Category: Video

Video: Hood Internet covers The Pretenders' 'Back on the Chain Gang' for The AV Club

Video: Hood Internet covers The Pretenders’ ‘Back on the Chain Gang’ for The AV Club

This week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover 2012 series finds mash-up stars The Hood Internet doing a number on The Pretenders’ 1982 single ‘Back on the Chain Gang,’ slowing it down and punching it up with samples of rappers Rick Ross and Gucci Mane.

Dinosaur Jr to release 'Bug: Live' on super-limited purple vinyl — watch animated trailer

Dinosaur Jr to release ‘Bug: Live’ on super-limited purple vinyl — watch animated trailer

Dinosaur Jr next month will follow up this spring’s release of the DVD and Blu-ray ‘Bug Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of the Fans’ with a super-limited, purple-vinyl pressing of that performance, recorded June 25, 2011,at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Check out the animated trailer by political cartoonist Scott Bateman.

Video: Robyn Hitchcock, 'Twitch 4 Sam Surfer' — part of 'Phantom 45s' series

Video: Robyn Hitchcock, ‘Twitch 4 Sam Surfer’ — part of ‘Phantom 45s’ series

Last month, we brought you downloads of two new Robyn Hitchcock songs — the latest in his ‘Phantom 45s’ series — plus a video for one of them, the KT Tunstall-featuring ‘There Goes the Ice.’ Now we can present the second clip, a pub-style hootenanny for the song ‘Twitch 4 Sam Surfer.’

Pet Shop Boys announce new album 'Elysium' — listen to new track 'Invisible'

Pet Shop Boys announce new album ‘Elysium’ — listen to new track ‘Invisible’

The Pet Shop Boys this morning announced they’ll release ‘Elysium’ — their 11th studio album, and first since 2009’s ‘Yes’ — this September, and are previewing the release with a ‘short film’ for downtempo album track ‘Invisible,’ which you can watch here. The film made by Los Angeles artist and filmmaker Brian Bress.

Milestones: Today is Joey Santiago’s and Kim Deal’s birthday; watch Pixies live in 1991

We’ve got a rare double milestone today, as not one but two members of the Pixies — bassist Kim Deal and guitarist Joey Santiago — celebrate their birthdays (she’s 51 and he’s 47). We mark the occasion with this complete 29-song ‘Trompe le Monde’-era set filmed on June 26, 1991, in London.

Video: The Stone Roses open first tour in 16 years at Barcelona's Club Razzmatazz

Video: The Stone Roses open first tour in 16 years at Barcelona’s Club Razzmatazz

The Stone Roses — Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary “Mani” Mounfield and Alan “Reni” Wren — opened their first tour since 1996 with a pair of full-length concerts Friday and Saturday night at Club Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Spain. Check out the setlists from each night, plus video highlights of both concerts.