Music Videos

Foo Fighters have just shared the full trailer for their upcoming HBO series and 8th studio album – Sonic Highways. Dave Grohl said “This is not just the making of our most ambitious album, this is a love letter to the history of American music.”

Each episode of the series will chronicle the group as they record a different song in 8 different US cities — Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and New York. In each city the band explores the rich musical history before recording a song that is inspired by the time they spent there.

There are interviews with Pharrell Williams, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and even the President Barack Obama himself. During his interview the President said “American music is about rejecting what is already there to create something entirely new…”

The whole show is a “musical map of America” and Dave explains the reasoning behind the idea “I really believe that the environment that you write and record an album influences the musical result.”

HBO premieres the series on Friday October 17 at 11pm (ET/PT) with the remaining 7 episodes running on subsequent Fridays at the same time.

The album, Sonic Highways, will be released on November 10 via Roswell Records. You can pre-order on iTunes or via the band’s website.

Sonic Highways Tracklist:
01. Something From Nothing (4:49)
02. The Feast and the Famine (3:50)
03. Congregation (5:12)
04. What Did I Do?/God As My Witness (5:44)
05. Outside (5:15)
06. In the Clear (4:04)
07. Subterranean (6:08)
08. I Am a River (7:09)

A few shows have already been confirmed in promotion of the album including a huge UK show at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in September, a headlining performance at Las Vegas’ Life is Beautiful Festival in October, and their first-ever tour in South Africa, which is scheduled for December.

Nicki Minaj released her Anaconda video last night. If you like butts this video is for you! You’ll never see so many butts again! Definitely NSFW.

The self-proclaimed “Queen of Rap” twerks her way around the jungle then gives Drake a scandalous lap dance. The pretty weird and extremely raunchy clip was directed by Colin Tilley. You could call it an ode to the human posterior.

The video was released at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday August 20 – the 31-year old rapper tweeted: “My babies r trending it already. Let’s go! #AnacondaVideoAtMidnight.”

The OTT sexiness started when she released the sexy cover art on Instagram on July 24, where she is seen posing in a bit of pink string with her butt centre stage. On many digital stores there is a Parental Advisory sticker over the offending cheeks.

In 2012, Anaconda was recorded by five-time Grammy Award-winning musician Missy Elliott, but due to undisclosed reasons Elliott shelved the track and it was then re-recorded by Minaj.

In the US, the song debuted at Nº 3 on the Digital Songs chart selling 141,000 digital downloads in its first week. Anaconda will be released in the UK on October 5 through Cash Money Records. The track follows Pills N Potions and is the latest single from Nicki’s forthcoming third studio album The Pink Print.

How do you get people to watch your Emmy Award show? Bring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul back together for a hilarious comedy sketch – Barely Legal Pawn.

The last episode of the hugely popular Breaking Bad series was a long 11 months ago and hope is diminishing that we’ll ever see Bryan and Aaron return to their beloved Breaking Bad roles. NBC came up with the bright idea of a faster reunion. With the 2014 Emmy’s just 4 days away they’ve cooked up a brilliant sketch also starring Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

The three do a brilliant spoof on those pawn-show reality shows to promote the Emmy’s, sponsored by Audi. The 6-minute sketch sees Julia in character as herself wanting to pawn one of her past ‘Seinfeld’ Emmys and trying to negotiate with the dodgy pawn shop owners – Bryan and Paul – for a good price. Telling you any more of the story would be a spoiler!

The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards are a ceremony held to honour the best in US prime time television from June 1, 2013 until May 31, 2014, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. To see the Nominees visit the Emmy website. 

The 2014 Emmy Awards will air on NBC this Monday 25 August, hosted by Seth Meyers. Normally, the awards show broadcasts on a Sunday, but Monday was chosen this year so that there was no conflict with the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.

Taylor Swift has unveiled the lead single from her upcoming album – Shake it Off. It’s bobby, poppy and sure-to-be-a-hit! We love it! It’s all about ignoring the haters and staying true to yourself.

The track is the lead single from her “very first, documented, official pop album”, and it’s titled 1989. The title of the album is from the year Taylor was born and the inspiration from the late-80’s pop music.

“I’ve been working on a new album for two years,” Taylor said during Monday night’s (August 18) webcast. “I like to work on albums for two years, because I feel like two years gives you enough time to grow and change … This is a bit of a rebirth for me. I woke up every single day that I was recording this record not wanting, but needing to make a new style of music that I had never made before.” Taylor said of the album “it’s the most sonically cohesive album I’ve ever made.”

Shake it Off was made in collaboration with Max Martin and Shellback. The music video premiered on Monday night and now, not even 24 hours later, it has close to 4 million views. Hardly surprising really when you consider that Taylor Swift IS the biggest selling artist of all time. Her last 4 albums gained 7 Grammy awards and she has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.

The video is directed by Mark Romanek, someone that Taylor has always wanted to work with, and it features a myriad of brilliant dancers with Taylor joining in. Mark agreed to shoot the video after listening to the song just once.

Taylor performed the song live at the top of the Empire State Building (above image). “To be honest with you, it’s kind of scary up here,” she first said whilst atop the Empire State Building. “I have a new song I’m going to play you in 30 seconds. The idea [behind the song is] that I’ve had to learn a pretty tough lesson in the last couple of years: People can say what they want about us, at any time … and we cannot control that. The only thing we can control is our reaction to it. I figure we have two options: We can let it change you … option two is you just shake it off.”

