Today's Pick

ASCAP award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Reeves is back with a beautiful music video for his duet with Nelly Joy, "More In Love With You," the first official single from his newest third full-length album, "Songs Are Silent Films," which is out since June 12th. The record will be available through the artist's own abeautifularmyoftrees label both digitally and physically.
Reeves started on piano at the age of five, took up drums for awhile, and taught himself to play guitar when he was a teenager. Grounded in the music of great songwriters like Bob Dylan and James Taylor, he has since won an ASCAP award as a songwriter himself. He has an incredible voice for slow and folk music. Famous for singles such as "Skydive," "Save My Heart," and tracks featuring Colbie Caillat, "Droplets and No Lies," he is now becoming famous at age 28, not bad for a guy who self-produced album while finishing high school in Iowa.
With his newest solo release, "Songs Are Silent Films," Reeves returns to a stripped-down approach to his songwriting. Each song intertwines acoustic guitars with piano to create unforgettable melodies that form the album's eleven tracks. "I wanted to go back to the basics," affirms Reeves. "Each song becomes its own little movie that you can imagine seeing. There's not necessarily an overarching story per se, but all of these songs are written about falling in love."
Written with frequent collaborator Danelle Leverett of the JaneDear Girls and featuring her alter ego Nelly Joy on vocals, the sun-soaked ballad, "More in Love with You," is a classic love story and it echoes the best of classic Nashville finger-picked guitar with a modern touch of soulful harmonies and lyrics for which Reeves has become known. The video was directed by Nathanael Matanick, and was shot in the hills of Tennessee on the brink of spring.

Australian pop dynamo Kylie Minogue recently made her directoral debut, mastering her latest music video for the stripped down version of "Flower." The tune is the lead single taken from Minogue's forthcoming orchestral compilation pop album, "Abbey Road Sessions," released October 29, and is a celebration of her 25 years in music. We are diggin' these somberly beautiful images that compliment the pretty track.
The stunning lullaby aria was originally penned during the singer's sessions for 2007 LP "X," as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer and never properly recorded the fan favorite - until now. The highly-personal ballad "Flower," is less in the dance-pop vein and more of a mid-tempo number with real drums and lush strings dappled throughout. It definitely falls into the Minogue love songs category, with its wistful lyrics comparing a loved one to a gentle breeze.
Minogue may be providing hints about her feelings on motherhood as she sings, "Distant child, my flower. Are you blowing in the breeze? Can you feel me as I breathe life into you? I know one day you'll amaze me." In an interview, Minogue explained that the song is about having a child: "People who have heard the lyrics have asked if I'm feeling broody. They don't realize the story of the song. It's a love letter to the child I may or may not ever have. I was coming out of (cancer) treatment." She also thinks the song puts her in fear she would never have children in the future.
Whether she's wandering through a wooded thicket or floating in a pond, the 44-year-old Aussie star transforms into a shimmering earth goddess, throwing sultry poses, and rubs her hands all over body in the artfully shot black and white promo, which is directed by herself. It featured Minogue lying on a chair with only a long sheer white sheet covering her while looking through a mirror, Walking along a beach, wandering through woods and fields, walking along a tree trunk, playing on a swing, lying and sitting in a meadow of flowers and lying in a pool. Visually striking, simple, a hint of early '90s cheesiness. we LOVE it!

David Guetta is back with another video with sweeping nature shots and overall vibe work for his newest emotional track, "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)," the lead single the re-release of the album, "Nothing But the Beat 2.0," a repackaged edition of Guetta's 2011 album "Nothing But the Beat." It's definitely not the typical French DJ' shot - features a pack of hunters sledding through the arctic in pursuit of wolves, who proceed to 'break them to pieces,' literally. Winter has already arrived for Guetta.
"She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)," is a song about love with dark overtones, and features his collaborator Sia Furler, an Australian emotive singer, who was not in the music video, along with horses, sled dogs and heavily-clothed warriors. Like many Guetta collaborations, this anthem will undoubtedly quickly appear on the night club scene. The house music producer previously teamed up with Australian singer on "Titanium," which became a hit after its release in July this year.
Once again, it's the heartfelt lyrics that shine over the handbag house as Sia confesses: "You hunted me down like a wolf/ I felt like a deer in headlights. You loved me and I froze in time/ Hungry for that flesh of mine/ But I can't compete with a she wolf who has brought me to my knees," Sia sings while the clip shows footage set on a snowy landscape with the same inimitable gusto. The result is nothing we haven't heard already, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sweeping arctic tundras, grassy vallys, a nail-biter of a chase scene, Guetta and Sia leaves us shattered.
The explicit clip is filled with action-packed footage as it revolves around Eskimos hunters chasing a bleeding wolf, which can transform into a woman, in a northern George R. R. Martin landscape. It starts off with a shot of a naked woman from the back on top of a cliff, then it moves on to a wounded wolf running from a handful of the hunters, and every time they get close enough to shoot an arrow at the wolf, the world begins to fall to pieces. The wolf is supernatural, as it is able to make the hunters "explode" on every breakdown of the song. The canine then transforms back into the naked woman at the end, indicating that she is a werewolf, referring to the song title.

DAUGHTRY has released a brand-new music video on the TV show 'Extra' in support of their latest single, "Start of Something Good," the fourth official single from American rock band's chart topping third studio album, "Break the Spell," which is a serious hard-rock record, and more upbeat, positive lyrically and sounds nothing like the previous two.
"Start of Something Good" takes on a slower tempo and sounds similar to "Life After You," but frontman Chris Daughtry vocals can translate from hard rock and borderline scream, to a more smoothing passionate tone. When the chorus kicks in, there is a vulnerability to DAUGHTRY and his lyrics. It is a simple song about hoping a relationship will work out in the end and DAUGHTRY takes a simple love song and creates an unforgettable track with "Start of Something Good." Chris tells to Extra that the song "is basically the story of when I met my wife. It was one of those times where you're starting to believe it's the start of something good, and 12 years later, it proved to be right."
When it came to shooting the video for the song he felt it would have been a little weird placing the band in the middle of a field on blankets singing this song to a couple in love. Making its way out via Extra, the clip was directed by Nigel Dick and filmed on August 31 at Harlod's Farm in McLeansville, North Carolina. "The concept behind the video is basically I'm observing this young couple who's obviously in love and I'm playing their theme song," says the 32-year-old "American Idol" alum about the video.
The video that doesn't feature the entire band is rather unique in the way it focuses on Chris. "I didn't want to put them on blankets, you know, out in the field on a picnic or something," Chris explained to Extra. "That would have been weird." In the visuals, Chris is playing the guitar solo and singing the song acoustically without his band, while watching a young couple (played by Niki Coyne and Christian Nulty) has a romantic picnic in a field and taking tentative first steps towards a relationship.

"The Voice" judge Christina Aguilera comeback machine kicked into higher gear Friday morning with a brand-new video for her racy bad girl track, "Your Body," the lead single from the pop star's forthcoming self-expression and freedom record, "Lotus," due to hit stores in November. It wouldn't be a Aguilera leadoff single without her patented shock-you lyrics and double entendre. You always want the first single from your newest album to capture people's attentions whether it be by the vocals, the melody or the lyrics.
The fun, sexy and upbeat club track "Your Body," is a belter of an electro-meets-R&B anthem that feels both fresh and exciting, with a trace of dubstep in the track's middle eight. Lyrically, it talks about anonymous sex, where Aguilera wants a one night stand with a random guy and that it's okay if the guy doesn’t know what he’s doing, since she can finish up on her own. Aguilera's voice is crisp and up-front in this boudoir battle cry, and the shuffling early '00s beat is prime for any number of potential remixes.
The four-on-the-floor rhythm refrain has Aguilera flaunting her famous pipes on either side with the verses, "All I wanna do is love your body." While the song’s message might not appeal to some people, you can't deny its catchiness and ability to make you move on the dancefloor. Musically, it's an interesting fit for the 31-year-old songstress - the relaxed tempo should allow her to really dig in and belt it out, but she never truly lets loose.
Working with director Melina Matsoukas, Aguilera tells a story of a sexy woman who hunts down men for pleasure. Yes. she is a men-killer, literally. The clip is certainly a feast for the eyes, what with its brightly colored scenes of violence, as she described it as "playful, tongue and cheek" video, where she plays a badass, confident, self-assured sexy hot siren who kills men after seducing them. She also takes her bad-girl image to delightfully dangerous new heights as a colorful vixen who robs convenience stores and blows up cars.

