“Wet Dreamz,” a track from J. Cole’s album 2014 Forest Hills Drive, is a story-song about the time Cole lost his virginity. It’s pretty gross! That’s maybe something he shouldn’t have rapped about! But nothing about the song should really prepare you for its video. Director Ryan Staake ...

It’s been 19 years since Norwegian black metal legend Hoest changed his band’s name from Thule to Taake, and 15 years since Taake’s debut LP, Nattestid Ser Porten Vid, the first piece of a trilogy that would eventually include 2002′s Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik and 2005′s Hordalands Doedskvad...

Today, Caribou releases the excellent new emotive dance-music album Our Love, and he’s also shared the video for the pulsing, blinking title track. Ryan Staake directed the clip, which is made to look like a single unbroken camera shot. In the video, we see a nicely-dressed elderly woman wandering the grounds of an otherwise, abandoned...

Here’s the video for Diplo’s “Set If Off,” a video in which a fixed stripper pole in the center of the screen leads to the hypnotic presence of twirling and spinning strippers. Also, it’s set in space, which is worth noting. NSFP — Not Safe For Physicists. Ryan Staake directs. Watch it ...

Robyn put “Dancehall Queen” on Body Talk PT. 1, and it appears again on her just-released Body Talk 3 . The song’s new video doesn’t have Robyn in it, but it’s got street scenes and women dancing seductively, while the song’s lyrics appear at the bottom. Co-director Ryan Staake (Pomp&am...