Today's Pick

As he preps to release his debut artist album, Alesso gives us the opportunity to channel our inner comic book hero with new music video for his new track, "Heroes (We Could Be)," featuring vocals from rising Swedish singer Tove Lo. The 23-year-old Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Swedish DJ and the 26-year-old red-hot newcomer Lo are set to wreak serious chart damage with their soaring club anthem, "Heroes (We Could Be)," and Lo's beautiful vocals provide the backdrop for what is another fantastic track from the young Swedish DJ.
Taking about the message behind the lyrics, Alesso said "I believe that the best experiences in life are the ones you share with others. We wanted to write around that topic, when you feel a special bond with someone and can drop everything else to just be yourself together with that person. And especially to encourage one another, to push yourselves forward an appreciate each other's." The song's lyrics are taken from "Heroes" (1977) by David Bowie and the David Bowie-interpolating floorfiller made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 this week and is already shooting up iTunes. Full volume please!
All it needed was a killer video and the Swedish DJ and the EDM superstar delivered the superhero-themed clip with a special effects-filled extravaganza, where the stunning Lo is a fallen angel, joined by a diverse array of cast-mates, who all portray superhuman powers while being held hostage in an asylum-type facility. In contrast to the radio-friendly track, the video is dark and ends melancholically (fitting for the Halloween season).
Starring the "Habits" hitmaker as a fallen/captured angel, the X-Men referencing visual centers around a bunch of young children who are interned in an underground research lab for their supernatural abilities. Happily, the super suave DJ makes a cameo appearance as the one who comes to their rescue and frees them, breaks Lo out before she literally lets him down. The storyline for the video is the perfect compliment to the powerful vocals of Lo, as well as the emotional instrumental. The ending was quite shocker though!

The massive trifecta of Scottish deejay Calvin Harris, fellow Swedish DJ Alesso and British synthpop duo Hurts' frontman Theo Hutchcraft have teamed up and unveiled the official music video for their collaborative huge progressive anthem, "Under Control," which will be released on November 24. The video is colorful, vivid, and entertaining. The trio lark about as the apocalypse draws near, and it answers anyone wondering what these guys would do if the world was ending.

The track was originally premiered at Alesso's set in Ibiza at the beginning of August, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 1. Alesso originally revealed the collaboration back in May, tweeting that the song is "sounding big." The track is a true Euro club banger, with a relentless 90s house beat and rave synths forming the foundation beneath Hutchcraft's trademark melodramatic vocals, while while Harris and Alesso deliver a masterpiece of musical production, with epic builds that climax into a burst of synergistic energy.
The banging EDM adventure "Under Control" has that perfect medium that isn't too chill, but still makes you bounce as you listen. As is normally the case with EDM anthems, they get even better when paired with a good video. You can find all three guys featured in the 'end of the world' style music video as they head into the big city for one last show before the meteor to destroy Earth hits. And of course, they pick up a couple ladies along the way to help them party the right way during their final hours on Earth.
Shot in Los Angeles, and featuring phenomenal vocals from Hutchcraft, the accompanying music video depicts a meteor coming to Earth and all three artists looking moody, pissing about and performing live in the face of the oncoming apocalypse as we see the trio brace themselves for a meteor strike by playing a gig in a limo with girls they picked up on the side of the road to mark the end of the world.  After a few tense seconds, we're treated to a happy twist ending perfect for the uplifting tune.