Whoa. This might all seem too familiar if you watch a good number of music videos right now, but stick around, this clip goes to a darker place.

These guys used to be badasses.

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If the imagery alone somehow sells you on No Age then we probably won’t ever be friends. Great as it is to learn inflatable gimp suits exist for specialists–the knowledge and sight of one inflating doesn’t excite me for Everything In Between, No Age’s forthcoming and so-far excellent sounding album. On the other hand Everything in Between opener, “Life Prowler,” is what you’re listening to as the suit expands and because we’re here for the music you should pay attention to that.

Speaking of creeping, if you’re cool with Arcade Fire knowing where you live and/or used to live, then check out the fascinating interactive video for my favorite track from The Suburbs, “We Used To Wait.”  You may remember director Chris Milk from his brilliant video for Gnarls Barkley’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul.”

I know link-roundups have their merits, and I’ll post ‘em now and again, but they rank just a notch above crazy cat videos in the blogosphere merit-scale. Here goes:

Two write ups on My Morning Jacket: The First, The Second

Carl Broemel solo stuff

Jenny and Johnny’s debut, I’m Having Fun Now, streams at NPR until the 31st.

Pitchfork counts down the top 50 music videos of the 90′s.

Tennis/Ducktails/Family Portrait show report.

New one from Rick Ross.

I wouldn’t know, I haven’t had cable in years and wouldn’t watch MTV if I did, but had to search up what John Norris was up to, apparently laid off by MTV two years ago (he’s not an employee though he showed up last year to pick the Michael Jackson carcass), he’s now working for a site that might be a competitor. But hey, there was a time, when MTV was kinda alright, that Norris proved a welcome alternative to the perpetually smarmy Kurt Loder.