Today’s first three videos are culled from the archives of the Colonel Blimp collective, named after a brilliant Michael Powell film and currently producing some of the most interesting videos around.
Jamie Lidell’s Multiply is, as has been written several places several times, the most left-field album you’ll hear all year. Warp Records isn’t exactly [...]

The first video today is from Spoon, who, while releasing some of the most challenging and entertaining music of the past few years, have suffered the same video fate as their early influences The Pixies and Pavement–they make bad videos. You get the feeling that Spoon just don’t care, though, similar to the sentiment offered [...]

First up is the new one from Sleater-Kinney, for “Jumpers,” (.mov) one of the best tracks from The Woods. The theme of avian escape from corporate ennui is very cute, but of course the best part about any S/K video is seeing the band members themselves, all of whom are hot. This one features not [...]

I refuse to budge from my stance that the New Pornographers’ Twin Cinema is the album of the year, and it’s great to see a video for one of the album’s best tracks, “Use It.” It’s a gimmicky piece directed by keyboardist Blaine Thurier (the guy in the shower toward the end of the clip) [...]

As the new BSS album Windsurfing Nation gradually leaks its way into the hands of those who like to sample before buying (so far, I’ve only heard the propulsive-yet-delicate “Shorelines”), I thought I’d post the video for You Forgot It In People’s “Almost Crimes.” There’s a lot to be said for the classic, unpretentious [...]

Dungen, whose album Ta Det Lungt was just recently released stateside, has released a video for the lead single for the album, “Panda.” It’s nothing more than a collage of 16mm performance and travel footage (some using that old standard “mirror” trick), but it reflects the manic psychedelic spirit of the song well.