Here is a young artist, who at 16 years old, recently released her first indie album. Just below are her first two music videos. Another young artist, a very busy 24 year old videographer, shot the videos.
Groove is the single released by the comedy duo (Nerd Vandals) turned music duo known as Jack and Jack. Still in their teens, Jack Johnson and Jack Gilinsky's bond and friendship dates all the way back to the first day of kindergarten.
They have released several single songs. In 2014, their single titled Wild Life (2nd video below) hit #2 on iTunes and #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. Groove seems to have various quintessential contagious hit pop song qualities going for it and it does indeed groove hard enough that it might just deserve to surpass their previous chart records. The video for the song, below, was directed and edited by Andre LaDon. For those interested, LaDon was kind enough to share the details of how he used used a green screen along with which effects and backgrounds he used to finish the video.
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.
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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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)
The above music video was released in association with Thump, which is part of the edgy media group known as VICE. Thank you to both for making the above video available.
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!
