Kansas City kids Vedera throw together a couple of different tropes for their "Satisfy" video. I will now enumerate them for you thusly:

1. The bros-hanging-out-at-the-clubhouse vibe of Paramore's awesome "That's What You Get" video.
2. The playing-twice-as-fast/filmed-at-a-slower-speed effect popularized by Spike Jonze and Weezer in the video for "Undone (The Sweater Song)."
3. The appearance of completely inappropriate footwear given the action taking place. Check singer Kristin May rocking the ankle wrap heels while on what can only be described as a hike (one is reminded of Gaga wearing stilettos while using crutches in her "Paparazzi" video).
4. The near-skinny dipping at the end, artfully rendered in R.E.M.'s "Nightswimming" video and playfully played in Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle."
5. Not so much a music video trope as just silliness: May straight chucks her cell phone while hiking. At least take the SIM card, Sis!

We just got finished watching the newest video by the The White Tie Affair ("Allow Me To Introduce Myself...Mr. Right") and all we can say is..."Wow." Not since Fiona Apple splashed around in a soft-core hot tub have we appreciated so many bare limbs and so much low light. (It's like Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" video, except with more lyrics and fewer clothes!) But then again, that's exactly what we've come to expect from White Tie Affair, the synthed-out Chicago act (think: Fall Out Boy meets David Bowie) is almost enough to distract us from the fact that lead singer Chris Wallace looks just like Derek Zoolander. Anyhow, watch, listen and learn. And don't be afraid to get wet.

Want more White Tie Affair? Check out our exclusive interview with the band and flip through these photos to see whether Chris has what it takes to pull off "Blue Steel."

Reggie and the Full Effect is the product of mastermind James Dewees, former keyboardist of emo icons the Get Up Kids and drummer for metalcore heavyweights Coalesce. The multi-talented musician began RATFE as just a side project and laced his sugary lyrics with bouncy, synth-driven melodies that tend to get stuck in your head.

Lighthearted and playful, RATFE albums play like a Dewees-only inside joke that he manages to let everyone in on: Greatest Hits 1984-1987 was actually RATFE's very first album. The second disc was titled Promotional Copy, which confused music stores into sending shipments back (probably not a good idea from a record sales standpoint). The third album Under the Tray, "hid" the CD from buyers by placing it under the tray (duh!). And the fourth album was called Songs Not To Get Married To -- decidedly Dewees' most serious album, which he wrote during his bitter divorce (he later told AMP magazine that the seriousness is the joke, whatever that means).

Now, four albums later, Dewees is back -- but he's not laughing anymore. Well, not as much anyway. He gave Alternative Press details on his newest (and still laughably-titled) album Last Stop: Crappy Town:

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Is We the Kings' "Check Yes Juliet" the sorta-second-coming of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle"? The latter will always hold a special, immutable place in that chamber of our hearts where we hold power-pop ballads near and dear. And even though "Check Yes Juliet" is a love song and not a "cheer up Charlie" post-punk anthem, it reminds us of "The Middle," and both videos feature outdated cars and culminate in a solid high school party.

We should also note, "Check Yes Juliet" is also Boys Like Girls' "The Great Escape," Version 2.0 -- swap one chorus for the other, and they both work. (Also, director Alan Ferguson shot them both.)

Bonus: Cute We the Kings photos.

No disrespect to the rest of the hard-working guys of Jimmy Eat World, but we'd really like to have lunch with Jim Adkins. Not in a sexual way. (You know, because lunch can be sexual.) Not in a creepy, stalkery way. Just like, we'd maybe like to go to Subway or something with him, because he seems like the chillest, most non-A-hole-ish guy in alt-rock.

These guys have been going at it for over a decade, modestly putting out one tight power-punk album after another. And you never see these guys falling down drunk outside of Area or Stereo or hear about them making out with people who have famous sex tapes. And you know -- that has its time and place, but it's just not with JEW.

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