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Video: Wild Beasts – ‘Bed Of Nails’
Wild Beasts’ latest single from Smother…, ‘Bed Of Nails’ is notable for its whipsmart rhythm and the lyrics: “I would lie anywhere with you/ Any old bed of nails would do”. This new video for the song is notable as a performance video filmed in London by Daniel Brereton but it serves as a
Video: We Cut Corners – ‘Go Easy’
Viewer discretion is advised but the nudity in the Nico Casavecchia directed video for ‘Go Easy’ by We Cut Corners is pretty artful, in a bedroom love triangle that leads to confusion and anguish.
‘Go Easy’ – free to download below – is the lead single from Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards…
Beirut join The National for ‘Fake Empire’ at Paléo Festival, watch the entire show
Beirut man Zach Condon joined The National at the Paléo Festival in Switzerland last week.
Paléo Festival has been running since 1997, taking place near Lake Geneva. This year saw performances from Jack Johnson, Pulled Apart By Horses, Bloody Beetroots, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Beirut, The Strokes, PJ Harvey, The Dø, Robert Plant & The…
Watch Bjork’s ‘Crystalline’ video
Bjork has teamed up with director Michael Gondry once again for her latest video. ‘Crystalline’ will be his eighth video for Bjork, having already made (in reverse order): ‘Declare Independence’, ‘Bachelorette’, ‘Jóga’, ‘Hyper-ballad’, ‘Isobel’, ‘Army Of Me’ and ‘Human Behaviour’ way back in 1993.
‘Crystalline’ is the first single from Bjork’s Biophilia… album/multi-media project in
Video: TV On The Radio – ‘Caffeinated Consciousness’
Nine Types Of Light… by TV On The Radio made it to our Albums Of The Year So Far list, and for good reason.
The Brooklyn gang may have chosen to chill out, but ‘Caffeinated Consciousness’ is an amped up rocking tune with energised guitar stabs.
Watch this magic carpet ride of a video, part
Foster the People release video to ‘Helena Beat’
L.A. trio Foster the People have released the video to their new single ‘Helena Beat’ which is out in August 2011. The video opens with TV reels showing end of the world scenarios; explosions, marching armies and protests which cuts into one guy and his dog speeding of into the desert in a beat up…
Watch Austra perform a live version of ‘Lose It’
Canadian three piece Austra have recorded a live version of the single ‘Lose It’ which is taken from their debut album Feel It Break… over on the Guardian site. The video opens with the lead singer Katie Stelmanis discussing how she originally composed the song as a piano ballad back in 2009. The song has
Video: The Forms featuring Matt Berninger – ‘Fire To The Ground’
New York band The Forms are re-recording tracks from their first two albums, Icarus from 2003 and a self-titled long player from 2007; a selection of tracks are being reworked into a new EP entitled Derealization….
‘Redgun’ from their last album is now ‘Fire To The Ground’, with The National’s Matt Derninger lending his
The Polyphonic Spree return with an interactive app video
The Polyphonic Spree, the Dallas symphonic pop collective lead by Tim DeLaughter, are set to return with a new single.
‘Bullseye’ will be the first of a batch of songs to be released on the band’s own Good Records Recordings label, home to Tripping Daisy and Preteen Zenith (also DeLaughter).
The video for the ‘Bullseye’…
Watch a Bon Iver mini-documentary
So we are all well aware that Bon Iver’s acclaimed debut, For Emma, Forever Ago…, was born out of three months of Winter seclusion in a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin, but what of the follow up?
In this short documentary, shot for Spin.com by Dan Huiting, Justin Vernon discusses recording the latest Bon Iver
Beyoncé – ‘Best Thing I Never Had’ (video)
“SUCKS TO BE YOU RIGHT NOW..”
On Beyonce’s big wedding day she spends the whole time she’s supposed to be preparing for her big moment, wandering around in a négligée dissing her ex-boyfriend. Priorities woman! You’re getting married ferchrissakes! Today. Oh, wait, the groom is not Jay-Z. You mean this song is fiction???? I feel…
Warpaint – ‘Warpaint’ (video)
A new video for ‘Warpaint’ the song by Warpaint the band. The video was directed by Ted Newsome and features lots of underwater shots.
The song is taken from the band’s debut LP The Fool…
Listen to two new Mumford and Sons songs
Mumford and Sons have unveiled a new song preliminary titled ‘Home’ or ‘Lover I’ll Be Home…’ by fans on the Colorado radio station KBCO. The song is a soulful mix of violin, banjo and piano, layered with delectable vocal harmonies. The lyrics depict returning home to loved ones after being on
Video Premiere: Gavin Friday – ‘Able’
State is delighted to bring you the premiere of Gavin Friday‘s latest video for the single ‘Able’. For the clip Friday enlisted the expertise of highly acclaimed and renowned director Kevin Godley and producer Ned O’Hanlon, who have worked with U2, Paul McCartney, Blur, Rolling Stones, Oasis to name but a few. Commenting on the…
