Music

Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord never dissapoint. Thier latest video for "Ugly Boy" has so much fokken Zef style and random—but actually perfect—cameos by Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Teese, The ATL Twins, Jack Black and model Cara Delevingne.

Halloween may be over, but we want a redo and go as everything that's in this video.

Just in time for Hallowe'en, Pittsburgh's 1,2,3 release this classically haunting video for "Darkly Through the Valley". Shot in West Virginia (the most terrifying state. Seriously.) the POV chase video takes on a bit of a Ti West vibe, which is perfect for the cinematically ominous, basement-rattling track. Good listening for starting a weird blood cult, or taking dating advice from the petrified corpse of your mother that you keep in a rocking chair.

Valery Gore's new video "S.O." from her LP Idols In The Dark Heart is incredibly minimal, but brimming with so much intimacy that it's almost too voyeuristic... too personal... and it's gorgeous for being so.

Idols In The Dark Heart is a total DIY effort of gorgeous avant-pop. Valery has constructed everything on her own from her self-shot photography to the this very video. 

Here are your choices; You can go out with your two best friends and get super drunk to the point that you buy drugs from Kip on the street, get some tinfoil Source Family from Mars cult acid and end up falling (publicly) in love with that gorgeous brunette you've known since your eight year old selves buried that "time capsule" made of twigs and secrets in the sandbox and have a roller-coaster summer romance ending in unfinished tracks. Or you can do the same drink/drug combo, shave Capt.

What a difference effort makes. This is a love story that is left enough of centre that you might actually pay attention. Did I say "love story?" Because I meant a story of lost love in which Vancouver thespian Paul Anthony expertly projects some aching want right into your soul. Anthem Jackson directs with some gorgeously muted tones that compliment this beautifully lonely song by Colin Cowan & the Elastic Stars to a T. Cleanse that soul. Cleanse it with fire.

Are you a teenage lover on the run? Maybe you're trying to recapture some lost youth? I mean, you may be trying to make Face/Off II starring Pickles and Chips (your cat and dog respectively)? I don't know. I'm not a doctor. What I do know however is that this new The Rentals record has the soundtrack to properly fit any crazy scenario you're likely to find yourself in.

This song is really good. I was listening to it one night and this weird commercial came on for what I thought was rings. I mean there were a lot of shots of hands, nice hands, with this great ring and sweet finger tats but it turns out it was actually a commercial for these new showers.

So this exists.

Chorus, the sophomore album from Philadelphia’s Literature, kicks off with "The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything," and what an opening statement it is. The track has energy to burn, a healthy amount of ba-ba-bas, and even a punctuating horn section. It takes the term ‘twee’ completely off the table when discussing the band. Every song featured here is a journey.

It isn’t often that I consciously think about how well an album is curated. It happens once in a while, where upon the first few listens, I become acutely aware of how well the first song flows into the second and that gets you ready for the third, and by that point you’re totally aware of what the band is trying to convey to you. Elephant Stone’s recent output, The Three Poisons, hit me in exactly this way.