Brooklynites The Drums burst onto the scene after the release of their debut album The Drums at the beginning of 2010. They’ve been on the road for a big chunk of this year, pausing only, it seems, to make this little video for their track Down By The Water.

The talk of the internet has been Ben Folds' partnership with author Nick Hornby, who wrote all the lyrics on the album ‘Lonely Avenue’, while Ben did what he does best: scoring, playing and singing. The first single Things You Think and its accompanying music video, though, features a couple of other familiar faces and voices.

Cee-Lo Green (or Gnarls Barkley, whatever takes your fancy) released F*ck You a couple of weeks ago via a video just showing the lyrics of the track. The video went just a little bit viral, racking up 2 million views in less than a week. Now we’ve been blessed with a full length video, complete with Cee-Lo himself and some wicked cool animations.

This probably strays from the Portable content you’ve come used to, but hey, maybe it’s time to embrace something a little different. EAT PRAY BRO, Y'ALL.

The above work is the creation of French pianist, Maxence Cyrin. Although being classically trained, Cyrin has made a name for himself in recent times for covering contemporary pop songs, and coupling them with re-edited scenes from classic films. While some of his music seems to get a little lost in translation (see Around The World), this particular cover of the Pixies' Surfer Rosa hit, Where Is My Mind?, is a banger. Visuals have been taken from the 1928 Greta Garbo film, The Mysterious Lady.

You and I and everyone we know already loves the track We Used To Wait off the latest Arcade Fire LP The Suburbs. Those jangling piano keys, humming strings and soaring vocals will get to you every time. But Chris Milk, in conjunction with Google, has concocted an amazingly intricate interactive video experience he’s dubbed The Wilderness Downtown that taps into the very heart of our sense of home, nostalgia and personal experiences.

As we shuffle ever-closer to the highly anticipated, minus one Carlos D add one Dave Pajo and a pinch of Turn on the Bright Lights aesthetic 4th studio album for NYC’s Interpol, we’re handed a video for the single Barricade, directed by Moh Azima.

If you weren’t living beneath a rock during the last few months of 2009 you would have had the pleasure of discovering Dead Man’s Bones, a musical duo made up of ‘Half Nelson’ actor Ryan Gosling and his friend Zach Shields. They have just released a new music video, for their song ‘Pa-Pa Power’ that appears to be more of a documentary set to music. Set in a special needs retirement home and with the most unexpected interlude this clip is as beautiful as their album. Is there anything that astro -babe Ryan Gosling can’t do?

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists recently collaborated with legendary theatre director Reginald VanVoorst to bring us this full-scale stage masterpiece, in which Ted – punk god that he is – sells his soul and credibility for fame. In the end, he dies. There’s a lesson in there, kids.

Not really, though.

With summer coming to a close on one side of the world and laying in wait on the other side, festivals are on everybody’s minds. Independent UK filmmaker Danny Cooke has produced a lovely little piece capturing the energy and life of the Relentless Boardmasters festival in Watergate Bay, Cornwall.

I’m not sure if this is some kind of metaphor, or if (god damn!) this is real. MGMT have released a video for the title track of their latest album, Congratulations. The clip features bandmates, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, along with what could possibly be the result of E.T. having sex with a marionette puppet.