TV ON THE RADIO: Owl And Stork

TV On The Radio ramp up a mid tempo single with a Petrofilms directed stop motion video. It's a collage lion headed angel man flying forever upwards in what I can only describe as artsy noodlemauchen. Watch the music video (qt).

BLOC PARTY: One Month Off

Bloc Party raid your classic fairytales with modern weapons of war in this latest video directed by the D.A.D.D.Y. team. The band, again, avoid actually appearing in the video, instead opting to portray the music with innocents Red Riding Hood and Miss Muffet getting mowed down by tanks and grenades. Watch the music video (qt).

SHOCKING PINKS: Emily

Being signed to DFA Records tends to get you some notice when it comes to innovative indie dance music, and Shocking Pinks is such a band. No fuss drone punk from New Zealand fronted by Nick Harte, listen lightly and find an articulated My Bloody Valentine influence. The work released by DFA is broadly a compilation of previous work. Newer work under the DFA label is yet to be released. The video is directed by Ron Winter with Ben Dickinson. Watch the music video (qt).

KINGS OF LEON: Use Somebody

I'm really enjoying he new Kings of Leon record. It's a moody affair, produced by Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King, and poised to jettison KOL past their silly southern hillbilly alt-rock label to something bigger, bolder, ballsier, without necessarily abandoning all for which they stand. The subtle southern twain remains, but thankfully Caleb got a haircut. Now he looks like a proper rockin' southern gentleman. Watch the music video (qt).

METRONOMY: A Thing For Me

I have totally gone insane for this track. The off kilter singing, the dorky school-boy lyrics, the awkward falsetto. All these seemingly asinine elements mix into a cocktail of pure genius. The karaoke-inspired bouncing-ball video is directed by Megaforce. Watch the music video (qt).

SHE AND HIM: Why Do You Let Me Stay Here

Super hip indie actress and singer Zooey Dechanel form She & Him with super indie hipster artist M. Ward. Fitting that, director Ace Norton wardrobed her in this wedding dress as she is, *newsflash* according to Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and MTV, now engaged to super indie hipster musician Ben Gibbard from super indie hipster music project Death Cab For Cutie. Watch the music video (qt).

BECK: Youthless

Beck teams with Danger Mouse to co-produce, and Kris Moyes to direct. Busts abound with this minimal, art-craft video, blending Moyes's edgy electro aesthetic, with Beck's folk-hop eccentricity. Watch the music video (qt).

BLOC PARTY: Flux

Sadly, this track is not to be included on their forthcoming album, Intimacy, which in all honesty, is a really lame title for a non-makeout record. This track, as a stand alone, is quite a stand out. It takes Bloc Party's previously jock rocker embraced sound and techno's the fuck out of it. Like some sad play at electroclash. Fortunately, it works. And the video, of rubbery city stomping monsters also plays quite nicely. Especially as the two hero robots start to make out. Directed by Ace Norton. Watch the music video (qt).

THE TING TINGS: Shut Up And Let Me Go

It was as inevidible as they are unavoidable, the Ting Tings are ruling the electro pop stratosphere. And while I have been doing my best to avoid furthering their global takeover, they are as infectious as an East Hastings crackwhore. So here is that ridiculously catchy iPod tune, with a proper music video courtesy of the lens of Alex and Liane. Enjoy! Watch the music video (qt).

MGMT: Electric Feel

Cliptip favourite psychedelic glam band MGMT have a second surrealist music video out to support their single Electric Feel. The album Oracular Spectacular is a high rotation, highly recommended gem here on the cliptip ipod. The video is directed by Ray Tintori, and features an animatronic band straight out of your local Chuck-E-Cheese restaurant set in a forest of elfish revellers. It's reminiscient of a sunday afternoon in Montreal patchouli soaked Tam Tams. Watch the music video (qt).

THE KILLS: Cheap And Cheerful

Sophie Muller again rejoins The Kills for their second video from the album Midnight Boom. The video takes the gritty Warholian feel of lo-fi indie film grain and applies the overly maded-up look of rock and roll excess. Blend it the sharp production and jagged lyrics of the half Brit / half American duo and you have splintering fuzzed-out sound of a modern day Jesus and Mary Chain. Watch the music video (qt).

