Listen to your friend, Billy Zane. He’s a cool dude, who can also attest that watching two and a half hours of music videos with the occasional short film educating us about Alexander Hamilton (the drunken history version), how to produce buttons out of saltines (using Miranda July technology), and how fighting the embodiment of evil in a fish puppet’s nightmare is futile—while guzzling spiked pomegranate Fizzee drinks—makes for a swangin’ Tuesday evening. Dublab knows we’ve all got ADD. They mixed fun with pretty better than a Care Bear pogo-ing through the lilac fields of hipster culture. Videos that stood out include MGMT’s Ferngully-esque “Electric Feel” and Flight of the Conchord’s “Ladies of the World,” roller-skate-dancing up and down our stripper-pole hearts. There’s no way Dan Deacon’s “Ultimate Reality” passes the Harding Test, a standard videos must meet assessing their seizure-inducing potential. The audience responded with joyful vomit-face to the kaleidoscopic mélange. Daedelus’s “Make It So” captured a paper-figure-through-a pinhole awesomeness reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s “Leave Me Alone,” sans the monkey. Certain videos like the Dodos’ “Fools,” Ariel Pink’s “Gray Sunset,” and Blank Blue’s “Ignite” took a more portrait-of-the-artist approach. It’s another way of listening, zoomed in on sweat, pimples and tummy hair. Overall, the videos were top-notch, but in every bundle of beauty there’s a soul-crusher to balance the mix, where you must bear a repetitive montage of a young girl riding a pony while someone hammers a horseshoe in your brain. Luckily, it was short. For a live nightcap, DJ and drum duo TRS-80 brought the music out in front of the video, manipulating a fractal array of abstract visuals, climaxing with a close-up of Olivia Newton John’s angelic face.

— Daiana Feuer