Video: Celebrate the 4th of July with Bill Callahan – ‘America!’

What better way to celebrate July 4th than with Bill Callahan’s ode to the U.S. of A, ‘America!’. Laced with Callahan’s characteristic irony, the song sits in the centre of his latest album Apocalypse.
The music video is preceded by the fourth episode of online variety show Friday Night Somewhere…, where presenter Cabby

Video: Watch Beirut perform ‘O Leãozinho’ live at a Red Hot session

As previously reported, Beirut recorded a cover of Caetano Veloso‘s ‘O Leãozinho’ for Red Hot & Rio 2, a tribute album of late ’60s Brazilian Tropicália.
The record was compiled by The Red Hot Organization to raise funds for HIV/AIDS, the organization having previously commissioned Dark Was The Night, Red Hot & Riot…

Watch Prince perform a 30 minute set on French TV

Last week it was revealed that Prince had rehearsed 300 songs with his band for his European tour which will feature (at least) three hours of music a night. Last night, he played 30 minutes worth of those songs live on French TV station Canal Plus during a show called Le Grand Journal…. Below

Video: Chilly Gonzales – ‘Party In My Mind’

Taken from the world’s first orchestral rap album, The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales, ‘Party In My Mind’ is a bongo-centric bust rapping blast.
The video was directed by serial Chilly-collaborator Jonathon Barré and is as hilarious as the song itself with our protagonist banging the skins and busting rhymes (sorry).
The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales… drops

Watch the Arcade Fire / Spike Jonze short film: Scenes From The Suburbs

The independent film site Mubi is streaming a first look at Scenes from the Suburbs, the 30-minute short film collaboration between Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire.
It’s available to watch online only for today and tomorrow 27-28 June.
The Scenes from the Suburbs… DVD is out now with comes with a Behind The Scenes

Video: Florrie – ‘I Took A Little Something’

Another great pop single from Florrie, perhaps her best to date. The video which was shot in Paris was directed by Justin Wu. It’s from her new six-track Experiments EP…. Read Ciaran Gaynor’s interview with Florrie.

Watch Florence & The Machine, Jack White and Bon Iver on The Colbert Report

Folks, you should all know that Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report (both silent t’s) is one of the best shows on TV anywhere, regularly trumping the one it was spawned from, The Daily Show. This week, Colbert has had some musical guests on under the banner of StePhest Colbchella ’011…. Here are the vids

Watch Britney’s new WTF? music video

For her latest music video, Britney Spears has gone with a bizarro theme. From a weird press conference (someone thinks it’s funny I guess), crotch-grabbing Britney, public flasher Britney, fun-poking cinema signage (‘Crossroads 2: Cross Harder’), whistling dogs and babies, Terminator-style robot paparazzi and a milk-pouring fetish (?) scene, the video for ‘I Wanna Go’…

Watch the trailer for Laura Marling’s new album

Laura Marling’s third album A Creature I Don’t Know… gets a release on the 9th of September through Virgin Records. With production by Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, Emmylou Harris), here is a trailer for a featuring a new song:

Laura Marling plays Vicar Street, Dublin this Thursday and The Pavilion

Bon Iver – ‘Calgary’ video

Bon Iver’s ‘Calgary’ gets an official video treatment courtesy of Justin Vernon and directors of the clip. Andre Durand and Dan Huiting. The video was shot in Fall Creek, Wisconsin in April, the same place where Bon Iver’s self-titled second album was recorded, in a disused pool of a vet’s clinic. The album is released…

Video: Metronomy – ‘The Bay’

Metronomy’s newest album The English Riveria… intentionally conjures up images of seaside summer and ‘The Bay’ in particular is “synth-soaked, sophisti-disco”. The video for the track features a holiday-theme with the addition of leggy models on the pier and was directed by David Wilson.

Best Coast release a new Adult Swim single & video

Best Coast have released a new track ‘Gone Again’ as part of the Adult Swim Singles program; which will be giving away free MP3s from artists such as the Rapture,the Tallest Man on Earth, Active Child, Mastodon, jj with Ne-Yo (!), How to Dress Well and El-P. This single is a trippy pop tune and…

Video: Director’s cut of TV On The Radio – ‘You’

Nine Types Of Light: The Movie… was released in April as a visual accompaniment to the excellent new album from Brooklyn art-rockers TV On The Radio. The film is a mix of animation, cam-corder and higher-end film by various directors selected Tunde Adebimpe. Each director created a video for a song on the album, then

Video: Justice – ‘Civilisation’

Having first surfaced in an Adidias commercial some months back, Justice are now giving ‘Civilisation’ a proper airing. No strangers to religious iconography, the accompanying video hints at the struggle between heaven and hell, with stampeding buffalo thrown in for good measure (and why not?).
As for the tune… it’s Justice. ‘Nuff said.…