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• Girl Talk + GIFs = The Internet as Music Video
  

  Evan Roth, an enterprising artist with way too much time on his hands, has taken a healthy chunk of Girl Talk's ADD classic Night Ripper and set it to a mind-boggling video made entirely out of animated GIFs that he found online.

  Watching the result, titled "Cache Rules Everything Around Me", feels like being punched in the face by the internet for 10 minutes. It's heavy on cats, Ricky Gervais, and babies being kicked-- but then, so is the internet. Watch it below.

  
  
  
• Weezer Meets Jackass for "Memories" Video
  

  Hurley, Weezer's latest album-length exercise in absolute ridiculousness, is due September 14 from Epitaph, and now lead single "Memories" has a video. The track also appears in the forthcoming big-screen opus Jackass 3D, so we get a whole lot of clips from the movie, as well as footage of Weezer hanging out with the giggling cast.

  Rivers Cuomo, sadly, does not shoot any bottle rockets from his butthole, but he does execute a moderately impressive kickdrum leap and stand in an empty pool while Jackass guys whiz by on skateboards. Besides, existing in the general proximity of the Jackass dudes is practically a stunt unto itself.

  Watch the video below, via MTV.

  
  
  
• Video: Philip Selway: "By Some Miracle"
  

  Director David Altobelli's video for Radiohead drummer Philip Selway's Familal song "By Some Miracle" should come with one of those "Jackass"-style disclaimers. If you tie a cinderblock to your foot and then throw that cinderblock off a tall building, as the brooding model-looking guy does here, bad things can happen. And something bad does happen in the video; it's just not the bad thing you expect. Watch the clip below.

  
  
  
• Jack White Produces New Wanda Jackson Album
  

  Last year, we reported that Jack White was producing a new album for septuagenarian rockabilly originator Wanda Jackson. And now we have all the details on that album. Third Man/Nonesuch will release The Party Ain't Over on January 25.

  
  
  
• New Japandroids: "Heavenward Grand Prix"
  

  MP3: Japandroids: "Heavenward Grand Prix"

  Canadian indie rock duo Japandroids are keeping up with their ongoing 7" singles series, each release of which features an outtake from 2008's Post Nothing paired with a cover as the B-side.

  
  
  
• Small Black Plan Tour With Class Actress
  

  Brooklyn synthpop is not something that can be confined to Kings County. Brooklyn synthpoppers must get out, stretch their legs, and travel across this great continent of ours-- sometimes alone, sometimes in packs. It's in their nature.

  In the months ahead, chillwavers Small Black (whose album New Chain arrives October 26 via Jagjaguwar) and Rising electro-ites Class Actress will band together, playing clubs throughout North America. Each band also has a few dates scheduled without the other. We've got both bands' dates below.

  
  
  
• Ariel Pink Tours With Os Mutantes
  

  Ariel Pink continues to hang out with influential psych legends. Later this month, Pink and his Haunted Graffiti hit the road with confetti-cannon masters the Flaming Lips. And once that tour and a European trip wrap up, Pink will once again attack North American venues, but with a different venerable name: Brazilian Tropicália O.G.s Os Mutantes. We've got the tour dates below.

  
  
  
• Broken Social Scene Precursor Group K.C. Accidental EPs to Be Reissued
  

  In the late 90s, before they got together with what seemed like every indie rocker in Toronto, Broken Social Scene mainstays Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin made two lo-fi post-rock EPs as K.C. Accidental. Both hard-to-find records-- Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub and Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills-- get reissued on October 26 via Arts & Crafts. The set will be available on double CD, double vinyl, and digitally, and copies will also be for sale at Broken Social Scene's tour stops. Guests on the two EPs included Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, Stars' Evan Cranley, and many more.

  Click on for the tracklist:

  
  
  
• Listen: Stereolab Remix Serena-Maneesh
  

  Earlier this year, Norwegian dream-rockers Serena-Maneesh released their album S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor. Now, they're following it up with a series of limited 12"s, starting with a remix EP, out in October on 4AD.

  The 12" (cover art pictured above) features reworkings from Stereolab, Melchior, and Lindstrøm. Below, you can see the tracklist and hear Stereolab's fuzzy, loungey take on "D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D.".

  
  
  
• Listen: Junior Boys, Oneohtrix Remix Wild Beasts
  

  On November 8, British avant-glam troupe Wild Beasts will release an remix EP of tracks from last year's BNM'd Two Dancers. The set's called Two Dancers (Remixes), and Domino's putting it out both digitally and as a double 12" pack. It features reworked cuts by Junior Boys, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jon Hopkins, and Son Lux.