Frank Smith Debut New Video for “Before You Were Born”
Although the album came out last year, Frank Smith have debuted a video for the title-track from 2012’s album Before You Were Born. Featuring some black and white almost NSFW footage, the band performs…
Brazos Announces New Album, Shares Video
Brazos, the brain child of creative force Martin Crane, has announced the release of sophomore effort Saltwater on the Dead Oceans imprint, a sister label to Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian. “How the Ranks Was…
Video: Hikes – “Shepherd’s Clock” (Recommended)
This song is killer. I’ve been hearing hype about this band for a while, and everything in me is hoping they will be as phenomenal live as I want them to be. If…
Video: Bobby Jealousy – “The Agreement”
Sabrina Ellis is currently one of the most prolific musicians in Austin, with two albums out or coming out soon–one by Bobby Jelousy and the other by A Giant Dog. (You can bet…
Video: Wild Nothing – “Only Heather”
In Wild Nothing’s video for Nocture album cut “Only Heather,” directed by Ryan Reichenfeld, an impaled man walks dimly lit streets as passersby seem not to notice. The video was impressively shot in one take. Watch…
Video: SUUNS – “2020”
Having already released from their forthcoming album Images Du Futur the single “Edie’s Dream,” experimental pop outfit SUUNS follow up with a video for another album track, “2020.” The video is directed by…
Video: Dana Falconberry – “Possum Song”
It’s an understatement to say that Dana Falconberry is a Pop Press International favorite. We absolutely adore this phenomenal Austin, TX songstress. This week brings great news regarding Falconberry. First, Transistor Six has created a…
MS MR Debuts Subtly Surreal New Video for “Fantasy”
MS MR is one of those interesting cases: a band that suddenly pops up out of nowhere (it seems) with impressive sounds and widespread recognition. Often, these bands are fueled by an enormous…
Autre Ne Veut Releases New Single and Video “Play by Play”
With a little under a month until the release of their album Anxiety, Autre Ne Veut has unveiled the second single from the record. “Play by Play” emerges as an ambitious electronic R&B…
Buke and Gase Release Album and New Video
Buke and Gase released their second full-length album yesterday on Brassland. To coincide with that release, the duo has released a video for album track “Hiccup.” An ever shifting and dizzying collage of…
Animal Collective Release Video for “Applesauce,” Announce Tour
As a follow up to their recent and more experimental album Centipede Hz, Animal Collective has released a video for their new single “Apple Sauce.” The video itself is build on the experimental…
The Men Share Live Video Performance of New Single “Electric”
We wrote previously about the new album and single from The Men. Now, a live video featuring the single “Electric” as well as carnage and mayhem at a show in London in June…
New Video “Ecstasy” from Matador Records Signee Iceage
We wrote previously about “Ecstasy,” the single from Matador Records band Iceage’s forthcoming full-length You’re Nothing. Now, the caustic punk song has an equally caustic video to accompany it. Watch the video for…
Video: Dinosaur Jr. – “Pierce the Morning Rain” featuring Henry Rollins
Dinosaur Jr.’s newest album I Bet On Sky proved that the quintessential indie trio hasn’t lost anything in the way of distorted guitar lines or blistering solos. Their new video for album track “Pierce…
Cayucas Releases New Video, Announces Bigfoot
The wait is over! Cayucas has made official the news of their debut full-length, Bigfoot, which will see release through Secretly Canadian. The second track that has been made available from the debut album…
Video: Nite Jewel – “Memory, Man”
“One Second of Love,” the second effort by electronic pop chanteuse Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, dropped last March, but the songstress is still generating outstanding new content from its tracks. The video for…
Video: What Made Milwaukee Famous – “Gone and Done It Now”
In advance of their third album, You Can’t Fall Off the Floor, Austin’s What Made Milwaukee Famous have released a video for album track “Gone and Done It Now.” Employing a faux late…
Blues Control Releases New Video Ahead of Tour
On their track “Opium Den/Fade to Blue,” Blues Control have a unique take on psychedelic that diverges from most contemporary bands that use that descriptor. The song meanders through new age sounds as a…
Video: Acre Yawn – “Whisper Through the Walls” Live at the Parish
As we mentioned during our Free Week reflections, one of the best shows we caught was folk duo Acre Yawn at the Parish. Pop Press International tried its hand at making videos for…
Video: U.S. Girls – “Work From Home” NSFW
U.S. Girls have released a video for “Work From Home,” an album cut from GEM, released last year. The song and video explore the prostitution as lead singer Meghan Remy sings “When times get tight /…
