Muse - JFK + Defector and Psycho (Music Videos from DRONES album)

Music Television is pleased to present Muse and the video to their song titled Defector, a single that is track #8 from their album titled DRONES.

Muse - JFK + Defector

Just in case you missed it, here is one other single/music-video titled Psycho from the DRONES album. This song could not more perfectly frame how the military establishment molds the minds of kids who enroll.

Muse - Psycho

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More about MUSE and the DRONES album

Muse is a trio whose members are:

• Matt Bellamy on lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, piano, synthesizers and keytar.
• Dominic Howard is on drums, percussions, synthesizers and backing vocals.
• Chris Wolstenholme on bass guitar, backing/lead vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica 

DRONES is a deep album, both musically and philosophically.

Matt Bellamy was the principal songwriter on DRONES with the exception of two classical music composers in the final two tracks of this twelve song album.

• Track #11 titled "The Globalist" contains music based on "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations, composed by Edward Elgar, the self taught English composer 1857 to 1934, whose style, story and musical depth is a study. He drew sketches and water-colored on his sheet music, adding a dimension to the feeling of the music.
• Track #12, which is titled Drones, contains music based on the Benedictus from Missa Papae Marcelli, a mass (church) sine nomine by a composer active in the mid to late 1500's named Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Philosophically, DRONES is a concept album that tells a story of soldier from abandonment to indoctrination as a human drone and to his eventual defection.

The previous two MUSE albums prior to DRONES were self produced.  On DRONES, they collaborated with legendary producer Mutt Lange. If you are not familiar with Mutt, here is a listing of his top 10 albums according to Eduardo Rivadavia of UltimateClassicRock.Com.

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Kraak & Smaak - All I Want Is You - featuring Keyhole

Just below is the latest song and music video from the electronic production trio which sister site MusicLoad featured here back in February 2012.

Kraak & Smaak's core trio members are Oscar de Jong, Mark Kneppers and Wim Plug. They are based in the Netherlands. The guest vocalist, falsetto and all, is known as Keyhole.

This most excellent music video comes complete with a set up story to read before commencing to watch:

On the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, a lovelorn young gentleman lets an opportunity to chat with a fancy dame slip. In his moment of dismay, he's taken under the wing of a swag-tastic homeless man who teaches him the power of dance to Kraak & Smaak's classy disco tune. 

Flash forward a chorus or two and homeboy's got moves like Prince and is downing strange chemicals in the LA river. By the time he runs into the object of his affections again, he's a crotch-thrusting lothario and she can't resist the power of his discotheque maneuvers. That is, until she gets swooped by the homeless guy.

Kraak & Smaak - All I Want Is You - (featuring Keyhole)

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Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me (Music Video)

From the town of Leiden in the Netherlands, Oscar de Jong, Mark Kneppers and Wim Plug make up a music production trio known as Kraak & Smaak. This song below is one of their many mixes and creative music videos from several years ago that still has legs. It features the vocals of Ben Westbeech. Enjoy!

Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me

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This post was created by Mariana L. Villanueva on May 29, 2015

Pops Staples - Don't Lose This

Can't not post this video of Mavis Staples telling a little bit of the story about her father's final record titled Don't Lose This.

She tells about how Pops asked to hear the recordings when he was not feeling good near the end of his life, months after they recorded it. She took it up to his room and he heard it, smiled and said "... don't lose that". It was the final recording that the Staple Singers ever recorded together with Pops in 1998 through mid 1999. Unfortunately, Robuck "Pops" Staples died in December of 2000 after a concussion he had suffered from a fall in his home. This was a very emotional project for Mavis to help complete, as you will see. But she finds joy in it all.

The album is a true delight and should be enjoyed with the volume turned up enough to hear more of the detail and intricacies of Pops technique. It was recorded in 1998 at the Hinge Recording Studio & The Loft in Chicago, Illinois. But, on some of the songs there is some additional production that was recently added by Jeff Tweedy of the band Wilco. Lucky guy got the gig because he had worked well with Mavis on her solo albums.

The entire record is brilliantly minimalist, so soulful and funky in mostly a subtle way. It's old school. Absolutely love track 3: No News is Good News and track 7: The Lady's Letter, but all the songs are a real good dose of authentic from a true pioneer.

Thank you to Anti- Records, a division of the indie label known as Epitaph Records for providing the Full Album Stream featured below.

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Dylan re-interprets Sinatra hits

Just below is Bob Dylan's latest music video directed by Nash Edgerton (see full video production credits at bottom of post). The video is to Dylan's recording of The Night We Called It A Day. The song was written by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair in 1941 and covered by numerous artists including Frank Sinatra.  All the songs on Dylan's most recent ten song album titled Shadows In The Night were songs handpicked by Dylan as a tribute to Sinatra and songs he had recorded at some point in his career.  This extraordinary video for The Night We Called It A Day is more like a classic gangster film, than a music video, depicting the genre films from a period in the Sinatra era. It's the kind of work that music lovers expect from greatness, and no less.

Bob Dylan - The Night We Called It A Day

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Just below is a nice interview of one of the most legendary music engineers of all time, Al Schmitt. He had the privilege of working on this Dylan project and talks about how it came together and how it was recorded. Music producer and journalist Stephen Peeples is the host of the interview.

Full Credit List for Production of Music Video for The Night We Called It A Day
Production Company: The Directors Bureau
Director: Nash Edgerton
Executive Producer: Sue Yeon Ahn
Producer: Benjamin Gilovitz & Kimberly Stuckwisch
Commissioner: Bryan Younce
Director of Photography: Morgan Susser
Production Designer: Toby Corbett
Stylist: Francis & Pereira
Editor: Luke Doolan & Nash Edgerton
VFX Artist: Denis Sharabarin
VFX Producer: Kevin Cornish
Color & Conform: Bonch
Colorist: Bill Pollock
Cast: Bob Dylan, Robert Davi & Tracy Phillips.

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