Obviously, the best music-related video of the past seven days is the yelling goats remix of Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," and the second best is Wale attempting to fight a Toronto…   Read Story »

Kansas City glam electro-pop band/performance artists SSION (fronted by Cody Critcheloe) made our 5 Best Videos Of The Week list last December for the bizarre clip-art inspired "Psy-Chic" clip.…   Read Story »

This is a mournful moment, given the heartbreaking news coming from Connecticut. And while there are far better uses of your time and bandwidth right now -- demandaplan.org, for instance -- this here…   Read Story »

Over the years, KC genre (and gender) experimenter Cody Crichteloe aka SSION has amassed some impressive video directing/producing credits -- for the likes of Santigold ("Big Mouth"), Peaches,…   Read Story »

Kansas City glam freak SSION has been on an incredibly bizarre video tear lately, turning his videos into suburban weirdo operas. The latest, for "Feelz Good Forever," is simultaneously his simplest…   Read Story »

In their video for "Earthquake," Kansas City dance-pop performance-art freaks SSION depict their hometown as a suburban sprawl with a surprisingly high per capita number of elaborately costumed…   Read Story »

High-concept KC multimedia artist SSION -- AKA Cody Critcheloe -- will put out a new record this summer called Bent. Recently, he dropped a video for that record's first single, a vivid,…   Read Story »

This week Santigold played a pair of sold-out shows at Music Hall Of Williamsburg as a way of trumpeting her long-awaited return to the fore. The sets were immaculate and theatrical, smart and silly,…   Read Story »

Hole gave it a good spin, and that was nice and all, but this video confirms Ssion's as the gayest and greatest cover of Young Marble Giants ever. Ssion man Cody Critcheloe first shared his take on…   Read Story »

A slab of Ssion is always a great way to the end the day, so let's get into it. Ssion man Cody Critcheloe remains busy: He took a director's credit on Tilly & The Wall's Beat Control," gave his mom a…   Read Story »