You thought it was when Tay Zonday covered the song with Weezer, but it is this, dear friends, that marks the logical conclusion of the "Pork And Beans" meta-meme. We hope. Until the DVD version comes out with Rivers' audio commentary (fingers crossed!). Like the video itself, this little behind the scenes package is fun for its pitting these YouTube Most Viewed stars in contexts outside their original 430px embed windows. Not dramatically different contexts, mind-- I mean, Afro Ninja and Daft Punk hands are what they are, and what they are is a precious thing not to be fucked with -- but at least you get to, like, see the face attached to those Daft hands. Unfortunately not the faces of those boxed up Daft Hands "response video" girls, though.

This pair of Joseph Arthur videos are strangely (purposely?) old-school downtown New York. In the Gabriel Judet-Weinshel-directed "Second Sight," we get JA projected against a billboard at Lafayette and Grand, decked in his ubiquitous shades, because that's how you achieve this second sight thing. As he sings, "I'm in the dark, but I can see the light," etc. He basically mouths the words, but at one point wipes his face, at another he seems to get self-conscious and stops singing all together. Here and there the camera tilts to other spaces to soak in the surrounding cityscape ... pleasingly, nothing happens, you just get a better sense of the area. The second video, "Paints Me Gold," finds Arthur in a leather (or pleather) jacket, shirtless, doing some sort of Jackson Pollock live painting. Because I evoked downtown NYC, let's say Basquiat or Keith Haring. I don't mean the style of the work, but the style in which we watch the work get made. This work: chalk, spray paint, other paints, a broom.

Justin Vernon's "Creature Fear" is just a great heartbroken song. And like lots of the windswept and winning For Emma, Forever Ago, it gets wings when it's live, and so we're glad to hear Bon Iver do it solo in this latest Black Cab Session. That said, though, it's the lyrics that make it especially perfect for a mild mannered and lost looking American aching away in the back seat of a London cab:

I was full by your count / I was lost but your fool / Was a long visit wrong? / Say you are the only

So many foreign worlds / So relatively fucked / So ready for us / So ready for us / The creature fear

Dressed and disheveled as if he's just spilled himself into the taxi, on his way to Heathrow and back to Wisconsin after a failed attempt at salvaging a long distance relationship, finding this foreign world relatively fucked, realizing he learned more on the visit than he wanted to ... there's some sweet synchronicity in this session, I think. And I swear I'm not reading any of this into it because that exact thing happened to me, why would you even suggest that. Watch it. I'll just be over here sobbing through some old photos. Drinking.

We recently posted the heavy, dark, fragile "In Moonlight" from Mount Eerie's new, self-described quest for "Black Wooden" music, the Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP. A few days later it showed up as the opening track on our quest for "BBQ" music, the Memorialized '08 mix. Today, Elverum on the brain, we spotted a stripped down, clipped live version of "In Moonlight," along with other footage from Phil's current tour. He's been in Poland from the 31st until today. Tomorrow you'll find him in Belgium and then France, etc. The videos come from 5/31 in Gda?sk and 6/3 in Katowice. Both of those places are in Poland, per the above headline. The space where he performs in Gda?sk seems especially conducive to the atmosphere of your typical Elverum track -- all very understated, but all very beautiful.

Every bit of that headline is true. In this simple, one-take footage, the Hawaiian-born, Minnesota-based singer-songwriter and the Shins' frontman do a pretty duet on "Something About Your Love" from Jennings's sixth full-length In The Ever. Please note the awesomely chill bearded guy, who is not Will Oldham, but who is sitting by the side, letting this tall glass of mellow wash over him like a warm breeze.

Team Love tapdancers Tilly & The Wall made a day-gloing splash with their clip for the electro-pop happy jam "Beat Control," but the sights and sounds on "Pot Kettle Black" are a bit more streetwise. Like, literally: the troupe pounds the pavement (again, literally) in Omaha, NE and Council Bluffs, Iowa, playing on street corners, walking through the 'burbs, and paying homage to old videos. The song comes from the band's forthcoming O album (no relation, Damien Rice), and is a good sample of they're promising a sound meshing all sorts of percussion -- taps, drums, electronic beats. Director Alan Tanner, who's previously worked with the band on the "Rainbows In The Dark" clip, tells us that Tanner & The Wall aimed to "reference some of our favorite music videos from the '80s and early '90s." So take a gander and guess at the refs, and then we'll tell you precisely what vids Tilly had in mind.

For the Japanese version of Red, Rivers puts his heart into a cover of Korean-born j- and k-pop star BoA's "????," or "Meri Kuri." It's not very good. It helps if you've heard the original, too. But it's still not very good.

Elsewhere, "Pork And Beans" video star Tay Zonday is moonlighting: Not only has he literally covered Weezer (with Weezer), he's now covered them as a journalist, too. Can you guess which song is based on the sonata form? Me neither. Also, Rivers discusses the band's interactive, fan-friendly "Hootenany Tour."

You are Liz Phair. You are now feeling creative for the first time in 15 years, which is why re-releasing and performing live your debut album makes sense (doesn't make sense). But what do you do with all that extra inspiration you're not utilizing because revisiting an album doesn't require, well, any? That's easy: create the musical score for CBS's new drama about couples in the '70s taking ludes and smoking pot and hosting key parties. It's called Occam's Razor, everybody. Actually, it's called Liz grew up in the same town as the show's creator, and they have shared anecdotal experience of some of the town's extramarital hijinx. The Chicago Tribune's The Watcher blog spoke with Liz about how it all sounds and feels:

You've likely been prematurely evaluating Evil Urges for weeks now, but give credit to MMJ for exploring another mode of experimentation with pre-release album hyping: the internet jukebox preview system. Wired's got a piece detailing how MMJ are helping open this bold new frontier in peddling wares to a captive and wasted audience.

Essentially, anywhere you see an internet-connected jukebox, you'll be able to hear My Morning Jacket's music in advance of its official release.

"When a fan favorite such as My Morning Jacket partners with us before their record is for sale, they reach people in a place where music is one of the most important parts of the experience," said Lisa Tiver, Ecast's senior vice president of business affairs.

Sweet. Next challenge for the music industry: making people remember what they enjoyed listening to while getting wasted in bars. Also, while we don't approve of drinking and driving in reality or in blogging ... I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Jim James brought his omnichord to London for a Black Cab Session and cruised around while singing "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2." Ahh, now the tortured post title sorta makes sense. Watch it here.

Evil Urges is out 6/10 via ATO. Stream the whole thing at MMJspace. Or at your local internet jukebox equipped watering hole.

Previously on Viva La Vida: Commenter Jenn mentions Coldplay played "Lovers In Japan" for the Jimmy Kimmel show, which doesn't even air until tonight. Holy Hoffs-Drawlar funeral parlor, Jenn. We dug around on YouTube some and found more of Coldplay's flash-forwarding, namely the first-ever live performance of "Chinese Sleep Chant," of which we heard a slice in that giggly EPK and I said "sounds promising." Promise delivered: