Ashley Arrison Debuts "Trying To Help You Out"

Nashville-based pop vocalist Ashley Arrison has released her first music video for for the lead single "Trying To Help You Out," was co-written with Kelly Clarkson, who also lends backing vocals to the track, an accomplished slice of pop-rock with well-crafted country lyrics that is taken from her new full-length debut album, "Hearts on Parade," just hits the streets on July 1, and was her heartfelt, honest lyrics that initially drew us to her music and the album stays true to that formula with its brilliant blend of well-crafted country lyrics and pop melodies.
"Trying to Help You Out" is full of heartbreaking pop goodness and a cautionary tale to a loved one that pursuit will result in imminent heartbreak. Arrison enlists good friend Clarkson for the song. There's beauty in restraint as Clarkson harnesses her trademark vocals creating more of a haunting effect, allowing Arrison to stand out. The song also features world-renowned drummer, Matt Chamberlain and the uber-talented producer, songwriter and musician Aben Eubanks, who was instrumental to the entire album process by performing on all of the tracks. This concise yet effective new album allows her to shift between pop, folk and country-influenced songs letting the hooks and groove carry her along. After a few spins, you might even be able to distinguish her from her intended contemporaries.
Even for fans, it's tough to tell today's female singer-songwriters apart. From Mandy Moore to Sara Bareilles, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch and Colbie Caillat, most of them fall into a vague post-Jewel/Sarah McLachlan haze. It's logical to throw Arrison into that bucket. She's gifted with a sweet voice, writes songs from the heart and is easy on the eyes and ears. Arrison's music is endearing and beautifully composed. You might not know yet, but you will. She is the complete package of gorgeous vocals, striking beauty, and a catalog of songs just waiting to be heard and cherished. Arrison offers up songs you will love immediately and cause you to wonder why no one has told you about her before now. Now this sweet southern songstress is launching her own career, touching lives with her gift of heartfelt melodies and stirring lyrics. we're pretty stoked about Arrison's potential and only see tremendous success coming her way in the very near future.

Joemca And The Poets Debut "Big Dreams" Video

Joemca (pronounced "jum-ka") and the Poets has premiered new video on Consequence Of Sound for the lead single "Big Dreams" off his soon to be released debut full-length album "16 Devils," an effort which promises to offer "the perfect balance between artiness and accessibility," and savor all of the impressions, has released on June 22 via One Stone/The Orchard.
The 25-years-old Joemca is a classically trained pianist and violinist, and echoes of this background are evident across his eponymous EP, from the symphonic arrangements and classical passages that loft forth from his keyboards. Joemca mixes eclectic beats with soulful musings, but his textures and co-production attempt to capture the Irishmen's own rousing style and dynamics. Joemca's lyrics are extraordinarily evocative but veiled, leaving listeners to draw their own conclusions. A sublime meeting of atmosphere, melody, rhythm, and emotion, Joemca has created an elegant, majestic set that makes one long to hear more.
The L.A. native/New York transplant spent the last year coloring outside the lines of his long-awaited debut LP, "16 Devils." Despite having roots that reach as far back as 2006, the album feels like one seamless collection of love songs that are a little off, a little more real than one verse/chorus, verse/chorus exercise after another. On "16 Devils," Joemca has drawn a clear line of self expression, where his voice and his words are paramount. At the same time, the music transcends genre, building an edifice with elements of pop, soul, soundtrack, and electronica without really leaning towards any of them. That's immediately clear if you listen closely, as "Big Dreams" raises the curtain with crushed beats and groove-locked hooks. Needless to say, this is far from your everyday, overly predictable indie rock album.
"Big Dreams," is straight pop gem, complete with head-nodding beats and grabbing hooks. It serves as a good example of the music. The instruments are all pushed back, although the drums are relatively forward. While they look prosaic in print, Joemca's voice imbues them with a more symbolic depth. Fundamentally, this is songwriter material with none of the folk or indie rock that usually implies. The instruments are all secondary to Joemca's voice, which has a lot of Bono -- sometimes theatrical, sometimes husky, but often proclamatory. Every word is clearly enunciated, which is fitting because his lyrics are fairly polished. The music is often brooding, serious, and a little world weary.
The Evan Frushtick-directed clip was shot in two days on a farm in upstate New York and adds some stunning scenery behind those head-nodding beats and grabbing hooks. Grace plays the daughter. At the age of sixteen, Grace was offered the role because "she had a grasp of acting far beyond her years," said by Frushtick, who was so impressed with Grace's on set performance, the way she related to the cast and crew, and her involvement of character transitions that he invited her to do an internship with his company, which she accepted. "Grace is a gorgeous, witty and dynamic young actor, who is a professional on set and a great asset to the process" said members of the crew.

