PLUSHY PLAYLIST

After playing to one of Sasquatch! Music Festival's largest audiences on Memorial Day, Australian psychedelic rock group Tame Impala released a second video for "'Cause I'm a Man," the second single off the group's upcoming album Currents (July 17). While the first video was a disorienting and rather off-putting collection of computer generated images, the new "Official Live Video" keeps things simple with the band performing the song...as puppets.

And while it's an amusing take, Tame Impala's entry into the puppet music video game still can't match these clips that feature Jim Henson favorites...

Or the mild emo seediness of (my personal favorite puppet music video) Saves the Day's "Freakish."

TWEET BARRAGE

Because whenever someone asks, "Why should I get a Twitter account?" I always reply, "Free jokes!"

date: So what do you do? me: *pulls out stuffed fox* I'm a taxidermist date: Oh wow fox: and a ventriloquist

— dan mentos (@DanMentos) April 28, 2015

This Jeopardy contestant is my new hero. pic.twitter.com/9FhrHWtdXg

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 25, 2015

[Me to the second baseman after I slide into 2nd] Make sure u separate plastics & food waste [Coach from dugout] NOT THAT KIND OF TRASH TALK

— Rad Kyle (@KyleMcDowell86) May 13, 2015

COMEDIANS + MUSIC VIDEOS: ROUND II

Remember a few weeks back in MMPMU when I suggested that comedians should make most music videos after viewing Kurt Braunohler's "Torn"-inspired clip for Mikal Cronin's "Turn Around"? Well maybe it's just that comedians should only make Mikal Cronin videos. Last week comedian and Nerdist cohort Jonah Ray took another crack at a music classic video set to one of Cronin's tunes ("Say"). This time the target was the Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" which featured Chevy Chase. Cornin plays Simon, and Chase's role is played by Ray...and Braunohler...and Nick Thune... and...well, it sort of spirals out of control and gets superdark.

For reference, here's the original...

EXTREME(LY NERDY) READING

Turning our attention once more to Weezer, the band's 1996 Pinkerton single "El Scorcho" has long been adored despite its bizarre lyrics. (Really, Rivers, you broke into a girl's room to read her diary because she never heard of Green Day? Plus, what sort of protohipster finds it cool that someone hasn't even heard of one of the biggest bands in the world at the time? Dookie was inescapably huge. Are you also into girls that "don't even own a TV"?) Which brings us to one of the songs more perplexing lines: "Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table." While it doesn't take a musicologist to decipher the line might be about professional wrestling, it turns out the line was specifically inspired by the staged violence of Extreme Championship Wrestling in the early '90s. Ryan Glasspiegel of The Big Lead does a terrific job breaking down the specifics of the line and attempts to pinpoint the exact match and moment in a piece of wonderfully frivolous investigative journalism.

ROCK ROYALTY

It's easy to love Dave Grohl, but sometimes—between inducting every other person into the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and projects like Sonic Highways and Sound City—it's like, "Dude, we get it...you really love rock history." But then something like this pops up, and it's becomes hard not to get swept up in the authenticity of his fanboy perspective.

Look what my hero Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) just found: a letter I wrote to him when I was 14! Haha! pic.twitter.com/Ak8gxZz5m6

— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) May 28, 2015