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This stylish video has previously been published here in QuickTime format. Here is an embedded YouTube version.

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This is the video for "Mistaken For Strangers", directed by Thread-Count. This is the first single for The National's acclaimed album, Boxer. More information can be found at www.americanmary.com.

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This is the video for Once Upon a Time directed by Mathieu Tonetti, off their soon to be released album Pocket Symphony due out March 6th. You can only watch it here, and on their myspace.

It has now been recently added to their new website.

www.pocket-symphony.com

www.myspace.com/intairnet

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Cannibalism, churches and big guitar riffs: The Queens of the Stone Age are honing in on Marilyn Manson's territory. The act's "Sick, Sick, Sick" captures Josh Homme and company inexplicably rocking their hearts out in a church for a fan. She wants to devour a lot more than the band's music, though. "Sick, Sick, Sick" is the lead single from QOTSA's Era Vulgaris (Interscope).

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Jack and Meg have just released the video for Icky Thump through AOL, a wildly spanish-influenced tale that features a new look for Meg and a solid start to the White Stripes onslaught that will be the summer of 2007.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have teamed up with actor/comedian Chris Rock on the video for "Hump de Bump" -- the upcoming fourth U.S. single from the band's multiple-Grammy winning, double-platinum album "Stadium Arcadium." Rock directed the clip, which was shot on the Los Angeles set of the comedian's CW show "Everybody Hates Chris."

The pairing was hatched one night when Rock, a longtime friend of Chili Peppers' frontman Anthony Kiedis, was having dinner with the band's producer Rick Rubin. "We were talking about the album and I commented to Rick that their videos are very arty," Rock recalls. "I said, 'They need to do a straight down-the-middle party, girls, ass-shaking, Rolling Stones-type video.' Rick told Anthony what I said, so Anthony pages me and asks if I'd like to direct the video. I said, 'Okay, I'll direct it, but you have to agree to be the only white people in the video.' He laughed and said, 'Sure, because it's going to look different.'"

In keeping with the funky retro flavor of the track, the clip is set at a block party in Brooklyn, where the band members mingle with people from the neighborhood, cheerleaders, and a full marching band. Nearby, old men play dominos as a group of young men drum on plastic buckets. In another scene, the band rides down the street in an apple-green low-rider car.

"Shooting this video was so great," Chili Peppers' bassist Flea says. "I was on set all day and only stayed in my trailer for one minute." Adds guitarist John Frusciante: "It was the first time I've ever wanted to hang out on the set."

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