[awesome video alert] Andre Obin "The Arsonist" / 04.24.13 @ Great Scott

Andre Obin's music has always made for potentially great videos. The Boston electronic music producer [Disclosure: I consider him a good friend and last released released his "Valencia" 7-inch through my record label] creates lush, provocative sounds that I always tended to hear better with my eyes closed, allowing my mind to wrap itself around his beats, synths and morning-star voice.

Now with the latest single off his March record of the same name, "The Arsonist," premiered this morning by Prefix Magazine, pairs Obin with Boston visual artist Aaron Eskeets of meetyourbeat.com, and the video is an appropriate sensory-overload of colors and on-stage clips. Its brightness fits the song well; a kaleidoscopic five-minute daydream of glitchy sights is soundtracked by Obin's distinct dance music for the immobile.

Obin's previous video was a black-and-white Eastern Bloc espionage epic for "Valencia" that was masterfully directed by Theodore Cormey, so this back-to-basics approach works well to keep pushing Obin's dark techno to a global audience.

Catch Obin live with a full band Wednesday night at Great Scott in Allston for the Bynars record release party.

RELATED: April 2, 2013 -- In My Head: The Bynars "All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Tonight"

[awesome video alert] Kingsley Flood "Sun Gonna Lemme Shine" / 05.03.13 @ Brighton Music Hall

Boston roots-rock act KINGSLEY FLOOD have a sweet new music video, premiered today by the fine folks at the AV Club, and it's the best clip of a male character wearing a women's dress since Tim Booth of James messed around with gender roles in 1993's "Laid." In fact, this could very well be a prequel.

If it wasn't for that awesome party at the end where everyone is accepting and having fun and holding hands and participating in what seems like one of those Allston DIY concerts the internet is all about lately, this little kid just might end up as an adult in handcuffs and freaking out over failed relationships at his dirty-ass kitchen table. It's a slippery slope, youth. Even more slippery when pirates are involved. Wait, what?

According to AV, which doesn't really get into the whole pirate thing, the "Sun Gonna Lemme Shine" music video "was inspired by a recent New York Times story about boys wearing dresses and features 25 sassy 7-year-olds who might just have a future in music video acting."

Speaking of futures, the Floods have a bright one on the immediate horizon: they're at Brighton Music Hall on Friday May 3 to celebrate the release of infectious new record Battles (it's a re-sked gig after their first attempt was blizzard'ed out back in February), and they make their Newport Folk Festival debut (read: fuck yes) in July when they arrive in Rhode Island to perform along with the likes of Beck, Feist, the Lumineers, Father John Misty, Amanda Palmer, and others.

Fine work.

[awesome video alert] GOZU "Bald Bull" / record release May 3 + 4 @ Radio in Somerville

The arrival of April means we're getting ever-so-closer to the release of GOZU's new record The Fury of a Patient Man, out via Detroit-based Small Stone Recordings later this month. While at WFNX the past few months we've thrown the groovy love-buzzing single "Salty Thumb" through the rotation ringer, but now the Boston hard rock dudes show who's really boss in their new music video for the stoner-chug crusher "Bald Bull." And that boss, of course, is "Bride" Tiffany Medeiros serving up some black meat and poison milk to who looks like Walter Sickert's fucked-up older biker brother. Dude goes down heavier than the riff in the song.

Fury is finally out April 23, but shit gets even realer the weekend of Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4, as GOZU takes over Radio in Union Square Somerville for two nights of nonstop rock. Because WFNX/Boston Accents is no more, Vanyaland is stepping up its show game by co-presenting the double-dance with our homies at Boston Bloghead. Full lineups after the Bandcamp embed, and check out my Spring Preview in the Phoenix, where I preview the new GOZU record and catch up with guitarist Douglas Allan Sherman.

Awesome Video Alert: Herra Terra "Reason To Lose It" 03.22.13 @ Ralph's Rock Diner

Like a fucked up iPod commercial from the 2000s, where the music isn't Jet but rules instead, where the people get face-bombed with glitter-liquid and don't dance like idiots, and where they're all colorfully naked instead of drowned out silhouettes shilling product, HERRA TERRA's new music video for "Reason To Lose It" is pure visual stimulation for a futuristic peep show. Sit back, zone out, and pop off. The song, the latest galaxy-pop offering from their Hyperborean EP, nicely rises and drops along with the Torey Champagne-directed clip, taking Herra Terra's roller-coaster synthpop and giving you something to stare at inside your helmet screen as you're rolling face through the cosmos.

(Also, I'm sure everyone's YouTube ads vary based on what location they're viewing this from, but mine keep saying "Find the #1 plumber in America" and that works perfectly. And hilariously.)

Herra Terra crashes the Rock and Roll Rumble next month at T.T. The Bear's Place (a stacked Night 2 on Monday, April 8 alongside Camden, the Deep North, and Endation), but not before releasing Hyperborean officially tonight in their home zone of Wormtown at Ralph's. It's a very Boston-flavored affair with support from Vanya favorites RIBS, Animal Talk, and Coralcola. Then a week from tomorrow they hit up Fete Lounge in Providence with Lovelife (ex-Viva Brother and Mirrors), Ravi Shavi, and the Kolour Kolt.

No Boston date announced just yet (WTF?), but I'd gladly take that Worcester show any day of the week.