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Music Video Monday: Stephen Chopek World Premiere

Music Video Monday favorite Stephen Chopek returns with the first song from his new album. 

This spooky clip for “Nothing Happens” was inspired by Chinese philosophy. “The video is a play on wei wu wei, a Chinese term meaning ‘action without action’ or ‘effortless doing’,” Chopek says. “The footage was shot in the lobby of a hotel in Spain at 4:00am. There was no plan to capture anything specific, other than what happened spontaneously. The “non-action” took place without any sort of control or force. The use of slow motion emphasizes a natural, unaffected way of behaving.”

“Nothing Happens” is the first single from Stephen Chopek’s upcoming album Things Moving On Their Own Together which will be released on September 29. The record release party will be this Friday, September 25, at FOUND, 2491 Broad Ave.

Music Video Monday: Stephen Chopek World Premiere

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Music Video Monday: Switchblade Kid

Are you goth enough for today’s Music Video Monday? 

You must be at least this goth to ride.

The answer is no, you are not goth enough for this double shot of The Switchblade Kid.
“The Other Voids/Kittens” is the latest from Midtown rocker Harry Koniditsiotis’ 80s fueled project. 

Yes.

Harry combined the two songs into one epic music video by cutting together some vintage footage from the London and New York goth scenes of the mid-80s. 

You do not know suffering like this goth knows suffering.

Is it just me, or are people unwilling work this hard to get a look any more? After you watch these folks getting down with the depressing reality of their inevitable mortality, you’re going to want to step up your game. 

Look at his eye makeup. Your gothiness is invalid.

One thing’s for sure: If these goths could have heard The Switchblade Kid back in the day, they would have danced to it!

  

Music Video Monday: Switchblade Kid

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Music Video Monday: Deering and Down

Today’s Music Video Monday celebrates Rock For Love. 

This weekend, September 3-6, marks the ninth installment of the music festival, which benefits the Church Health Center. 29 fine examples of Memphis music will play at Crosstown and Overton Square, including Jack Oblivian, Nots, Mancontrol Stephen Chopek, Mark Edgar Stuart, Hope Clayburn, and the North Mississippi Allstars. You can see the full lineup here. 

Folk rockers Deering and Down will play Saturday night at Lafayette’s. The dreamy video for “You’re The One” was directed by Matteo Servente. It makes extensive use of projection mapping, a relatively new technique for manipulating video to conform to—or often distort—the surfaces onto which it is projected. The projection mapping used here, which doubles as lighting for Lanna Deering’s ethereal performance, was created by Christopher Reyes. 

Music Video Monday: Deering and Down

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Music Video Monday: Bryan Hayes

Country comes to town in this week’s Music Video Monday. 

Bryan Hayes’ new video highlights some familiar Memphis landmarks. Directed by Melissa Anderson Sweazy, “Farther Down The Line” features some excellent cinematography by Sarah Fleming of locations such as The Arcade, the Downtown skyline, and the Mississippi riverfront. Today marks the world premiere of this song by the Iraq War veteran, in which the singer ponders the present and future of America. 

Music Video Monday: Bryan Hayes

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Music Video Monday: Amy LaVere

Today is Music Video Monday, and we’re flashing back to 2007. 

“Nightingale” was the first video from Amy LaVere‘s debut album This World Is Not My Home. This video, which takes us behind the scenes of the recording sessions that produced the album, was directed by Christopher Reyes and debuted at Live From Memphis’ Music Video Showcase. LaVere is one of the most successful Memphis musicians of the 21st century, and here we see her flashing her thousand-watt smile at the beginning of her solo career. Also in the video are Music+Arts owner Ward Archer and multi instrumentalist extraordinaire Paul Taylor. 

Music Video Monday: Amy LaVere

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Music Video Monday: Tony Manard

This week’s sepia-tinged Music Video Monday harkens back to when the levee broke. 

“Sharon” is by Memphis singer/songwriter by Tony Manard. “The song is a story from the Mississippi River Flood of 1927,” he says. “I wrote it after going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole triggered by reading about Jeff Buckley drowning in the Mississippi.” 

For the video, which he directed, Manard skillfully edited together footage from the 1927 flood and a silent film from the same era. 

Manard will be playing at Otherlands this Saturday, July 18 with Stephen Chopek, Harry Koniditsiotis, and Richard James. 

Music Video Monday: Tony Manard

 
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Music Video Monday: Guitar Wolf

Wake up! Its Monday, and that means a new Memphis music video to stuff in your eye-holes. 

Japanese garage punk madmen Guitar Wolf have a deep connection with Memphis. Their first album Wolf Rock was also the first record release by Goner Records, and the band made their film debut in Mike McCarthy’s 1997 movie The Sore Losers. McCarthy incorporated clips from The Sore Losers into the video for “Invader Ace”, a kamakazi blast of punk that will definitely get the blood flowing this Monday morning. Special bonus rock: Jack Oblivian, star of The Store Losers, draws down and gets the girl.  

Music Video Monday: Guitar Wolf

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Music Video Monday: Clay Otis and the Dream Shieks

Memphis musical chameleon Clay Otis gets serious on this week’s Music Video Monday. 

Ever record Otis releases is an exploration of a different corner of pop, R&B, and rock history. He can croon love songs and spit out soul shouts with equal aplomb. In this video for “Moral Untold” from last year’s album Citizen Clay, which he directed under his given name Clay Hardee, he combines compelling archival footage of armed conflict with footage of the band in the studio and some trippy transparencies. The best part is the unreal footage Otis uncovered of a young girl standing up to, the in the words of the song, “Big, big men with big, big guns”.   The video was shot by Chris Owen and edited by frequent Otis collaborator Jake Vest. 

Music Video Monday: Clay Otis and the Dream Shieks

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Music Video Monday: Arella Rocket

This week’s Music Video Monday features a track from Memphis experimental hip hop artist Arella Rocket. 

“Cosmophobia”‘ opens with a beat that is laid back, but still insistent, that gradually erodes as the song progresses towards an unexpected climax. Rocket directed the video, which was shot and edited by Michael Norris. They make extensive use of layered images, incorporating both renaissance art and clips from classic film with shots of Rocket illuminated by a projector in a delicate balance of light and shadow. The song appears on Rocket’s new “dream hop” album Girls And Goddesses. 

Music Video Monday: Arella Rocket

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