Happy Friday, everybody. It's the end of another work week, and that means it's time to round up my favourite twenty videos from over the past seven days and assemble them here into a nice, neat little package for your viewing pleasure.
In this edition of Video Flow, you can check out new ones from The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, They Might Be Giants, and many more including not one, but two videos for R.E.M.'s soon-to-be-released farewell single. There's a very eye-catching (and probably NSFW) clip from Duck Sauce, the first solo effort from Stevie Jackson of Belle And Sebastian fame, some Johnny Depp/Ricki Lake-inspired retro nostalgia from indie favourites Man Man, and a new Cameron Crowe-directed video for Pearl Jam's 1995 single "Not For You," compiled from archival footage while producing his recent 'PJ20' documentary. All that, plus it's been about seven days since the last one, so that must mean there's another new Beyoncé video, too. (And you thought Rihanna was relentless...)
So, grab some snacks, plunk yourself down in front of your computer for the next couple of hours, and enjoy. Let's start things off with the lovely ladies of Wild Flag, who are about to encounter a baseball team made up of bears. Of course they are.
Wild Flag "Electric Band" (Merge)
Duck Sauce "Big Bad Wolf" (Fool's Gold)
The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" (Nonesuch)
Chromatics "Kill For Love" (Italians Do It Better)
Architecture In Helsinki "W.O.W." (Modular)
Jessica 6 feat. Antony Hegarty "Prisoner Of Love" (Peacefrog)
Man Man "Pirhanas Club" (Anti)
Arctic Monkeys "Evil Twin" (Domino)
Beyoncé feat. J. Cole "Party" (Columbia)
Joker feat. Jessie Ware & Freddie Gibbs "The Vision (Let Me Breathe)" (4AD)
R.E.M. "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" (Warner)
Young Galaxy "Phantoms" (Paper Bag)
Fanzine "Roman Holiday" (Fat Possum)
Memory Tapes "Offers" (Carpark)
Stevie Jackson "Feel The Morning" (self-released)
Summer Camp "Down" (Moshi Moshi)
They Might Be Giants "Marty Beller Mask" (Idlewild)
Hello all. Time once more for your hebdomadal round-up of the most interesting music videos I caught online this week. New ones from pop queens Beyoncé and Britney Spears are in the bunch, alongside the brand new singles from the soon-to-be-released Coldplay and Rihanna albums. (Yup, she's got another one out next month. Girl doesn't stop.) There's also new clips from indie favourites like Kasabian, Timber Timbre, and Stars, as well as the new one from CANT, the side project of Grizzly Bear bassist Chris Taylor. Something for everyone this week, kids--from big budget pieces to lo-fi treasures, from the masterfully artful to the cheaply shot. It's all gold in its own way.
Dig in then, beginning with the first video lifted from my pick for 'Album of the Week,' M83's "Midnight City"...
M83 "Midnight City" (Mute)
Canyons "See Blind Through" (Modular)
Rihanna f. Calvin Harris "We Found Love" (Def Jam)
Friends "I'm His Girl" (Lucky Number)
Class Actress "Weekend" (Carpark)
Stars "Dead Hearts" (Soft Revolution)
Greatest Hits "Girls On The Beach" (GunkTV)
Britney Spears "Criminal" (RCA)
Eugene McGuinness "Lion" (Domino)
Kasabian "Re-wired" (Columbia)
My Brightest Diamond "We Added It Up" (Asthmatic Kitty)
Timber Timbre "Do I Have Power" (Arts & Crafts)
Beyoncé "Love On Top" (Sony)
Oneohtrix Point Never "Replica" (Software)
Nguzunguzu "Water Bass Power (Timesup Sand Mix)" (Fade To Mind)
AIDS Wolf "Like PSHTS Of Aerosol" (Lovepump United)