Mark Ronson - “Feel Right” (Feat. Mystikal) Video

The last time someone made a video for a Mark Ronson song, it was for “Uptown Funk!,” and that turned out to be a world-changer. Now that “Uptown Funk!” is finally out of the #1 spot on Billboard, Ronson has gotten around to commissioning another video for a track from his weirdly underrated Uptown Special album. This one is for “Feel Right,” the track where permanently unhinged New Orleans rap veteran Mystikal swoops in to do some frantic snarling over a hard, precise James Brown pastiche. The video probably won’t leave a smoking crater in the earth, the way the last video did, but it tries hard anyway. In the clip, we see a little kid at a private-school talent show lip-syncing Mystikal, doing a pretty incredible bugged-out intense performance. This kid is awesome, and if he doesn’t at least get a sitcom deal out of this, I might have to light my butt. Brady Bunch star Florence Henderson plays a key role, and we get a few cameos toward the end, too.

Watch Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” Soundtrack A Scene In Last Night’s Simpsons

The Simpsons hasn’t been transcendent television in a long while, but the show is still gracefully chugging along, and last night they utilized Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” to charming effect. After Bart is haunted by a devilish embodiment of puberty in the form of the squeaky voiced teen, he decides to participate in his school dance, which is soundtracked by the Pharrell-sung track. (Pharrell made an appearance in an episode of the show earlier this year, and the Daft Punk helmet made a cameo back in 2012.) Watch Bart and his crush of the week dance it out below.

Cheatahs - "Murasaki" [Official Video]

“Murasaki,” the methodically fiery opening song and title track from Cheatahs’ latest EP, was inspired by Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu’s undefinable 11th century epic The Tale Of Genji. I can’t say if the video — which features a suavely dressed man and woman playing out what seems like an upscale party or high-stakes crime drama before descending into minimalistic surrealism — is also inspired by Murasaki’s story. But I can tell you that it’s as arresting as the song itself, and you should watch.

A-1 - “Invisible Man” (Official Video)

I first fell for the Bay Area screwy-voiced rapper A-1 while watching his video for “Unpredictable (Repo Man),” a late-night, time-machine take on one of A-1’s (aka Adam Traore) favorite movies from the ’80s. In his new video for “Invisible Man” (which is also a great film, for what it’s worth), Traore rocks a tuxedo and waxes eloquent about cocaine and the ’80s crack era. That he raps about this with his gruff, Silly Putty voice over a remix of XXYYXX’s “About You” is what makes this song so sumptuous.

Here’s his commentary on the video:

I wanted to set the scene for the late ’80s, but as I was writing I sort of drifted off into another tangent. It went from being a song about my situation growing up, to a commentary about the crack era, and how that affected the people who were young adults in the ’80s. I tried to draw a parallel between then and now, how we easily could’ve been crack addicts had we grown up in that time. I grew up hearing a lot of folks my age making judgements on homeless folks or people with addictions, I wanted to make it clear that any one of us could have found ourselves in that situation had the circumstances been different. Once the first line gets written it sort of just takes on a mind of it’s own and in a weird way it writes itself.

 Watch the David Dutton-directed clip.

Anneli Drecker - “Alone” (Official Video)

Anneli Drecker – “Alone” (Dir. Thor Brenne)

A beautiful little short film about trust.

San Cisco - “Magic” (Official Video)

San Cisco – “Magic” (Dir. Zack Spiger)

I would absolutely watch a TV show about lovelorn vampire Riff Raff.

Fur Voice - “Fantasía” (Official Video)

Fur Voice – “Fantasía” (Dir. Pablo Maestres)

The best Michel Gondry video of the week wasn’t the one Gondry actually directed.

Emilie Nicolas - “Pstereo” (Official Video)

Emilie Nicolas – “Pstereo” (Dir. Emile Rafael)

Whales!

Boosie BadAzz - “Hands Up” (Official Video)

During many of the recent anti-police brutality protests in places like Ferguson and Baltimore, Lil Boosie’s 2009 mixtape track “Fuck The Police” has become a street-level anthem, a thing to chant when you’re facing down a phalanx of riot cops. Since recording that track, Boosie, who now uses the name Boosie BadAzz, has served a lengthy prison sentence of his own, and his forthcoming album Touchdown 2 Cause Hell includes an explicit protest track called “Hands Up.” The new “Hands Up” video starts out with images of the recent protests and riots, and then it goes back in time — to New York, to Ferguson, to all the protests and killings in years past. It’s a hard video to watch, and it includes footage of the actual murders of Eric Garner and Walter Scott. Boosie never appears, and he doesn’t need to; it’s plenty cathartic enough without him. If you can watch a video like this without feeling something, I don’t know what to tell you. Child Basquiat put the video together, and you can watch.

Watch A Clip From The Amy Winehouse Documentary

The Amy Winehouse documentary Amy is coming out whether Winehouse’s family likes it or not, and now the first official clip from director Asif Kapadia’s movie  is out in the world. In the clip, Winehouse is pictured goofing off, and her manager Nick Schmansky’s voice explains her transition from writing songs to recording them. There’s notebook footage too, but it’s not animated a la Montage Of Heck.

Willow Smith - “F Q-C #7″ (Official Video)

The video for her new song “F Q-C #7″ channels the same rebellion as her 2011 pop smash “Whip My Hair,” but that’s where the similarities end. Willow isn’t rapping here — her voice is too much AutoTuned-honey to really be a flow — but she sings with the same arrogant authority that makes the best rap so fun to listen to. Sorting through the anxiety of school hallway crushes and swearing wide-eyed by the powers of Amethyst crystals under pillows over a self-produced skittering xylophone-backbone, Willow ushers in the era of chakra-pop. Topanga Canyon’s got nothing on this girl’s spiritual dimensions, and she’s managed to funnel all those powers into pop without weighing the song itself down. Instead, it floats and sways like the twilight wheat fields in her video that she co-directed with Mike Vargas.

