Music Videos

Swedish DJ/producer Alesso has premiered the music video for his new single Cool ft Roy English. Watch the school nerd get the girl in this very cool visual filmed at the historic Venice Beach High School where iconic films such as Grease, American History X and Britney Spears’ ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ were filmed.

The video tells the story of a dorky guy breaking out of his mold to go after his dreams. He flips out in one of his lectures and starts dancing wildly around the school – following the truth that “we can’t keep pretending to be cool when we’re deeply in love”.

Alesso’s progressive house beat joins Roy English’s super sweet vocals to create a real catchy dance anthem. Release date for the track is April 26 for UK and Ireland and May 8 for everywhere else. The song is taken from Alesso’s upcoming highly anticipated debut album which is out later this year via Def Jam Recordings / Virgin EMI.

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Natalie La Rose is one of 2015’s breakout stars. Her scorching debut single Somebody ft. Jeremih is a groovy, irresistible dance floor anthem inspired by the late, great Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody. It also samples parts of LMFAO’s song Shots. Add in Jeremih’s smooth cadence and a fiery hook and you’ve got a smash hit.

Natalie was born and raised in Amsterdam – her parents are of Surinamese descent. She was ‘discovered’ in 2011 at an ESPY Awards after party when she approached Flo Rida saying that one day she would work with him. Impressed by her confidence he invited her to the studio and over the following two years she performed with Flo around the world as his lead female vocalist. In 2013 she officially got signed to his International Music Group (I.M.G.) label and Republic Records. Look out for him in the video at 1:16.

Written by William Lobban-Bean, Alex Schwartz and Joe Khajadourian, Somebody is the first single from La Rose’s as yet untitled debut album, expected to be released later this year.

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Iggy Azalea has finally premiered the highly anticipated music video for ‘Trouble’, her sassy collaboration with R’n’B powerhouse Jennifer Hudson. Directed by Iggy herself, this funky visual was shot in L.A and is a whole lot of fun! In it, Iggy, although not sure why and how she got into the situation, proves her loyalty to her man by being his feisty accomplice in a major crime before being arrested by Officer Hudson.

Azalea explained the characters in the video in a recent interview with MTV news: “I will say Jennifer’s character, I think [is] kind of like the sassy, no beep-taking type of police boss lady. I am, I suppose, just a bit of an accidental Bonnie and Clyde that I’ve naively have fallen into the role that I don’t really want to be into… She keeps it under control.”

It’s been an amazing 12 months for the Australian rapper: she has been nominated for 50 awards including 4 Grammys, 6 AMAs, 7 EMAs, and 9 VMAs. She has sold 13 million singles, 1 million albums and notched up over a billion Youtube views. She holds the record for both the longest reign at Billboard Nº1 for a female rapper, and in holding the Nº1 and Nº2 position on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 consecutive weeks, she keeps company with the likes of The Beatles.

This Motown inspired funky cut is housed on Reclassified, the re-release, or deluxe version, of Azalea’s debut album The New Classic.

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Here’s a bit of fun for Friday 🙂 American rock band Falling In Reverse poke fun at talent competitions in their video for Just Like You, where contestants take to the stage hoping to win ‘The Choice’. The visual sends up not just the competitions but the personalities involved like Simon Cowell, Steven Tyler, Jessie J and Randy Jackson.

Directed by Zach Merck the video features lots of cameos from pro-wrestler The Main Event, We Are Harlot‘s Danny Worsnop, The Word Alive’s Telle Smith and comedian Andy Dick.

Just Like You is featured on their new album of the same name and follows on the heels of God, If You Are Above … and Guillotine IV (The Final Chapter).

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#ThrowbackThursday – Today we go way back to 1966 when Nancy Sinatra was at Nº1 on the US and UK singles charts with ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking’. It was released towards the end of February and went straight to Nº1.

The song was written by Lee Hazlewood who encouraged Nancy to sing the song as if she were “a sixteen-year-old girl who fucks truck drivers.” It worked because the song was a huge hit and has been covered so many times by hundreds of artists in all sorts of genres: metal, pop, rock, punk rock, country, dance, and industrial.

The recording was made with the help of Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew – Hal Blaine on drums, Al Casey, Tommy Tedesco, and Billy Strange on guitars, Ollie Mitchell, Roy Caton and Lew McCreary on horns, Carol Kaye on electric bass, and Chuck Berghofer on double bass, providing the notable bass line.

