Ssion

It just barely missed this week's list, but I'd like to take a moment for Young Thug's clip for the Lil Baby/Gunna collab "Chanel." I…

Next month, the longtime Kansas City DIY-pop experimenter Cody Critcheloe, who records as SSION, will return with O, his first album in seven years. Today,…

Cody Critcheloe is the longtime mastermind between the skewed, idiosyncratic Kansas City DIY pop project SSION. In more recent years, he's also become one of…

For a very long time, SSION mastermind Cody Critcheloe and Ariel Pink have been traveling vaguely parallel paths in the world of DIY underground pop…

In 1962, the little-remembered songwriter Kris Jensen released a gorgeously shimmery pop single called "Big As I Can Dream," about building a live out of…

In this space in past years, I've usually written about which music-video directors had the best years. It's a variation of the auteur theory, as…

For years, the Kansas City art-pop project SSION made videos that nobody else on the DIY underground could match. In recent years, the project has…

Lower Dens' most recent LP, Escape From Evil, came out back in 2015, and during its rollout we saw a few excellent videos to accompany…

There's so many moving parts to Robyn's new video for her La Bagatelle Magique project's track "Love Is Free" that I'm not really exactly what's…

Los Angeles is a city like a poisoned apple. Glistening skin and supple, attractive colors cloak the rotting fruit that lurks beneath the surface. I…

Obviously, the best music-related video of the past seven days is the yelling goats remix of Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," and the…

Kansas City glam electro-pop band/performance artists SSION (fronted by Cody Critcheloe) made our 5 Best Videos Of The Week list last December for the bizarre…

This is a mournful moment, given the heartbreaking news coming from Connecticut. And while there are far better uses of your time and bandwidth right…