Well, it's not the "Monster Mash" but Bruce Springsteen has decided to give us all a little Halloween treat that is tastier than even the sweetest miniature-sized Almond Joy--a video for a brand new song.

The bluesy haunt of "A Night with the Jersey Devil" is very un-Bruce, but his wild stomping howl (think Nick Cave, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, or Tom Waits) is a nice fit to a song that tells the tale about an evil creature that haunts South Jersey. The locals refer to it as Jon Bon Jovi the New Jersey Devil.

Dim the lights, lock the door, don't go into those woods, and watch it here.

Perhaps you know Les Savy Fav, with their truly modern art punk sound and inclusive ethic, are one of the very greatest rock bands in the world today.

Oh how I love 'em.

So imagine my surprise when I found out the marvelous, multi-talented singer Tim Harrington was getting his own show. It's called "Beardo" and it came out today and it made me laugh out loud a few times--not bad for an initial episode, especially one that begins so strange. It's also got Kristen Schaal (from the Daily Show and Flight of the Conchords). Have a look:

The Penny Jam continues their roll of great live-on-location performances with this clip of Narwhal vs Narwhal playing next to the root vegetables at Cherry Sprout Produce. Their version of "Don't Take" is bit livelier than the one off their recently released Wipe The Sweat From Your Words, which is probably due to their healthy diet of fruit, vegetables, and sax-heavy rock and roll.

Know what the kids today like? A giant cardboard ear, eye, and hand to confront them in the hallway of their school. Oh, and the rap music. They like that as well.

Thankfully for everyone Ohmega Watts' new video for the single "Eyes and Ears" (with Jneiro Jarel, from last year's Watts Happening) features all of those things, in addition to some vintage educational clips, a talent show where Watts drops his motivating "You can do it, you can do it" line, plus a bunch of smiling kids. It's downright adorable.

While I am hesitant to say that the new Red Fang video for "Prehistoric Dog" is the single greatest video in the history of ever, but, oh, who am I kidding?

It is.

The Whitey McConnaughy directed clip has everything a great video requires: Metal. Beer. Gratuitous vomiting. And, most importantly, angry nerds with weaponry. Just watch it, you'll understand.

"Hey Gandalf, nice dress."

P4K has posted the fresh new video from Talkdemonic, directed by Orie Weeks. It's not the first time a local band has used a confused robot for the purpose of starring in a video, but this clip for Eyes At Half Mast's "Duality of Deathening" sure is gorgeous.

Our flyover state pals at Daytrotter have posted a shocking video of Menomena being brutally attacked in a brazen Halloween silly-string ambush. Minding their own business while strolling through a park and singing "Rotten Hell," the horrific(ally cute) assault was captured on film, but the culprits have yet to be apprehended.

Please be on the lookout for a princess, a ninja, and some sort of ghoul. They are armed and extremely dangerous.

View the video here.

Idolator was right when they declared this clip "The Best Election-Related Thing You Will See All Day."

Seriously, just kill all the ads and run this clip all day long. Sorry, T.I., your song was just pwned by a bunch of little kids in school uniforms.

When the chamber-popsters of Loch Lomond needed a video for "Blue Lead Fences" they sought the services of local photographer, and Doug Fir booking extraordinaire, Alicia J. Rose.

While she rejected their original idea--a shot-for-shot recreation of this video--the end result is quite lovely. Filmed in Estacada with faded colors that resemble a long lost Polaroid, the video finds the group marching through the wilderness, singing, stumbling, and finally walking slowly into the river and drowning themselves. Creepy.

A thousand thanks go out to Stereogum for posting today about Hello Seahorse!. A thousand more thanks go out to local label Magik Marker for putting out Hello Seahorse!'s new record, and for consistently being so damn awesome.

Everything, absolutely everything, about this -- the amazingly cute video, the hand-claps, the harmonies, the piano line, the orange T-shirt with the face on it, the Los Campesinos!-esque shouting, the boy-girl vocals, the awkward dancing -- is perfect. So perfect, in fact, that it's kind of freaking me out, like somebody has been busy reading my dream journal and then converting the findings into my most perfect pop song.

For the sort of classy game that lets you use your boot to crush monsters' heads open like rotten cantaloupes, the original Gears of War launched with a surprisingly gorgeous and low-key trailer set to Gary Jules' cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World." (Watch it here.) Now, with Gears of War 2 looming on the horizon, Microsoft's marketing peeps have cranked out another excellent and melancholy and sort of silly trailer--one that, despite its emo-ness, still gets me all excited to use my boot to crush monsters' heads open like rotten cantaloupes.

This one is set to DeVotchKa's "How It Ends," and, like the "Mad World" trailer, it is very, very pretty. I recommend watching it.

Via Kotaku.