Look+Listen: Zooey Deschanel+Joseph Gordon-Levitt: What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

Zooey and Joseph reunite for a charming duet.

Look+Listen: Ben Howard: Old Pine

A beautiful duet to close out the year.  Enjoy.

Look+Listen: Erik Omen: Payhone (featuring Holiday Sidewinder)

Front to back delight from lo-fi Sydney duo Erik Omen. Buoyed by a haunting vocal assist from Bridezilla's Holiday Sidewinder and available now as a limited 12" via Midnight Juggernauts imprint Siberia Records.

Director - Erik Omen
Motion Graphics / Designer - Mel Pragassen
Producer - Al Morrow

Via pedestrian.

Look+Listen: Dance like no one is watching

Feeling down? This should cheer you up. Angela Trimbur dances like nobody’s watching to Lykke Li’s “I’m Good, I’m Gone” at a laundromat in Echo Park.

PLACE: Laundromat in Echo Park, CA.
SONG: LYKKE LI- I'm Good, I'm Gone.
WHY I CHOSE THIS SONG: I just went through a bum of a breakup. I've been mega sad/low. This title caught my eye as I scrolled through- it's fitting!"
LYRIC I LOVE: "Yeah, I know I'll get it back. Yeah, I know your hands will clap."

Flashback: 1994: Portishead: Roads (Live)

speechless

Listen: Chromatics: Tick of the Clock

► CHROMATICS / TICK OF THE CLOCK (Original "NIGHT DRIVE" Version)

Written by Jonnhy Jewel from the 2007 album Night Drive (and also appearing on the Drive soundtrack).

Look+Listen: MGMT covers Bauhaus: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

MGMT covers a 1982 post-punk/goth classic by Bauhaus. Taken from the album Late Night Tales.

Directed by Ned Wenlock
Character animation by Rodney Selby
Produced by Georgiana Taylor

Watch: Skate the streets of Tokyo in Filter by Gravis

Dylan Rieder and Sammy Winter skate through the psychedelic labyrinth that is the streets of Tokyo.

Filmed and edited by Russell Houghten for Gravis. Music by The Cosmonauts.

Flashback: 1972: Bill Withers: Ain't No Sunshine

just good music.

Look+Listen: DJ Shadow x Little Dragon: Scale it Back

Directed and Produced: Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond caseyandewan.com/​

Look+Listen: The Honey Trees: Moon River

A beautifully pared-down minimalist take, on a classic Mercer-Mancini jazz standard.  By The Honey Trees.

What a voice!

Via the modern love tumblr.

Listen: Future Islands: Balance

Directed by Jay Buim.

Listen: Foster the People: Pumped up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix)

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix) by GIGAMESH

Pretty much sums up my mood.

Look+Listen: Little Dragon: Shuffle a Dream

Live on FranceInfo's La Session (Radio France)

Look+Listen: Lanvin x Pitbull

Lanvin injects some much needed levity into the fashion world, and the result is quite refreshing. And yes, that is indeed Alber Elbaz.

Lanvin's Steven Meisel-shot fall/winter 2011 campaign images of Karen Elson and Raquel Zimmermann dancing were slightly confusing when they were first released... but everything makes sense now that the Paris label has released a campy video to accompany the print ads.   Models Karen Elson, Raquel Zimmermann, Lowell Tautchin and Milo Spijker dance to Pitbull's 2009 smash hit "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" wearing select pieces from Lanvin's fall/winter 2011 collection in this super cute video. Choreographed moves, serious model faces and some ultra-glam Lanvin designs.

Via the fashionist.

Listen: New Feist Track: How Come You Never Go There

How Come You Never Go There by Feist

From her upcoming fourth solo album Metals, due out October 2011.

Via pedestrian.

Start Me Up

Sarah D. livens up the studio with her best Mick Jagger.

Via Victor Del Toro.

Look+Listen: Best Coast x Drew Barrymore: Our Deal w/ Chloe Moretz

Drew Barrymore's video for Best Coast is a homage to classic teen-gang rivalry films of yore.

....pulling tricks and tropes from The Warriors, West Side Story and maybe even a little bit of Breakin’ (?) And as a former child star herself, Barrymore enlisted the help of Chloe Moretz (from Kick-Ass), Donald Glover (from “Community”) aka Childish Gambino, Alia Shawkat (Maebe from “Arrested Development”), cutie Tyler Posey (of recent “Teen Wolf” fame), and Miranda Cosgrove (Carly from…”iCarly”).

Via Round Table.

Flashback: 1989: The Stone Roses: Waterfall

The Stone Roses performing the classic 'Waterfall' from their debut album live on the Tony Wilson hosted 'Other Side of Midnight' in Jan 1989 (before the album was actually released).

Thanks David for the link.

Look+Listen: Ellie Goulding: Your Song

Ellie Goulding's beautiful pared-down take on the 1970 Elton John classic Your Song.