The song is one of Ariel Pink’s most accessible, complete with the anthemic, big-pointed chorus and mildly melancholym, broad pop strokes.

Arcade Fire gets the Spike Jonze treatment in their new video for “The Suburbs” – his first for the band after their close collaboration on Where the Wild Things Are.

Gruff Rhys, the Welsh and slightly unhinged front man of the Super Furry Animals is flying high off the back of his debut film Separado – a psychedelic Western musical charting the history of a community of Welsh exiles in Patagonia – with ‘Shark Ridden Waters’, the tasty first track from his forthcoming album.

Released on Halloween last Sunday, Jimmy McMillan’s video for his preternaturally viral “Rent Is Too Damn High” campaign (of sorts) is exactly what you’d expect from the proprietor of a website so awful and shameless it leaves you cross-eyed and speechless.

I can’t imagine there are too many Palestinian-Filipino multi-instrumentalists out there playing a cross between rock n’ roll and Memphis soul, so you could say Hanni El Khatib has somewhat of monopoly on his style.

Brilliantly directed by Dugan O’Neil, the “Cloudlight’ video becomes a magical other world, a surprisingly melancholic and stirring vision for a song that works both in the heart and on the dance floor.

Bet you wish you went to Rye Rye’s school now!

A street scene of candy-coated youngsters and benevolent robots turns into a massacre we all know is inevitable for real. We can’t trust them, and they hate us.

We praised this track a couple months back and now we’re super ecstatic that it’s getting a proper release!

In this promo for their single Bop, the Berlin trio known as Brandt Brauer Frick are styled as Teutonic jazz-bots.

The new video by El Guincho has been blogged and reblogged by some of the biggest in the business in the course of the past 24 hours because of ‘naked girls’ says one, ‘lots of boobs’ says another, ‘a ton of boobs’ says a third, and a fourth adds: ‘painted breasts, breasts with sparklers, breasts with guns’. Now we’re interested!

Please check out this young man’s flow. 20 year-old Delvin is East London’s most promising MC since Dizzie and Wiley. The big statement comes from a big feeling that Devlin will be MASSIVE by this time next year.

The video is shot beautifully, sparingly, and rather boring – performance, crazy lady, chocolate shimmer lipstick and some pretty confetti.

This new hi-def UNKLE video, directed by John Hillcoat (The Road) and starring hard-nut actor and East Londoner Ray Winstone reminds us of Massive Attack’s recent forays into video such as ‘Paradise Circus’, a mini-documentary about 70s porn star Georgia Spelvin, and ‘Saturday Come Slow’, a political piece about noise torture.

It’s dark and absolute. What else is there to expect from Tricky?!

There’s no disputing that Ricky Powell was there at the golden age of hip-hop – he’s got the photos to prove it, tons of them, and a few stories to tell as well. In the early 90s he earned himself a cable access show called Rappin’ With The Rickster. VHS recordings of the shows have been restored to DVD for this newly released Rappin’ With the Rickster DVD courtesy of NY connoisseurs, Five Day Weekend.

The thrill of seeing The National play in the sunshine on a loading dock with just thirty-forty Silverlake hipsters in attendance was a hard-to-believe moment… But now there’s proof!

It’s difficult not to be seduced by these images of innocent teenage romance from director Tyrone Lebon, who was commissioned by Mount Kimbie to create a visual score for ‘Would Know’, the first single off their hyped debut album, called Crooks and Lovers.

The video is awesome! Like destructively, explosively, politically incorrectly awesome. It features a young woman basically getting revenge on… Everything. Nothing is spared. Please do not try this at home…

“Born Free” has proven controversial already, largely due to its graphic nudity and limb-exploding violence. But where it proves truly incisive and genius is in how it plays on societal prejudices against redheads.