Surfing the Web for new music, video...

Surfing the Web for new music, video and MP3 downloads can be a serious time investment. Picks from Times’ staff and contributors will help take the drag out of click-and-drag music choices. Some downloads may contain explicit lyrics. All are free, except as noted.

CHRIS LEE

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“Crazy”

Gnarls Barkley

molly.blogs.com/i_can_change

_this_later_r/files/gnarls_barkley

_crazy.mp3

No word on how the NBA’s “Round Mound of Rebound” Charles Barkley is reacting to this hip-hopization of his name. But Goodie Mob alum Cee-Lo Green’s buttery falsetto soars and bubbles over Grammy-nominated Gorillaz producer (and mash-up maestro) Danger Mouse’s nostalgic, soul-infused groove. This is the first single from the duo’s eagerly anticipated collaboration, due in May.

“The Rejection”

Ariel Pink

www.rhapsody.com/dangerousmuse

Who’d have thunk synthesizer hedonism and narrative storytelling could go together like oysters and champagne? Out of the cooling embers of the early ‘00s New York electro-clash scene, thinking man’s dance band, Dangerous Muse, craft ecstatic club bangers like “Rejection” on which they sing about -- rather than just create the soundtrack for -- what it’s like to lose love at a downtown loft party.

“For Kate I Wait”

Ariel Pink

www.paw-tracks.com/media/

arielpinkvideo.mov

Squint during the first half of this video -- full of soft-focus shots of diaphanous scarves blowing in the breeze and bad mood lighting -- and watch the woman in a glittering shift dance against a black velvet backdrop. “She” is no other than lo-fi art rocker Pink himself, dressed in drag and portraying the song’s object of anticipation, someone not physically dissimilar to Tina Turner mixed with Jame Gumb from “Silence of the Lambs.”

“Seabeast”

Mastodon

www.mtv.com/music/#/music/artist

/mastodon/artist.jhtml

In this black-and-white video, a tuxedoed grandee pulls his broadsword on a gas mask-wearing pilgrim amid a bizarre Neverland filled with pirate ships, ballerinas and Balinese shadow puppetry -- imagery that’s at once delicate and disquieting and entirely appropriate for art aficionados, or at least people with refined college rock sensibilities. Thus: the curious paradox. Mastodon -- whose members appear only in silhouette -- makes metal for metalheads, music as heavy as boulders and darker than 1,000 midnights.