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Eternal Summers at Mohawk Live Review
Saturday had to be one of the busiest show-packed weekends in a long time for an always busy live music city. Outstanding local bills took place at Beerland and Holy Mountain while touring…
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Borrisokane EP Release Party at Scottish Rite Theater Live Review
Borrisokane weaves mutli-textured pop music, employing an unexpected blend of guitars electric and acoustic and sounds synthetic and organic. Though many of the bands with which Pop Press International has fallen in love…
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Midgetmen’s 11th Anniversary at Red 7 Live Review
What, you thought a little rain was gonna stop the Midgetmen from getting sloppy drunk and playing some sloppy punk after doing it for 11 years? Anyone who knows anything about the band…
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Bill Callahan at Central Presbyterian Church Live Review
I wrote in my preview of Saturday’s show that Bill Callahan was a too-often forgotten treasure of the Austin area, a fact bolstered by his intimate and impeccable performance at Central Presbyterian Church…
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Father John Misty at Emo’s Live Review
I’ve seen Father John Misty twice before, and his recent sold-out performance at Emo’s marked the third occasion. If you can see a band that has only a single album more than once…
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Ten (More) Albums You Should Be Listening To Right Now
We were honored when Nerve magazine recently asked me to compose a list of five albums for their recurring guest column “Five Albums You Should Be Listening To Right Now;” the results are…
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May 22, 2013Album Review: Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
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May 22, 2013Crocodiles Announce New Album, Share Single “Cockroach”
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Austin Offers Inarguable Reasons to See Live Music This Weekend
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May 21, 2013Eternal Summers at Mohawk Live Review
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Borrisokane EP Release Party at Scottish Rite Theater Live Review
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Austin Offers Inarguable Reasons to See Live Music This Weekend
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May 21, 2013Contest and Show Preview: Best Coast at Mohawk on Sunday May 26th
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Show Preview: Win Tickets to !!! at Mohawk on Saturday May 25th
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Show Preview: Win Tickets to The Lonely Wild at Holy Mountain 5/26
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The Sour Notes Announce Summer Tour, Festival Appearances at FPSF, NXNE
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Lightning Dust Shares Video for “Diamond”
Synchronized swimmers do their watery dance to Lightning Dust’s song “Diamond” in the band’s new video, directed by Helen Reed. Although the video begins with a group of average, almost bored folks hanging…
Brazos Shares New Video for “Charm”
After an incredibly creepy introduction that I thought was taking viewers down an irrevocably disturbing path, the ensuing video for Brazos’ newly released song “Charm” is rather whimsical in moments, operating on the…
Video: The Blank Tapes Performing on Breakthru Radio
Breakthru Radio has put out a couple of great sessions by artists we really like lately. Eternal Summer, who will play the Mohawk on Saturday (win tickets here) are one, and Pop Press…
Julianna Barwick Shares Track “Forever” from Nepenthe in Album Trailer
A press release from label Dead Oceans explains that nepenthe was a magic drug of forgetfulness used to wipe out grief and sorrow in ancient Greek literature. The title is fitting for the newest record…
Mikal Cronin Releases Video for “Change”
If you read our review of MCII, you know that we are huge fans of Mikal Cronin’s recently released effort on Merge Records. The album is full of perfectly balanced and gorgeously distorted power…
Scout Niblett Shares “Gun” Video Ahead of Upcoming LP
Scout Niblett will release “It’s Up To Emma” on May 21st on the Drag City imprint. “Gun” is the opening cut from the album, featuring sparse and haunting guitar and vocals. Whimsical and…
Bouquet Shares Video for “Falling”
