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Imagine Dragons – Shots

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Alternative rock band Imagine Dragons have just released the music video for their new track Shots. Inspired by the paintings of Tim Cantor this is an awesome visual. Even if you don’t like art, you will be impressed by the creativity behind this video.

The song is the 3rd cut from their upcoming second studio album Smoke + Mirrors, which is released on February 16. It follows Gold and I Bet My Life.

To support the new album the band have just announced nine dates in the UK, beginning at Londons O2 on November 5.

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Van Halen – Jump

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#ThrowbackThursday. We go back to 1984 when Van Halen scored their first Nº1 hit in the US with Jump! It was also a top 10 hit around the world and the only Nº1 with David Lee Roth as lead singer. It was released in December 1983 as the lead single from their album 1984. It is the only single the group released in their career to reach Nº1 on the US Hot 100 chart. It broke the mold of their earlier songs – mainly in its rolling synth line.

The song is their most popular and most instantly recognisable composition – perhaps because the sound embodies both of the genres that were most associated with the 1980s in America: synth-driven pop and “arena”-style metal.

The music video was directed by David Lee Roth and won Best Stage Performance at the MTV Video Music Awards that year. Compared to music videos today, it was very straightforward just showing the band performing at a mock concert, but it was the bands personality that brought the whole thing to life.

In an interview with Mix magazine, Daryl Hall said that the Hall & Oates song Kiss On My List was an influence on this one: ”[Eddie] Van Halen told me that he copied the synth part from ‘Kiss on My List’ and used it in ‘Jump.’ I don’t have a problem with that at all.”

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Avril Lavigne – Give You What You Like

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Avril Lavigne is back! After taking an extended break due to a mystery illness Avril has premiered the full music video for Give You What You Like, the 5th single from her 2013 self-titled LP. The song makes up part of the soundtrack from the forthcoming Lifetime movie Babysitter’s Black Book which premieres on February 21.

The video is largely made up of highlights from the movie interspersed with footage of Lavigne. It shows a side of Lavigne that most haven’t seen before – chilled, laid-back, less make up, more introspective – generally more mature.

The track will help to raise money for the Avril Foundation – a charity set up by Lavigne to support young people with disabilities and life-threatening illnesses.

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Miley Cyrus –Tongue Tied

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Over the last couple of years Miley Cyrus has been inching closer to pornography with her skimpy outfits, scandalous dance moves and steamy music videos. Now it looks like she will actually be appearing in a pornography festival. According to a report today in the New York Post, the Wrecking Ball singer has submitted her short film, Tongue Tied, to the upcoming NYC Porn Film Festival that begins February 27.

Directed by Quentin Jones, the video is nowhere near as bad as Fifty Shades of Grey, there is no sex and Cyrus does not appear nude, she keeps her nipples and bottom covered. However, it is full of suggestive bondage imagery. Festival founder Simon Leahy said of the film: “It’s a pop take on S&M. She’s starting to become more of a contemporary artist.”

The NYC Porn Film Festival will feature amateur and professional work from international filmmakers. It won’t look like you might expect, a seedy, run down old theatre venue, instead it’s more a spacious-gallery-style where viewers can walk round and discuss the various ‘art’ on view.

Cyrus has recently contributed a cover of Melanie Safka’s Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma for Lina Esco’s forthcoming film Free the Nipple, which is about a group of women lobbying for reform of US censorship laws on female nudity.

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Madonna – Living For Love

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Madonna is the Queen of the Big Top in her lush, arresting video for Living for Love. It has a great throwback vibe as well, reminding us of her iconic Take a Bow video. It’s her best work in 10 years! We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve replayed this!

The stunning clip was directed by the French duo known as J.A.C.K. (Julien Choquart and Camille Hirigoyen) and edited by Danny B. Tull, who worked on 4 Minutes and many other Madonna videos.

For those who don’t like bullfighting there is a Nietzsche quote that ends the video: “Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights and crucifixions, he has felt best on earth and when he invented hell for himself that was his very heaven.” Funnily though, the German philosopher’s name is spelt wrong – someone on Madonna’s team should have caught this by now?

The video debuted exclusively on Snapchat – the first video ever to do so – but is now available on Madonna’s Youtube and Vevo accounts. Living for Love is the first single from Madonna’s highly anticipated Rebel Heart album, due out March 10. Several tracks from the album have been made available though after it fell victim to an early leak from a hacker who was eventually tracked down and arrested in Israel.

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Bob Marley Day 2015

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Bob Marley Day 2015: Happy Birthday to the reggae superstar, Bob Marley, who would have been 70 years old today. One Love. One Heart. Let’s get together and feel alright! 

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Countries all around the world are hosting events to celebrate the life and work of Robert Nesta Marley. (Well, he was actually called Nesta Robert Marley but a Jamacain passport official swapped the names around when he was very young!)

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Starting out in 1963 with the group The Wailers, Marley established a distinctive vocal style that would resonate throughout history. He embarked on his solo career in 1974 after he split from the Wailers and his 1977 album Exodus established his reputation as a global icon. He was to become the world’s best-selling artist of all time.

