Category: Video Killed the Radio Star
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Imperial Teen – Overdrive
Imperial Teen knows exactly how to craft addictive melodies. Look no further than their new song “Overdrive,” vibrating with shoegaze synths and blaring bass. “Let’s start the show / Let’s take it slow,” they sing through a wall-to-wall of sonic goodness. In the accompanying video, the band wanders through eerie halls of a seemingly abandoned…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Love, BB – Those City Lights
Love, BB transports you to the dark, smoke-filled lounges of 1940s New York City. The listener steps back decades with their new song, “Those City Lights,” spinning like classic jazz records by Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. Saxophone lazily wanders around the Ella Fitzgerald melody, taking your hand and guiding you further into the backrooms…
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Video Killed the Radio Stars: Loose Buttons – Sure Thing
There’s nothing like a song to get you in the mood for a late-night drive with music blasting and the cool night air kissing your cheeks. With their new song, “Sure Thing,” rock band Loose Buttons suck in a wistfulness for last summer and exhale the beautiful mix of amber lights, white lines rushing away…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Taylor Bickett – If Only
We’ve all had situationshipsโthose yes-no-maybe-so relationships when the other half can’t seem to make up their mind. With her new song, “If Only,” singer-songwriter Taylor Bickett calls out the cowardice that’s led to emotional ruin. “Don’t keep me on your leash just to cut me loose,” she sings. In the accompanying visual, Bickett wanders through…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Cade Hoppe – Lake Michigan
Life doesn’t always work out the way you planned. That’s the pulsing core of Cade Hoppe‘s foamy new track, “Lake Michigan.” He uses the story of driving from the East Coast to the West Coast to see the Pacific Ocean, but the trip has other plans. And he ends up stopping at Lake Michigan instead.…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: almost monday – delicate
We wear masks to hide our insecurities. In the digital age, social detachment allows us to behave in a way that contradicts what we really feel. With their new song, almost monday explores this idea through a groove-gripped “delicate,” in which they muse: โTake a drink, pretend that Iโm relevant / Try to love it…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Victoria George – That’s A Lot To Say Goodbye To
In her brand new music video, Victoria George hits up the local watering hole. “That’s A Lot to Say Goodbye To,” directed by Sebastian St. James, shows George pouring her heart out to a lover. “Now you canโt stand this town / Say certain friends canโt hang around,” she sings. “Well, I guess what Iโm…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Neon Sines – Adeline
We all know how I feel about Neon Sines‘ latest song “Adeline” (psssst, I love it!), and we now have a video! Directed by Kenny Cash and Laura Cash, the visual splashes the audience with bursts of colorโlike you’d find in one of those Creepy Crawlers playsets from the ’90sโas it follows the duo becoming…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Love, BB – Solitaire
Take a stroll down a dark alley to the local jazz club. It’s filled with smoke, and the dim light casts eerie shadows over the crowd. That’s what Love, BB (comprised of Brooke Backman and songwriter/producer Michael Leviton) beckon you to do with their new music video, “Solitaire.” Its classic film noir aesthetic is not…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Psychic Lines – Horror Comedy
With animation by BPMT Studios, Psychic Lines‘ “Horror Comedy” video satiates my bloodlust for visual butchery. The images flicker past the eyeballs like some twisted acid trip. Heightening the barbed lyrics, lobbied at political power players, the musical buffet blasts you with bursts of color and hypnotic distortions so severe that it’ll toss you into…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Juana Everett – Whatever It Takes
“Whatever It Takes” is like stepping back in time. Laundry day with Nana. Driving to the local Pigly Wigly. Taking that leisurely walk down by the lake after Sunday school. Juana Everett enlists Dylan LeBlanc for the honeyed and homey little number, paired with an equally cozy visual that’s just like warm butter in a…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Super Sometimes – Learned My Lesson
Super Sometimes are like a shot of adrenaline into the veins. When you take your shot, you’ll never be the same. With their new video “Learned My Lesson,” the band blends their performance style with a vintage, almost ’90s, coloring and texture. And it’s quite fitting for a late ’90s and early aughts punkish energy…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Chris Housman – Dirt on Me
Chris Housman is a bulldozer of a storyteller. From “Blueneck” to “Drag Queen,” he’s erected an impressive catalog of stories, frequently from the queer perspective. Apart from his work with The Cowgays this year, he’s gearing up several single/video releases like a full-throttle engine. With his new music video, “Dirt on Me,” he sheds light…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Jena Malone – You’ve Been on My Mind
“Iโm arresting him with promises I will never keep,” Jena Malone sighs into her static microphone. Her voice warbles like the bass throbbing out of the speakers. “You’ve Been on My Mind” laps sonic waves, rhythmic and entrancing, as she considers untamed desires and what the truth could be. In using an electronic filter, Malone…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Bobby Dove – Fortune Teller
Trans/non-binary country singer-songwriter Bobby Dove conjures up a witchy concoction with their music video, “Fortune Teller.” A hypnotic melody stirs something enchanting down inside, as Dove wonders a thrift store and stumbles upon a fortune teller booth. Dove’s eyes pop with wonder at the shop’s many gadgets and trinkets. They almost glow like a Christmas…
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