With every post we write about Bouquet, we have to say from the start that we’re superfans plain and simple. We first saw the band under the most perfect conditions imaginable, splayed out…
Superchunk Announces New Album, Tour, Releases Teaser Trailer
Quintessential power pop band Superchunk has announced a new album and tour dates for the summer and fall. After a decade of inactivity, the band released Majesty Shredding in 2010 and will follow with I…
Video: Daft Punk Releases Album Teaser Preview
Secretive and mysterious electronic duo Daft Punk have released an album teaser preview video in advance of their forthcoming record Random Access Memories, due out on May 21st. As is common with the band,…
Austra Shares New Video for “Home”
We wrote previously about the forthcoming album and single from art-pop group Austra. “Home” was released in advance of Olympia, which is out June 18th on Domino. Today the group released a video for…
Thee Oh Sees Release Video for “Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster”
Dark and sinister psych rockers Thee Oh Sees have released an aptly dark and sinister video for their song “Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster” taken from their most recent effort, Floating Coffin, which was…
Video: Youth Lagoon – “Mute”
Youth Lagoon’s Wondrous Bughouse is among the finest albums of the year, and “Mute” is one of that album’s highlights. While we’re citing “bests” and notable achievements, last year’s video for Youth Lagoon track…
Video: Paul White feat. Danny Brown – “Street Lights”
Rapper Paul White has released a video for the Danny Brown collaboration track “Street Lights.” Creatively and impressively animated by Plastic Horse, the video includes a series of visual representations for the song’s…
Video: Small Black – “Free at Dawn”
Small Black’s Limits of Desire will see release through Jagjaguwar on May 14th. In advance of that release, the band has a new video for the album’s first single, “Free at Dawn.” Directed by…
Video: Carmen Villain – “Easy”
Carmen Villain has released a video for the swirling, dissonant pop track “Easy” from her cold, stark indie-rock album Sleeper, which dropped earlier this year on Smalltown Supersound. The video is comprised mostly of…
Video: Doldrums – “Lost in Everyone”
A collaborative project from Angus Borsos & Airick Woodhead, starring the latter and shot by the former, “Lost in Everyone” is the visual accompaniment for the song by experimental rock group Doldrums. In the…
Video: Leah Nobel – “Ride the Butterfly”
Austin songstress Leah Nobel has released a video for the title track from her new EP, Ride the Butterfly. Nobel’s music revolves around her impeccable voice as she weaves delicate and beautiful folk…
Eleanor Friedberger Releases New Video Ahead of New Album
As one half of the Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger constructed some lasting and hard hitting jams alongside brother Matt. Now, two years after the release of her first solo album Last Summer, Friedberger…
Iceage Release “Morals” Video Featuring Piano, Tour U.S.
Iceage’s praised punk album You’re Nothing dropped earlier this year in February, and the band has just released a video of album track “Morals,” performed live and with the addition of a piano….
Haerts Releases Video for Single “Wings”
Haerts is one of those bands currently taking indie-rock by storm. Their debut song “Wings” has received widespread buzz in recent months, and now the song will be officially released as a 7”…
Video: Majical Cloudz – “Childhood’s End”
The video for Majical Cloudz’ immaculately produced, low-pulsing single “Childhood’s End” features Kenneth Welsh of Twin Peaks fame and was shot in stark black and white by Emily Kai Bock. The video follows the elderly…
Video: Still Corners – “Berlin Lovers”
Still Corners’ new music video for album track Berlin Lovers focuses on a young couple at a roller-skating rink juxtaposes playfulness with darkness. The video opens with a shot of a leather jacket…
Video: Sour Notes at SXSW
Pop Press International has helped stalwart Austin indie-rock outfit The Sour Notes produce a video of their SXSW appearances. In coming weeks, we plan to have more exciting news to bring you about…
Lana Del Rey Covers Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No. 2″
Pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey has released a video and cover of Leonard Cohen’s impeccable “Chelsea Hotel No. 2.” The video features dark, stark shots of Del Rey singing into a microphone and…
Video: Phosphorescent – “Song for Zula”
It’s no secret that we adore Phosphorescent here at Pop Press Intl. We gave their newest effort Muchacho a ‘Pop Press Picks’ status and wrote about two of their sets at SXSW. This week…
