Vic Mensa - "U Mad" featuring Kanye West

Brace yourselves, Seattle. I'm about to talk about Kanye West again. (Just wait until his new album comes out, y'all are gonna love me.) Specifically, I'm about to discuss Kanye's latest anointed protégé—Vic Mensa. Mensa guests on "Wolves" for the new Kanye West album SWISH alongside Sia, which we discovered when all three appeared together on the 40th Anniversary Special of Saturday Night Live.

Shortly after, Mensa announced that he had signed with Roc Nation and was working on an album called Traffic, supposedly to be released some time this summer. Kanye joined him on the lead single, "U Mad." The smoky, spark-filled, riot-starting video for the track was released last week.

There's no doubt that this song is an absolute banger, but I really could have done without the lyric, "If she bad I might hit a bitch in the elevator like Ray Rice"—an obvious reference to the incident which led to Rice's dismissal from the Baltimore Ravens.

Björk - "Stonemilker"

Full disclosure, I am not as well-versed in Vulnicura as I should be, but it was released back in January after I'd made the decision to move to Seattle. It did not seem like a good time to indulge in a break-up album, when I was in the midst of ending my relationship with NYC. In fact, Vulnicura arrived two months ahead of its planned March 15 release date after it leaked online.

Björk has called the album "an emotional chronology" of her relationship with artist Matthew Barney and "Stonemilker" is the opening track. It contains the liner note, "9 months before," referring to the time period prior to their break-up.

The video was originally shot in Björk's native Iceland, as a collaborative project with director Andrew Huang, for the virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift. (Did you get all that?) It has a 360 degree panoramic view, so you can use the little arrows to follow Björk in her neon outfit; although I'd suggesting watching it on a mobile device. Tilt your phone to change direction. It gives you a sense of the sweeping landscape, which is the perfect accompaniment to the lush string arrangement of this track.

Father John Misty - "I Love You, Honeybear"

We've finally got some visuals for the title track off Josh Tillman's latest. He's called it, "a portrayal of an average night in the lives of two EMTs"—who are played by character actors Brett Gelman and Susan Traylor—and it features Tillman's real-life wife Emma as well. It appears as though the onscreen couple were involved in a suicide pact gone wrong and the drugged-up EMTs must swoop in and attempt to save this love gone awry—a fitting visual interpretation of Tillman's light-a-match-and-watch-the-world-burn approach to all things romantic.

Did I mention that Father John Misty also been added to the line-up for Capitol Hill Block Party?