Kathleen Edwards Unveiled "Change The Sheets"

Canadian folk-rocker Kathleen Edwards has unveiled a new music video for "Change the Sheets," the stark and romantic first single from her upcoming fourth studio album "Voyageur," which was recorded between August 2010 and May of this year in Fall Creek, Wisconsin and Toronto, features collaborations with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.
Hailing from Canada, The 33-year-old Alternative country songstress has been honing her craft for some time. Writing and releasing some superb work, Edwards seems to specialize in characterization, fleshing out her musical portraits with an eye for cutting detail. She released three albums from 2003-2008, but hasn't produced new music since. The new set "Voyageur," is due to be released on January 17th, Edwards' first full length in four years.
"Change the Sheets," a road ditty that she warned "might make you drive faster," is a pleasant pop song that combines acoustic and electric guitars in a playful manner. Her vocals softly compliment the tightly composed keyboard-driven song. It's a bewitching song with a hint of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac in its sparkling polish and pulsing bass line, and it travels in the spaces of classic rock and country tropes, dissolving relationships, late night travel and makes them sound completely riveting, no doubt aided by a production that is big without being glossy. This is a certifiably classic Edwards tune.
Serves as a document of life on tour, which sped-up natural imagery mixed with footage from the van and soundcheck, the Dan Huiting-directed video replete with fitting accompaniment for the breezy, folk-tinged rock tune, and the footage of Edwards and her band pounding the pavement on recent tours. The clip also culminates in the same way as any good road video with live footage of the band playing of the song in front of an adoring audience. It's a fitting accompaniment for the breezy, folk-tinged rock tune.

Karmin Is Coming To "Crash Your Party"

Karmin, a duo that consists of Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, have premiered their first official video for duo's first original single "Crash Your Party," which pays homage to the duo's YouTube roots, opening with a view of their Boston apartment living room, which was the backdrop for their Karmin Covers. "We like to think of it like we're crashing the industry's party 'cause the way that we got here was through the fans," said Heidemann.
Karmin first caught the public's eye when they covered Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" in an impressive YouTube video that ultimately garnered millions of views earlier this year. Since then, they landed a record deal and have been creating original music. Reportedly, "swag pop" duo Karmin's debut album is set to be released in February of 2012. Overall stylistically, Karmin have a very strong retro and hip-hop influences, and used a lot of the hip-hop videos from the late '90s and early 2000's for visual inspiration.
Written by themselves, the fun hip-pop song is said to be "an anthem for anyone who is fed up with that one person in their life who always demands to be the center of attention." Sampling the 1991 Black Sheep hip-hop hit "The Choice Is Yours," Karmin's song features funky fresh beats, an uplifting feeling, and swagga-fied vocals reminiscing to new artists like Jessie J and Cher Lloyd. The funky video uses refrigerators and guitar cases as the gateway for the artists to enter different scenes.
Directed by Syndrome, the video starts with Karmin in a regular living room, doing their normal YouTube thing playing 'Crash Your Party.' Then, the YouTube background falls down and Karmin climb into our piano case, go through a suitcase into an 80's colorful house, and crash onto our neighbors table just as they're eating breakfast! The real-life couple continue to "crash" a lot of different scenarios, escape from the paparazzi, blow the candles at a kid birthday party, to a jazz lounge, to finally ending up on the big stage!

