Category: Video

Crowded House celebrates 'Don't Dream It's Over' with socially-distanced performance

Crowded House celebrates ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ with socially-distanced performance

Crowded House this week marked the 33rd anniversary of their classic single “Don’t Dream It’s Over” reaching No. 2 on the U.S. charts by recording a new socially-distanced version of the song “between continents.” You can see the whole multi-part performance right here.

Danny Elfman re-records Oingo Boingo's 'Running on a Treadmill' while in isolation

Danny Elfman re-records Oingo Boingo’s ‘Running on a Treadmill’ while in isolation

The announcement that Danny Elfman would perform a career-spanning set at Coachella had fans buzzing about what Oingo Boingo material he might resurrect, a question still hanging in the air with the Southern California music festival pushed to October over coronavirus concerns. Watch it here.

Watch: Johnny Marr shares the secrets to playing The Smiths' 'Headmaster Ritual'

Watch: Johnny Marr shares the secrets to playing The Smiths’ ‘Headmaster Ritual’

Here’s a free guitar lesson from Johnny Marr in the form of an advertisement for Fender guitars and amps. The former Smiths guitarist uses this 8-minute video to first perform then teach viewers how to play “The Headmaster Ritual,” the iconic opening track to 1985’s Meat is Murder. Watch it right here.

Watch: The House of Love's Guy Chadwick plays 13-song solo set 'live from isolation'

Watch: The House of Love’s Guy Chadwick plays 13-song solo set ‘live from isolation’

The House of Love’s  Guy Chadwick today played a 13-song, 48-minute solo set from his home in Sussex, England, that was broadcast “live from isolation” via Facebook, a way to reach out to fans as the band is now sidelined like so much else in this world by the coronavirus.  Watch it right here.

David Byrne performs 'Once in a Lifetime' and 'Toe Jam' on SNL, joins 'Airport Sushi' sketch

David Byrne performs ‘Once in a Lifetime’ and ‘Toe Jam’ on SNL, joins ‘Airport Sushi’ sketch

David Byrne returned to “Saturday Night Live” last night for his third appearance in four decades, performing the Talking Heads classic “Once in a Lifetime” and the far more obscure cut “Toe Jam,” which he recorded in 2008 with Fatboy Slim’s The Brighton Port Authority project. Watch those clips and more right here.

Alice Bag, of L.A. punk icons The Bags, preps 3rd solo LP and tour — hear 'Breadcrumbs'

Alice Bag, of L.A. punk icons The Bags, preps 3rd solo LP and tour — hear ‘Breadcrumbs’

Alice Bag, co-founder of the iconic first-generation Los Angeles punk act The Bags, this spring will release her third solo album, a collection called Sister Dynamite that is being described as a return to the “full-throttle punk” that her late-’70s band perfected. Full tour dates and a music video right here.