Category: Video

Milestones: David Bowie is 65 today; watch 8 full concerts spanning 1978 to 2004

Milestones: David Bowie is 65 today; watch 8 full concerts spanning 1978 to 2004

David Bowie turns 65 today, and while he’s hitting what’s traditionally seen as retirement age, the Thin White Duke seemingly ended his musical career a few years ago. So to celebrate this peerless musical legend, we present eight full Bowie concerts, filmed between the years of 1978 and 2004.

Vintage Video: Watch R.E.M. 'Chronic Town'-era concert filmed for local TV in 1982

Vintage Video: Watch R.E.M. ‘Chronic Town’-era concert filmed for local TV in 1982

It’s Michael Stipe’s birthday today — he’s 52 — so we’re cracking open the Vintage Video vault to bring you a 30-year-old R.E.M. concert, filmed Oct. 10, 1982, at The Pier in Raleigh, N.C., for broadcast on local television — less than two months after the release of ‘Chronic Town.’

Happy New Year from Slicing Up Eyeballs: 'Here she comes... the future...'

Happy New Year from Slicing Up Eyeballs: ‘Here she comes… the future…’

Many think of U2 on New Year’s Day — including us at Slicing Up Eyeballs HQ. But not for the obvious reason (uh, ‘New Year’s Day’). No, the clock striking midnight on New Year’s Eve always reminds us one most heavily bootlegged concerts of the era, when U2 rang in the 1990s at Dublin’s Point Depot in a show broadcast live across Europe and behind the crumbling Iron Curtain.

Vintage Video: Watch The Jesus and Mary Chain's infamous 1985 Camden gig and riot

Vintage Video: Watch The Jesus and Mary Chain’s infamous 1985 Camden gig and riot

Given that it’s Jim Reid’s birthday today — he’s 50 — we turn this installment of Vintage Video over to The Jesus and Mary Chain, featuring full video of the band’s infamous Sept. 9, 1985, performance at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. The Mary Chain played a 6-song, 20-minute, feedback-drenched set, then left the stage.

Merry Christmas from Slicing Up Eyeballs

Merry Christmas from Slicing Up Eyeballs

Merry Christmas from us here at Slicing Up Eyeballs to you — wherever you may be this fine Dec. 25. And if you partake in other holidays, or none in particular, hope you’re having a wonderful day, too. We’ll leave you with this classic video featuring a tall Jewish man issuing a heartfelt plea for peace on Jesus’ birthday.

Video: MOTOR featuring Depeche Mode's Martin L. Gore, 'Man Made Machine'

Video: MOTOR featuring Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore, ‘Man Made Machine’

Vince Clarke isn’t the only collaborator that Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore has been working with of late; electronic duo MOTOR this week released the single ‘Man Made Machine,’ featuring Gore on vocals. The track is the first single off the techno group’s forthcoming, and more song-based, album.

Video: Bob Mould discusses, performs Sugar's 'Hoover Dam' for The A.V. Club

Video: Bob Mould discusses, performs Sugar’s ‘Hoover Dam’ for The A.V. Club

]The A.V. Club recently caught up with Bob Mould for its ‘One Track Mind’ series and got the former Sugar frontman to discuss the creation of one of that band’s signature songs, ‘Hoover Dam.’ It’s an appropriate time to look back at Sugar’s work, since the band’s debut, ‘Copper Blue,’ turns 20 next year.