Travis Hawkes, Author at The Sights And Sounds

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Heartache

Isador Trudges Through The Mud In Dark New Video For Falling

November 3, 2017 Travis Hawkes 0

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Do or not do. There is no “try.” There’s a vein that flows mutually between writing and creating music and writing or acting out a screenplay, where that artist has a need to access emotions and thoughts that are below the surface. It’s a difficult process and the end result shows – you barely made […]

Hip-Hop

Take A Tour Of South Korea With Def Manic In “HoneyBerry”

November 1, 2017 Travis Hawkes 0

For anyone getting into making music videos, you’ve gotta start somewhere. For Def Manic, that somewhere is South Korea. Now, there are a slew of “moves” or “tricks of the trade” that are prevalent in a lot of music videos today – but that doesn’t mean using them is bad. There’s an “if it ain’t […]

Folk Pop

Bishop Briggs Dreams About Overcoming Depth & Darkness In New Music Video

November 1, 2017 Travis Hawkes 0

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London-born singer Bishop Briggs, who stood and delivered her massive single “River” last year, premiered the video for her new single “Dream,” directed by Dano Cerny. It’s a seamless video that leaves no room to lose an audience, with long, stabilized takes guided by well-placed light sources and Bishop, who marches to the beat. She’s […]

Feature

[INTERVIEW] We Almost Made Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Late For A Show

April 14, 2017 Travis Hawkes 0

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I almost made Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike late. But first, let me explain. My life revolves around videos. From quelling my boredom to inspiring me to keep working, I can draw almost anything I do back to something I saw on a screen and when I found out I had the chance to interview […]

Concerts

[CONCERT RECAP] Japandroids Still Brings The Noise 10 Years Later

February 27, 2017 Travis Hawkes 0

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There are moments in my life where I grit my teeth and, as if it was the only move I could make to save my life, I go forth and make that next immediate moment mine. It’s usually something meaningless – like an all-or-nothing yank of the blankets or an exertion in the gym that […]