The new OK Go video for their song Last Leaf was creatively directed by Nadeem Mazen and Ali Mohammad and features beautiful animation by Geoff McFetridge.

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I love the new Coco Rosie video for their typically black and cryptic track Gallows. It was created by Tropfest winning director, Melbourne-based Emma Freeman.

The new single Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass will make you want to put on some short-shorts and go disco romping through your neighbor’s garden. !!! is the band you might actually want to be in: the groove is always fresh, and the party never ends. Their new album is out now on Warp Records.

We’re loving the new video from April Smith and the Great Picture Show — Terrible Things — which has been released to coincide with Halloween and features Smith grinding her dinner guests into next week’s leftovers. Haha! Sounds like fun.

Check out this new video by the excellent soul singer, Aloe Blacc. Very smooth, genuine and cool music from this California native. I Need A Dollar is the theme to the HBO series How to Make it in America and is now on heavy rotation everyday before I go to work.

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In New York City, hip-hop and graffiti run as tight as Wu and Tang. Queens rapper Meyhem Lauren’s new music video for Got the Fever celebrates this hallowed union in glossy HD. Directed by rising photographer Tom Gould, the video catches the city’s finest street artists bombing landmarks across the boroughs. It’s also a beautiful example of the low-budget, DSLR cinematography that’s fast becoming the next major street art.

This video here makes me happy for several reasons: the tune is great, the boys are cute, the vocals and the groove are really my thing, and the video, directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Beatrice Pegard, simply rocks. It was shot frame by frame, then re-shot using over 2,000 printed pieces of paper.

This brings me back to my youth-defying authority days, when skipping school and rolling my skirt up a few inches was a must. Now that I’ve grown out of that phase, I keep my acts of defiance to eating junk food, oversleeping, and blasting this song in my car while politely yelling at everyone to get out of my way and learn to drive.

We dig the new Professor Green song, Monster. Not quite as much, though, as the video for it, which sees Green create his own version of a haunted house.

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Cheap (in a good way) electro gothic madness by Crystal Castles. This awesome, asphyxiating, bombastic video for Baptism, from the album Crystal Castles II, makes me want to dance and hide all at the same time.

Created by the design group Sembler using 3D brainscans from the Visible Human Project and using the latest human-computer interaction (HCI), Gold is the new video by electronic trio Darkstar, and it’s a beautiful trip inward. Their new album comes out October 19 on Hyperdub.

This beautiful and eerie new video for Suuns’ Up Past the Nursery was shot deep in the forest behind your house, just before sunset, right about the time of day when the thought of being lost in the woods starts to creep you out. Their new album comes out October 12 on Secretly Canadian.

I loved Oval when 1995′s 94 Diskont came out. I blissed out to it every night for almost a year. But then I kind of stopped thinking about Markus Popp’s beautifully minimalistic project for more than a decade. Now, almost ten years after his last release, Popp is coming out with two albums this year, Oh and O. This video for the track ‘Ah!’ on the latter album has definitely reaffirmed my respect for this guy.

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Australian electronic act, Pivot, have changed their name — to PVT — and have a new album on the way, to be released through the mercurial Warp Records. Their song, Window, is typical of the dense collisions of PVT’s sound. The video was directed by Clemens Habicht (Friendly Fires) and edited at the Abbey Road Studios, using an innovative camera technique to capture the intensity of the band’s live performances.

We love this dope stop-motion animated video for the new Neon Indian song, 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know).

A nice little mash-up between the lovely Lykke Li and the ever-talented Bon Iver. The original is deeply intimate, whereas this rendition takes the song to the great outdoors and injects vibrant percussion, accompanied by the funky moves of Sweden’s finest export since Bjorn Borg’s mullet.

Where would I be without the mighty Dan? This is a band that I listen to almost daily. Every time I do, I hear something new. Sure, they’re clever East Coast jazz-rockers, with a laid back West Coast sound. But read that again: they’re clever! What’s not to love about that? Maybe being English and growing up in the 80s had an influence on me — the US seemed to dominate my cultural reference points. One week I wanted to be in ‘Ponch’ from CHiPs, and the next week I’d be trying to urge my mum to buy me a Miami Dolphins shirt. Steely Dan music seems to represent everything I love about America — it’s funky, clever, inventive, collaborative, confident and sexy.

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The always fiery Les Savy Fav turn it on — again — in one of our all-time favourite music videos. Talking puppets! Neon colours. Genius.

Forget Wind of Change. Why Scorpions wasn’t more well-known for Sails of Charon is beyond me. This is my summer jam for 2010.

For her latest musical opus, the always fashionable Lady Gaga recruited photographer Steven Klein, best known for his work with Madonna, to make his music video directorial debut. She has described the video as having a ‘homoerotic, military theme’.