Yours Truly has captured brilliance with their new video of Chicago musician Angel Olsen performing her track Creator, Destroyer on the streets of her home town. Angel’s voice is like a beautiful Kimya Dawson/yodelling hybrid, and we can’t get enough.

Nashville newbie Sage has released a video for her track Edie Sedgwick. While the song reeks of 80s quasi-Madonna punk, the sentiments are nice and it’s a cutesy kind of homage to the late actress/model. What is interesting is that it’s directed by Sage’s friend Nikki Reed, who you might know from a little film called Twilight or perhaps from Thirteen. The video also features English folk scene darling Johnny Flynn as Sage’s love interest.

n a new video for band Dancing Pigeons, director Tomas Mankovsky has created a truly epic battle on our screens. You might know him from the lovely stop-motion short Sorry I’m Late. According to his website, there will be a longer length version of this bad boy in the near future so keep an eye out for what promises to be the showdown of the year.

Canadian sister babes Tegan and Sara have just released the new video for On Directing, from their 2009 album ‘Sainthood’. Directed by regular collaborator Angela Kendall, the video features Tegan or Sara (I’ll admit- I can’t tell them apart) backlit, singing. Occasionally her sister shows up for a harmony and is superimposed over her, or has the outline of her silhouette repeated a few times…but that’s about all that happens.

There is an advantage of day in day out, rainy, miserable winter whilst the rest of the world is experiencing sunny sunny summer. You may ask what, what could possibly be good about sideways fat rain that, no matter how one holds the brollie, manages to still get you square in the eyes!… well, for those of us south of the Equator, we literally get summer all year, musically speaking that is.

“There are few things in the world better than true friendship and one of them is true love”

What do you get when you combine Starsky & Hutch, Beastie Boys ‘Sabotage’, the occasional Toto sample and some old fashion bro-mance? I’m not too sure exactly, but me thinks it would look something along the lines of Through the Night by Leeds' boys Grum.

DJ duo Hermanos Inglesos have collaborated with fellow Belgian artist/graphic designer/art director extraordinaires Kristof Luyckx and Michèle Vanparys to create a charming little video for their track Wanderland.

Independent filmmaker Vincent Moon knows how to capture a moment and inject it with something meaningful. Viewing life through the lens like looking through the shimmering rainbow film of a bubble, Moon’s aesthetic is close-up, intimate, sensitive and ephemeral. In the #109th installment of La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows Moon sneaks off to New York to capture the essence of indie folk lady Sharon Van Etten.

There must be something particularly inspiring in the air of late because, like Robyn, Eels are pumping out the album trilogy after dealing with the pleasant problem of having too much material for one release to handle. They put out Hombre Lobro in 2009, End Times six months later and this single Spectacular Girl is off the forthcoming album Tomorrow Morning which we can expect to drop late August.

On August 5, 2010, Arcade Fire will play a show at Madison Square Garden. If you can’t make it, or if you just plain “can’t be eff’d spending cash to watch some shitty band,” the whole performance will be available to stream via YouTube— live and for free. Terry Gill.i.am (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys) is providing direction for the event, which Internet users will be able to access from 10:00PM ET on August 5. More information can be found on the band’s official YouTube channel.