Put on your sublock — or maybe a shirt, please — and join Bonnie "Prince" Billy for some weird times at the Quail & Dumplings waterpark with musical duo Kennan Gudjonsson and Nina Nastasia.
PS: If you're not already a fan of BPB aka Palace aka Will Oldham, this will probably just seem very weird and creepy, which is understandable and perhaps even the intended effect.
Music videos can premiere anywhere, so why not WeTransfer, which is possibly your file delivery of choice. If you go to WeTransfer today — or, use this link — you'll likely see a wallpaper splash for the video, which can then be clicked and then played at an impactful full-window size. Nice. And it's a nice tie-in to the video's concept, which is part behind-the-scenes, part post-production wizardry and all-around cool.
American treasure Afroman finally follows up his 2001 hit single "Because I Got High" with a remix of the same track. But, before you trot out your tired weed jokes, take a look since all the lyrics here are switched around to extol the virtues and healh benefits of legalized marijuana.
Finally some culture. And, with apologies to Dvorak, your new favorite classical music video. (PS: This might be NSFW. Ask your human resources adviser. And/Or get a new job.
OK, you ingrates. Now you can't even buy the U2 album at iTunes. It's up for "pre-order" for $6.99, so if you're realizing now that maybe you shouldn't have removed it from your library in a fit of meme rage, your only choices are to stream at Beats, or you can buy a fancier physical version for more than that. Happy now?
Freeloading music fans still get one thing for free, however: The video for "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)," which is available for free streaming from, where else, iTunes. It's not drastically different from the iTunes commecial, except with an edgier post treatment, more colors and some lyrical shout-outs to the song and The Ramones.
Watch the video at iTunes, if you can find it: Direct linkage seems impossible — sharing is not caring — so look for the big banner in the Music carousel.
Here's a smart way to humanize Stromae, an International star on the verge of breaking America thanks to his stunning man or mannequin video "Papaoutai." Filmed in one-take, on VHS no less, at a party where Stromae updates Hot Jazz with his band and we catch snippets of stories as people evade or make eye-contact with the camera. And, as with all things shot on VHS: It was clearly recorded over something else.
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Metallica at Alcatraz. 5 Seconds of Summer at a women's prison? It might not seem to have the same cultural impact, but then you might not have ever seen 20,000 otherwise good girls all lose their collective minds to these boys.
Not all Gifted Youngsters wind up under the tutelage of Professor Xavier. EDM star Alesso comes to the rescue of a group of less appreciated, yet still extraordinarily talented kids in this inspirational video where Tove Lo sings the hook and we witness how easy a breakout can be when you have wings...
If nothing else, this new Ex-Hex video presents a believable origin story for The Ramones: A UFO came and zapped otherwise ordinary folks into punk rockers. "Waterfall" does more than that, of course, presenting a lo-fi War Of The Worlds vibe that's colorful, fun and laced with just enough go-go and iconoclasm to make all the punk rocker cameos ring true.
First Person Shooter video game fans — and fans of the 2013 Biting Elbows video — should love the look, feel and violence for this pitch perfect music video homage.
It's not a travelogue. And it's not a romance story. It's a Thriller, burningly slowly over the course of five minutes where it becomes clearer and clearer that something awful may befall Childish Gambino and Jhene Aiko while on their romatic escapade in Hawaii. Just make sure you stayed tuned even if you think you've got it all figured out, because believe me: You know nothing about what lurks at the heart of this one.