Video: Suuns – “Edie’s Dream”
We wrote previously about this first single from Suuns forthcoming album Images Dur Futur, which will drop on Secretly Canadian on March 5th. The video, directed by the band and filmed in the…
Video: Ty Segall – “Thank God for Sinners”
To celebrate the advent of his Twins tour, psychedelic rocker Ty Segall has released a video for album track “Thank God for Sinners.” Although the video seems to be safe for work, it…
Video: Memory Tapes – “Sheila”
In case you haven’t heard, we were very into the new album from Memory Tapes, putting it in our top 20 for the year. Seems like there are some haters out there, but…
Video: Foxygen – “San Francisco”
I have been slowly falling in love with Foxygen for the last several months. “San Francisco” is the euphoric climax of our courtship and we are now sealed forever in holy matrimony. The…
Ava Luna Shares Video Ahead of National Tour
Ava Luna’s initially meandering, female-vocal-driven track “Ice Level” becomes a funky, soulful male-led track at the end, illustrating the dexterity and cooperative spirit that defines Ava Luna’s songwriting efforts. The video, directed by…
Video: Damien Jurado – “Kalla Hus”
Earlier this year, Damien Jurado gave fans the gift of an amazing new album, Maraqopa, released by Secretly Canadian. Just in time for the holidays, he has given us another one: a video…
New Track: “Heaven” – Popstrangers
New Zealand pop outfit Popstrangers have released a video for the song “Heaven” from the forthcoming album Antipodes out February 26th on Carpark Records. The gritty, ticking verses open up into shimmering choruses…
Video: Dirty Projectors – “Offspring are Blank”
Dirty Projectors have released a new video for the track “Offspring are Blank” from their phenomenal album, Swing Lo Magellan, which was released by Domino earlier this year. The video, directed by the…
Video: Ruby Suns – “Kingfisher Call Me”
We already wrote about “Kingfisher Call Me” when the Ruby Suns announced their album and made the track available for download. Now, the band has released a video for the track. To accompany…
Video: Foxygen – “Shuggie”
Foxygen has released a new video for their song “Shuggie,” from the forthcoming full length We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic, out January 22nd on Jagjaguwar. With each new…
Video: Flying Lotus – “Tiny Tortures”
Flying Lotus has released a cinematically stunning new video for their song “Tiny Tortures,” taken from their recent album Until the Quiet Comes. Starring Elijah Wood, the video begins with dark, brooding sounds that parallel…
New Track: Shugo Tokumaru – “Decorate”
Shugo Tokumaru creates intricate Japanese pop with orchestral, idiosyncratic flourishes. “Decorate” befits the new track released from his album In Focus? more appropriately than one can imagine. Each new instrument emerges as a smile-inducing…
Wild Belle Performs on Conan, Announces Album Release Date
Above you can watch Wild Belle perform album track “It’s Too Late” on CONAN last night. I’ve been impressed with Wild Belle’s lack of fear to spit out a slew of songs from…
New Track: Chromatics – “Cherry”
As our friends over at Austin Town Hall point out, a new track by Chromatic dropped between Thanksgiving and the weekend. I know what you’re thinking, people were working between Thanksgiving and the…
Video: Night Moves – “Country Queen”
We wrote previously about Night Moves’ track “Country Queen” and reviewed the band’s recent show at Stubb’s. Now, we’ve been given a video for “Country Queen” from their album, Colored Emotions, out now…
Moonface Shares New Video and Fan Letters
Though their album was released more than six months ago, Moonface has shared a new video for the song “Headed for the Door” from their full-length With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. Like the song,…
Video: Naomi Punk – “Voodoo Trust”
Naomi Punk are set to drop The Feeling on November 20th on Captured Tracks, and in anticipation of that release, they have given us a video for album track “Voodoo Trust.” A spooky…
Video: Beach House – “Wild”
In a way, I’ve been waiting for this for months. “Wild” is my favorite track from what I consider to be a serious contender for the year’s best album, Beach House’s Bloom. The…
Video: Wild Belle – “Keep You”
Wild Belle’s new video explores themes of maturity and relationships as the band’s Natalie Bergman struggles domestically with her little man, who seeks other waters before returning to the comforts of his home. Directed…
Video: King Tuff – “Keep on Movin'”
King Tuff’s new video, filmed in 3D, resembles the garage rock he creates: simple yet highly entertaining. The video for “Keep on Movin’” features folks doing just that–moving and grooving to the sounds…
Video: Wild Belle Sends Postcards From The Road
