Video: Peter Doherty - "Broken Love Song"

(photo by Andrew Kendall)

Being the nation's finest troubled laureate has its up-ends, as Peter Doherty is learning with the release of his debut solo album, Grace/Wastelands, a disc which pairs the man many loathe and love with various pop geniuses, from Blur's Graham Coxon to Dot Allison to Doherty's Babyshambles mates. The disc, out on Parlophone, has its second single seeing release at the end of this month. But "Broken Love Song" already has a video, though, a grayscale-only rainy day love lament like much of the content of Doherty's mind creates. It's distinctive, to say the least. "Broken Love Song" is out July 27 b/w "Ballad Of Grimaldi".

(mp3)    Peter Doherty - Arcady

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Video: Casiokids - "Finn Bikkjen!"

The new single from Bergen, Norway's Casiokids, a group that we've lost our shit to a few times before, is a delightfully sharp and simple song called "Finn Bikkjen!" and the guys just shot a video for the track, a clip that was shot sometime around the Hove Festival which finds them performing their lo-fi synth-and-drum-track pop diddy in the confines of a hot air balloon, with a helpful visual of papier-mâché bobble heads. The single release for "Finn Bikkjen!" drops via the Moshi Moshi singles club on August 3.

(mp3)    Casiokids- Finn Bikkjen!

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Video: Douglas Armour - "Flushed & Flamelike, Themselves"

Completely invigorating, engrossing and 110% visually stunning, the video for the new single from LA's melodramatic pop genius Douglas Armour, "Flushed & Flamelike, Themselves" was produced and directed for the first time ever by the guiding light of Daft Arts (they of the space robot set) and is the most compelling slow-motion "keep-on-headbanging-in-the-natural-world"-themed, pleasantly melancholic clip you're likely to see this year/decade/eon. Armour, an artist that makes his home amongst the laid-back and visceral set gets the proper treatment for his new single from the fuzzy bliss of his 2008 effort, The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night.

(mp3)    Douglas Armour - Fall Apart Again

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Video: Dan Deacon talks to Karmaloop

In a just-released video from the kids at Karmaloop, electronic wizard man-child Dan Deacon talked (in as low a volume as possible) to Redd Foxxx about such meaningful things as socks with weed leaves on them, being in charge of Whartscape, a game where you imagine people crying in the shower and the not-so-believable influences of Vampire Weekend (FYI, it has nothing to do with western classical music or the music of Africa). Pretty funny, if you don't mind adjusting your volume switches on-the-fly or watching something get weirder and weirder as the minutes go by.

(mp3)    Dan Deacon - People Are Awesome These Days

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Video: Amazing Baby - "Headdress (live and acoustic at Heather's)"

With the release of Amazing Baby's debut record Rewild today, it's only fitting that we'd give you an opportunity to truly appreciate these dudes for what they are: a band that's full of heart, promise, trust and zero restraint when it comes to making strides at taking over the pop world. That's all wrapped up in the above video, an acoustic take of the Rewild track "Headdress", shot inside the band's hometown haunt, Heather's bar in New York City. Enjoy the video and break free from the confines of domesticity with Rewild, out on iTunes for only $5.99.

(mp3)    Amazing Baby - Smoke Bros

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Video: Pharoahe Monch - "Simon Says (live at the Brooklyn Hip Hop festival)"

This past weekend's Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival featured a litany of great artists rocking the bass and the crowds at the Empire Fulton Ferry state park in Dumbo, including the inimitable Pharoahe Monch. This video, shot from way back in the crowd pit shows Monch's track "Simon Says", which turned out to be his final song due to time constraints and whatnot. But just look at the crowd in the tent guys. Insanity. Thanks to videographer B Conscious for the clip.

(mp3)    Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says

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Video: Old Money - "Teacher's Pet"

Old Money are back, and for the first time, they're coming correct with a video, a visual AND aural representation of their brand of classic hip hop sounds and no frills city life attitudes. The innuendos are less than inconspicuous in the song and the video itself is as lo-fi as you can get. Any track with lines like "I ate a cinnabun/ she played with my egg beater" or "My teacher got me harder than Calculus" is instantly way better than it could have been without it. Not to mention the fact that "Teacher's Pet"'s setting all happens to be filmed at a reserved table that looks familiarly like any dancehall we've all been to a ton of times, popping bottles and dropping bassline. The video also has nearly a minute of extra footage at its tail end of the dudes performing to a huge crowd at a tour stop in Konrad's hometown of Vancouver, BC.

(mp3)    Old Money - The Fix 1.2

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Video: All Leather - "Live in Tempe, Arizona"

We're not going to lie: we love pretty much without question everything that San Diego god Justin Pearson has ever been/will ever be involved in. From Some Girls and Swing Kids to The Locust, Holy Molar and dozens of other grinding, shrieking noise rock bands. So when we'd heard of this new project he's fronting called All Leather (somehow signed to Dim Mak and not his own imprint, Three One G) and saw this video of their live show from a gig in Tempe, Arizona, we sort of shit ourselves in happiness. Not to mention the fact that the bill was shared with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose Nick Zinner also played guitar in a Pearson band, Head Wound City. What you get is as straightforward an approach to rock 'n' roll as possible, with zero pretense or posturing and just sheer limitless passion and force. The debut EP from All Leather, Hung Like A Horse, drops on July 7.

(mp3)    All Leather - I Don't Hate Fags, God Does (Congorock remix)

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Video: Jaguar Love - "I Started A Fire"

This new video from the ex-Blood Brothers project Jaguar Love (sooner or later, these two guys will far outlive their previous band's history) is for a demo they've been working on, "I Started A Fire", a super high energy pogo-fest of a song that highlights the sometimes annoying, sometimes excellent vocals of Johnny Whitney. The story is also--obviously--wrapped up in the terrific arrangements from multi-instrumentalist Cody Votolato, whose jagged, angular shredding is almost as front and center as Whitney's vocals.

(mp3)    Jaguar Love - Antoine And Birdskull

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Video: Designer Drugs California wrap-up teaser

Fast becoming ones to watch with both eyes open at all times, Designer Drugs are back in New York City after a rollick in California and the west coast over the first week of this month, DJing to masses at clubs, festivals, etc. and pretty much slaying as they go. This teaser video gives you an idea of the kinds of manic attitudes they instill in the party. Shot by Elle Rex, a photographer we've thoroughly enjoyed keeping our jealous eyes on over the last year, the proof is really in the pudding. Designer Drugs headline Webster Hall tonight for the weekly Girls & Boys party.

(mp3)    Designer Drugs - Back Up In This (Michael Meds remix)

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