After bursting onto the scene in 2004, Bloc Party is looking to move back to the forefront with One More Chance. Less political and more dancy, Kele Okereke move in and out of various sad situations like ghosts.

Keeping with the tone they set with their No You Girls reshoot, Franz Ferdinand plays it fun and loose in the new one for Can't Stop Feeling.  The interactive split-screen format lets the band get as zany as they want, and...

Asserting yourself is great, but you can take it too far.  So says Ash in Return Of White Rabbit, anyway.  This single is a precursor to the A-Z series, in which the band plans to forgo traditional album format and digitally...

At Hyde Park, Neil Young took on the most intricate Beatles song in the catalog with an eight-minute full-on cover of A Day in the Life. Paul McCartney joined in at the end to bring the event to a fitting crescendo.

Beck and the Record Club have been having fun with Velvet Underground and Nico covers for release through Beck's fan club. One of the numbers they banged out in the studio was I'm Waiting for the Man, replacing Lou Reed's...

Octahedron, the new album from The Mars Volta, has more quiet moments than is typical for them, and Since We've Been Wrong is a beautiful example.  The video, often shown through tiny monitors, is studio footage of the band,...

Jet's back for their third album, Shaka Rock, to lower the bar for "genius".  She's A Genius is hook-filled and very catchy, but it's by no means one of Jet's best.  At least we learned that wearing a werewolf mask is license...

Back in 1987, Sonic Youth were seen as avant-garde rebels, as far away from the mainstream as possible. Cut to sixteen albums later, and they're being hailed as one of the best bands of all time and playing No Way on Jimmy...

Why they felt the need to do this we couldn't say, but Franz Ferdinand filmed and directed this version of No You Girls themselves.  The band goofs around while the camera travels "through" various tv monitors into other...

21 Guns finds the heroes of 21st Century Breakdown, Gloria and Christian, holed up in a hotel while the room is pelted by bullets.  Watch for a recreation of the album cover as the lovers embrace amidst the chaos.  Everything...

The economy is bad, there's a backlash against excess, and 100 Little Curses is right on time to express the sentiments of the masses.  It doesn't hurt that the song is coming from Street Sweeper Social Club, a supergroup...

Sonic Youth aren't just artists, they're also fans, which they show with some subtle nods in Sacred Trickster.  Here we follow three girls out to make some pointed social commentary, which not everyone seems to appreciate. ...

Mastodon has become the metal band of choice for snobby rock critics, and its easy to see why with smart singles like Oblivion. Continuing the visual themes from previous videos, the band moves from the mountains into space...

Depeche Mode continues their huge comeback with Peace, a mournful video showing the life of a female soldier being discharged. Despite her finally walking away from a painful tour, the video makes it clear that her memories...

The Temper Trap have managed to entice us with great music that sounds a little like U2 and a video that reminds us in spots of Guitar Hero.  All in all, not a bad combination for the single, Sweet Disposition.  With their...