This week’s video roundup features a coked-up skeleton, Lil Wayne on a skateboard and the return of Descendents. What more could you ask for?

With the advent of high-speed internet, we’re living in a bit of a golden age for the music video – but we’re also reaching a point where you see at least one of the bloody things every time you open your eyes.

The question is, how do you know which videos are stone cold classics and which are just dust in the wind of the World Wide Web?

As usual, we’re here to help! We’ve rounded up the most notable clips from the last seven days from the far-flung recesses of the internet.

Check them out after the drop.

Lil Wayne - Skate It Off

Lil Wayne hasn’t had it easy the last couple weeks – Weezy suffered a seizure on an aeroplane last week – but it looks like he’s ready to leave the bad times behind and Skate It Off. The video for this Twice as Nice produced banger sees Wayne skating in his private park while his squad pull some fresh moves around him.

Long live Lil Tunechi.

Weaves - Tick

Director: Benjamin Dabu

Weaves are categorically awesome. The Toronto four-piece weld together elements of pop, noise and avant-garde rock to produce a poppy din that’s got as much in common with Frank Zappa as it does The Thermals.

In their latest video the band help a lonely internet warrior escape his bedroom (and wi-fi connection) sending him on a vaguely terrifying trip through the streets of Toronto.

Descendents - Victim of Me

Descendents’ video for When I Get Old is one of the few clips I used to dial in for in the heady days of MTV2 Request (sorry mum).

This video is nowhere near as good as the one for When I Get Old because that video featured older kids skateboarding and playing a gig in someone’s living room.

Kero Kero Bonito – Break

London J-pop enthusiasts Kero Kero Bonito’s latest music video is a celebration of doing nothing while the world spins madly around you.

Lead singer Sarah Perry is shot in a variety of busy locations (think airport, shopping mall, Trafalgar Square) doing… well… absolutely nothing. A simple concept done right, for once.

Preoccupations – Anxiety

Director: Yoonha Park

Preoccupation describe their first single since changing their name from Viet Cong as “A catalog of childhood phobias and anxieties” and the video is suitably creepy. Black and white imagery of overbearing forests and masked characters emerge alongside a thudding post-punk soundtrack.

This is actually kind of terrifying.

The Wytches – Who Rides?

Director: Hoodbats

The Wytches take their skeleton pal out for a night of white lines and tinnys in the video for their latest horror-tinged surf-rock single Who Rides?

We’re glad to see the Brighton doomsters back after a nearly two year absence and this clip is nothing if not a whole lot of fun.

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