Videos

  • hip hop

    New York hip hop duo The Underachievers are at work on their debut studio album, set to be released sometime next year via Brainfeeder. In the meantime, check out this stylish, Wrung-produced set of visuals, shot in Paris, for Indigoism cut “Leopard Shepherd.” And a gentle reminder that Indigoism was

  • 2013

    “Black Captain” is arguably the best song on Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s (aka Will Oldham) quietly great 2011 LP, Wolfroy Goes to Town, and now he has performed a live version with some new lyrics in its final third dedicated to Peter Wilcox, the captain of the Greenpeace ship that

  • Check out MGMT’s new video for the song “Alien Days;” it’s a delightful, farm-set romp! Our main characters, a young rural couple, appear to be in a constant state of elation – frolicking, swimming, spinning in gyroscopes, experiencing childbirth…Erm, actually, that last one proves to be not so

  • Top Dawg MC Isaiah Rashad takes us to his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee in this new black and white music video for latest single “Ronnie Drake.” In case you missed the song when it dropped a few weeks back, it showcases a smoother, more nuanced flow from Rashad, who’s

  • hip hop

    NYC rap group Ratking has dropped a dazzling new video and single, “100.” It looks as though since the release of last year’s Wiki93 EP,  the outfit has matured and refined its glitchy modern take on old-school New York hip hop to the point that “100” is not only

  • Queens of the Stone Age drop one of the more unsettling music videos of this year, featuring loads of stuffed animals, a toothed piano, and a vampire woman that’s gonna be haunting your nightmares for the next several weeks. Props to directors Kii Arens and Jason Trucco. Catch a

  • 2013

    Irish rapper Rejjie Snow is coming through with more off-kilter beats, whispered rhymes, and a gory story on the track “Black Pancake,” which is one of many tracks slated for release on this dude’s forthcoming Dear Annie mixtape. Look for it next year, and enjoy!

  • With September’s “Don’t smoke in bed,” Xiu Xiu gave us our first glimpse at its upcoming Graveface Records debut Nina, a collection of 11 Nina Simone covers done in the style of free jazz. Since then, the band has shared two more tracks from the project, “Just Say

  • 2013

    Julianna Barwick’s latest album Nepenthe expanded on her solo-voice sound, adding more piano along with strings and horns and even a choir. One of the album’s most serene cuts, “The Harbinger”, just got the video treatment. The clip opens with some beautiful underwater shots of a body suspended

  • This past Halloween, Australian death metal outfit Portal shared this spooky music video for Vexovoid cut “Curtain.” The short was adapted from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm,” using puppets to re-tell the story. Choice imagery includes a ghoulish orchestra bowing their instruments with femurs, and the titular toothed