Chris Brown dies for his country in the emotionally-charged video for his new tender love song, "Don't Judge Me," the fifth single to come from the 23-year-old Grammy winning R&B crooner's latest fifth studio album, "Fortune." The emotional track was one of the reasons why the album felt cripplingly pointless.
Brown takes a break from the hip-hop, pop lockin' and euro-pop beats, returning to his rhythm-and-blues roots to deliver a love ballad for his latest single "Don't Judge Me." He explained to MTV News: "It was important for me to go back to the basis of what people love me for, and that was my R&B." Musically, it is a midtempo lilting and breathy ballad, which contains lyrics about Brown still doesn't quite grasp the extent of what he has done in the past, and asking his love interest not to judge him by his chequered past but to move on with the future, "take me as I am."
Later on he admits, "I won't deny what they're saying. Because most of it is true." Brown sings in his signature semi-high pitch and when hearing songs like this, you can't knock his ability to make good music. Brown get into character and shed some tears in the Collin Tilley-co-directed clip, which follows a sci-fi type storyline where Brown is the 'Black Diamond' on a mission to do exactly what the title says while dealing with his girl and the pain she feels because of his past.
Brown makes his way through the California desert and sitting in front of a couch with a woman sleeping behind him before arriving at an military base as he preps for a suicide mission to save the planet. He begins to weep and destroys the ship by crashing into it, incinerating himself in the process. When asked by an overzealous reporter, who is also his girlfriend, why he's do this, Brown says, "If that means saving the people that I love and I care about, then that's what I'll do." The clip has a futuristic look and feel and is sure to make his fans cry with him as he makes the ultimate sacrifice. This is definitely art at its finest!

Fresh after the lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong's meltdown on stage at the iHeartMusic festival, Green Day is back with a new video for their another new song, "Stay the Night," marks our fifth taste off of Green Day's most recent ninth studio album, "¡Uno!," the first installment of their new album trilogy, was just hits store shelve on Tuesday via Reprise Records.
The punk rock trio have established themselves as veterans in an industry where artists come and go. While we may have though they'd be slowing down, Armstrong says they are at the very height of their musical careers. In an interview back in February he said, "We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives... This is the best music we've ever written, and the songs just keep coming. Instead of making one album, we are making a three album trilogy. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels."
The euphoric rock track "Stay The Night," is about finding one of those girls at the bar or club, that you have to take home; you know that girl that just has to "Stay The Night." The track is a dope, upbeat collection of sound that is driven by the hard hitting, aggressive guitars that we have come to expect from the legendary pop-punkers, and it features one of Green Day's cleanest, most radio-friendly choruses yet, but the line "I've got an impulse so repulsive that it burns" takes on a much darker meaning in light of Armstrong's recent meltdown and substance abuse problems.
Directed by Farm League, the simple visuals clip for "Stay the Night," another in-studio affair, was recorded during their rehearsal in Orange County last August, and it's similar to the one they shot for their promotional single "Nuclear Family," which only revolves around the fellas: Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool ripping through their bare bones and performing the song at an empty gritty warehouse space, surrounded by their instruments and a shit load of dust as they do their thing.