Category: Video

Video: 'How the Brits Rocked America' in the '80s, with The Cure, Duran Duran, Police

Video: ‘How the Brits Rocked America’ in the ’80s, with The Cure, Duran Duran, Police

‘We’re the Kids in America,’ the third chapter of BBC Four’s ‘How the Brits Rocked America: Go West,’ features interviews with John Lydon, Robert Smith, Elvis Costello, Jim Kerr, Ian McCulloch, New Order’s Stephen Morris and Peter Hook, Adam Ant, Bob Geldof, Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and John Taylor, and many more.

Video: Erasure, 'Fill Us With Fire' — third single off 'Tomorrow's World'

Video: Erasure, ‘Fill Us With Fire’ — third single off ‘Tomorrow’s World’

Erasure has set a March 12 release date for the third single off last year’s ‘Tomorrow’s Word’: ‘Fill Us With Fire,’ which will be released in the U.K. as an eight-track CD single and elsewhere as a digital download package. The single features ‘Shot to the Heart,’ previously available as an iTunes bonus track.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode, rare 8-minute 'film in progress' reel of ‘101’ footage

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode, rare 8-minute ‘film in progress’ reel of ‘101’ footage

For fans of Depeche Mode’s 1989 concert documentary ‘101,’ here’s a real treat: An eight-minute promo reel of director D.A. Pennebaker’s footage, labeled ‘film in progress,’ has surfaced, and it includes scenes not included in the final cut. Check out DM on the ‘Music For the Masses’ tour in the video, posted here.

Video + free MP3: The Normal, 'Warm Leatherette' (ditto.tv mix)

Video + free MP3: The Normal, ‘Warm Leatherette’ (ditto.tv mix)

British communications agency ditto is celebrating The Normal’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ — the first release by Mute Records, and ‘the record that started everything’ — by commissioning this ‘re imagining’ of Daniel Miller’s classic 1978 track, with Really O’Reilly providing new production and ‘electro-lady’ Georgie piping in with vocals.

Video: Lee Ranaldo, ‘Off the Wall’ — first single off ‘Between the Times and the Tides’

Video: Lee Ranaldo, ‘Off the Wall’ — first single off ‘Between the Times and the Tides’

Still more than a month before the arrival of his new solo album ‘Between the Times and the Tides,’ Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has released a video for the record’s first single, ‘Off the Wall.’ The clip, seen above, features live footage of Ranaldo performing in Brooklyn mixed in with other footage shot by Ranaldo himself.

Video: Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe discuss new B-sides set 'Format'

Video: Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe discuss new B-sides set ‘Format’

With the Pet Shop Boys’ brand-new double-disc B-sides compilation ‘Format’ out in the U.K. this week, EMI Music has put together this nine-minute interview reel with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discussing their method of writing B-sides, their format of choice and which song is most personal to them.

Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult soundtrack Super Bowl commercials for Audi, Budweiser

Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult soundtrack Super Bowl commercials for Audi, Budweiser

If you’re planning to watch the Super Bowl, keep your ears open during the commercial breaks: Two ’80s college-rock classics — Echo & The Bunnymen’s ‘The Killing Moon’ and The Cult’s ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ — are soundtracking a pair of high-profile ads for automaker Audi and beer giant Budweiser, respectively.