Martina McBride' CMA Award 'Independence Day'

Country singer Martina McBride performing her song "Independence Day," is today's YouTube addition to Top Country Music Videos. What better a song/video than this, to add for today's 4th of July celebration. "Independence Day" is originally the third single from her 2nd studio album "The Way That I Am," which was released in September, 1993, and released as a single in 1994. Gretchen Peters wrote the song, and later recorded it herself. The video for this song won Music Video of the Year in 1994 at the Country Music Association Awards.
McBride grew up on a farm singing country music from the moment she could tiptoe up to a mike. Before launching her own career on RCA Records, she learned about life on the road by selling T-shirts at Garth Brooks concerts. By singing about spousal abuse without coming off as preachy, the song "Independence Day," has since become McBride's signature song, and McBride became even more visible since then with the crossover success of her anti-domestic violence anthem "Independence Day." McBride has sold over 13 million albums in USA alone, and my favorite her song is "Anyway!"
Peters wrote this song tell a story of a woman's response to domestic abuse, seen from the point of view of her 8-year-old daughter. Looking back, she thinks maybe it wasn't coincidental. She was 8 years old when her parents split up, "So I did kind of have some kind of emotional grounding to understand at least how it feels from a child's point of view to have their world just come apart like that," she said. Although Peters herself has never been in the situation this song defines, she has certainly seen enough to know what the effects are. The lyrics have a double meaning in that the woman in the story is finally gaining her "freedom" from her abusive husband. Thus, it is her "independence day." The title also refers to the fact that the events noted in the song happened on the US' Independence Day, or July 4th.
The song's music video was somewhat controversial at the time of its release, because of its graphic depiction of domestic violence. The ending of the video is particularly intense, as it shows the young girl's home burning to the ground, implying that the mother had been responsible for the fire, and that she and the abusive father both perished in the fire. McBride is the spokesperson for many domestic abuse charities, and her recording of this song has had a resounding effect on domestic abuse awareness. Peters also makes a vocal appearance in the video for this song. It's her voice singing "Amazing Grace" in the very beginning. And she says it was a humbling experience. "It's very rare as a writer that you get a chance to hear your song, or you come even close to hearing your song as though you'd never heard it before. But I'll tell you, I worked on the video, and when I first saw the video, when I sat down and they showed it to me, I cried, too. It really moved me."

Maroon 5 Get Violent From Girlfriend In "Misery"

The Los Angeles-based alternative rock band, Maroon 5 have premiered the official video on MTV and VH1 for their new single "Misery," the first single from their upcoming third studio album, "Hands All Over," which was recorded in 2009 in Switzerland, and is scheduled to be released on September 21. The band's frontman suffers from various kind of violent plots in the freshly-released video and having to endure the attempts real-life girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna made to kill him.
The new tune "Misery," was released last week and hits radio airwaves, is pretty classic Maroon 5 with a rubber-band funk bassline, swinging beat and has frontman Adam Levine's rich, conversational vocals riding on top. Levine crooning about the agony of a dwindling, uncommunicative relationship. Like a lot of Maroon 5 jams, "Misery" is a buoyant, poppy affair that has a dark underbelly. "Misery" is about the dire straits Levine finds himself in when a relationship peters out. The falsetto-pleading, yet upbeat, peppy and keyboard-popping track, features a melodic chorus similar-sounding to their 2004 hit, "This Love." The single was exactly the kind of up tempo, falsetto-filled single we've come to expect and its beat may lead you to forget what the lyrical content is about.
If the song sounds like sunshine, the video will apparently be a little more stormy. The Joseph Kahn-directed music video, is surprisingly focuses on violence instead of sex, with the leading man is getting kicked, bitten, pushed, ran over and thrown around by the leading lady who attempting to kill her lover. "I thought [the concept] was really amazing," Levine explained to MTV News, "because it kind of turns the whole idea of the sexual energy between two people- a guy and a girl, a music video, you've seen that a million times - that exists in this video, but it's turning it on its ass and having the girl be the more domineering one who's trying to kill me." This video really takes interest of thew watcher because the lyrics of the song go well with it but in a creative way.
Grammy Award-winning band are veterans in the industry after so many years of mega hits. The mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul sex appeal made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the 2000s. Maroon 5 aren't the first band to fuse R&B and rock, but they certainly are one of the most convincing. One can almost hear Stevie Wonder's beaded braids clattering in time to their deep, funky grooves. At best, the band conjures up latter-day Motown, complete with a shuddering organ and hyperbolic vocals; at worst, they sound like a stylized boy band, with all the attendant close harmonies and dramatic pauses. But despite these musical schisms, Maroon 5 are a thoroughly engaging outfit, thanks to throbbing bass lines, hooky songs, and lead singer Levin's swaggering delivery.