Marnie Stern Releases Video for “Immortals,” Announces Tour
Yesterday we ran our review of Marnie Stern’s excellent new record Chronicles of Marnia, which dropped last week on Kill Rock Stars. Today, Stern released a video for album track “Immortals.” Cinematically stunning,…
Video: Generationals – “Put A Light On”
For “Put A Light On,” the second single from Generationals’ upcoming album Heza, the band has released a video that celebrates their hometown of New Orleans to the tune of their echoing, jangly…
Video: Wolf People – “All Returns”
Stalwart record-releasing force Jagjaguwar will issue British group Wolf People’s new album Fain on April 30th. The group has previously released track “All Returns” from that record, and have now issued a video to accompany…
Video: Telekinesis – “Ghosts and Creatures”
In advance of the bands forthcoming album Dormarion, Seattle-based indie-pop band Telekinesis have released a video from their song “Ghosts and Creatures.” The album drops on April 2nd from Merge Records, but the piano-driven…
Video: Pop Press INTL.’s SXSW Day Show w/ Dog Bite and Good Field
We’re pleased to bring you footage of each of the 14 bands that played our SXSW Day Show at the New Movement. We picked the bands because we love each of them, but…
Video: Brazos Performs “How the Ranks Was Won” Live at Braund Sound
Famed Brooklyn studio Braund Sound has released an excellent live recording of Dead Oceans artist Brazos performing “How the Ranks Was Won,” the lead single from their forthcoming album Saltwater. As a bonus, you…
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Shares Video for “The Nothing Part II”
After just dropping a brand new and very solid effort, Aly Spaltro (aka Lady Lamb the Beekeepber) has released a video for album track “The Nothing Part II.” Like the song itself, and…
The Zoltars Play a Birthday Party in New Video “All My Friends”
Lo-fi punk outfit The Zoltars play a children’s birthday party in the fun and colorful new video for their song “All My Friends.” The song is a single that precedes the release of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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: 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…
Season Finale of Hardly Sound Featuring Ralph White Airs Tonight!
As we have written before, Hardly Sound, created by Chris Kim and Randy Reynolds explores and documents integral facets of Austin’s music scene and community. Written with humor and conveying deep respect for…
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: Sour Notes – “Last Looks”
The Sour Notes are not only one of Austin’s best bands recorded and live, they’re also some of the hardest working individuals in the Austin music scene. They’ve just released a new video…
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…
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: 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…
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: 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…
Video: Daphni – “Pairs”
In July we mentioned Dan Snaith’s (Caribou) groovy new side project Daphni. His forthcoming album JIALONG will be released digitally October 9 and in stores on October 16 via Merge Records. Until then,…
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: The Helio Sequence – “Hall of Mirrors”
The Helio Sequence has just released their fifth studio album Negotiations. We first wrote about “Hall of Mirrors” when it was made available for download last month. The video premiered today, telling a…
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: John Cale – Face to the Sky
Alternating shots depict either a disheveled John Cale or a red scarf draped dancer sprawled across a checkerboard floor. In both scenes, each performs their own strange trance-like dance. After a bizarre rotating…
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: 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: Spiritualized – “Little Girl”
“Little Girl” is the second single from Spiritualized’s acclaimed Sweet Heart Sweet Light. The Vincent Haycock directed video follows “a young female runaway who steals her dad’s money and motorcycle to escape the…
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…
Video: Jens Lekman – “Erica America”
As previously reported, Swedish indie pop songwriter Jens Lekman will release I Know What Love Isn’t via Secretly Canadian on September 4th. Above is the video for the first single “Erica America.” It’s a…
Video: Bowerbirds – “Sweet Moment”
