JAM OF THE WEEK after thursday

There's something heartwarming about a family making music together. I'm especially sentimental when I see a father with a son, because my son and I made music in contra dance bands and Irish sessions as he grew up.

Years ago, while interviewing Jeff Tweedy before a Wilco concert, I asked him if he'd made music with his kids. He told me about going to his son Spencer's preschool class and writing a tune with all the kids; "Monkey Mess" was their final creation. 

Now, all these years later, he and Spencer have put together 20 songs as Tweedy for a new record called Sukierae; the material is strong, personal and bare. Spencer is a great drummer who grew up playing in the basement of a Chicago bar called Lounge Ax (which his mom, Susie Miller, co-owned), and he's got a group of his own called The Blisters. 

The father and son usually perform together with a full-band lineup. But here at the Tiny Desk, we've stripped it down to just the men who bear the Tweedy name — and share the family bond that helps make their music together beautiful.

WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE YOU? By Bill Murray

I think if I’m gonna answer that question, because it is a hard question, I’d like to suggest that we all answer that question right now, while I’m talking. I’ll continue. Believe me, I won’t shut up. I have a microphone. But let’s all ask ourselves that question right now. What does it feel like to be you? What does it feel like to be you?

Yeah. It feels good to be you, doesn’t it? It feels good, because there’s one thing that you are—you’re the only one that’s you, right? So you’re the only one that’s you, and we get confused sometimes—or I do, I think everyone does—you try to compete. You think, Dammit, someone else is trying to be me. Someone else is trying to be me. But I don’t have to armor myself against those people; I don’t have to armor myself against that idea if I can really just relax and feel content in this way and this regard.

If I can just feel, just think now: How much do you weigh? This is a thing I like to do with myself when I get lost and I get feeling funny. How much do you weigh? Think about how much each person here weighs and try to feel that weight in your seat right now, in your bottom right now. Parts in your feet and parts in your bum. Just try to feel your own weight, in your own seat, in your own feet. OK?

So if you can feel that weight in your body, if you can come back into the most personal identification, a very personal identification, which is: I am. This is me now. Here I am, right now. This is me now. Then you don’t feel like you have to leave, and be over there, or look over there. You don’t feel like you have to rush off and be somewhere.

There’s just a wonderful sense of well-being that begins to circulate up and down, from your top to your bottom. Up and down from your top to your spine. And you feel something that makes you almost want to smile, that makes you want to feel good, that makes you want to feel like you could embrace yourself.

jack white - would you fight for my love

Jack White plays a lonely-looking and sharply dressed bar hound in the stylish new video for Lazaretto track "Would You Fight For My Love?" the clip, directed by Robert Hales and written by Hales and White, features a moody blue color scheme, luring viewers into its scene of brokenhearted blues.

the video was "conceptualized, produced and shot within a 24-hour period," according to a statement released by White, and filmed during a six-hour shoot at the Cruise Room at the Oxford Hotel in Denver. Several members of White's Third Man Records crew appear in the video, along with musician-photographer Scout Pare-Phillips.

grimes - go feat. blood diamonds

this is the first new music we've heard from Grimes since she made a lot of noise with her album Visions in 2012. in a press release, she calls the new song, Go, which features Michael Diamond, a 22-year-old L.A. producer also known as Blood Diamonds, their "summer jam." Grimes is working on a new record and this is a hint of what's to come — a bit more aggressive, perhaps, but still the poppy, synthy Grimes we know.

the black keys - weight of love

in the Black Keys' video for Fever Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney play sweaty televangelists slowly whipping an audience into a flat-out frenzy. the clip, directed by Theo Wenner, precisely captures the look and feel of classic late-night religious informercials, down to the rapturous crowd in Eighties hairdos catching the spirit as the song reaches its bluesy peak. 

now Wenner is debuting a short film for another Turn Blue track — psychedelic opener Weight of Love — here, as a follow-up to his first Keys video. the two clips are definitely connected and can in fact be watched as two parts of a whole but the aesthetic of the film couldn't be more different.

Weight of Love takes place in the beautiful serenity of a beach; however all isn't peaceful. the film stars supermodel Lara Stone, who plays the head mistress of a cult of women who live in a lighthouse.  the women live and work on the beach, performing creepily in sync exercises and throwing their arms rapturously into the sky as Auerbach's scorching guitar solos echo in the background.

although the band is promoting the reissues, it will not be reuniting to play live performances anytime soon. Frontman Robert Plant said in an interview with Rolling Stone that he had no interest in revisiting the past, if not for the fact that he would not want to deal with the backstage business dealings of getting everyone together.

gregg allman - midnight rider

Gregg plays the Allman Brothers classic Midnight Rider with Vince Gill and Zac Brown. early in the track Gill's voice might be in danger of getting lost somewhere between those of the other two, but he makes his presence known later on, when he concludes the song by playing the most technical guitar solo anyone wearing Lower East Side-style clear-framed glasses has perhaps ever played.

Turn Blue http://t.co/N7SaVjl1eD

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the young turks of Rare Monk have a sonic resilience that’s like everything and nothing you've ever heard. While the obvious signposts are there to guide you (Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Phoenix), Rare Monk combine their love of both 90s and contemporary Indie Rock with a fevered Pop intensity, before shooting the whole thing into outer space to see what comes back. As frontman Dorian Aites puts it, “Although we draw upon many genres for inspiration, we’ve been creating our own thing based on nothing other than the idea that, ‘these are the songs we wrote cause they sound cool’”.

The psychedelic insanity can be traced back to their college roots, when the guys were the go-to band for drunkin‘ dorm rooms and sonic exploration. In 2012 Rare Monk teamed up with noted producer Skyler Norwood (Blind Pilot, Horsefeathers, Talkdemonic) for their self-released EP, ‘Death By Proxy’. The giddy pop thrill of the title track and the funky, slow burn of “Underground” act as the band's mission statement, and according to Dorian: