British DJ Alex Metric cracked our weekly best videos list in 2011, and he’s got another contender for that honor with the visuals for his new single “Heart Weighs A Ton.” Directed by Jack Wagner and Zach Shields, the clip stars a 60-year-old widower named Glenn Bruno who’s pursued his passion for dancing ...

On the most recent episode of the BBC show Later… With Jools Holland, Arcade Fire brought the recent theatrical version of their live show, playing the Reflektor songs “You Already Know” and “Normal Person.” With the geometric stage design and the old-timey dance-rocker stage moves and the deeply...

When Bob Dylan emerged as the face of the Greenwich Village’s bohemian folk scene in the early ’60s, he was pretty much diametrically opposed to Rat Pack crooners like Frank Sinatra. But that was more than 50 years ago, and in his old age the thought of Dylan covering Sinatra’s 1945 Ted Mossmann and Buddy [...]

Canny consumers of ’90s pop-country know an ascendant Tim McGraw once released a song called “It Doesn’t Get Any Countrier Than This.” Coldplay’s Under 1 Roof concert benefitting the charity Kids Company might be the diametrical opposite of that sentiment: It doesn’t get any more Britis...

The Torontonian drag performer Tynomi Banks stars in the Canadian pop group Metric’s new video for “Lost Kitten,” a song from their 2012 album Synthetica. In the clip, shot beautifully by director Sammy Rawal, Banks vogues his way through Mexico City, looking for a mythical mother figure. Banks cuts a striking figur...