B.o.B. Sees "Strange Clouds" With Lil Wayne

Atlanta hip-hop star B.o.B ventures out in the wilderness in his latest video for Dr. Luke-produced single "Strange Clouds," the lead single and title track from his upcoming sophomore effort, set to hit store shelves March 2012. It's a 3 minutes 47 seconds of bass heavy bragging, and harder edged hip hop. The 'Airplanes' hitmaker does not only bring rapper Lil Wayne, but also takes fellow rapper T.I. with him to enjoy some strange-colored clouds in a beautiful meadow.
On the kickoff to his second LP, the 23-year-old Atlanta rapper slings references to Nancy Kerrigan, Inception and Top Chef over a blippy dubstep beat. Wayne drops a wink-nudge verse about getting blitzed, but it's B.o.B who lights up with a charming, tenacious flow. It definitely has a catchy, melodic chorus, but the rhymes hit hard, and the two voices and sensibilities blend well. Lyrically, the song is focused on self-promotion and dismissal of any haters.
B.o.B told Billboard magazine he chose the album title to reflect his maturity as an artist. "It's reflective of the growth, and how my perspective has changed. And 'Strange Clouds' is like a hybrid, the sci-fi with the organic. It's all about art, it's all about music, and I feel like this album is going to be a classic." He said the track was originally just something he wanted to rhyme on: "'Strange Clouds' could mean a variety of things from lacunosus clouds to unidentified flying objects to puffs of the most exotic of plants. He wanted to get an artist on it who could really bring that idea to life, and who better than Lil Wayne?"
With its infectious hook and braggadocious lyrics, the Motion Family-directed clip has an evening outdoors theme, and the two rappers performing under psychedelic natural light display which is apparently sending everybody in the hood crazy. The video finds the two MCs spitter swank about their meticulous rhyming in a green field beneath a sky of strange clouds, while T.I. drops in for a few appearances and everyone tries to figure out what's happening with those strange clouds up above. Once again, B.o.B proves that Young Money is still on top of the mainstream rap game.

The Wanted Are Hearts Broken In "Warzone"

British-Irish boy band The Wanted have unveiled their new music video for "Warzone," as the fourth cut from their new sophomore LP, "Battleground," a euphoric widescreen classic of epic-pop proportions. The Wanted are wrapping up another tremendously successful year. With its tear-strewn piano melody and melodic hook, "Warzone" was their most mature effort to date and one of the highlights of the album.
Co-written by Max George and Nathan Sykes from the quintet, the song tells a story of bitter heartache and pain. "You're the reason we started this fight," the five harmonize on this gut-wrenching ballad that comes with a subtle dubstep touch, which gives the song a compelling British flair. The electropop ballad is a subtle attempt at dubstep that fuses somber piano chords and an epic soft rock chorus with distant wobble basslines and spacious beats.
It hasn't been easy for British pop outfit to break in North America but Mercury Records in the U.S. is up for the challenge. First priority is to build a loyal fanbase online who can help spread the word about the group. The Wanted's music will also be strategically placed on TV and radio to get mainstream audiences slowly but surely familiar with their music. A good example of that are The Wanted's recent features on Simon Cowell's X Factor in the U.S.
Featuring a haunting piano riff, emotional vocals and a truly epic chorus, it's easily the best thing they've ever recorded. The video, filmed in Brooklyn, New York, was directed by Director X, who previously directed their video for "Glad You Came." The promo sees the boys having their hearts broken when they discover their girlfriends cheating on them and decide to confront them in the bedroom bust-up. The boys belting out their dubstep-infused ballad while surrounded by huge piles of rubble, smashed up cars and a burning piano.

Victoria Justice Premieres "You're The Reason"

Victoria Justice has made her brand-new visual grand premiere for her hit song "You're the Reason" on Nickelodeon Saturday, right after the airing of her Nickelodeon show's Christmas special episode of 'Victorious,' with the piece mainly comprised of Justice perched behind a piano.
The 18-year-old budding solo singer is going unplugged and giving us her special unplugged version of "You're the Reason," which is from the Victorious soundtrack. Justice has performed a more uptempo version previously, but this version is a ballad and she says it really let her get more into an emotional level of singing. The Nickelodeon star laid it all on the line as she belted out her song behind a piano.
The video was shot in Zuma Beach and also a place called the Enchanted Forest. The concept of the video is of Justice traveling with her piano. One little tidbit that fans out there should know is that there are "no" guys on this video - although Justice laughingly tells us that guys are cute and all but this video is purely herself. Along with the visual, Justice says her style in the video was so in sync with what she likes - lots of fun fashion and of course her favorite - feathers. When it comes to who she is thinking about and singing this beautiful ballad - Justice tells us that when she performs the song the person who she is dedicating the song to is her mom, sweet!
The new video was directed by none other than Wayne Isham, who has worked with huge stars like Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, and Bon Jovi. Justice is seen looking as lovely as ever in a red dress, sitting at a piano customized with light bulbs in the video, which spies the ravishing red carpet stunner playing piano in a number of outdoor locations that it looks like it'd be hard to get a piano to the beach, a forest clearing. The new video will showcase a version of the same song that appeared on the recent 'Victorious' soundtrack.

