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Nite Jewel “One Second of Love”
This video for the title track to Nite Jewel’s new album makes absolutely no sense: there’s some sort of boring party, a choreographed pagan ritual, a dance-off between a drag qu…
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March 29, 2012CommentWhat’s New In Music: The Mars Volta, Miike Snow, La Sera
This Week: Swedish trio Miike Snow suffer an identity crisis; Wonder boy Brad Oberhofer’s debut; El Paso favorites The Mars Volta drop album number six; THEESatisfaction’s hip-hop …
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March 27, 2012Kurt Vile And The Violators “Runner Ups”
Smoke Ring For My Halo was one of 2012′s great albums and here Kurt Vile and his Violators drop by the KEXP studio to perform a few cuts from it, “Runner Ups” being a stando…
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March 26, 2012Grimes “Oblivion”
No real shocker that Grimes’ Claire Boucher made a super-quirky clip for “Oblivion” filmed at a football game and a motocross event. Screaming fans, cheerleaders, shirtless dudes a…
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March 25, 2012Tanlines “All Of Me”
Adult Swim and director Julian Barratt of British comedy group The Mighty Boosh bring you this weird but sort of perfect clip from debut Tanlines release Mixed Emotions. Loo…
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March 23, 2012Howler “Told You Once” (Live)
Clearly Strokes fans, rockers Howler perform “Told You Once” live on KEXP at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop during SXSW 2012.
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March 22, 2012Miike Snow “Paddling Out”
Miike Snow dropped new album Happy To You earlier this month and here’s the first clip. With dancing shoes, space twins and a Trent Reznor-styled creation, it basically make…
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March 22, 2012Bowerbirds “Tuck the Darkness In”
In the Bowerbirds new video from album, The Clearing, a boy gets a bit confused about fish, the food chain, the circle of life and death. It’s also possible that this is mer…
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March 21, 2012Chromatics “Candy”
Chromatics drop another single from last month’s Kill For Love and another one from director Alberto Rossini. Keeping with the previous theme, it’s all soft focus and prisms…
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March 18, 2012Björk “Hollow”
Bjork gives us another strange one from last year’s app-based Biophilia. Directed by biomedical animator Drew Berry, together they created a somewhat scientific representati…
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March 17, 2012Father John Misty “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
I heard this song a couple weeks ago and was instantly captivated by it – now there’s a video, featuring a hot mess of a girl who is clearly going through it. Father John Misty is …
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March 15, 2012The Horrors “Changing The Rain”
Yay! Another video from The Horror’s most excellent album Skying. Of course it’s a super-trippy piece of kaleidoscope business but this time all in swirling animation. And …
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March 15, 2012The Shins “Simple Song”
Frontman James Mercer and crew go all Wes Anderson in this new clip from their much anticipated third album Port of Morrow which comes out next week. This song showcases per…
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March 15, 2012Deerpeople “Ulysses” (Live)
Just in case you were getting tired of Deerhunter, Deer Tick and/or Deerhoof but want to stick with your Deer motif, here’s Deerpeople with a live version of one of their spirited …
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March 14, 2012Cymbals Eat Guitars “Definite Darkness”
90s-indie noise revivalists Cymbals Eat Guitars have a new Jamie Harley directed clip for “Definite Darkness” from last year’s Lenses Alien, featuring footage of a 70s drill…
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