This Too Shall Pass video, OK Go (song from Of the Blue Color of the Sky, video streaming at okgo.net)
The L.A. rock quartet spent months building the crazy contraption that yields four minutes of cause-and-effect mayhem during this viral video (six million views in one week) for their slouchy cosmic single. One long tracking shot captures it all. Hand out the Grammy now, the contest is over.
La Marseillaise (streaming at youtube.com/watch?v=GtoHs0Ua_Tg)
Mireille Mathieu was a sweet sixties songbird who morphed into Edith Piaf whenever she sang this ferocious fighting song, whose political incorrectness makes our own anthem flap of last week look like very small beer. Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!
By Morning, Ghostkeeper, from Ghostkeeper (on Flemish Eye, streaming at myspace.com/childrenofthegreatnorthernmuskeg)
This tense, infectious blues from the Calgary-based band sounds a bit like what might have happened if Captain Beefheart had spent a year or two in the further reaches of northern Alberta, where Shane Ghostkeeper grew up. A great bit of bent story-telling in song.