Wild Belle have embarked on their North American tour, playing dates in support of Tennis and Passion Pit. Lead Singer Natalie Bergman has been capturing videos of the band’s introduction to road life,…
Laetitia Sadier’s “Lightning Thunderbolt” Video + European Tour
Laetitia Sadier teamed up with David Thayer to film the video for “Lightning Thunderbolt,” the third single from Silencio. The video is chock-full of groovy images- clouds, fireworks, fog, and lots of dreamy…
Health Premiere Short Film “Tears”
Health take us on a brief trip to Creepsville in the short film “Tears.” The group collaborated with directors David Altobelli and Jeff Desom to tell the story of urban zombie-babies in a…
Laarks Releases Video in Advance of New LP
It has been almost two years exactly since Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Laarks released their debut LP Exaltation of Laarks on Absolutely Kosher. As they lead up to releasing their impending sophomore album Fiat…
Trailer Released for Charles Atlas Film with Antony
Songwriter Antony and filmmaker Charles Atlas have released a trailer for their upcoming film Turning. The film tells the story of a series of women whose gender and sexuality is difficult to define,…
Video: Tamaryn – “The Garden”
Huge, clanging guitars announce the onset of “The Garden,” as rapid pulses of color flash on the screen. A vibrant, overexposed barrage of lo-fi clips skipping frenetically from one to the next create…
Hardly Sound Shares Preview and Clip of Third Episode with Royal Forest
If we were betting men, we’d say you’re already an avid, attentive fan of Hardly Sound. Why wouldn’t you be? The series is beautifully shot, artful and nuanced, created by two of Austin’s…
Video: Lost Animal – “Say No to Thugs”
Just in time for Halloween, in their debut video for upcoming album track “Say No to Thugs,” Lost Animal tells the story of a boy trying to dispose of a body, only to…
Video: Dark Dark Dark – “Tell Me”
Isaac Gale, who has previously worked with Bon Iver, Colin Stetson, and Polica, directed the newest Dark Dark Dark video. In “Tell Me,” Nona Marie Invie wanders through empty buildings and along a…
Video: Husky – “Tidal Wave”
This is the kind of video that wins awards. As a backdrop for Husky’s subtle, folk-tinged song “Tidal Wave,” Celeste Porter has created a beautiful and captivating world filled with creatures of stylized…
Video Montage from All Tamara’s Parties 2.0 w/ The Sour Notes, Deep Time, and The Bad Lovers
Jared Boulanger, lead singer for the Sour Notes is easy to spot at a show. He’s the guy down with the flip video camera, making sure that he has some shots of each…
Video: U.S. Girls – “North on 45”
U.S. Girls are set to release their album GEM next Tuesday on Fatcat. This week, in anticipation of the release, the group has given us a video for album track “North on 45.” Directed and…
Video: La Sera – “Break My Heart”
What’s more essential to pop than a breakup song? After attempting to destroy photos of a former love interest, the scissors rebel against La Sera’s Katy Goodman before the maps, posters, notebooks, and…
Video: Wild Belle – “Backslider”
Families collaborating has a long tradition in the music industry. So, it’s awesome to see that on top of sibling duo Wild Belle making a great pop song together, they recruited younger brother…
Video: Matmos – “Large Green Triangles”
If you listened to “Large Green Triangles,” the newest song released by avant-garde, orchestral pop artists Matmos, you might not know that the sharp swells and trancelike vocal samples tell the story of…
Video: Bon Iver – “Beth/Rest”
Bon Iver has just released the Vernon and Dan Huiting-directed video for “Beth/Rest.” Justin Vernon wrote in a press release, “It’s kind of about two people who are truly meant for each other…
Video: Sharon Van Etten – “Magic Chords” + Tour
Sharon Van Etten, who is set to play Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in November, has just released her second video in support of Tramp. “Magic Chords” was directed by Rick Alverson outside…
Video: The Mountain Goats – “Cry for Judas”
John Darnielle weaves emotionally complex, vivid scenes in short, rapid fragments of beautiful lyricism. So, it makes sense that the same discriptors could be applied to the Mountain Goats’ new Carlo Mirabella-Davis directed video…
Video: Taken By Trees – “Large”
Fresh on the heels of her outstanding new album, Other Worlds, Victoria Bergsman, aka Taken By Trees, has released a video for album track “Large.” The synthy, reggae-leaning track plays over images that…
Video: Jens Lekman – “Become Someone Else’s”
In his new video, Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman takes a monochromatic stroll through the desert as he intones lines of his usual wry wit to smooth, loungey keys. Jens Lekman’s new album dropped last month…
Dum Dum Girls “Lord Knows” Video + Tour
Dum Dum Girls premiered the video for “Lord Knows” over at Rookie this week. The End of Daze EP was largely inspired by the events following the passing of Dee Dee’s mother. The…
UTOPiAfest 2012 Artist SORNE Releases Video – “Omnipotent”
Cinematic and elaborate, Austin band SORNE’s new video for their song “Omnipotent” is epic and ambitious, containing wicked images of slow-slithering rattlesnakes and tribal rituals involving animal skulls as the story leads to…
Video: Dirty Projectors – “About to Die”
Being a Dirty Projectors fan provides not only a listening experience, but also an entire aesthetic experience. Dave Longstreth’s mind never rests. A couple months after the release of their phenomenal new album…
Video: Sun Airway – “Closer”
Back in July I wrote a track review of Sun Airway’s “Close” and now there’s a video. According to director Ewan MacLeod, the tale the video aims to tell is “kind of a…
Video: Exitmusic – “The Modern Age”
Exitmusic have a video for their new single “The Modern Age.” Directed by Daniel Ryan, the video features dark, moody footage of the duo (primarily frontwoman Aleksa Palladino) in various natural settings. Their…
Video: Tamaryn – “Heavenly Bodies”
Tamaryn have a new album coming out on October 16 via Mexican Summer. To get us all excited about Tender New Signs they’ve just put out a video, for “Heavenly Bodies,” which juxtaposes…
Video: Roger Miller – “Big Steam”
Mission of Burma’s Roger Miller has released a solo single on Good Road Recordings. The video, directed by Will C., features a disparate montage of footage ranging from a psychedelic, minimalist performance set-up…
Video: Laetitia Sadier – “Find Me the Pulse of the Universe”
Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab dropped her solo record Silencio in July, but she has just now released a video for the track, “Find Me the Pulse of the Universe.” Visually quirky and campy, the…
Video: Hospitality – “Eighth Avenue”
Boy, do we love Hospitality. After the release of their outstanding, self-titled pop album, we’ve seen the Brooklyn outfit three times in Austin. The group has released a video for the album track…
Video: Family Band – Moonbeams
The Family Band released their album Grace & Lies in July, but have just now released a new video for album track “Moonbeams” directed by Sam Macon. The eerily tender music video tells the…
Video: Ty Segall – “The Hill”
We already brought you a track review for Ty Segall’s “The Hill” from his forthcoming record Twins out October 9th on Drag City. Now, you have a visual companion. The video is just as…
Video: Moon Duo – Sleepwalker
Moon Duo just released a new (and pretty funny) video to accompany the first single, “Sleepwalker,” from their latest album. The music is set to a video that tells the story of a…
Video: David Byrne & St. Vincent – “Who”
The music community has been on pins and needles for years now about a collaboration between Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and indie darling St. Vincent. In the past few months, more and…
Video: Moonface – You Know I’m Not the Phoenix Yet
Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade created a collaborative album called With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery earlier this year. “You Know I’m Not the Phoenix Yet” is a track from that album. The new video could…
Deep Time Releases New Video, Plays Mohawk Tonight
Just like Deep Time themselves, the band’s new video for “Gold Rush” is fun and idiosyncratic. Cassandra Hamilton directs as two ghosts rise from the graveyard for an adventure to the beach, where they…
Video: Lianne La Havas – “Forget”
Over a backdrop of choppy guitar licks, vocal loops, and low, bass synth notes, Lianne La Havas delivers powerful new soul sounds. Her voice is an incredible weapon, exploding into sound, peaking like…
Video: Animal Collective – “Today’s Supernatural”
Last week, Animal Collective released this video for their debut single from the forthcoming Centipede Hz, which the band streamed via their own radio show, as we previously reported. We strongly suggest checking…
Video: U.S. Girls – “Jack”
“Jack,” the new track and video by U.S. Girls wastes no time, kicking things off with full force from the first note. From there, the track procedes to be a driving, glam-infused indie…
Video: Dana Falconberry – “Lake Charlevoix”
We wrote previously about Dana Falconberry’s outstanding single, “Lake Charlevoix,” from her impending full-length Leelanau, out October 9th on Antenna Farm Records. Falconberry has been one of Austin’s most important musical contributors for…
Video: Jens Lekman – “I Know What Love Isn’t”
Sweden’s Jens Lekman has always had a penchant for sweet, upbeat pop and surprising, humorous lyrical turns. The title track from his forthcoming album, which will see release on September 4th via Secretly…
Video: Tom Waits – “Hell Broke Luce”
If you’re a Tom Waits fan, you’ve probably been getting teaser photos in your email all week announcing that something was coming on August 7th. Today, you finally found out what that was….