Switchfoot Tell Story Of Their Life In "Restless"

San Diego alt-rockers Switchfoot have released the music video for "Restless" serves as the co-lead single with their mainstream single, "Dark Horses," from group's eighth studio album "Vice Verses." After a year of touring for their Grammy winning CD "Hello Hurricane," they went back to the studio and have worked hard on their new CD "Vice Verses." Stuffed to the rafters with one melodic triumph after the other, the record could quite possibly be Switchfoot's finest work yet.
Lead singer and principal songwriter for the band Jon Foreman wrote the song in Europe, with the intent of "trying to embody the story of the rain," which comes from the idea that raindrops are on a "relentless" journey back to the ocean, and in this song he examines his place in the world alongside nature. "I was thinking about the idea that I'm on a journey myself," said Foreman: "Restless is the story of my life: thirsty, reaching, yearning for more."
"'Restless' was inspired over in the UK. I was listening to the rain and watching these individual drops drip down the window and thinking that every one of them is in pursuit of the ocean, that they will stop at nothing, and gravity will eventually one day lead them to the ocean. And I began to think of my own life and wondering if I had that same drive, that same pursuit for that which is right and true. And then I was thinking through C.S. Lewis' idea that this life, when we're aware of beauty, it's kind of a bittersweet thing, that it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with."
Switchfoot frontman admitted that he hasn't always been that thrilled with their videos, but this time out everything fell into place. "Yeah, they don't always turn out the way you pictured them to, but this video we kind of did ourselves, with the help with our friends at Hurley. We feel that these songs truly come to life in a live setting so we wanted to deliver a video that captured that feeling. I'm really excited with the way it turned out." The energy Foreman and the band puts into their performance came across authentic and inspiring.

Taylor Swift Survives One Boring Day In "Ours"

Taylor Swift has one boring day at work but ends in the best way possible in the video for the country songbird's latest single, "Ours," and it's a thoroughly adorable clip that fits perfectly among Swift's other crushingly cute videos. The 2011 Billboard Woman of the Year honoree survives the day only because she's looking forward to coming home and welcoming back her "distant love," who happened to be away serving in the military.
The tune serves as the sixth offering from her multiplatinum-selling album "Speak Now," "Ours" was solely written by Swift as a love letter and as being in love and knowing that they can make it through the rough times. The song finds Swift in a relationship of which others do not approve. She reassures her beau that despite the criticism they are getting, she loves him. It's a pretty, slower tempo song that showcases Swift's strengths, which are her inviting, open journal lyrics and that sweet voice. Swift saved the best for last.
Directed by Declan Whitebloom, the video features the soon-to-be 22-year-old out of princess mode, plays herself as a bored corporate drone sleepwalking through an average day: awkwardly riding the elevator, and dealing with the average frustrations like an out-of-order copy machine and cliquey girls in the break room, until she's reminded that there's always a special someone she can count on. Admittedly, she looks more flawless and glowing than any office worker we've ever seen, but we'll cut her a break.
Everything that can go wrong does. It's not her day, nor is it her life. Throughout the clip, the only thing keeping Swift sane is dreaming about her absent boyfriend, who makes a return by the song's end. "I had a very definitive idea of what I wanted this video to be," Swift told E! News. The overarching theme of the "Ours" video is that deep down, we're all looking to connect with people, be it on the surface, in a fleeting moment or something deeper. It makes you think about engaging in conversation with that guy you ignore in the elevator every morning or making eye contact with that person on the bus and sharing a smile. It's a really lovely, little video that captures the nice nature of the song. It’s those quiet ones you have to watch.