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“Don’t Deny Your Heart” features Alexis Taylor at his absolute poppiest, the point where Taylor and Hot Chip start to sound like Paul McCartney fronting “Brotherhood”-era New Order, and the video, in which the Chippies engage in Xbox futbol and get sucked into another level of play...

Finding that sweet spot between zombies and adoring music fans, bidding went live today for Why Hunger’s annual Hungerthon drive, with a goal of raising $850,000 through online bidding. Initial items include: Carrie Underwood signed guitar and CD Mumford & Sons signed guitar Jason...

Eventually, you will be sorry for party rocking.

Nik Harper and Jesse Lamar High shot this superb video around Oklahoma City, crafting each word by hand using cardboard, hot glue guns and paint pens. This is a must-see. – Lang VIDEO: Lushlife, “Magnolia.

Elizabeth Harper of Class Actress wobbles through a 1980s-vintage luxury hotel in a video fueled by callbacks to mid-1980s thrillers — not of the Adrian Lyne tier, but the ones that aspired to Adrian Lyne-ness and wound up on low shelves at Blockbuster and late nights on premium cable.

Stansberry brings a lot of Oklahoma City into focus in this energetic new video for the title track from his superb classic soul-influenced 2012 album, “Brighten It Up.

Teen favorite Harvey Keitel performs his ubiquitous Summer 2012 pop sensation with “Mean Streets” star Carly Rae Jepsen. From Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars.

Stars moved up to the major-indie ATO for “The North,” which was released this summer and is one of the best efforts by this Canadian band led by Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell since their early 00s halcyon days. The video itself calls to mind a late-1980s visual aesthetic, the kind of...

Fans of “Community,” the long-suffering kind, learned a few weeks ago that, in fact, their favorite sit-com would not be debuting in its scheduled, totally prime Friday Oct. 19 start-up date. Now, “Troy and Abed in the Morning” make a statement on when “October 19″ might be. It turns...

This is the best Tumblr I’ve seen in weeks, thanks to Matt Price at Nerdage for the heads-up. I think subconsciously I always thought there was a level at which both Kanye West and Wes Anderson could be appreciated simultaneously, but the operator of this Tumblr boiled it down. Nice work —...

This weekend, Coldplay debuts its “Mylo Xyloto” comic at New York Comic-Con, and this latest clip from the year-old album features illustrations and motifs from the book.

Beyonce’s indie-minded, Of Montreal-collaborating, Dirty Projectors-covering little sister puts forward her best single so far. Chord progression recalls New Order’s more wistful moments (“Thieves Like Us,” “The Perfect Kiss”) and is accompanied by a cool and stylish video shot in...

Morrissey, our contentious and prickly leader, has been covering this 1967 Frankie Valli chestnut for some time, a Mancunian finding his inner Jersey Boy. This performance took me back to Mozza’s unforgettable show at the Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center, and it restates why SPM is one of the...

Nigel Godrich, esteemed producer of — oh, let’s see — Radiohead’s entire discography from 1995′s “The Bends” onward, Beck’s “Sea Change,” the “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” soundtrack, Pavement’s “Terror Twilight” and other essentials, is leader of this new band with...

Via The AV Club, Odorus Urungus, new guitarist Pustulus Maximus and the rest of the cast of “The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure” perform the old Kansas warhorse from 1976′s “Leftoverture,” making a significant argument that this version should be played at the opening of...

The countdown begins: “The Haunted Man” is released three weeks from tomorrow on Oct. 23, and this second video from the album will undoubtedly stoke the anticipation.

It could only be a promo for “Yo Gabba Gabba,” right? They all go together, like gorilla suits and fancy cars. Like poison ivy and cheap electronics.

Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit get run through the kaleidoscopic filters and chased by Wicker Man-style pagan wolf priests or something in this clip for the excellent new single — not included on the duo’s second album, “The Lion’s Roar.” All highly recommended.

Via Nerdist, Ben Folds, Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge’s first new album in 13 years, “The Sound of the Life of the Mind,” hits stores tomorrow, and to celebrate, the Fraggles cavort with Rob Corddry and Anna Kendrick. BTW, stick around for the last 30 seconds.

Chan Marshall fights the zombie apocalypse with laser guns, a.k.a. silver-painted super soakers, in this first video from “Sun.