Video: My Morning Jacket – “Outta My System”
My Morning Jacket are set to release their new EP entitled Outta My System, which hits shelves tomorrow. Today, they released a video for that titled track, which features Zach Galifanakis as a Wizard….
Video: Antony – “Cut the World”
“Cut the World” is a new song from Antony that will be featured on the album, Cut the World, out tomorrow on Secretly Canadian, which is comprised of live symphonic recordings of songs…
Video: Jason Collett – “I Wanna Rob a Bank”
Former Broken Social Scene guitarist Jason Collett has released a video in advance of his new album Reckon, out via Arts & Crafts on September 25th. There was a time when it seemed…
Video: Laetitia Sadier – “The Rule of the Game”
All things must come to an end. However, it’s always nice when that ending turns into a beautiful new beginning. Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier has a solo album that just dropped on July 24th…
Preview New Television Series Hardly Sound from Austin Musician Randy Reynolds
Randy Reynolds has been an underground mainstay of the Austin music scene for a decade now. As Leatherbag and now as No Future, Reynolds has given us consistently outstanding blends of punk, pop,…
Video: GALPALS – “For Our Sake”
The first video from Austin duo G A L P A L S is as bright and energetic as the band’s relentless pop. Directed by Cassandra Lee Hamilton, the video utilizes vivid color…
Video: Taken by Trees – “Dreams”
“Dreams” is the first single from Taken by Trees’ forthcoming album, Other Worlds, out October 2nd on Secretly Canadian. The video was just released and it is equally as beautiful and soothing as…
Bowerbirds Expand Tour, Release New Video
Bowerbirds is a band that appears to be always working on the next thing. We recently wrote about a video and now the band has released another video, this time from their recent performance…
Caribou’s Dan Snaith to Release Solo Album as Daphni, Shares New Song
Caribou’s Dan Snaith has announced a solo record under the moniker Daphni. “JIAOLONG” (pronounced JOW-long) will be released through Merge Records on October 9th and is predicated on the newfound love of club…
Django Django Announces US Release, Shares Video
Scotland’s Django Django have signed to Ribbon Music to release their self-titled album, which has already been widely praised by critics. To coincide with that news, the group has released a video for…
Mynabirds Release Video for “Disarm”, Announce New Tour Dates
Following the recent release of the Mynabirds’ album Generals on Saddle Creek, the group has released a video for their song “Disarm.” Visually, the video is a rapid black-and-white montage of shamanistic imagery that…
Video: Shearwater – “Immaculate”
The video for Shearwater’s “Immaculate” was directed by Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and features a slideshow of quick-moving images: Victorian photographs, people bound and tortured, Jonathan Meiburg having a Photobooth-documented freakout (or…
Video: Damien Jurado – “Museum of Flight”
Seattle-based filmmaker Tyler Kalberg documented Damien Jurado’s recent five-week tour through Europe. Some of the footage that was collected now serves as a gorgeous video for Jurado’s “Museum of Flight”, a track from…
Video: Twin Shadow – “Patient”
The more we see of George Lewis, Jr.’s (Twin Shadow) masterful and complete artistic vision surrounding the release of his outstanding new effort Confess, the deeper in love we fall. We previously brought…
Video: Bill Fay – “Be At Peace With Yourself”
We previously reported about legend Bill Fay’s forthcoming album Life Is People on Dead Oceans. The video for his new song “Be At Peace With Yourself” contains imagery and cinematography as beautiful and uplifting…
Video: Porcelain Raft – “The Way In”
Mauro Remiddi (aka Porcelain Raft) self-directed this video for “The Way In.” In this lo-fi homemade video, Remiddi is seen holding various objects before projections of women. The grainy images match perfectly with…
Video: Santigold – “The Keepers”
Santigold has premiered the video for infectious pop anthem “The Keepers” on Noisey. The video features Santigold as “a member of the idyllic 1950s American family sitting down to dinner and smiling as…
Video: Extended Trailer for Dirty Projectors’ Film
It seems that each new day brings a new story about indie-rock’s industrious Dirty Projectors. We previously reported about frontman Dave Longstreth’s upcoming film, “Hi Custodian,” which will act as an extension of…
Video: Chain and the Gang – “Certain Kinds of Trash”
To coincide with the release of their newest full-length, In Cold Blood, out now on K Records, Chain and the Gang have released a video for the song “Certain Kinds of Trash.” In…
