We don’t usually post about live music videos, but everyone has been anticipating The National’s new album High Violet, which comes out May 11th. They debuted their first track Terrible Love the other night on Fallon, and we have to share! Enjoy.

If you don’t know about Mayer Hawthorne, we suggest you learn and listen as soon as possible. Since the middle of last year or so the man has dropped soulfully styled music that many have taken an interest to in a good way. His debut album A Strange Arrangement is available now. LISTEN UP!

Featuring Mos Def & Bobby Womack alongside a cameo from Bruce Willis. Off the Gorillaz new album Plastic Beach dropping March 8th (US). Enjoy the video after the break:

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Franco/American band, Hold Your Horses!, offers a brief overview of art history as band members playfully reconstruct famous paintings in an off the wall lyrical interpretation all their own.

Produced by L’Ogre. Amazingly done, watch it after the break:

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Remember the first time you saw breakers doing death defying acrobatics in a battle while a DJ scratched? How about the first time you saw an amazing MC freestyle session? Ever get your hands on a “blackbook” with masterful graffiti artwork front to back done by the kids in the neighborhood?

Well, that is the culture we cherish and are out to enrich and preserve at “Self Help Graphics” every Friday night. “Hard N Da Paint”(HNDP) is a Hip Hop workshop dedicated to not only fostering emerging artists, but also documenting and broadcasting our culture on-line. Every week as special guest artists and musicians perform at HNDP our community documents itself with TV production. Not only does our community hone raw Hip Hop talent here, we also capture, edit and syndicate our sessions for the world to share. HIP HOP IS FREE – we are all ages – FREE – always have been always will be!

…but 25k from pepsi would help us SO much :) our shopping list will not pay a single perons salary – 100% of the monies will be invested into production gear for “HARD N DA PAINT!” VOTE HERE!!! - Self Help Graphics

No signs of the Kanye West on this new music video for the Coldest Winter of “808s & Heartbreak”. The video was directed by the highly acclaimed Nabil Elderkin and it’s a visually satisfying feature that displays the emotion Kanye exudes on the track.

“It’s pretty minimalistic. It’s slow and very visual. I just wanted to catch the vibe of the song and not get too literal. Because the lyrics are very close to Kanye and go much deeper than the video goes, obviously hearing the song you know it’s very emotional.” -Elderkin

Directed by Timothy Saccenti, here is Passion Pit’s newly released video for the single Little Secrets. Their debut album “Manners” is out now.

Remember that DJ and that drummer that had that video with the spinning and eerie head making the noises? Well here they are again, Neurosonics performing live, and don’t worry they brought the bearded head along with them.

The film above shows live footage from an initial test performance of the holographic heads, with no post-production added.

Drums: Will Clark
Turntables: JFB
Heads: Beardyman

Just in case you missed it last week, here are some images and video clips from the Fresh! Fashion Show presented by UCLA’s Cultural Affairs Commission and hosted by your fellow LOUDreamers within UCLA’s Cultural Affairs Commission. A special thanks goes out to Genesis Contreras and Lorenzo Diggins Jr. for styling, the entire Cultural Affairs Commission staff, Hip Hop Congress at UCLA staff, Fashion and Student Trends staff, and those little LOUDreamers working within those committees for making this event happen. The show featured clothing from: Stampd’, LRG, Stussy, Undefeated, watches by Nooka, up-and-coming female line Delikate Rayne, and many more…

Highlights from the show, plus a blurb from the LOUDreams’ boys
http://www.vimeo.com/9515212

Keep reading for more pictures and videos of performances by Mike Posner, Big Sean, U-N-I, and more:

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When I first heard this, I thought it was a cheesy blend of Iron & Wine’s Trapeze Swinger alongside some vocals for CuDi’s Pursuit Of Happiness, but low and behold came the creativeness from the Los Angeles trio electro-pop folk outfit called Barbara. Very dope rendition, check it out after the break:

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