The Lumineers presents some intriguing slices of life - and love! - in their new video for Brightside. TZA House Concert alums, Oliver Hazard just released their new single and video for Use Me Up. Maya de Vitry released this personal and touching video for her single Dogs Run On.
Bonus: Danz CM (former Computer Magic) slowed things down for this gorgeous video, that I would LOVE to know where it was filmed...
Moon Boots just makes you wanna dance with their new video for Come To Me. Caribou released this dog-tastic video for You Can Do it! Charli XCX turns the sexiness up to 10 with her video for Good Ones.
Bonus: This Troye Sivan video of STUD has what you’d expect, STUDS.
Two of my favorite indie pop artists (Jax Anderson / Yoke Lore) got together for Jax’s Tender. Matthew Fowler is a new discovery with a cheerful and delightful montage video of tour footage. My crush on Oberhover only continues with his new video for Let It Go.
Bonus: I’m a little late to the party on this Max Cooper video for repetition, but it’s mesmerizing.
I’ve been listening to Arlo Parks long enough enough that i’s hard to believe that Too Good is still new and now has a video! Syd just released this new video for Fast Car, and did "for the gay Black girls." Declan McKenna gets a visitor in his new video for My House.
Bonus: While this isn’t a stand-out video, I’m always happy to give some love to Basia Bulat, where here she’s asking Are You In Love?
BROCKHAMPTON has some good advice to give with their new frenetic new video for Don’t Shoot Up The Party. Duke Dumont hooked up with Channel Tres for this new video for Alter Ego. This song and video for 24 Hours by Agnes popped up on OMG BLOG and I'm appreciating their sense of style.
Bonus: I’m still a little smitten with Twenty One Pilots, and this video just keeps me riding that wave.
This Video Day is a who’s who of TZA favorites! WOODS announced a new expanded version of their latest album Strange to Explain with this video for Waiting Around For A New Me. Heartless Bastards just released this blistering new social commentary video for How Low. Xavier Rudd announced a new album with this soothing video for Stoney Creek.
Bonus: So nice to see Martha Wainwright is coming out with some new music, along with this new video for Love Will Be Reborn, off her new release on 8/20.
Starting off with something new today, this video for Darker Place by Rachel Chinouriri is excellent. Loving the new music by The Go! Team, continuing with this video for Pow. Channel Tres is everywhere these days (!) including in this new song & video for Palms with Gus Dapperton!
Bonus: Jake Shears is still working on a new album, but is dropping some retro flair with his new sing/video for Do The Television.
Jessie Ware is serving some 90’s inspired realness in this video for Please, off her new expanded release. Claire Laffut pulls off another stunning video for her new single Hiroshima. BROCKHAMPTON’s trippy new video for Count On Me features Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike, and is unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
Bonus: This “live” video for Glass Animals' Heat Waves (Live On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) is every bit as good as any official video release. They will also be performing live at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica on 10/1/21!
Rostam just released a charming new video for From the Back Of A Cab, with a cadre of folks you may know, including HAIM and Charli XCX. Mandolin Orange announced that they’ve changed their name to Watchhouse, with this new single and video for Better Way. José Gonález released his stunning new video for his new sing Visions, off his new album Local Valley (due 9/17).
Bonus: Excited to hear about the new Mdou Moctar album, and really enjoyed this peak into (one) of their worlds with this video for Tala Tannam.
MARINA is ready to Purge The Poison for all of us in her new video, while also announcing her new album on 6/11! I’ve recently been turned onto UK pop artist JONES and I'm quickly falling in love, so check out her new video for Camera Flash. Tristen is back (!) with this fun little ditty, Complex, along with this fun little video.
Bonus: I, like the rest of us, was gobsmacked by Lil Nas X’s video for MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name). Brava!
Töth is one of those artists that I’m never quite sure I understand what’s happenin), but I also never seem to mind. Lava La Rue is going underground in their new video for Magpie. SZA's new video for Good Days, which is anything but chill.
