Category: Video

Video: Dead Can Dance open North American tour with first concerts in 7 years

Video: Dead Can Dance open North American tour with first concerts in 7 years

The reunited Dead Can Dance — co-founders Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard — have released their first new album in 16 years, and are now a few dates into their first live dates since 2005, following a tour-opening concert in Vancouver, B.C., last Thursday. We’ve assembled video from the tour’s first four shows.

Vintage Video: INXS' 'Live Baby Live' concert at London's Wembley Stadium in 1991

Vintage Video: INXS’ ‘Live Baby Live’ concert at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1991

On July 13, 1991, Aussie rockers INXS played to a sold-out crowd of 72,000 fans at London’s Wembley Stadium, exactly six years to the day after Live Aid was held at the same venue. The concert was recorded for a live album and film, and in this installment of Vintage Video, we present the entire 90-minute “Live Baby Live” concert film.

Video: Morrissey plays 4 unreleased songs in Dublin for 'Studio in Session' program

Video: Morrissey plays 4 unreleased songs in Dublin for ‘Studio in Session’ program

In June 2011, Morrissey debuted three new and still-unreleased songs during what is no doubt a heavily bootlegged session on BBC Radio 2 — and about a month later, it turns out, he entered a Dublin studio with legendary producer Tony Visconti to record the trio of tunes, along with a fourth he later debuted in concert.

Video: Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis talks to Candace from feminist bookstore on 'Portlandia'

Video: Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis talks to Candace from feminist bookstore on ‘Portlandia’

Dinosaur Jr guitar savant J Mascis is no stranger to deliciously awkward interviews, so putting him head-to-head with “Portlandia” star Fred Armisen’s near-lookalike character Candace — co-proprietor of the Women and Women First feminist bookstore — was an inspired bit of promotion by Jagjaguwar Records.

Video: Elizabeth Fraser plays Cocteau Twins, new songs at first-ever solo concerts

Video: Elizabeth Fraser plays Cocteau Twins, new songs at first-ever solo concerts

Over the past week, former Cocteau Twins frontwoman Elizabeth Fraser played her first-ever solo concerts — and first full performances of any kind in 14 years — with a trio of shows in the U.K. that delivered, as promised, a mix of Cocteaus material with new arrangements and brand-new solo material from an anticipated album.

Video: The Cure live at France's Vieilles Charrues — 30 minutes of pro-shot footage

Video: The Cure live at France’s Vieilles Charrues — 30 minutes of pro-shot footage

Like the New Order footage we posted today, this half-hour packageof The Cure performing at the Vieilles Charrues festival in France is top-quality stuff. The video was posted to The Cure’s Facebook page earlier today with the message that fans should “EXPERIENCE THE WONDER THAT IS JASON AND THE CUREONAUTS.”