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Music Video Monday: Muck Sticky

Since you’re hard at work this Monday, your weekly music video is from the hardest working man in the Memphis music video business. 

“Rock On” is Muck Sticky’s 45th music video. Yeah, you read that right: Bartlett’s cannabis-infused rapper has made more music videos than Duran Duran. His eye for trippy imagery, relentlessly upbeat attitude, and taste for a good time has earned him fans worldwide. If “Rock On”‘s catchy, 90s guitar hook and positive vibe lyrics are any indication, he has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. 

Music Video Monday: Muck Sticky

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Music Video Monday: Marco A.

Good morning, Monday. Time for a music video to brighten your day. 

In this clip for Marco A.’s “Follow Your Heart”, the R&B singer endures a text-based relationship crisis in the middle of a recording session. Directed by Robb Smith of Memphis-based production team Rockwell Visual and shot in the New School Media studios, the dance-heavy video matches the smooth 80s tone of the catchy song. 

Music Video Monday: Marco A.

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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: 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? 

Music Video Monday: Lord T. and Eloise

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Music Video Monday: Caleb Sweazy World Premiere

Does this Monday morning feel like a punch in the face? Music Video Monday is here to help! 

We’ve got the world premiere of the new video “Lucky or Strong”, the title track from Caleb Sweazy’s new album on Memphis’ Blue Barrel Records imprint. The folk rocker directed this video, which was shot in Downtown Memphis at Envision Gym. Sweazy appears as a boxer having a bad day opposite Jerome Hardaway. Brian Krueger and Envision’s Mark Akin appear as the fighters’ trainers. Caleb’s wife Melissa Anderson Sweazy produced the video, which features cinematography by John Paul Clark and Laura Jean Hocking editing. 

Music Video Monday: Caleb Sweazy World Premiere

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Music Video Monday: Stephen Chopek

The first official Music Video Monday is our second offering from Stephen Chopek. 

“Staying” from the EP On Their Own is a about exploring a new city. Chopek relocated to Memphis from New Jersey last year.  “A few places in Midtown caught my eye that I thought would work well for a music video. My goal was to capture moments as they presented themselves in order to express the spontaneity of exploration,” he says. “I collected a lot of footage without knowing which song I would would be using it for. When I decided that ‘Staying’ was going to be the single, everything fell into place. The video serves as both a visual accompaniment to music, and a love letter to my new home.”

Prominently featured in the video is Alex Warble’s giant mural on the west wall of the Hi-Tone’s former location on Poplar Avenue. Can we have that declared a landmark?

Music Video Monday: Stephen Chopek

This is Chopek’s second Music Video Monday. How did he get featured twice? He emailed cmccoy@memphisflyer.com! 

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Music Video Monday: John Kilzer

By any measure, John Kilzer has had an eventful life. He’s been a college basketball player, an English professor, an internationally renowned recording artist, and a Methodist minister. Now, at age 57, he has put out a new album of original songs on Memphis’ Archer Records. 

“California” is the second video from Hide Away. The song is about trying and failing to make it in the wilds of Hollywood. Director Melissa Anderson Sweazy and editor Laura Jean Hocking put Memphis actor Drew Smith back in the silent era for this beautiful and poignant video—and be sure to watch for the cameo by Drew’s son Hank. 

Music Video Monday: John Kilzer

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Music Video Monday: Alexis Grace

Perhaps Alexis Grace speaks for you this Music Video Monday with her song “I’m So Done”. 

This video by Memphis songstress and former American Idol finalist heralded the release of her first EP earlier this year. Directed by Beale Street Studios’ Bart Shannon and shot by Memphis’ favorite cinematographer Ryan Parker, the video sees Grace confronting her inner demons, in the form of herself. 

Music Video Monday: Alexis Grace

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Music Video Monday: Rick & Roy

I know you need Music Video Monday to help start your work week, so here’s a world premiere by RIck & Roy is to help you ease into your post Memorial Day self. 

Rick Steff and Roy Berry from Lucero have their own, very un-Lucero side project. Superfluidity is a collection of mind bending electronic soundscape. The first video from the record, “cicada 3301”, is directed by Charlie “the city mouse” Fasano. Its dark, shifting imagery makes great use of limited animation in crafting a story to go along with the song, which was inspired by an infamous internet enigma. 

Music Video Monday: Rick & Roy

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