Stevie Wonder's really let himself go.....

It was inevitable—the “Yes We Can” video by will.i.am has prompted a humorous (one supposes) response vid from the Latino-Jewish group Hip Hop Hoodíos called “Shalom Obama!” (Perhaps Gustavo can translate the Spanish lyrics.) The song's a funked-up “Hava Nagila” that is—oy vey! ¡ay, caramba!— maddeningly catchy.

VBS.TV's Ian Svenonius interviews My Bloody Valentine mastermind Kevin Shields, the primary creative force behind Loveless and Isn't Anything, two of the greatest rock albums of all time. It's not the most scintillating interview ever, but if you're a My Bloody Valentine fanatic, you'll want to watch. (You're not a My Bloody Valentine fanatic? Click on the “Soon” video below and get back to me.)

Among other things, Shields discusses the forthcoming MBV album, which is “pretty much three-quarters done.” (Translation: It may be finished by Obama's second term in office.) This record will include reworked material from the mid-'90s along with some newer tracks and will involve the classic Loveless lineup (drummer Colm O'Ciosoig, guitarist/vocalist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Deb Googe). Holding of one's breath for this probable masterpiece is not advised.

Tip: Billgazer

Jose El Rey claims to be the king of Hialeah freestyle music (Hialeah is a city near Miami).

His talent is um, evident in his video for "Are You Offended By My Sex?"

Offended doesn't even begin to describe it . . .

DJs Sara and Ryusei are in single digits yet they appear to be pretty nonchalant about their wicked scratching talent. I wonder if their parents cracked the whip on 'em or if they practiced that much of their own accord. Skills like the ones they're flaunting here require serious lab time. I'm going to guess it's the latter.

Anyway, check this out and take care not to fracture your mandible on the desk/table.

Tip: Khuyen and Charlene.

Even back in 1992, copyright holders and their earnest propagandists were battling against illegal duplicating. This clever video puts human faces behind the adverse effects of piracy. Real people's livelihoods are at stake here, now more than ever in the brave new world of 2008. Think about that before you commit digital larceny, you with your misguided sense of entitlement and stockpile of hard-drive contraband.

Tip: Jon M.

What were the producers of Sesame Street thinking when they allowed this utterly mad, apocalyptic drumming exhibition by Bert and Ernie to get transmitted to the fragile, eggshell minds of American youth? How many delicate child constitutions were traumatized by this percussion inferno? I dunno, but I'm grateful I can relive it now. Bert and Ernie's drum-kit thunder storm sounds like something Napalm Death/Painkiller drummer Mick Harris might conjure.

Was it good for you, too?

Tip: Alternative Press editor Jason Pettigrew

Merry Christmas from fag-hating Westboro Baptist Church!

Kid Sister nails it.

Sassy Chicago MC and URB magazine cover star Kid Sister looks poised to blow up any week now. This video—with cameo by Kanye West—won't hurt her chances with the cuticle-blingin' demographic. The single is out now on DJ A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs' Fool's Gold label (A-Trak produced it). Check out the insidiously cute vid for “Pro Nails,” the audio and visuals of which will stay in your head for several hours.

How mind-blowingly off the hook is Snoop Dogg?

Bangin' you say? Supa dupa fly? Funktastically shalackin' even?

No no, my friends. He's even more groovy than that.

His new video for Sensual Seduction says it all:

Video subversives Wreck and Salvage have taken the cheerful inanity of most TV ads and transformed them into hypnotic, creepy mantras that recall the early work of avant-garde composer Steve Reich. Just try not to view this more than once. Damn—you're hooked, sucka!

Hat tip to Joel Pryde.

Call and Response from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo.

Nominated for 5 moon men at the MTV Awards held Sunday, Mr. West did not win any of them.
This tantrum ensued:

Kanye threatens never to return to MTV.
Oh, puh-leese!
We all know that statement's as empty as 50's threat to retire.

“Hey, little gothic girl, watch out, don't get a suntan,” is surely a lyric that will resonate with many young OC femmes gothique. German techno-pop trio International Pony sympathize with your dilemma. They've conceived this utterly demented video to their endearingly skewed ditty to show how much they care. If this song doesn't become a global smash... well, I wouldn't be surprised at all. But it ought to win some sort of award, somewhere.

Hat tip: earplug webzine.

Check out this video for Richie Hawtin's “The Tunnel” and get a glimpse of the future as envisioned by this techno innovator: Austere, minimalistic bloops; warped bleeps; mechanized, spaceship door sounds; brisk, no-nonsense 4/4 beats; sterile room; animated geometric shapes doing enigmatic things; emotionless, fainting Hawtin. It's as if somebody totally enamored of 2001: A Space Odyssey created this video. Rather quaint, really.

Unfortunately, Stanley Kubrick is unavailable for comment...

Although M.I.A.'s new album Kala (Interscope) wont come out in the U.S. until August 21, here is a little clip of her collaborating with Diplo on an early rendition of "Paper Planes".

It's a ruff mix, but it ain't bad for a canine.

Via: VideoSift

Bomani “D'mite” Armah offers some sage advice, delivered in the blustery, sledgehammer-subtle style of mid-'00s mainstream hip-hop. Bling the ruckus . . .

Flight of the Conchords prove that it is indisputably so in the clip below. This Kiwi duo pull off the incredibly difficult feat of combining witty humor and good music with understated panache. I've seen them twice and they had me laughing throughout most of their sets, which is rare, because I'm a demanding customer when it comes to comedy.

Unfortunately for those who slept, Conchords' July 11 El Rey show is sold out. But you can peep their EP, The Distant Future, out Aug. 7 on SubPop.

Karizma breaks it down for y'all. If you don't agree with at least 90 percent of what he's saying, you're just frontin'. Hat tip to my Seattle homie J-Justice.

The kid's a little green, but he shows potential.