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Music Video Monday: Top 10 of 2015

For our final Music Video Monday of 2015, I’m counting down the ten best videos of a fantastic year of collaboration between Memphis filmmakers and musicians. 

I’m not usually one for lists, but hey, it’s the end of the year, so why not? This Top Ten list has13 entries, which just shows you how bad I am at this whole list thing. So here it is, the best Memphis music videos of 2015, arbitrarily chosen and ranked by me:

10. (tie) “If You Want It” – Black Rock Revival / “Lucky Or Strong” by Caleb Sweazy

Two Memphis acts created fight themed videos this year. Black Rock Revival mixed it up in the squared circle with director Nina Stakz. 

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Caleb Sweazy directed his own video, took one on the chin, then got up and kept going. 

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9. “Ocean” – Nick Black

In Destyn Patera’s video, all Nick Black wants is a drink of water. 

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8. “Rock On” – Muck Sticky

The Sticky Muck self directed this psychedelic ode to friendship. 

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7. (tie) “Black Tux” – Marco Pavé / “Systemic Collapse” – Stephen Chopek

Director Drew Fleming and rapper Maco Pavé commented on consumerism. 

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Stephen Chopek self-directed this surreal tour of the decline and fall. 

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6. (tie)  “You’re The One” – Deering and Down / “Cosmophobia” – Arella Rocket

Director Matteo Servente and video artist Christopher Reyes teamed up to create a dreamy clip for Deering and Down. 

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Arella Rocket teamed up with filmmaker Michael Norris for this dream hop trip. 

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5. “So Addicted” – Tina Harris

Laura Jean Hocking created a lyric video to bring the former Sweetbox singer’s hit single to life. 

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4. “We Rewind” – Marcella and Her Lovers

Edward Valibus, Ben Rednour, and Erik Morrison of Corduroy Wednesday took Marcella to Molly Fontaine’s for this stylish clip.  

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3. “The Straight Liberace” – Lord T. and Eloise 

As with most things created by the time-travelling aristocrunks, this clip will have you asking where parody ends and actual decadence begins. Then you just won’t care. 

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2. “cicada 3301” – Rick and Roy 

Charlie “the city mouse” Fasano’s animated captures the spirit of Rick & Roy’s experimental soundscapes.
 

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1. “Let The Little Things Go”  – Vending Machine

For his latest entry in his solo project Vending Machine, Robby Grant enlisted some of the best directors in Memphis to create music videos. The best of the bunch, and the best Memphis music video of 2015, is this clip created by G. B. Shannon, with cinematographic help from Ryan Earl Parker and Edward Valibus, and ace editing by Ben Rednour. 

VENDING MACHINE "Let The Little Things Go" Music Video from GB Shannon on Vimeo.

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Thanks to everyone who submitted videos for Music Video Monday. If you want to get in on this action in 2016, email cmccoy@memphisflyer.com. 

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Halloween 2015 Event Roundup

The last days of October provide numerous opportunities to don your scariest garb, beg for candy, paint sugar skulls, and act like a fool. Sometimes it’s even for a good cause. And because Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, the party goes on all weekend. Here’s a roundup featuring just a few of this season’s creepiest, kookiest, and ookiest opportunities for monstrous mischief.

Elmwood Cemetery’s annual Spirits with the Spirits party goes down Friday, October 30th, at 7 p.m., and allows visitors to raise glasses and make grave toasts in Memphis’ most scenic city of the dead. Tickets are $70, and the dress code is black-and-white casual, though costumes and characters are welcome (elmwoodcemetery.org). And speaking of the dead, Latino Memphis’ Day of the Dead Fiesta is also being held Friday. The fund-raising party features performances by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Opera Memphis, New Ballet Ensemble, and Mariachi Guadalajara, as well as Dominican DJ Giovanni Rodriguez and Colombian singer Marcela Pinilla and her band (7-11:30 p.m., at downtown’s Cadre Building. $70. Latinomemphis.com).

Costumed fun for the whole family starts early on Saturday with an opportunity to make Midtown a cleaner place. The Mad Sweep of Madison Avenue starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 31st at Clean Memphis, 1859 Madison. Participants will pick up supplies and clear debris along the avenue from Cleveland to Cooper. The party starts at noon. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift bags valued at over $50 each, containing prizes from local Madison businesses. That leaves plenty of time to get ready for Mud Island’s annual Halloween on the Island, with games and trick-or-treating from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Admission is $5 per person.

