll find a 7″ of unreleased Townes Van Zandt covers from the late Jason Molina, as well as exclusive and otherwise-unavailable music from Volcano Choir and Sun Kil Moon main man Mark Kozelek. Watch the video for the project .

To learn more, check out Project Carousel’s Indiegogo page.

Lily Allen - “URL Badman” (Official Video)

“URL Badman” is the most curious song on Lily Allen’s Sheezus, the one where she calls out basement bloggers who wish they had a job with various media outlets. The Sacred Egg has now directed a video for the song in which Allen struts and grooves while her online assailants are stretched out into colorful graphic effects that look like rainbow taffy.

How To Dress Well - “Childhood Faith In Love” (Official Video)

How To Dress Well has shared the third video in the trilogy culled from his fantastic new album “What Is This Heart?” “Childhood Faith In Love” follows “Repeat Pleasure” and “Face Again.” It tracks our two protagonists after their encounter with Tom Krell’s mysterious Christlike healer character in the desert, culminating in a gas station encounter with kids who seem to represent the song’s titular childlike faith in love. Johannes Greve Muskat, who co-wrote the video with Krell, directs.

Sufjan Stevens - “Year Of The Tiger” (Official Video)

Sufjan Stevens released his album Enjoy Your Rabbit way back in 2001, but it’s just now coming out on vinyl for the first time, and so he’s got a new video for “Year Of The Tiger,” a twitchy impressionistic sound collage that appeared on the LP. The animated clip comes from director Geoffrey Hoskinson, and it shows a series of bright polygons coming together to form the faces of singing tigers. It’s trippy.

Hodgy Beats - “Nowadays” (Feat. Left Brain) Official Video

The Odd Future crew made their collective name on free mixtapes, but at this point, Hodgy Beats might be the only member who still cranks them out every once in a while. Hodgy’s last tape, the Untitled 2 EP, is about a year old, and he’ll follow it up this Friday with a new one called I Need Some Answers. First single “Nowadays” features some serious rapping-ass rapping and a beat from Left Brain, Hodgy’s partner in the duo MellowHype. The song’s new High5Collective-directed video makes the exceedingly cool choice of putting those two on four-wheelers out in the desert. It looks awesome.

Hospitality - “I Miss Your Bones” (Official Video)

Earlier this year, the Brooklyn indie-pop trio  Hospitality released Trouble, their sophomore album, and first single “I Miss Your Bones” is the sort of tricky-but-catchy hook-machine that can get stuck in your head if you so much as read its title. Months after sharing the single, Hospitality have made a video for the song, a heartwarming story of a girl who tries to fit in via YouTube tutorial, fails, and ends up OK anyway. It’s a feelgood affair, and it’s got genuine heart. Lara Gallagher directs, and the members of Hospitality all appear via YouTube tutorial.

Watch Mick Jagger Send Up Monty Python In A Promo For Their Final Reunion Shows

What’s that? “A bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money”? Just who are we talking about here?! In a recent promo for Monty Python’s final reunion shows, Mick Jagger (and bandmate Charlie Watts) are watching the World Cup when Jagger’s assistant asks him if he wants to get tickets for Python’s show, to which Jagger responds with a rant about the legendary comedy troupe’s lost relevancy, and how it’s clearly just a cash grab for men clinging to past fame. Of course, every single thing Jagger says could be applied to his own career tenfold, and it’s a hilarious payoff at the end when he starts making his setlist (stuff “everyone knows”) and his assistant nonchalantly suggests “dead parrot sketch?” as a follow-up to “Satisfaction” to which Jagger pauses and then thoughtfully replies: “Yeah, dead parrot sketch.” It’s hilarious and you should watch it immediately.

Speaking of that reunion it’s sounding pretty damn exciting. The 10 shows in London are all sold out, but the final one will be streamed online for all to watch. Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin have not officially reunited under the name since Graham Chapman’s death in 1989 though in combinations and solo they’ve kept fans satisfied with everything from Cleese and Palin’s Oscar-winning classic A Fish Called Wanda, Eric Idol Broadway hit Spamalot, meanwhile Terry Gilliam has gone on to become one of the most influential directors of the last 30 years. According to the reports from the press conference (that the Jagger clip was first shown at) the reunion show will include taped segments from Graham Chapman and a cameo from Stephen Hawking.

Marissa Nadler - “Firecrackers” (Official Video)

Marissa Nadler’s latest album is called July, and wouldn’t you know it, July starts today. Just in time for Independence Day — and for the North American tour that begins next week — Nadler has delivered a video for “Firecrackers,” an eerie old-timey ballad that casts the fallout from a July 4 breakup in explosive terms. The heavily filtered clip, directed by Ryan Hamilton Walsh of Boston indie-rockers Hallelujah The Hills, features Nadler moving backwards through myriad activities including guitar-smashing and water-splashing. It feels like grainy old footage from around the time when a song like this would have been a pop standard.

Chromeo - “Frequent Flyer” (Official Video)

Earlier this month we got word that Chromeo had invested in the apparently fake Mallard Air. This was obviously some kind of publicity stunt, and all signs pointed to Funny Or Die’s involvement; it turned out to be a promotion for the group’s new Frequent Flyer tour. Now Chromeo and Funny Or Die have collaborated on a video for White Women single “Frequent Flyer” that doubles as an in-flight safety video for Mallard Air.

Watch Beck Cover Prince’s “1999″ At Montreal International Jazz Fest

There was a time, circa Midnite Vultures, when every Beck song seemed to be aiming at Prince pastiche. That time was 1999, which is an appropriate time for such endeavors, all things considered. Yet Beck had never actually covered Prince’s “1999″ until last week’s Montreal International Jazz Fest. Sean Lennon, whose band the Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger is opening for Beck on tour this summer, played cowbell. Watch fan-made video below; “1999″ begins about halfway through, after “E-Pro.”