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If you watched John Mayer’s new music video for “Last Train Home” and kept expecting Axl Rose to snake-dance his way into the frame, it’s for good reason. The video is an homage to Guns N’ Roses’ summer of ’88 MTV staple, “Sweet Child o’ Mine.” Right down to a canine cameo.

Like “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” “Last Train Home” opens with an image of a digital clapboard calling action on filming. The premise is that the featured artist is on a soundstage about to shoot a music video...

John Mayer strikes a comforting chord with his new song “Last Train Home.” The track will appear on his eighth studio album, Sob Rock, which arrives on July 16th.

The song, like the album’s nostalgic cover art, has an Eighties vibe, as does its accompanying video. The Cameron Duddy and Harper Smith-directed clip finds Mayer and his band recording their live performance of the son. The grainy footage complements the reflective tone of the track. It features a cameo from Maren Morris.

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Hailey Whitters sings about a chance encounter and living a full life in “Janice at the Hotel Bar,” a standout from the Nashville singer-songwriter’s 2020 album The Dream. The story of their enlightening interaction comes to life in a new video released on Wednesday.

Directed by Erica Silverman in partnership with Whitters’ creative director Harper Smith, the clip was shot in Austin, Texas and features Whitters as both narrator and a character in the video. The titular Janice befriends Whitters while the latter is working behind the bar, offering up...

“You gotta let your heart land,” sings Hailey Whitters on “Heartland,” a potent track about leaving behind the expectations of where you come from in favor of chasing a difficult dream. For Whitters, that meant moving out of her home state of Iowa and heading to Nashville to make it as a songwriter, a journey she chronicles in her Ep, The Days.

Now Whitters has added more to that tale with a video for “Heartland,” filmed entirely back in Iowa with fellow native Harper Smith, the acclaimed photographer known for...