Things heat up when the Halloween sun goes down. You can put on your “Million Dollar Boots” and take in the hip-hop stylings of Lord T & Eloise at the Sinners for Saints Ball, a benefit for the Church Health Center at Stop 345 (9 p.m.-3 a.m. Stop 345. $40). Or you can drop in on the Halloween Bash at Minglewood Hall, “A Scary Good Time,” featuring FreeWorld and benefiting Transformations Autism Treatment Center (9 p.m.-1 a.m. $25. halloweenbashmemphis.com).

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Skinny’s Birthday Bash

CREDIT: JD Reager

JD Reager

Skinny McCabe

This weekend the Hi-Tone will host a two-day, all-star celebration in honor of the birthday of the club’s new-ish owner, Brian “Skinny” McCabe.

After serving as general manager for years at the now defunct Highland Strip nightclub Newby’s, McCabe took over the Hi-Tone last December after forming an agreement to purchase it from the previous owner, Jonathan Kiersky. Since then, McCabe has made few changes to the Midtown club, preserving the aesthetics, vibes and entertainment programming that helped turn the Hi-Tone into one of Memphis’ premier music venues.
“It’s been a roller coaster, but not anything I’m not used to,” says McCabe. “It’s a lot of work but I’ve got an amazing cast and crew. It blows me away how so many people are eager to help.”

For his birthday shows (dubbed “Skinny’s Super Sexy All-Star Celebrity Weekend: Birthday Edition”) this Friday and Saturday, McCabe booked some of Memphis’ higher profile acts, including Dead Soldiers, Mark Edgar Stuart, The Memphis Dawls, and Lord T and Eloise.

“I wanted to showcase some of the insane talent our city has to offer to people that may not make it out often. I’ve also been personal friends with most of these folks for years and really dig the music,” he says.

For a complete schedule and ticket information, visit www.hitonememphis.com.

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Weekend Roundup 27: Ghostface Killah, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Lord T and Eloise

Lord T and Eloise play the Hi-Tone this Saturday.

Welcome to the 27th edition of my Weekend Roundup! August begins with a whole slew of high profile artists coming to Memphis, along with great local bands performing all weekend long. Let’s get it on…

Friday, July 31st.
Traveller, 7:30 p.m. at the Levitt Shell, free.

Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Dillon Cooper, 8 p.m. at Minglewood Hall, $15-$200.

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The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, 8 p.m at the New Daisy, $20.

Dead Soldiers, Mark Edgar Stuart, 9 p.m. at the Hi-Tone, $10.

The Sheiks, Time, 10 p.m. at Bar DKDC, $5.

Saturday, August 1st.
The Oh Hellos, 7:30 p.m. at the Levitt Shell, free.

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Lord T and Eloise, Memphis Dawls, 3rd Base Ninja, 8 p.m. at the Hi-Tone, $10.

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Toxie, Ricky and Amy, Chandramama and Sunshine, 9 p.m. at the Lamplighter, $5.

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Patti LaBelle, 8 p.m. at the Horseshoe Casino, prices vary. 

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Sunday, August 2nd.
G Love and the Special Sauce, 10 p.m. at Lafayette’s Music Room.

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Lucas Nelson and the Promise of the Real, 7:30 p.m. at the Levitt Shell, free.

Sounds Like Summer, 8 p.m. at the Hi-Tone, $10.

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Music Video Monday: Lord T. and Eloise

Happy post-holiday weekend Music VIdeo Monday. Did your July 4th look something like this? 

I’m guessing probably not, because no matter how crunk you got over the fireworks and hotdogs, you didn’t get as crunk as Lord T. and Eloise. 

Today’s video is the latest from Memphis’ own time travelling hip hop lords of vast wealth, and it’s a doozy.  

“The Straight Liberace” pretty much sums up Lord T and Eloise’s sartorial philosophy, and this video is as gloriously over the top as the band’s legendary live performances.  I couldn’t decide which screenshot to use from this video, directed by Isaiah Conyers, aka Ikonick, so I’m just using all of them.

Decadence? Check. Women? Check. 25-foot velvet cape? Check. Giant glasses of champagne? Double check. Good taste? Nope. 

If you can’t celebrate excess in a Lord T. and Eloise video, where can you do it? 

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If you would like to see your video featured on Music Video Monday, email cmccoy@memphisflyer.com.