Videos of the Week

What a weird, strange week it has been. I need for things to get back into a more stable routine. To take my mind off all the craziness, here is the latest roundup of videos that are making me drunker than a Catholic priest on Saint Patrick's Day:

I've really been getting into the new "re-imagining" of Gil Scott-Heron's album by Jamie Smith of The xx. In all deference to Scott-Heron, I will have to admit that I enjoy this album better than the original. This is a great version of the track:



Coachella is thankfully coming up in a little over a month. Glasser is a band I am really interested in seeing. This is a live version of one of my favorite tracks on her album Ring:



I will have to give props to my friend Dan for making me listen to hardcore punk supergroup OFF! I love their album which is descriptively titled First Four Eps. 16 songs blazing over 17 minutes. Perfect.



Hercules and Love Affair released this cover of The xx track "Shelter" and take a plaintive ballad and turn it into a sexy house track.

Shelter (XX Cover) by moshi moshi music

Last week I posted the first video from the new Radiohead album The King of Limbs. Of course, due to the odd sight of Thom Yorke doing a choreographed dance routine, the inevitable parodies ensue. I've seen ones with Yorke dancing to Beyonce's "Single Ladies," but the funniest to me is this small clip of "outtakes." Classic.



Another band I am excited to see is the Canadian collective Broken Social Scene. This is a typically humorous video from them.



Dense, thick, viscous dubstep from Joy Orbison:



Although none of my Coachella compatriots shares my enthusiasm for seeing The Chemical Brothers, I am very excited about seeing their live set, as I have never actually seen them before. Here is one of my favorite videos they did. It is very creepy.



Planningtorock is a very strange, but very interesting performer in the same mode as Fever Ray. Love this oddly captivating video.



Lauryn Hill is playing Coachella this year and we're all betting she will put on a cracktastic set. She should be this year's Sly and the Family Stone.



This single from the new Lykke Li album Wounded Rhymes has vaulted itself into the top single of the year for me at the moment.