When did Merge become the greatest record label in America? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a video on Subteranean that made me buy a record, but here’s the first since at least 2006: “Impossible” from The Shout Out Louds. It’s like the Cure rose from their schlocky grave as a pack of pretty Swedes.

And in the “old favorites from 2006″ department, here’s the Thermals with “Pillar of Salt.” Their LP, the Body, the Blood, the Machine is still in heavy rotation on my iPod.