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Video: Jay-Z / Amy Winehouse: "Wonderwall" (Oasis cover) / "99 Problems" / The Fan Punch (Live at Glastonbury)June 29

The Glastonbury Festival is winding down and the most notable moments to hit YouTube thus far are Jay-Z taking the stage singing Oasis' "Wonderwall" and Amy Winehouse wilding out on a fan. Jigga's cover song choice was, of course, at least on one level a middle-finger to Noel Gallagher, who had stated publicly that he thought the rapper was a poor choice to headline the festival. As you can see from the video, however, the gesture may not have had exactly the intended effect, as the crowd roars along and generally seems thrilled at the prospect of revisiting the tune. There are a few things going on at the same time-- mockery, nostalgia, a weird kind tribute (seems like he enjoys the song at least a little)-- which makes for compelling viewing. From "Wonderwall" he goes into a rocked-out "99 Problems" with some AC/DC guitar in the mix.

 

Bonus! You can see Jay-Z's entire set here.

 

 

And then we have the perpetually depressing spectacle of Amy Winehouse being Amy Winehouse, as she slugs a fan in the middle of "Rehab". Per the NME, the festival is claiming the punch was in self-defense, fending off someone who was groping her. Here's the clip, slowed down and ready for Zapruder-level analysis.

 

Video: No Age: "Eraser"June 28

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz hosts a new Friday night show on MTV called "FNMTV" dedicated to the very thing that put the channel on the map: music videos. Last night on "FNMTV", the show debuted the new video for No Age's "Eraser", and Wentz also had the band in the studio for some chat (will add a YouTube of that here if it surfaces). For MTV to go from essentially no videos to making room in prime time for No Age premieres-- incredible band, to be sure, but not a household name even by indie standards-- is puzzling, but also entirely welcome. (Some idea of the confusion can be gleaned from reading the comments on the video.) So, anyway, here it is, the video for "Eraser", directed by Andy Bruntel and courtesy of Pete Wentz.  

[from Nouns; out now on Sub Pop] 

Pitchfork.tv: June 27: One Week Only: Screaming Masterpiece [ft. Björk, Sigur Rós, and Múm] / Califone / SybrisJune 27

Screaming Masterpiece is filmmaker Ari Alexander Ergis Magnusson's exploration of the Iceland music scene. On a weekend when Björk and Sigur Rós are playing together for a live webcast, this film is especially useful for understanding the past and future of music in Iceland, and how such a small island (just over 300,000 people) has become home to so many interesting musicians. 

We also added videos to the archives including this one from Califone, for "Spider's House", one of the finest songs from the very fine Roots & Crowns.

 

And finally, dig this entertaining video for "Oh Man" from Chicago's Sybris, in which the band teams up to pull off the ultimate heist while a split-screen video captures every tense moment of the caper.

 

Premiere: Saul Williams [prod. by Trent Reznor]: "World on Wheels" [MP3/Stream]June 27

They always come back to the shiny plastic. Online-only releases may get buzz, but Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and the versatile Saul Williams have all ended up giving their widely reported downloads a release on that nostalgic little medium known as the "compact disc." In Williams' case, the CD version of his Trent Reznor-produced The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! will come with some extra tracks, including, well, this one. Lasting less than a minute-and-a-half, "World on Wheels" rolls past a surprisingly complex array of topics-- history, slavery, sex appeal, drugs, money-- in its electro-bouncing rock/hip-hop hybrid. "He's so intellectual!" goes the refrain, and, as Nate Patrin put it in his album review: "I'm still not 100% convinced it's not actually Trent singing ... which attests to Williams' versatility as a singer." Plastic soul, man. Er, plastic Saul.

 

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New Music: A-Trak [ft. Lupe Fiasco]: "Mastered" [Stream]June 27

Lupe Fiasco is better known for skateboarding or trying to be what Matthew Santos says he is, a superstar, than for jogging. So maybe that's why his verses got left off of Kanye West DJ A-Trak's just-released installment in Nike's Original Run series. (Then again, A-Trak says he doesn't really run, either). What the Fiasco knows, however, are sneakers. His are "more meaner, more cleaner than yours," in fact, and he rhymes about them with a bouncy, clever delivery full of internal rhymes and repetitions that would make a mash-up with fellow Chicago shoe lovers Cool Kids almost too obvious.

As with "Say Woah", the single from this Running Man LP, it's easy to see how "Mastered" might fit into a workout. A-Trak's synths have that insistent monotony that suggests they could go on forever, and there are vro