THESE NEW PURITANS: Elvis

When your personally commisioned by Hedi Slimane to compose his last mens runway collection for Dior Homme, you kinda know you've already made it with some significantly influential taste makers. Such is the case with London post punksters These New Puritans. Said fashion show features a 15 minute soundtrack so angularly stylish, the press could not help but pay attention. So what was the connection? The apparent link the the fashion design lies with one of the band members being part of Hedi's design team. Quick top deny the overly primped association with high fashion vanity, the band readily distance themselves from being the shallow side of the fashion business, concentrating on the music itself, and not the gloss. This bare and stark video, directed by Saam, is a clear indication. Watch the music video (qt).

MGMT: Time To Pretend

MGMT (formerly know as The Management) are a surf-rock psychedelic glam band outta Brooklyn. And they're very cool. In fact expect to see more of them here, cause I like 'em. This is the first single and video, and it warps the mind as much as the ear with its crazy visuals and stoner sounds. And not to be outdone, the video is also available in trippy 3D as well. Are you getting the feeling the 3-D video thing is becoming a trend? Fellow Brooklynite Ray Tinori directs the video. Watch the music video (qt). Download the 3-D video (qt).

BJÖRK: Wanderlust

You've no doubt heard the hype of this amazing new Bjork video. Directed by Manhattan based art collective Encyclopedia Pictura, not only is the clip a return to the fantastical world of Bjork's earlier music video work, but is considered a return to a golden age of all music videos- iconic, innovative, powerfully influential and musically illustrative. Combining puppetry, computer animation, miniatures and live action, the concept revolves around "creating mytho-poetic cosmology of a primitive world complete with water deities and the struggle towards the future. The main theme being nomadism since it is for the track ‘Wanderlust.’ Unfortunately this version is only in 2 dimensions, but there is the originally concieved 3D version out there... Watch the music video (qt).

SANTOGOLD: L.E.S. Artistes

More brilliance from Brooklyn, this time in the form of fusion hipster magnet Santi White, aka Santogold. Working the cool kids circuit with everyone from Switch, M.I.A. and Diplo, and recently anointed as one of Rolling Stone's 10 artists to watch, this girl has got all the right moves. Her debut video is directed by Nima Nourizadeh, last seen here attaching multiple arms on co-hort M.I.A. Watch the music video (qt).

THE PRESETS: This Boy's In Love

Second single from the Syndey electro duo, The Presets. Surprisingly more melody and pop sounding that previous industrial edged efforts, this video features brawls in puddles of milk, black powdered faces and soaring vocals amid sparking rain drops and lead singer Julian Hamilton's menacing mouth. Never have crooked teeth looked so sexy. Watch the music video.

MOTOR: Bleep #1

Strobe lights flicker while electo beeps twitter in this lead video from London's electro industrial wonders, MOTOR. Director Woody Batts takes the throbbing synth track and deconstructs images, light and colour for a pulsing, epileptic seizure-inducing artful dance track. Watch the music video (qt).

THE KILLS: U.R.A. Fever

The American/British sleaze rock duo The Kills have resurfaced with a third long player entitled Midnight Boom. This time the production credits are handled in part by Spank Rock beat smith, Armani XXXchange and the results are swamp black and electronica tinged. The maiden voyage from the album is this tripnotic ditty accompanied by a punk film noir backdrop as envisioned by cliptip favourite, Sophie Muller. Watch the music video (qt).

BJÖRK: Declare Independence

If you were a follower of this site, you obviously have seen this video already. I mean why wait for me to plug this stuff when you can easily just youtube it and have done with it, right? Well, at least you can get the podcasted cliptip. The reunion of Bjork and Michel Gondry is quite an event as they historically made such cool shit together. This video is no different. Thrashy techno shouty girl from Iceland brings another epic of microclasmic proportions. A spray-painted moebius loop of snowballing, recycled energy defines this video overshadowing the individual participating players. I hear this song originally was intended for Greenland, which Denmark apparently lays claim over. Rebellion and rock 'n roll. How Scandinavian of me. Watch the music video (qt).

HOT CHIP: Ready For The Floor

From the forthcoming third long player entitled Made In The Dark (February, folks), Hot Chip are at it again. More blippy pop electro rock with more hypercolour eye popping videos that look like they were wardrobed in the dark. The androgynous sounding lead vocalist with the equally androgynous name, Alexis Taylor, takes on the identity of The Joker, perhaps deliberately orchestrated to cash in on the eminent release of the comic book fanboy cinemagasm, The Dark Knight. Either way, the tune is pleasing enough, with all the signature Hot Chip-isms that will keep hipster brats bittorrenting 'till the RIAA comes a knockin'. Directed by Partizan's Nima Nourizadeh, although probably art directed by a criminal mastermind genius. Watch the music video (qt).