The new album 1989 is available now for pre-order and will officially be released on October 27, 2014.

We finally have new images for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the second exciting instalment by director Robert Rodriguez, taking place in the cult comic book universe created by Frank Miller.

The highly anticipated sequel to Sin City returns with the joint efforts of the graphic author and Texan director. Following the same strategy as in the first run, they are planning to remix several stories from the comic, as well as additional arcs that Miller created specifically for the film.

The first part is titled “The Fat Loss” once again starring Jessica Alba and Bruce Willis as main characters of the plot. We will also get to see “The Long Bad Night”, with the young Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing a gambling aficionado who makes the grave mistake of winning a card game against one of the most powerful men in the city of sin. There’ll also be pieces from “Just Another Saturday Night” by Micky Rourke and “A Dame To Kill For” which provides the backbone for the entire film, starring Josh Brolin and Eva Green. Dwight (Josh Brolin) will seek vengeance on the woman who betrayed him, the mysterious and ruthless Ava Lord (Eva Green), leaving us and the ruthless streets of Sin City, witness to all the wrath, pure hatred and blood.

A curious highlight we can look forward to in the film, will be the noteworthy appearance of the chameleon-like singer Lady Gaga who will play Bertha, a bar waitress in one of the pieces. This is the second time that she’s taken to working with Robert Rodríguez, first time being her portrayal of The Chameleon, a villain from Machete Kills.

The castofSin City: ADame To KillFor will also star Christopher Meloni, Ray Liotta, Juno Temple, Dennis Hayspert, Rosario Dawson and Michael Madsen.

We will finally see the reunion of action monsters Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 10 years after their first successful collaboration, which will crash land in the major US cinemas on the 22nd of August. However, there are still no news of a release date of the highly anticipated film in the rest of the world.

Chris Brown returns to the music scene with the release of a new music video called New Flame. It’s got a smooth mid-tempo R&B beat, featuring two luxurious stars, Usher and rapper Rick Ross. In addition to these popular artists, Verse Simmonds and Eric Bellinger spice up the video.

New Flame is a new single from Chris’ new album “X”, which will be the 6th studio album for the young artist after a long break since Fortune back in 2012. After numerous setbacks and delays, Rihanna’s ex-lover has set the final release date to 16th of September.

The video, shot on the same set as Work Bitch! by Britney Spears, oozes elegance and without a doubt, Chris Brown’s signature choreography, a sea of beautiful young women and everybody clad in white.

In this clip Chris, Usher and Rick Ross are all completely dressed in white, as well as the glamorous beauties in their bikinis. Well, all but one mysterious lady, wearing an elegant red gown. The main focus falls on Chris Brown’s epic dance skills, Usher’s enchanting charisma and Rick Ross’ bullet-quick phrasing, performing shirtless from atop of a throne, adorned with gold necklaces – with a typical gangster look. The video eventually unravels to the precise choreography and highlights an enormous flaming X as the backdrop, referencing Brown’s latest works.

The artist himself announced the premiere of the video, not even 24 hours ago, on Twitter with “I got a special gift for the fans today! #NewFlame #XTheAlbum”.

After hearing Fine China, Don’t Think They Know with the passed Aaliyah, Love More featuring Nicki Minaj, Loyal and now New Flame, the world is ready for whatever Chris has planned to launch, in less than a month. We’re expecting a promising album with other high-flyers such as Pharrel Williams and Timbaland.

David Guetta has released a Spaghetti Western style music video for his hot summer hit Lovers On The Sun. The Good, The Villains and The Sexy battle it out in the scorching desert heat.

Ray Liotta (Goodfellas star) plays the head villain in this special effects-filled extravaganza. The veteran Hollywood star is intent on torturing the hero of the video but fortunately he is saved in the nick of time by a sexy heroine with magical powers.

The summer blockbuster track features soulful vocals from Sam Martin and is co-produced by Avicii. The song is soaring up the charts in the US, Australia and Europe and now that it has been paired with this great visual it will probably top the charts. It’s already peaked in the Top 10 in more than a dozen countries – this is obviously a ‘double DJ power’ anthem.

Lovers On The Sun is taken from Guetta’s latest EP of the same name, which was released in June this year. This suitably epic visual premiered on August 12.

Johnny Depp is Mortdecai – watch the 1st trailer for this spy comedy co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor & Paul Bettany. Depp plays a debonair art dealer, gentleman spy and part-time rogue… just how we like him!

This laugh-out-loud trailer shows a moustached Depp traversing the globe to try and recover a stolen painting which supposedly contains a code to some lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. Charlie Mortdecai travels to Los Angeles, which he describs as a “terribly vulgar place”, juggles some Russians, the MI5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist. It’s slapstick comedy at it’s best and Depp has managed to create, yet again, a wonderfully eccentric Englishman. Ewan McGregor plays Inspector Martland, who coaxes Mortdecai to help with the investigation in return for turning a blind eye to his civic debts. Paul Bettany plays the unfortunately named manservant Jock Strapp.

Directed by David Koepp, the film is based on the novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli and specifically The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery. The book was finished by the satirist Craig Brown in 1999 following Bonfiglioli’s death in 1985. There are three more Mortdecai books – Don’t Point That Thing at Me, Something Nasty in the Woodshed and After You with the Pistol, all published between 1972 and 1979. So should this film be a hit there is plenty of material for sequels.

Look out for Mortdecai in cinemas next year – in the UK on January 30 and in the US and rest of the world a week later.