It was the second single to be taken from Nancy’s debut album Boots and a follow-up to her minor hit So Long, Babe. In 2006, Pitchfork Media selected it as the 114th best song of the 1960s. Critic Tom Breihan described the song as “maybe the finest bitchy kiss-off in pop history.”

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Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull have teamed up for the infectious single Let Me Be Your Lover and the music video is such a laugh! You’ll be tapping your toes to this and smiling (unless you’re in a coma). The track is the latest single from Iglesias’ 10th studio album Sex + Love.

The music video, directed by Alejandro Pérez, is a whole lot of fun and features the pair as marionette puppets dancing and driving around Los Angeles, plus live performance shots.

The formidable duo are surely a match made in Latin-American pop heaven. They collaborated on the huge hit I’m a Freak, which charted in the Top 10 all over the world. Pitbull is also currently co-headlining Iglesias’ Sex + Love Tour, which started in February last year and comes to an end on March 7 in San Juan.

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Paloma Faith has premiered a music video for her new single Beauty Remains. Laden with disco and motown influences this is an uplifting yet emotional cut. As we’ve come to expect from Faith, the visuals are stunning and her vocals, timeless and powerful.

Faith co-wrote Beauty Remains with Suede’s Bernard Butler and Fyfe Dangerfield (founding member of The Guillemots). It’s the 6th cut from her latest album A Perfect Contradiction: Outsiders’ Edition. She recently told Digital Spy that she will be working on a new album in the coming months and has already contacted producer Mark Ronson.

Faith will embark on a UK arena tour next month and has been announced as the headliner of the seven date spectacular Forest Live tour.

Faith is nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the BRITs and will perform tonight (February 25) at the ceremony in the O2 Arena in London.

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The new song and video from Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand – will make you feel goooood! This upbeat, house-pop track is packed with positivity. The music video, directed by by Emil Nava (Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, Jessie J) is pretty feel-good as well. It’s not complicated, or arty, just friends having some fun in the desert.

The Grammy-award winning singer (Best Dance Recording for her Clean Bandit collaboration Rather Be) will release Hold My Hand on March 23, through Atlantic. The single gives us a first taste of her debut album, slated for a summer release, which Glynne says has lots of “upbeat soul”.

The single follows last summer’s Gorgon City produced Right Here as well as her second collaboration with Clean Bandit Real Love.

Glynne is nominated for 3 Brit Awards this year, including Best British Single and Best Video. She will start a UK tour next month with Clean Bandit which will include a night at London’s Alexandra Palace.

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Jack White has released an awesome interactive video for his latest single That Black Cat Licorice. It’s actually 3 videos in one and you can flip between the videos as the song plays. You can change the video by holding down the ‘3’ or ‘B’ keys on your keyboard.

If you just hit play without pressing 3 or B, you will see a surreal animated video, directed by James Blagden, which shows White attempting to seduce an Egyptian Queen, cutting out his tongue and lots of crazy dancing bats.

If you hit the 3 on your keyboard whilst watching you’ll watch a live-action, moody video, directed by and starring White himself. If you hold down the B key whilst watching you’ll see another live-action video, directed by Brad Holland, that is basically just slow-mo footage of people head banging. Swapping between the 3 and B keys makes for really interesting viewing, they mix so well together, playing in conjunction perfectly.

The track is from White’s latest album Lazaretto, which was released almost a year ago and is still going strong.

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Classic rock firepower, searing guitar riffs and high-flying vocals – Florence + the Machine is back! What Kind of Man, the first single from their new album, now has a cinematic visual. A full chorus of back up singers brings extra drama to the track which is about the dangers of love and sex with the wrong kind of man.

The video matches the storyline perfectly – be warned, there’s plenty of disturbing images like full on car crashes and scenes with circling men. There’s nothing vulgar – Florence is too subtle for that – but the message certainly gets across.

The new album, How Big How Blue How Beautiful, is the first since 2011’s Ceremonials and release is set for June 1st in the UK via Island Records and June 2nd in the US via Republic Records. Ceremonials focussed on water, death and escapism whilst the new album theme’s are more in the here and now. Florence said: “The new album became about trying to learn how to live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it, which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do.”

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