January 2013

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Heems "Soup Boys" (Matt Kliegman/STEAMCLAM, dir.)

Heems - "Soup Boys" (Official Music Video)

Is this the drones protest song you've been waiting for? Probably not, since Das Racist alum Heems streams like a wake-and-bake consciousness while director Matt Kliegman/STEAMCLAM keeps flipping the  background back and forth from Indian street scenes to weapon/news porn*.

*not actual porn 

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Shugo Tokumaru "Katachi" (Kijek/Adamski, Dir.)

Shugo Tokumaru - "Katachi" (Official Music Video)

As someone who can barely cut in a straight line — let alone make the countless insanely complex shapes on display here — I can say with authority that this stop-motion video by Kijek/Adamski  for Shugo Tokumaru is very impressive.

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Passion Pit "Carried Away (remix)" (Carlos Lopez Estrada, Dir.)

Passion Pit - Carried Away (Tiësto Remix)

Nothing like powdered substance to help you get carried away. In this case, some fun loving youngsters get insanely kinetic via colorful granules that cause them to physically split apart and defy gravity and physics. Things get progressively weirder — the splitting effect soon jumps to inanimate objects, adding transmogrifying properties along the way — but the party keeps on raging.

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The Postal Service Returns: The Videos

You know a band still has resonance when all it takes is putting a basic splash page with the year "2013" on it to send the internet into a tizzy.

Which is ironic, since the whole idea of using the postal service to send audio files back and forth — which is how Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello collaborated on their 2003 album — has been rendered totally archaic by the Web.

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