Steel Magnolia 'Just by Being You (Halo & Wings)'

The country music duo Steel Magnolia bursted onto the scene last year after winning the second season of CMT's "Can You Duet?" talent competition, and the country newcomers now have returned with a new follow up single and music video for "Just by Being You (Halo and Wings)" on CMT's Top 20 Countdown. Will the single be able to match the success of their smash debut single, "Keep on Lovin' You," the highest charting debut single from a male-female Country duet act in the 66-year history of the Billboard Top Country Songs Chart.
The duo consists of Meghan Linsey and her boyfriend, Joshua Scott Jones, delivers a ballad about loving someone just the way they are. Their new single is also the first from their upcoming debut full-length album, to be released later this year. The song is a simple love song, with the metaphor or angels, and about a couple wanting to get away from everything, and that's exactly what happened when it came time to film the music video, directed by Kristin Barlowe. The dramatic power ballad finds the duo, who have been dating for several years, each pledging to accept the other. The couple trades couplets and their sound blends together in harmony on the chorus, producing a Tim McGraw and Faith Evans affect that has proven successful time and again.
Steel Magnolia are old-time country: folk country and ballad country. The Louisiana natives, in their young 20s, are perhaps too young to know exactly where their roots sound comes from, but they deliver a rhythm and melody sound akin to their 30-something contemporaries in Little Big Town. A more mature version of Gloriana even, Steel Magnolia are among the rising stars in the young country game. Since the forming of the dynamic, singing, songwriting duo in 2006, record labels and publishers are starting to catch wind and are asking a lot of questions. The sound is soulful, the songs undeniable, and the music is taking people by storm.
With a very 21st century name, Steel Magnolia might reflect the modern and natural sound of their voices, or the obvious steel guitars present in their music, but it also represents a new page in 2010's country music scene. Steel Magnolia ready to bloom in country music, and they will spend most of this summer supporting Brad Paisley as he tours across America on his H2O Tour.

Jérémy Amelin Debuts "Oh, Oh!" Feat. Angelika

French electro recording artist and entertainer Jérémy Amelin has released the music video for his fifth single "Oh, Oh!" features vocals from singer Angelika Vee. The uptempo dance song was released as the lead single from his debut album on January 25.
The Kayden Boché directed video was filmed in Paris, France in a luxury restaurant on the Champs Elysées. Amelin talked about the song during a video interview on his official YouTube channel, stating: "That's a really sexy song. It's basically about this girl clubbing with her friends just like me. We notice each other through the crowd, then rises a physical and sexual attraction. So we flirt and tease while playing some kind of animal courtship."
Public Magazine gave the song the maximum five stars referring to it as a "smash hit single in between Lady Gaga and Britney Spears", and as being an "original mix-genius of electro, pop and dance". They added that the song "already sounds like an anthem that will be stuck in people's mind and that will be topping the charts."
Only aged 23, Amelin has already the talent, the voice and energy of a true star. In just three years, after being a highly-noticed candidate on French music TV show "Entrées d’Artistes," he can't help but go beyond his own limits to redefine the very notion of showman.The best to come is still ahead, be sure that Amelin will continue to surprise all of us for a long time!

Sara Bareilles Premieres 'King Of Anything' Video

Jersey Shore enthusiast Sara Bareilles clearly subscribes to the notion that a picture is worth a thousand words in her music video for bouncy piano-driven tell-off song "King Of Anything" the lead single off her forthcoming sophomore album "Kaleidoscope Heart," which is due out in September.
The Neal Avron-produced tune "King of Anything," manages to ever-so-sweetly punch all of the 'unsolicited advice' Bareilles has ever received in the face since 2007 when 'VH1 You Oughta Know' artist wrote a sarcasm-coated, not-so-romantic "Love Song" that wound up soaring to No.4 on Billboard's Hot 100, and she received two Grammy nominations for her triple platinum selling hit single, and catapulted her to become one of the most interesting and promising new artists of 2009.
A gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice that ranged from powerful and soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. Bareilles' vocal range registers from contralto to mezzo-soprano. I like Bareilles's delightful bitterness. "King of Anything," is much like her enormous hit single "Love Song," it's a catchy tune that will certainly burrow itself into your brain. The immensely addictive and charismatic pop driven track featuring her extraordinary vocal prowes. Bareilles has said of the song, "I've had more unsolicited advice on my life than I care to mention, and this was how I dealt with it. It felt empowering to turn that frustration into music, especially a song that doesn't even sound angry. That's sort of what "Love Song" was as well. Apparently, I don't get over things very quickly."
The music video was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and features the 29-year-old California "Lovesong" singer singing in a number of different places accompanied by a brass band, and appears framed in various photographs throughout the clip while riding on a bus, hanging out in a musical instrument store and dancing around while wearing a ballerina dress in a garden. It's now her turn to be happy and celebrates it in every place she visits.