Category: Video

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Concrete Blonde strips down Leonard Cohen's 'Everybody Knows'

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Concrete Blonde strips down Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows’

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present this clip from the Oct. 10, 1993, episode featuring Concrete Blonde offering a stripped-down performance of the group’s cover of the Leonard Cohen favorite “Everybody Knows” — famous, of course, for its appearance in the pirate-radio film “Pump Up the Volume.”

Vintage Video: Love and Rockets' amazing low-budget TV commercial for 'Express'

Vintage Video: Love and Rockets’ amazing low-budget TV commercial for ‘Express’

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we offer up this delightfully low-budget television commercial promoting Love and Rockets’ 1986 album Express — the existence of which is fairly surprising, considering it would be three years before the band’s real commercial breakthrough in the U.S. with “So Alive.”

Watch: Depeche Mode performs 'The Things You Said' for first time since '101' concert 30 years ago

Watch: Depeche Mode performs ‘The Things You Said’ for first time since ‘101’ concert 30 years ago

Depeche Mode opened the short second North American leg of its Global Spirit Tour in Anaheim, Calif., last night, and dropped a big surprise into its setlist, performing the Martin Gore-sung Music For the Masses track “The Things You Said” for the first time in 30 years. Watch the full performance right here.

Poptone announces North American summer tour as debut album release looms

Poptone announces North American summer tour as debut album release looms

Having just completed a run of West Coast dates, and with their debut album due out next month, Poptone — Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, plus Haskins’ daughter Diva Dompe — have just rolled out more North American tour dates, a nine-concert run this summer that’ll see the band hitting the Midwest and East Coast.

Watch: U2 performs 'Achtung Baby' deep cut 'Acrobat' live for first time ever at tour opener

Watch: U2 performs ‘Achtung Baby’ deep cut ‘Acrobat’ live for first time ever at tour opener

U2 opened its North American iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour in Tulsa, Okla., last night, debuting a number of songs off its latest album Songs of Experience — as well as, at long last, fan favorite “Acrobat,” the one song of 1991’s Achtung Baby the band never had played live. See video here.

Watch: Peter Murphy and David J reunite to perform Bauhaus set in Mexico

Watch: Peter Murphy and David J reunite to perform Bauhaus set in Mexico

With their former bandmates off performing together as Poptone, the other half of Bauhaus — Peter Murphy and David J — reunited on stage today at a festival in Mexico to perform a set of Bauhaus classics ahead of their rescheduled run of shows in San Francisco this summer. See video footage here.

Watch: Simple Minds' Jim Kerr joins Arcade Fire in Glasgow to perform 'Don’t You (Forget About Me)'

Watch: Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr joins Arcade Fire in Glasgow to perform ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’

Fans who attended Arcade Fire’s arena show in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday were treated to a cameo from a hometown hero, as the band brought Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr on-stage early in the set to perform his band’s monster hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” Check out video footage of the performance.

Watch: Chris Connelly joins Ministry on stage for first time in 15 years to sing 'So What'

Watch: Chris Connelly joins Ministry on stage for first time in 15 years to sing ‘So What’

Chris Connelly re-joined Ministry on stage in Chicago tonight for the first time in 15 years, reprising his memorable vocal to “So What” alongside Al Jourgensen in a performance that the band streamed live on Facebook — and which you can watch in its entirety right here.

Watch: Thomas Dolby and Rick Springfield cover The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven' on a boat

Watch: Thomas Dolby and Rick Springfield cover The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ on a boat

Thomas Dolby will be heading out on tour in the U.S. this summer with a show in which he’ll “deconstruct half a dozen of my favorite songs.” In announcing the tour’s concept on Twitter, he also offered a clip of what fans won’t see: him and Rick Springfield covering The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.”

The Church's Steve Kilbey playing 'weird' places across western U.S. with Amanda Kramer

The Church’s Steve Kilbey playing ‘weird’ places across western U.S. with Amanda Kramer

The Church’s Steve Kilbey is embarking on a month-long tour of the western U.S. this week with pianist Amanda Kramer, performing at offbeat venues (“I’m coming to some strange, weird, small place near you,” he says) and promising a wide swath of material from across his career. See full dates here.

Morrissey records cover of The Pretenders' 'Back on the Chain Gang' for future single

Morrissey records cover of The Pretenders’ ‘Back on the Chain Gang’ for future single

Morrissey has recorded a cover of The Pretenders’ 1982 single “Back on the Chain Gang” — which the former Smiths frontman has taken to playing live of late — in a Los Angeles studio and intends to release it this summer as a single, according to a post on his new Morrissey Central website.

Watch: The Breeders return to Conan O'Brien's show after 25 years, play 'Wait in the Car'

Watch: The Breeders return to Conan O’Brien’s show after 25 years, play ‘Wait in the Car’

The Breeders returned to Conan O’Brien’s late-night show last week for the first time in 25 years, performing the song “Wait in the Car” off the band’s just-released new album All Nerve — the group’s first record featuring the Last Splash-era lineup since, well, the Last Splash era. Watch it right here.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Iggy Pop credits David Bowie with launching his solo career — 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Iggy Pop credits David Bowie with launching his solo career — 1990

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, travel back to 1991 for a re-airing of an Iggy Pop clip that had been filmed the previous summer. In it, host Dave Kendall discusses Pop’s early solo work with David Bowie, whom the singer credits with jump-starting his solo career.