Category: Video

Watch: The Chills premiere video for 'Complex' off upcoming album 'Snow Bound'

Watch: The Chills premiere video for ‘Complex’ off upcoming album ‘Snow Bound’

With their new album set to arrive Friday, New Zealand indie-pop legends The Chills today premiere the video for super-catchy lead-off single “Complex” — which you can view below. The album, the band’s first in three years and sixth overall, is due out Sept. 14 via Fire Records, and can be pre-ordered now.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Exene Cervenka talks about solo debut, X's hiatus in 1989 interview

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Exene Cervenka talks about solo debut, X’s hiatus in 1989 interview

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present this 1989 clip of host Dave Kendall interviewing Exene Cervenka at the CMJ Festival in New York City about her then-new solo debut, Old Wives’ Tales, the single “Leave Heaven Alone” and the status of her band X, which, at the time, was on something of a hiatus.

Vintage Video: Julian Cope thrills in hour-long 'MTV Saturday Night Concert' set from 1987

Vintage Video: Julian Cope thrills in hour-long ‘MTV Saturday Night Concert’ set from 1987

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present this MTV-broadcast concert by former Teardrop Explodes frontman Julian Cope, filmed at The Ritz in New York City on July 6, 1987, and featured during the network’s “Saturday Night Concert” series. Watch the hour-long set right here.

Premiere: The Alarm debuts video for 'Thirteen Dead Reindeer' off new album 'Equals'

Premiere: The Alarm debuts video for ‘Thirteen Dead Reindeer’ off new album ‘Equals’

In late June, Mike Peters released the first album by The Alarm in eight years, an 11-song effort called Equals that features Billy Duffy of The Cult on one song. Now comes the music video for one of the album’s standouts: “Thirteen Dead Reindeer,” a driving rockers with some electronic flourishes.

'Midnight Oil 1984' documentary to screen in U.S. theaters next month — see full trailer

‘Midnight Oil 1984’ documentary to screen in U.S. theaters next month — see full trailer

The new documentary chronicling Midnight Oil’s pivotal year of 1984 — which saw the release of Red Sails in the Sunset and Peter Garrett’s failed run for the Australian Senate as a Nuclear Disarmament Party candidate — will screen later next month in select U.S. theaters. Full dates and trailer right here.

Paul Weller returns with lushly orchestrated 14th studio album 'True Meanings'

Paul Weller returns with lushly orchestrated 14th studio album ‘True Meanings’

Paul Weller returns this September with his 14th solo album, a record called True Meanings that features “lush orchestration” and is being described as the “most singer-songwriter style album he has ever made.” It features guest turns by Rod Argent of the Zombies and Noel Gallagher. Check out the full tracklist.

Watch: The Cure's full 2-hour-plus 40th anniversary concert at London's Hyde Park

Watch: The Cure’s full 2-hour-plus 40th anniversary concert at London’s Hyde Park

Following this weekend’s 40th anniversary show by The Cure in London’s Hyde Park, we posted audio and a number of videos of Robert Smith’s rapturously received greatest-hits set. But now you can watch the full 2-hour-15-minute concert in full, thanks to this fan-shot video posted by Sim Production. Watch it right here.

The Cure goes big with greatest hits set for 40th anniversary gig — setlist, full audio, tons of video

The Cure goes big with greatest hits set for 40th anniversary gig — setlist, full audio, tons of video

Robert Smith led the current incarnation of alt-rock titans The Cure through a greatest-hits set tonight filled with big singles, fan favorites and a couple rarer cuts as he celebrated the band’s 40-year career with a huge outdoor festival in London’s Hyde Park. Full setlist and tons of video right here.

Watch: Trailer for 'The Public Image is Rotten' — new documentary on John Lydon's PiL

Watch: Trailer for ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ — new documentary on John Lydon’s PiL

he new documentary “The Public Image is Rotten” — chronicling John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd. — will screen in theaters in the U.K. and Europe this summer and then North America this fall, according to the band. And here’s your first taste of the project, via the trailer here.

Watch: Greg Norton joins The Posies onstage in St. Paul to blast through Hüsker Dü classics

Watch: Greg Norton joins The Posies onstage in St. Paul to blast through Hüsker Dü classics

Power-pop favorites The Posies currently are out on a 30th anniversary tour, and the band’s stop in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday night featured an extra treat: The group brought Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton onstage during the encore to rip through four of that band’s classics. See video of their performance right here.

The Cure closes Robert Smith's Meltdown by going 'there to here and back again' — hear the full set

The Cure closes Robert Smith’s Meltdown by going ‘there to here and back again’ — hear the full set

The Robert Smith-curated Meltdown festival in London wrapped up Sunday night with a headlining performance by The Cure — or, rather, CURÆTION-25, as the band was billed — that featured a there-and-back-again, two-set retrospective of the band’s 40-year career. Check out the full setlist right here.

Watch: Patti Smith preaches eco-justice with cover of Midnight Oil's 'Beds Are Burning'

Watch: Patti Smith preaches eco-justice with cover of Midnight Oil’s ‘Beds Are Burning’

No stranger to interpreting other artists’ work, Patti Smith in recent weeks has taken to covering Midnight Oil’s 1987 crossover smash “Beds are Burning” in concert, leading up to the familiar song with her own 3-minute spoken-word intro about the Aboriginal people of Australia. Watch it here.

Watch: David Byrne breaks out Prince's 'When Doves Cry' at Portland karaoke bar

Watch: David Byrne breaks out Prince’s ‘When Doves Cry’ at Portland karaoke bar

Looks like David Byrne got into town a little early ahead of his concert in Portland, Ore., so he popped into the Alibi Tiki Lounge late Saturday night to do a little karaoke. His selection? Prince’s incomparable 1984 smash “When Doves Cry,” which you can watch right here via Instagram user talkheadtalk.