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In July 1977 he was found to have a malignant melanoma under the nail of his toe, originating from an accident when playing football. His last words to his son Ziggy were: “Money can’t buy life.”

The Guardian have published an excellent article called “Bob Marley at 70: legend and legacy” – head on over to their website to read it.

To honor Bob Marley’s vision of peace, love and unity visit 1Love – a global non-profit started by the Marley family. They have completed 27 fundraising and awareness projects that have resulted in over $1.3 million in donations to causes that have changed more than 255,250 lives – and they’ve only just begun. Get involved here.

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Poltergeist 2015

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“They’re heeeeere.” Poltergeist is back! Just like the original 1982 horror film, by Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg, television is a conduit from the spirit world, but in 2015 screens are bigger, and there are screens throughout the house, plus we have smartphones. “The original film commented on how we’ve let television get out of control, babysitting our kids,” says producer Sam Raimi (Evil Dead). “It’s only gotten worse with the handheld portable devices. Screens are everywhere.”

Director Gil Kenan (Monster House) vowed to get the contemporary reboot absolutely right, “Whenever someone approaches material that’s so beloved, there’s a reflexive reaction to be worried,” Kenan said. “It’s a responsibility we take very seriously. We’re working to make a Poltergeist film that lives up to the original’s legacy.”

Screenplay is by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist David Lindsay-Abaire with Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt playing the unsuspecting parents of a family that have just settled into a haunted house when the pesky ghosts steal their daughter. They ask for help from a famous supernatural researcher and clairvoyant, played by Jared Harris (Mad Men). But can they rescue her before she disappears for ever?

“The thing that keeps them a family is what they have to draw on, to stay sane, and also to win their daughter back,” says Kenan. “The film is super-scary. And it’s scary on its own terms. I am excited to finally be able to share that with the world.”

The film hits cinemas on July 24.

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Hollywood’s British Invasion

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Vanity Fair, along with director Jason Bell, has created a series of special videos celebrating the success of British stars in Hollywood. In Episode 3 Keira Knightley re-enacts the famous scene from the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, while Tom Hiddleston and Felicity Jones pretend to be Bonnie and Clyde, along with a host of other stars like Sally Hawkins, Jude Law, Michael Caine, Jamie Dornan, Sam Claflin and Judi Dench. James Corden appears at the end of the video and demands a franchise, jokingly complaining about having to play British parts but wanting American dollars.

The British Film Institute has praised the country’s success at this year’s Oscar’s with nominations for the likes of Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne and Rosamund Pike.

You can see a whole host of British talent on the cover of Vanity Fair’s March issue, on sale from tomorrow (February 6). In fact it’s not just the cover it’s a 3-panel fold out, pictured below.

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The Vanity Fair cover lineup, in full:
Channing Tatum, star of Foxcatcher, which received five Oscar nominations including best director.
Amy Adams, four-time Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for Big Eyes.
Reese Witherspoon, who is Oscar-nominated alongside her Wild co-star Laura Dern.
Eddie Redmayne, a best-actor nominee for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Felicity Jones, a best-actress nominee for her performance as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
David Oyelowo, star of best-picture nominee Selma.
Benedict Cumberbatch, a best-actor nominee for his performance as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
Sienna Miller, star of best-picture nominee American Sniper as well as Foxcatcher.
Miles Teller, star of best-picture nominee Whiplash.
Oscar Isaac, star of National Board of Review winner A Most Violent Year.


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Will Smith – Men In Black

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#ThrowbackThursday We go back 18 years to when Will Smith won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance for the theme track of the 1997 movie Men in Black, in which he also starred.

Smith raps about how the MiB “Walk in shadow, move in silence” and play the role of “first, last and only line of defense, against the worst scum of the universe”, while Coko, a singer from group SWV, adds her soulful soprano and alto vocals in the background.

The song was Simth’s first solo single, following his work with DJ Jazzy Jeff, and features a sample of Forget Me Nots by American rhythm and blues and crossover jazz singer-songwriter Patrice Rushen. The song changes the lyrics of the original chorus from “I want you to remember” to “They won’t let you remember”, in reference to the memory-erasing devices used in the movie.

The song reached Nº1 in 11 countries and hit the top 10 in 9 others.


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Cheryl – Only Human

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Ever felt that you could hold the universe in the palm of your hand? Well, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini does exactly that in her new video for Only Human, described by many as ‘the best ballad’ that she has ever recorded. Co-written and produced by Matt Schwartz the song is about accepting one’s human condition – yet at the same time the lyrics play with powerful messages like “You are the universe”. One theme that comes across really strongly is the beauty, power and majesty of this awesome world we live in.

Cheryl announced the news of the song’s release on her Twitter page, describing it as her ‘personal favourite so far’ to be taken from her current album of the same name. Only Human is officially released on March 22 and follows Cheryl’s Nº1 hit I Don’t Care – which gave her a place in the record books as the only British female artist to have 5 chart-topping singles.

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