Yo. This new Linkin Park video is intense. Joe Hahn -- the band's turntable guru and resident video director -- has stepped his game up in a major way. Remember that tripped-out technique that made your eyes roll back in your head on Chairlift's "Evident Utensil" and Kanye West's original "Welcome To Heartbreak?" The one that pixelates the images, bleeds the colors, and melts them all together? Yeah well, it's back in a big way.

This time around, in the video for Linkin Park's "New Divide," the revolutionary technique doesn't take center stage. It's one of many. Hahn uses the pixel melt to segue between double-vision infrared performance clips and scenes from Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen, the film for which "New Divide" is the theme. To put it plainly, the effect is stunning. And it doesn't hurt that the song walks that impossible line of epic and irresistibly catchy. Prepare to catch yourself singing "Give me reeeeeason!" under your breath all day. Watch "New Divide," now.

Amazing Baby is a tribe of Brooklyn weirdos on a hardcore vision quest. On their debut full-length, Rewild, the sonic explorers glam out in the far reaches of a dozen imagined mini universes, introducing mystical creatures ("The Narwhal"), gruesome danger ("Bayonets," "Deerripper") and fantastic real estate ("Invisible Palace"). In league with fellow Brooklyn heavyweights MGMT and Chairlift, Amazing Baby have been generating high-intensity buzz since the first sky-ripping growl of their neo-psychedelic revolution.

Amazing Baby's latest single, "Smoke Bros," is a cosmic boogie about starving cannibals that's half smirk, half snarl. The single's heady pomp and swagger is pure T.Rex, but its outer space guitar sounds and cynical edge are pure Brooklyn, 2009. Don't miss this new glam-rock (hey, aren't Tokio Hotel kinda glam...?) juggernaut.

Watch the mind-blowing video for "Headdress" below, to get a feel for the level of Arcade Fire intensity we're dealing with here, then download "Smoke Bros" for free on Amazing Baby's website.

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When Kanye and Kid Cudi dropped their digitally tripped-out "Welcome To Heartbreak" video, they did it in a hurry because they knew Chairlift's "Evident Utensil" clip was coming. The Brooklyn '80s throwbacks implement the same bizarre pixelization techniques that Kanye did -- psychedelically melting one frame into another -- only, arguably, to greater effect.

When you watch "Welcome To Heartbreak," mesmerizing as it obviously is, you have to wonder, "Is this finished?" It's beautiful, but there's something about it that still looks rough. Chairlift's "Evident Utensil" looks like a slick finished product, blending oceans into blue skies and faces into forests, artistically altering reality.

The song itself is just as successful. A light and airy synth-pop pleasure, it rehashes the best sounds of the '80s without sounding like a rip-off. In fact, if you aren't well-versed in the world of New Order, you'd swear that these indie innovators had stumbled on a brand-new sound, all their own. As it is, Chairlift sounds wildly fresh. Watch their mind-melter of a video for "Evident Utensil" below and decide for yourself if it tops Kanye's "Welcome To Heartbreak."

Yo, 1983! Welcome back! Again! We've been busting out our moustache combs and scratching at our leg warmers all day over here, listening to this airy New Order-meets-Hall & Oates jam, "Big Bills." The instant new-wave-yacht-rock classic is the latest from underground Chicago DJ duo Flosstradamus, with enchanting girly vocals courtesy of fellow '80s revivalist, Caroline Polachek of Chairlift (who you may remember from the dreamiest iPod commercial ever). And if Flosstradamus sounds familiar, it's probably because half of the DJ team, Josh 'J2K' Young, is Kid Sister's big brother!

Finally, maybe it's just the video's Lost In Translation-esque muted colors, breathy vocals and sleepy blur, but is anybody else picking up on a major Sofia Coppola vibe here? Not only is this new Flosstradamus clip overloaded with that moody Virgin Suicides ennui, but Caroline Polachek (good thing someone found a use for her!) is also a dead-ringer for the it-girl director. Doncha think?! Yeah you do.

Three-piece Brooklyn electro-pop band Chairlift (shown here in couture gladiator gear) is the latest band to get Apple's iPod-hawking, insta-fame treatment, and rightfully so; their dreamy single, "Bruises," the one that goes "I tried to do handstands for you, but every time I fell for you" -- has been somersaulting through my brain for weeks now, and their debut LP, Does You Inspire You, isn't even out until tomorrow.

Lead singer Caroline Polachek's breathy-but-bold feminine vocals (think The Cardigans' Nina Persson) float hauntingly above sweetly (but not too sweet) simple (but not too simple) keys and unobtrusive drum beats as my desire to buy an electric turquoise Nano arm wrestles with my desire to buy a Nano in bright purple.

Watch a full-length Chairlift set from Baebelmusic, listen to "Earwig Town," check out Chairlift's fall Yeasayer tour dates, and watch Nena's classic "99 Luft Balloons" video -- the godmother of female-fronted electro-pop if ever there was one.

Past "Oh! It’s ‘That’ Songs"
+ Lenka, "The Show"
+ Throw Me The Statue, “Lolita”
+ Ingrid Michaelson, “The Way I Am”