The Bowerbirds’ new video for “Sweet Moment” for the track culled from their recent release The Clearing is full of them–sweet moments that is. Thematically, the video deals with the temporary nature of all…
Video: The Shins – “No Way Down”
The video for The Shins’ newest upbeat indie-pop track “No Way Down,” from their most recent effort Port of Morrow features the band performing the song in a cabin in the woods near Portland,…
Video: Videoing – “Crimson Wave”
In anticipation of their forthcoming album the Reader LP, out July 10th on Slack Electric, Austin’s Videoing has released a new video for their song “Crimson Wave.” We previously reported about a ton of…
Video: Yeasayer – “Longevity”
Yeasayer’s new song “Longevity” is psychedelic and dub-influenced as it plods along with a pounding beat. The song is accompanied by an equally trippy video. Stop-and-go synth notes open the song before it…
Video: Deep Time Previews More Music in Album Teaser
With only a few weeks until the highly anticipated debut from Deep Time on Hardly Art Records, the band has released a teaser that includes clips and audio from their video “Clouds” as…
Video: Slow Club – “Beginners” (feat. Daniel Radcliffe)
The UK’s Slow Club has recruited countryman Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame to star in their newest video for the single, “Beginners,” from their album Paradise, out now. In the video, Radcliff wanders around…
Video: Twin Shadow – “Five Seconds”
Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has just released a video to accompany the first single from his forthcoming album Confess. With the Keith Musil directed “Five Seconds” Lewis continues to put out…
Summer Camp Release “Always” Video + French Version
Summer Camp just released a video for “Always”, a second peak at their upcoming EP of the same title (read our track review here). In this lo-fi Oliver Evan directed video, the members…
Video: Teaser for Dirty Projectors’ film Project Hi Custodian
The Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth has posted a teaser trailer for his film project Hi Custodian, which will feature music from the band’s impending full-length Swing Lo Magellan. We’re incredibly psyched for this…
El Perro Del Mar Posts Video for “Innocence is Sense” to Introduce New Album
Swedish sweetheart Sarah Assbring, aka El Perro Del Mar, has posted a video for “Innocence is Sense” on her website, calling it an introduction to her new album, Pale Fire, in the press…
Video: Eternal Summers – “Wonder”
Eternal Summers’ new video for “Wonder,” features a girl whose voodoo-like dolls come to life and move around her desk before turning into real-life friends. Her friends happen to be a band of…
Video: The Sour Notes – “Nothing’s More Contagious Than Evil”
The Sour Notes are one of Austin’s most active, respected, and simply phenomenal bands. Last month they released this video for “Nothing’s More Contagious Than Evil,” the first track on their most recent…
Video: Deep Time – “Clouds”
Recently Deep Time (formerly Yellow Fever) stopped by Olympia, Washington’s Capitol Theater to film a performance with Grass Widow’s Hannah Lew. Lew combined the images of the performance with those of rolling clouds…
Video: Shonen Knife – “Pop Tune”
Since the 80s, Japan’s Shonen Knife have made a career of being the most lovable and insidiously adorable pop-punk girl group in the universe. Shonen Knife is sort of like a cuter, all-girl,…
Video: Dirty Projectors – “The Gun Has No Trigger”
We were totally ecstatic when we first heard the newest single from the Dirty Projector’s forthcoming album, Swing Lo Magellan (details here). The track is one of the most outstanding of the year so…
Video: Grass Widow – “Goldilocks Zone”
The video for Grass Widow’s “Goldilocks Zone” from their latest album, Internal Logic, was directed by the band’s own Hannah Lew and appears to be set in a 1960′s sci-fi B movie. The…
Beach House Release New Video for “Lazuli” and Expansive “Frightened Eyes” Tour
Beach House has added an incredbile slew of additional dates to their already extensive tour schedule, and have also just released a video for “Lazuli” from their recent (and phenomenal) album Bloom. For…
Video: Black Keys – “Gold on the Ceiling” (Directed by Harmony Korine)
The Black Keys have teamed up with Harmony Korine, the bizarre director of Gummo, Kids, and Mister Lonely, to make a “film” that utilizes their song “Gold on the Ceiling” from their most recent effort,…
Video: WATERS – “Mickey Mantle”
WATERS, a project that is essentially an outlet for the creative work of one Van Pierszalowski, created after the collapse of his project Port O’Brien, issued its debut, Out in the Light in September of…
