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Here's the new music video from Hot Chip, directed by Peter Serafinowicz and featuring Terence Stamp, Reggie Watts and Lara Stone. In it, Stamp leads a group of dancing monks and Watts and Stone fight in a couple of spaceships. I think? I'll be honest, I have no clue what it all means. I think I preferred his last effort for Hot Chip, which was easier to follow and also much more unsettling in the best way possible. But this one's still fun and the song is catchy, so I suppose it doesn't really matter. But please, if you've got a deep reading of this thing, feel [...]

Portlandia's musician Jason From LA is back this week, following up his hit "Dream of the 90s" with sophomore effort "Dream of the 1890s." He sings of a magical place where you can still build your own cameras and experience economic depression: Portland. Props to Portlandia for revisiting this idea from their pilot and building on it in the second season with an equally funny result.

Comedy videos might be considered the scrappy, comes-to-school-with-wet-hair jealous younger bully to music videos' cool older kid. But sometimes a music video earns even comedy's begrudging respect. This one, directed by Tom Scharpling and featuring Chris Gethard, Jake Fogelnest, Gabe Delahaye and Leah Giblin, is pretty funny for a music video. Now give me your lunch money and don't let me catch you trying to sit on the swings at first recess again.

Here's the new video for "Senator," the latest single from Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' Mirror Traffic. Directed by The Daily Show's Scott Jacobson, it stars Jack Black as a cattle-prod-toting senator running for reelection, Gary Cole as his cowboy-hat-sporting second in command, and Derrick's DC Pierson as a young campaign volunteer just looking to have a good time. Shit gets a little dark for our dear senator, but doesn't it always?

Take a ride down memory lane in Weird Al's brightly-painted, frantically bouncing jalopy. The video for "Polka Face," his latest polka medley of pop hits from the last few years, features robot pole-dancer Britney Spears and Lady Antebellum drowning some bowling alley mice in her tears. So, pretty normal for Weird Al.

Here's the new music video for Tenacious D's comeback album Rize of the Fenix. Or rather, the comedy video that features Val Kilmer leaping in front of a bullet, Dave Grohl and Josh Groban coaching a training montage, and a hug lasting for seventeen days, plus a teeny-tiny bit of music. No complaints here.

Here's Aubrey Plaza in a music video for "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings," the new single from former Fleet Foxes drummer J. Tillman. She plays, in her words, "a crazy person who destroys the funeral" that she's attending. She also eats flowers and smokes apples and stands in billowing red smoke like a supernatural villainess. Just another crazy night at the Snake Pit for April Ludgate.

What? Wait, what? Leslie David Baker – Stanley on The Office – stars in this music video with N.U.M. for his new pop song "2 Be Simple." Also, he's credited as "Black Hugh Hefner." So this is what Stanley does every night after work. I mean, we knew he had a mistress, but I don't think anyone was expecting this level of studliness. Crimson satin robe studliness.

David Wain has craftily enlisted the musical stylings of Garfunkel & Oates to sing about how sexy he is, AS IF we didn't already know. Like most G&O songs, this one is catchy enough that you'll probably be sing-humming it all day, unknowingly hammering the image of licking the sweaty David Wain into your unconscious mind until it's all you can dream about! Hmm. I gotta get these two to write a song about how employable and talented I am.

Well, here's a pretty awesome combo of talents: The Best Show's Tom Scharpling wrote and directed this music video for Wild Flag's first single off their debut album, "Romance." Wild Flag is comprised of Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, Helium's Mary Timony, and Minders' Rebecca Cole. If you are not familiar with Sleater-Kinney (although you really should be, as they are awesome), you probably recognize lead singer Carrie Brownstein from her other gig, which is rocking Portlandia with Fred Armisen. It's all coming together.

Tyrus Smackey and the Scoot-Tootin' Bunch 're hotter'n a pair of wet mackerels in an Alabama noon, and this here's their latest single, "Arcade Daze." (Odds are they may've had but a lick of help from Scott Gairdner and Funny or Die.) Corral the youngin's, cook up a can o' beans, stroke yer mutton-chops and enjoy, hoss.

The best way to enjoy this music video is to imagine that it's the kind of thing Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman often do on a random Tuesday, and CollegeHumor just happened to capture it on video this time. I bet they text each other stuff like this during the day:

Nick: After work are we gonna finish up s4 of The Wire or try Homeland? Megan: ORRR we could go inside a karaoke machine and sing a cowboy duet about a creationist and a paleontologist riding on a dragon together? Nick: YES, Chinese afterwards? Megan: It's a date. Love you Nick:

Halloween ain't over till you watch the video for "Bonfire" by Childish Gambino (a.k.a. comedian and Community actor Donald Glover). The video is legitimately spooky, but if you get scared, just focus on the lyrics and how silly the PG-rated version sounds when you're expecting the not-so-PG words. "I love-, I love-, dude I should be running PETA." It's so radio-friendly!

Here's a music video relating to tonight's episode of Up All Night (available to stream online now!) that features Maya Rudolph's character Ava in an early-career music video with her then-boyfriend, played by The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone. It's very sexy, if you consider man ponytails and pink cheetah print tops sexy.