Bonus: I’ve had this vincent peirani & Emile Parisien album for a little while now, but just randomly discovered a video accompaniment!
Actually discovered POSTDATA thanks to 88.7 WJCU, and found their video as charming as their song. This new video for Bussifame by Dawn Richard has me even more intrigued with her new album coming out 4/30. SG Lewis, a previous collaborator with Robyn & Channel Tres, has released his new album, and this video for One More feat. Nile Rodgers.
Bonus: I don’t know how I missed this Rhye video for Black Rain (released 10/20), but here that is!
It’s a treat to see such a lovely video by shy kids, with their new single, I love everything. This new video for Tell Me You Love Me by Sufjan Stevens is quite captivating in it’s seeming simplicity. Amy Ray continues to charm with her roots new single and video for MUSCADINE.
Bonus: I stumbled upon this older video I missed from AURORA for Runaway from back in 2015 that I thought was worth sharing.
Shamir continues to charm and enchant with new music, releasing this new video for Diet. After a string of singles, Arlo Parks just released their new album and this new video for Hope. I also went back and rediscovered some of the videos from her previous singles, including this one for Eugene.
Bonus: Ani DiFranco has been a long time favorite of mine. Looking back at her career, starting in 1990, she’s never been one for releasing videos. But with her creative reemergence, I think she’s being faced with the importance of visual representations for the music, and has now starting making videos. I’ll be honest, I’m not actually a big fan of the video - but hey, it’s Ani.
I can’t share the same love of PAIN as King Princess does in their new single, but I can definitely appreciate this video. Declan McKenna is experiencing the Rapture in his new video and single of the dame name. Bob Moses depicts longing and loneliness, despite this highly danceable song on his new video for The Blame.
Bonus: The Weeknd is continuing to kill it with his infectious pop jams and consistent persona delivering them.
Amy Ray released her new video for Tear It Down which follows the activism and actions of Project Say Something, Florence, AL. Elliott BROOD released the video for their acoustic gem, Stay Out. In what looks like a video constrained by a pandemic, Austra released Mountain Baby (feat. Cecile Believe).
Bonus: ANOHNI with a poignant cover of Gloria Gaynor’s classic, I will survive. Read the whole story here.
You may already know I’m not big on Christmas, but every year there are videos - and some aren’t so bad. Here are a couple that are worth a mention: U.S. Girls released my kind of Christmas song, Santa Stay Home ft. Rich Morel. Kacey Musgraves goes Glittery in her video from The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show ft. Troye Sivan. Out of the blue, for better or worse, Meghan Trainor is back with this single Holidays, which honestly I’m only posting because it features Earth, Wind & Fire!
Bonus: Big Freedia is feeling festive with their new single and video for Better Be.
I want to live in MARINA’s world after hearing her new single for Man’s World! Hot Chip just released this hyper-fun new video / single for Straight to the Morning feat. Jarvis Cocker. Troye Sivan’s Easy got a second life with Kacey Musgraves and Mark Ronson in this re-worked song & video.
Bonus: I’m just catching up with this fabulous/fantasy video from Aluna & KAYTRANDA for The Recipe (feat. Rema).
Sarah Jarosz takes us to her Hometown on her new single, with this new video. Shilpa Ray recently released this scathingly good song & video for Heteronormative Horseshit Blues. Finally, I don’t know where Small Black got this vintage content for their new video for Tampa, but it’s gold.
Bonus. alexmaax is one part of MS MR and has a solo project out. I find his voice, and this video compelling… as well as his inspiration. "It’s about trying to shake off the residual damage from a bad relationship – I wrote it a year after a traumatizing breakup, and it came from the frustration that I couldn’t seem to recover, even after all that time."
Channel Tres announced his new mixtape (date tbd) with this easy breezy video for Skate Depot. KAYTRANADA & Tinashe kill it - literally - in their new video for The Worst In Me.Mdou Moctar is back (!!) with this new single and video for Chismiten, also announcing a new album sometime next year.
Bonus: This new single and video from Dua Lipa for Levitating (feat. DaBaby) is pop confection.
