Ben Gibbard - Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Stars Cover) (Live)

awesome - for more check out the write up on stereogum

The Complaint Department

So I was trolling around on YouTube yesterday and found this: a user-generated video titled “Asus M3A-H/HDMI with AMD Phenom X4 9850 CPU” from someone looking for help with their computer with the song Complaint Department by Lykke Li in the background. The concept is hilarious even if the video is less so [...]

put on the playlist: kleerup

another european i know we will be hearing here in the US a lot more about in the near future is the swedish producer/solo act kleerup. recently kleerup produced the song “lay me down” on cyndi lauper’s recent album, but his new 08 self-titled album will be what gets him the most attention.
he’s [...]

Put on the Playlist: The Alligators

The Alligators are poppy indie band I’ve been meaning to take the time to write about for a while now - but have just been to crazy at work to give them the time they deserve. But enough about me. The Alligators’ sound has lot of great things going for it all at [...]

put on the playlist: kanye west vid - flashing lights (take 2)

UPDATE: kanye really needed to stop at 2
so kanye released a second music video for his song flashing lights - and i have to say i really like the second one a lot better. the fact that the second doesn’t involve a chick beating kanye to death with a shovel may have a little [...]

Put on the Playlist: new Weezer video - Pork and Bean

the whole video is pretty much a stream of online celebs, one after the other. its absolutely amazing - huge h/t to stereogum:

Video: Diddy Talks about Kanye

Kanye helps Diddy fall back in love with hip hop:

Put on the Playlist: video - Portishead - The Rip

official this time. this video was put up a dozen times and then taken down, but this one is up on the Island Records YouTube Channel so I’m guessing it’ll stick this time. check it out:

wow - coldplay’s second violet hill video

this second video for Violent Hill is far more entertaining than the original. dancing politicians and bombs followed by a fireworks finale - def money. h/t stereogum

Put on the Playlist: Video: Coldplay - Violet Hill

i don’t think this is an officially release, so i’m not sure how long it will stay up. if it does get taken down, the easiest way to find it will be to just go to youtube and search for coldplay + “violet hill” and sort by date added, because i’m sure it will [...]

Video: Bill O’Reilly Flips Out - the dance remix

this is ridiculously good - adult content warning though:

Video: N.E.R.D. - Everybody Nose ft. Lindsay Lohan, Kanye…

N.E.R.D.’s new music video Everybody Nose
via money cash hos: “cameos include: Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan, Kanye to the, lots of little hipster fashionista girls.”
not sure what i think about it…

Put on the Playlist: Lil Wayne - Lollipop the Kayne Remix

so amazing - Kanye just put up his own remix of Lil Wayne’s Lollipop. You can listen here on Kayne’s blog and Discobelle also has it up for download. def recommended.

black kids @ the cat thurs

black kids are a money band that have been on my playlist for a while. they’re in town thursday at the black cat along with cut copy and mobius band.

if you can’t make it to that show the black and white jacksons are also play thursday over at artomatic and are a sweet live [...]

Video: The Kills - Last Day of Magic

hmm, don’t remember any fights with my ex’s being this bad…

“Video for Last Day of Magic, taken from The Kills new album ‘Midnight Boom’, out now on Domino Records.
www.midnightboom.com”

Put on the Playlist: Mates of State - Get Better (video)

I have absolutely no idea what to think of this video, but the song is amazing:

New Gnarls Barkley video - Going On

h/t to kanye west

New on YouTube - Breaking Music Videos

The Fratellis - Mistress Mabel

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Aaron Koblin’s Interpol Video for “Rest My Chemistry”

Everyone in the world is posting this money user generated video for Interpol’s song “Rest My Chemistry” - and since I like peer pressure, I will too. It was done by Aaron Koblin and his production company Blip Boutique and then later endorsed by the band after it was made. Its an interesting [...]

Put on the Playlist: The War on Drugs

The War on Drugs is a Philly band on Secretly Canadian that really I think has a ton of promise. The first song I heard from them, Arms Like Boulders, immediately grabbed my attention.
The Yellow Stereo’s description of the Dylan-esque vocals I find very fitting along with their comparison to The Arcade [...]