Video: M83 – “Reunion”
The new Fleur & Manu directed M83 video follows the same thematic appeal that the previous video for “Midnight city” did. The story is something like a combination of The Matrix and the…
Video: “This Summer I’ll Make It Up To You” – Caged Animals
Caged Animals is set to release This Summer Ep on June 11 via Lucky Number Music. The title track of the EP, “This Summer I’ll Make It Up To You”, has Vincent Cacchione…
Video: Jaill – “House with Haunting”
The new album from Jaill is only a few short weeks from release, and the band has made available a new video for their song, “House With Haunting.” The video makes a persuasive…
Video (NSFW): “We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow” – SOKO
SOKO has directed a new video in support of her album full-length, I Thought I Was an Alien. “We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow” follows colorful images of female lovers in their home…
Video: “Never Wed an Old Man” – Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts
Two months after the debut of Urstan, Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts have finally released the first, and perhaps only, promotional video in support of the album. Urstan features Morrison (from Isle of…
Video: “Breakfast (Syrup)” – Kreayshawn
A year after releasing the single and video that made her famous (and earned her a $1 million record contract), Kreayshawn has dropped “Breakfast (Syrup)” featuring 2 Chainz. Kreay, in vintage lingerie, hosts…
Arcade Fire & Mick Jagger Perform “She’s A Rainbow” & “Ruby Tuesday” on SNL
For an all-out, pull-no-punches SNL season finale blowout, Mick Jagger acted as host and musical guest and performed songs with Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, and Jeff Beck. In the final scene, Arcade fire…
Video: “Mind Control” – Friends
“Mind Control” is the first single from Friends’ long awaited debut LP, Manifest!, out June 5. Director Hir Muria removes the group from their signature homemade, 90′s-inspired videos by hurling them even further…
Video: Feist – “Cicadas and Gulls”
“Cicadas and Gulls” is a fantastic track from Feist’s critically acclaimed album Metals. But just now, she has made available a video comprised of a live street performance of the song, backed by…
Video: “House” – Kindness
Kindness’ new music video for the song “House” is brilliant on so many levels. At the start, Adam Bainbridge waxes philosophical about the cultural importance of pop music and then elicits some help…
Video: Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “I See a Darkness”
Drag City released a new video yesterday in support of a new Bonnie “Prince” Billy EP being released this summer. The EP, titled “Now Here’s My Plan,” will feature six new versions of…
Video: Grimes – “Nightmusic”
Grimes has just released the new single from her second full-length album, Visions. “Nightmusic” was directed by John Londono (who you might recognize as the director of Grimes’ “Crystal Ball” video) and showcases indie…
Video: Tennis – “My Better Self”
As the shot opens, Alaina Moore, Patrick Riley, and James Barone, along with two back-up dancers/singers, stand on stage, shrouded in darkness and fog. Thus begins Tennis’ new video for “My Better Self,” directed…
Reptar – “Three Shining Suns”
Athens, Georgia’s electro-pop outfit Reptar released a new video yesterday- “Three Shining Suns” is from their debut album Body Faucet, released on Vagrant Records in the US and Lucky Numbers Music in Europe….
Shearwater – “You As You Were”
Shearwater’s first video from their new album, Animal Joy, represents everything you would expect from such a focused, unique, and beautiful band. ”You As You Were” was directed by Alix Lambert and features…
Grimes – “Oblivion”
Directed by Emily Kai Bock, the video for “Oblivion” compiles machismo activities including, but not limited to: dirt bike racing, football, working out in a weight room, and of course, pushing each other…
Video: Youth Lagoon – “Montana”
To be honest, writing about videos wasn’t something we ever planned on at Pop Press. Our staff, largely, is full of word nerds who tend toward the literary side of music criticism rather…
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Contest and Show Preview: Best Coast at Mohawk on Sunday May 26th
Could there be a better way to kick off the summer than taking in the beachy sounds of California indie pop group Best Coast. Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno have become households names…
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