A couple of months ago, Ash gave a free preview of their upcoming Year Of 26 Consecutive Singles with "Return Of White Rabbit," one of the most unexpected, addictive, and dancetastic songs they've done in ages.

Now there's a nice a video for it.

Enjoy:
1.] Building blocks.
2.] Street-streaks.
3.] 'Sunset Boulevard' by way of The Hulk and Pole Position.

Vroom!

This Death Cab for Cutie video for the song "Little Bribes" is about a month old (centuries in internet years) but I didn't see it until today (thanks for the Twitter tip, Matson), and it's really cool.

To make it, director Ross Ching says:

I pulled out every time lapse, stop motion and live action camera trick that I could think of. It took me about 2 weeks.

Production of this video was fairly simple. I looked around the house for things that could spell out words and then photographed them. Most of the time I would incorporate some kind of motion into the shot to keep it interesting. However, the song has 211 different words in it and I quickly ran out of ideas. This is where things became difficult.

To keep myself sane, I printed out the lyrics and timed each word to the number of frames that I needed to take. The “accents” over each word signified that the word was completed.

Location wise, almost everything was shot in the LA area. A few shots came from my parent’s house in San Jose, but that’s it. For this one I didn’t have to travel all over the country to get unique shots. I just had to create the unique shots.

Read more about how he did it at his website, rossching.com.

Death Cab for Cutie play Marymoor Park July 18-19.

Say what you will about selling out, but it's awesome that a local band (an electronic band no less!) can finally make a buck in this stoopid economy!

And outside the consumerist message, there is a nice underlying theme: you are as young/hip/old/cool as music makes you feel.

Congrats IQU!

Best Canadian rock band you (probably) never heard of.

Pure f*cking magic from Algonquin Park, Ontario...

Toronto's magnificent Holy Fuck, with a video by fellow Canuck maverick Chad VanGaalen. Oh, Canada!

I like that Gastlight Anthem song, "The ’59 Sound." You know the one about the chains and the grandfather's radio and the chorus about how kids aren't supposed to die on Saturday nights. It sounds just like a Springsteen song.

Well this weekend, at the Glastonbury Festival, it sounded even more like a Springsteen tune when the Boss joined the band on stage. And I bet that band wanted to shit their pants the entire time...

(ht punknews.org)

Nathan Williams in happier times:

Internet musician-"comedian" Jon LaJoie has written a song calling out the media for not loving Michael Jackson as much last week as they did this week. I think it's awful—moral outrage doesn't really work when you're wallowing in the same filth that everyone else is. But I will say this: His song:

Really made me feel good about this guy:

This episode of Auto-Tune the News is incredible. Especially the Joe Biden part:

I don't think Katie Couric has ever been so demonically sexy as she is in this video.

(Via The Rumpus.)

I never thought I would post a Keyboard Cat video on a blog. But this should really become the final Keyboard Cat video. It involves Keyboard Cat, Helen Hunt, Hall and Oates, and someone who I think might be the late, lamented Adrienne Shelley, and it is totally epic for YouTube.

(Via Videogum.)