Today Hippo Campus have released the video for “Why Even Try.” Directed by Ruff Mercy, who has helmed music videos for Thom Yorke, Run The Jewels, Preoccupations and Bayonne, the video is a semi-animated trip inside the mind of Hippo Campus. “So much of Bambi is concerned with mental health,” says the band. “The way Ruff Mercy’s video weaves between a relatively under control external world and a more unhinged internal world seemed apt. And the approach to animation really captured the sort of chaos and contradictory emotions that we were attempting to explore on the record.”

In related news, the band continues on the path to world domination today announcing another major US tour, this time joining The Head And The Heart on their summer run across the states. The band has just wrapped a tour of Australia & East Asia and are back on the road here in the US next month touring with our very own Samia. Tickets over in the tour section.

Rubblebucket are back today with a ridiculously inventive music video for Sun Machine standout “Lemonade.” The video, available on YouTube in 360 degrees, was helmed by Julia Barrett-Mitchell, Alex Suber & Dane Benko. It comes along with a lengthy Billboard feature that dives into the backstory of the song, the video, and the romantic breakup at the core of the new record. It’s also only a matter of days before the band kicks off another run of dates in support of Sun Machine. Tickets in the tour section.

Today marks the release of Haulm’s latest EP, Posture. Following on the heels of last year’s Stay For Me, the collection of songs features Haulm’s distinct brand of icy, downtempo electronic. Pre-dated by singles “Fraction” and “Loss,” the 5-song release is rounded out by downtempo opener “Fate,” the witchy ambience of “Clouds,” and “Rushing,” a slow-burner that has a similarly-minded music video, available above. Stream it wherever you stream.

Baby Boys are back with “Beatdown,” the second song released from the upcoming EP, I’m Set, due out March 1st. Watch the self-directed video above, and head over to Bandcamp to pre-order one of those sweet green cassettes before they run out.

Today, Gorilla Vs. Bear unveils the new music video for “Paris,” from Samia’s recently released double A-side single. “NYC’s Samia follows up her boisterously defiant “Lasting Friend” vid by gently tugging at our heartstrings with something a little more low-key, in the nostalgia-inducing new visuals for her tender breakup song ‘Paris,'” says GvsB. “The video is made up of sweet archival family footage of lil’ Samia, interspersed with more recent, glowingly hazy film shots, co-directed by Samia and Zak Adams.”

The clip comes on the eve of Samia kicking off a lengthy run of dates alongside Donna Missal. Find them all over in the tour section. The run will make a pit stop at SXSW down in Austin. Watch this space for more details soon.

Over the weekend, The FADER unveiled “s_M00n,” a new music video from Bedstudy. Directed by Rodney Passé, it’s a quirk-filled live performance, bookended by vignettes of a budding romance. The song, which FADER called “a trip into electro-R&B funk and beyond” is on the band’s forthcoming dot wave EP, due this Friday. Pre-order it here.

And if a live rendition is more your speed, the band recently stopped by Break Thru Radio for a session. Watch them play “s_M00n” below, and listen to the full podcast and interview with BTR here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvGGQNb0mbU

Today Haulm return with their new single “Fraction.” Fragile and disjointed, with frontman JT Norton’s falsetto tip toeing above Reed Kackley’s frosty house production, the song is vintage Haulm. Like the previously released “Loss,” the new song is taken from the Posture EP, which will be available everywhere on February 22nd. In the meantime, give it a listen at all streaming services today.

Meet Baby Boys.

The Minneapolis trio finds the sweet spot between pop abstraction, introspective folk, revved up freak outs, and everything in between. Their debut EP, I’m Set, is coming March 1st and you can hear the first single, “Kinky Toe,” right now. The video, a study in alien triumph, was directed by Ethan Nelson. The EP will be available on cassette or digital. The cassette is limited to 500 copies, and comes in a pretty awesome green shell tape. Snag it over on their Bandcamp right now.

If you’re from Minneapolis, you probably know the individual members of the band already. Caleb Hinz is the mind behind Happy Children (…and Normal Parents). Jake Luppen & Nathan Stocker are both members of our very own Hippo Campus.

More soon.