The newest video of the Beastie Boys has them rendered in plastic and performing with Santigold on "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win." The Spike Jonze-directed video (a collaboration almost as old as the band itself) has all the cheesy puppetry of an episode of KaBlam! and a ludicrous story, but since when have the Beastie Boys ever been about showing artsy videos?
It's a bit similar to the Sum 41 video for "The Hell Song."
The recently premiered Beastie Boys video joins "Make Some Noise" (starring Seth Rogen and Elijah Wood as the B-Boys), also off of their latest record, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2.
Dave Grohl stopped a recent Foo Fighters concert to throw out a fan that was fighting. Nice job, Dave!
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Celebrating the recent release of their self-titled fifth studio album, alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday will be performing live at Warner Bros. Records Summer Sessions today at 4:30 p.m. EST. This event will be streamed live on Livestream, for fans across the globe to enjoy.
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James Franco might be the new Kevin Bacon: the 33-year old is everywhere from the side of Peter Parker to a sharp bottle of Gucci fragrance. In his overachieving (he was enrolled in three different universities at one point), there have been many brilliant moments (being a one-man cast in 127 Days) but also some missteps.
This latest video, shot with dragged up performance artists Kalup Linzy, is one of those stalls. The video is loaded with "ironic" sound and video effects, and overall, it seems like one too many trips on the Pineapple Express. See for yourself:
The two plan on releasing an EP later in July on iTunes.
Just so you know that Franco is capable of something a little more substantial, he built a live stunt that also explained his multitasking, but maybe Chris Crocker (the blanket wearing Britney Spears fan) is the new face of James Franco.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appears in a new video as a promo for the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins album, Oceania. The NBA star simply slam dunks a pumpkin.
Coldplay has released a video for the song "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall." It's from the band's new EP of the same name.
The stop-action video is a bit reminiscent of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer," only with paint instead of claymation.
You don't have to wait for the deluxe edition of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs to come out to see the 28-minute film Scenes from the Suburbs. You can stream it online right now here. It's only going to be up for a short time, so go see it now!
The video was down due to rights issues in the meantime, you can watch a clip below
Charlotte duo Illicitizen has released a video for the song "Straight Jacket Waltz." Check it out:
They've been around for more than a decade and released a handful of albums, but Explosions in the Sky has finally released its first video for its song "Last Known Surroundings."
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Katy Perry has released the video for her song "Last Friday Night." It's a terrible piece of pop crap that appears to celebrate the art of the hangover, regretful sex and other interesting tidbits of life. Yep, this is the kind of stuff that young teenagers will listen to for ideas about what to do this weekend and then "do it all again."