Giant Sand - “Transponder” (Feat. Jason Lytle) Video

Describing the music of Howe Gelb as “alt-country” doesn’t do justice to the immense, genre-spanning catalogue that he’s amassed over his band Giant Sand’s 30 years in existence. True, Gelb has put out several great records within the roots-rock and folk idioms, working with artists from Neko Case and Juliana Hatfield to PJ Harvey and Steve Wynn. But he’s also released jazz, gospel, and Spanish guitar albums, proving himself to be as prolific as he is undefinable. And he’s still at it, with a new record entitled Heartbreak Pass out this week. Lead single “Transponder” features vocals from Granddaddy’s Jason Lytle and beautifully combines Gelb’s gruff, desert-rock sensibilities with Granddaddy’s earnest, electronic-infused approach to alt-rock. The video for the track, directed by Lucy Dyson, is an animated Technicolor collage of old-school magazine cutouts that brings the song’s existential crisis to life in a clever way.

Panda Bear - “Come To Your Senses” (Official Video)

Panda Bear has shared a video for Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper centerpiece “Come To Your Senses.” Director Sam Fleischner — who also shot the mini-doc Greeting The Reaper — set up a camera on Rua da Rosa, a busy street in Noah Lennox’s current hometown of Lisbon. He shot what happened in a single day — people dissolve in and out of frame as the time passes and, as the sun slowly fades, it gives way to the city’s vibrant nightlife. Lennox shows up at the end, coming out of what’s presumably his apartment and walking straight towards the camera. There’s not much to the video, but it is transfixing in its own way. 

Watch and read some words from Panda Bear himself about the video below. 

Rua da Rosa is the narrow but main street cut through the Bairro Alto neighborhood here in Lisbon. Visitors mainly stock the area during the day but its perhaps the principle target for partying Lisbon teenagers Thursday through Sunday nights. The constant shifts make it a particularly fascinating neighbourhood to me. Its noisy except for Sunday mornings. Id had an idea for a while to shoot the street for a bit to catch the traffic. When my friend Sam was here shooting a short thing we made for the recent album he was game to give the idea a go.

Watch Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Perform “Lock All The Doors” On Fallon

Noel Gallagher took a break from sounding off about pop culture for a minute to perform on last night’s episode of Jimmy Fallon. The former Oasis member and his High Flying Birds did their Chasing Yesterday highlight “Lock All The Doors,” and the audience seemed crazy receptive to the band’s energy.

Watch The Trailer For Netflix’s Bob Weir Documentary

Netflix appears to be diving completely into the music-documentary pool. We’ve already seen the trailer for the forthcoming Nina Simone doc What Happened, Miss Simone?, and now the service has also put together a doc on the Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Judging by its trailer, The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip Of Bob Weir will indulge in the same sorts of Grateful Dead myths that we’ve all read a million times. But I have to admit that I’m curious about the whole “only non-ugly dude in a famously ugly band” angle.

PINS - "Young Girls" (Official Video)

We named PINS’ single “Young Girls” one of the 5 Best Songs Of The Week back in April, taking note of their young/wild/free and listless attitude. The song will be released on PINS’ sophomore album, Wild Nights, which is due out next month. The new video for “Young Girls” finds the Manchester-based band in their hometown, giddily drinking in bedrooms and public parks, looking like well-dressed, bored teens. Director Amy Watson told Noisey about the tropes found throughout the video:

I wanted to play around with the usual “girls just wanna have fun” type of music video. You know, friendship, solidarity, road trips and all the usual tropes of girly bonding. I wanted to take that wholesomeness and push it to a weird place.

Sure enough, the women of PINS end up kidnapping a man clad in a leather jacket, forcing him into the trunk of their car, and murdering him… with a baseball bat. This video rules, if you can stomach it.

Watch Jack Black & Jimmy Fallon Recreate Extreme’s “More Than Words” Video

Extreme’s video for the 1990 if-you-really-loved-me-we’d-fuck power ballad “More Than Words” is one of those absolutely ineffable early-’90s pop culture artifacts. If you were the right age at the time (between nine and 14, I’d say), you probably know every second of that video, even if you don’t quite realize that you do. And last night on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon and guest Jack Black did an amazingly perfect shot-for-shot remake of the thing, right down to the superfluous bassist and drummer holding up lighters in that one shot. Black played Gary Cherone, while Fallon played Nuno Bettencourt, and both of them had some seriously on-point wig games. Jack Black’s falsetto is an impressive thing to witness, and he really brought out the song’s underlying creepiness just by virtue of being Jack Black. This is some top-shelf viral-video-making here, and you can watch.

Jazz Cartier - “Always Up To Something” (Official Video)

Jazz Cartier’s glittering, gruesome mixtape Marauding In Paradise is still one of my most heavily-played releases this year, and today he’s dropped something new to keep us interested. “Always Up To Something” isn’t on the tape but it has all the same woozy longing. The video follows a girl’s journey through a snow-bound landscape to a dim, red-lit club where the Toronto rapper is sorting through his feelings. At the club, Jazz is both performing and part of the crowd, a move that mimics how he probably feels during the swift come up he’s on this year. Watch the Jon Riera-directed video.