I haven't been able to stop watching the jaw-dropping new video for HEALTH's We Are Water so here is a brief tribute to director Eric Wareheim, of Tim & Eric fame. He's a sick puppy. These are best watched on a crowded bus, or with your parents over ... more info

The Shimmer are a bit flash. Produced by ex-Clor man Luke Smith and led by David Hanks their music is seductive and synthesized, like a replicant Human League, a darker Sparks or a swaggering Suicide. They're here to satisfy your noirpop needs. If... more info

Thanks to the zillion-plus hours of weird old movies and TV shows on the internet, found footage - the art of rediscovering, reusing and recontextulising old video- is everywhere. Cinema magpies have been making found films for years. Joseph Cornell... more info

Now that everyone watches music videos on the internet, film-makers can go as crazy as they want. A simple NSFW caution allows them to fill the screen with dicks and boobies (hello Girls!) and dicks and boobies on bikes (hello Flaming Lips!). Other ... more info

"We don't really think our songs are about anything in particular," says Tom Baxter of Pipes. "I think we're all more interested in creating something loud and cathartic rather than meaningful in terms of lyrical content." The London trio has been... more info

I'm already eaten five advent calendars worth of chocolate today so Christmas can't be far off. Here to aid my festive slump into gluttony is The Brute Chorus with a wistful Hawaiian Christmas song. Singer and moustache model James explains: "We w... more info

Naming yourself after a Nick Cave song, especially one that describes Orpheus' suicide, can probably be considered a statement of intent. O Children don't smile much, but they might just have a sense of humour. Here they get a disco band to remix ... more info

Cough Cool is Dan Svizeny. He's probably cool for a million reasons, but here are three to begin with. He's from a town called New Hope. He's in the awesome Nude Beach. He named his solo project after an amazing song by The Misfits. Svizeny can ... more info

Ungdomskulen are proof that living in a country where night is longer than day will eventually drive you nuts. Ungdomskulen - Idunno Their name means youth school and they rattle around with impish menace, plying young innocents with their dement... more info

When Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson sang about how the best things in life are free they probably didn’t mean first-class rail travel, but I am a shameless freeloader and that song speaks to me. At the moment, Eurostar is running a campaign ca... more info