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OK Go - »Netting/Getting«

It’s them again. The only band in the world that seems to take much more care about their video than (boring) audio. Until now!? Until they finally combined both in perfection and a spectacular way - I have to admit. Who’s managing these guys? Give this person some kind of Marketing Grammy. Make him rich. Make him quit. And make him promise that this is the last music video of OK Go forever. Please guys, go become producers for brilliant commercials, but stop selling us another marketing stunt in the name of »viral music videos«. Thanks. 

The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck. 

Director: Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr. - Director of Photography: Yon Thomas - Editor: Doug Walker - Producer: Luke Ricci

M.I.A. - »Bad Girls«

Directed by Romain Gavras.

Sesame Street: OK Go - »Three Primary Colors«

Hey (big) kids! OK Go teamed up with Sesame Street explaining the principles of color basics in a stop-motion-stylee.  There is a “OK Go Color” game too! But: People are already discussing that this is just not true. Go find your local DA group (Designers Anonymous) for a vivid discussion about »Red/ Green/Blue« and »Cyan/Yellow/Magenta«… 

Anyway, next: Sesame Street teaming up with Living Color, Rainbow, Great White and Black Sabbath.

M. Ward - »The First Time I Ran Away«

From M. Ward’s forthcoming album, »A Wasteland Companion«. Out April 10. Directed by Joel Trussell.

Zooey Deschanel - »Yesterday Once More« (The Carpenters, Videochat Karaoke Version)

Who needs Katy P. when there is Zooey D. singing this song as sweet as Karen C.!?

Feist - »The Bad In Each Other«

Song and video - everything in here is in a class of its own. Director: Martin De Thurah.

Shabazz Palaces - »Are You… Can You… Were You? (Felt)«

Yep. (via MJVM on FB)

The Flaming Lips - Now I Understand

There are so many reasons why you have to love The Flaming Lips and Wayne Coyne. This is just one more:

Sound construction piece featuring Lips, Erykah Badu, Siri, and Biz Markie backwards. It’s called “Now I Understand” It’s funny and will be available on SoundCloud for one week only!!! Life is beautiful. Music gets you high.

Peace. Wayne

»You’re a creep, Charlie Brown!«

Charlie brown and all related characters of Peanuts were created by Charles M. Schulz. Vega Choir’s cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”, this video was neither authorized nor endorsed by the respective copyright holders.

But please, do never ever block this melancholia masterpiece.

Chelsea Wolfe - »Mer«

California native Chelsea Wolfe has always embodied both light and dark. Yet though her music is a raw strain of electric folk tinted by black metal and deep blues, it never wallows in despair. Instead, it wraps itself like a thick blanket around the human experience, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice is a haunting call, warm and lingering, and her lyrics acknowledge life’s obscure and melancholy moments in service to the unlikely truths and beauty they so often reveal. Her music exudes strength in the midst of adversity. It makes sense then that her influences run from Nick Cave and Selda Bagcan, to director Ingmar Bergman, with nods to the dramatic flair of Antony Hegarty, and even more so that she hails from the wilder, woodsy part of her state… more

cc Pendu NYC on Tumblr

(In the light of recent events.) They are not fucking dead.

Dillon - »As Much As I Ever Could« (City and Colour Cover)