Happy Friday! Here's a handful of brand spanking new music videos to help your Friday afternoon fly by a little faster. Are you keeping up with these Hippo Campus guys??

Hippo Campus

With a Conan appearance under their belt and a just-announced appearance at Lollapalooza on the horizon, this St. Paul Conservatory for the Performing Arts-reared quartet are blowing up fast. They recorded this unplugged rendition of "Suicide Saturday" for Esquire when they were down at SXSW last week (click the image to pop up the video in a new tab). Is Jake Luppen wearing a Spooky Black shirt?

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Pieta Brown and Mason Jennings

This is darling. Mason Jennings animated and directed this music video for Pieta Brown, who has a new album out now on St. Paul-based Red House Records. She'll be in town to play the Cedar in support of Paradise Outlaw on Friday, April 10.

Strange Names

The Minneapolis duo Strange Names is now a New York City trio, and they've re-recorded their single "Ricochet" as a lead up to the release of their new LP, Use Your Time Wisely. The album is due out May 19 on Frenchkiss Records.

Tired Tongues

Tired Tongues is a new project from Taylor Nelson, who was one-half of the defunct electro-pop duo Wiping Out Thousands. Appropriately, his forthcoming EP is called Exes.

Harrie Bradshaw

And now for something completely different. Filmed at the Saloon, this new video from drag performer Harrie Bradshaw just made my afternoon. "Let's go to the club and not talk to anyone."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=96&v=6OGfpV_zdO0