Category: Video

Vintage Video: U2 performs 'New Year's Day' in the studio for French TV documentary

Vintage Video: U2 performs ‘New Year’s Day’ in the studio for French TV documentary

Haven’t run across this one before: It’s a promo clip of U2 performing along to what sounds like the album version of ‘New Year’s Day’ in a recording studio, circa 1983. Apparently it was included in a French TV documentary on the band.

Video: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Patti Smith’s ‘walk-in concert’ at New York’s MoMA

Back on Dec. 19, visitors to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art witnessed a surprise ‘walk-in concert’ by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Patti Smith as part of the museum’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of French political activist and writer Jean Genet.

Video: Ramones' 'Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)' covered by Vetiver

Video: Ramones’ ‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)’ covered by Vetiver

The latest installment of the A.V. Club’s Undercover web-video series features the very folky Vetiver tackling the Ramones’ ’80s classic ‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight).’ Needless to say, it’s an entirely different take on the punk fa

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Video: R.E.M.’s ‘Collapse Into Now’ trailer

The release of R.E.M.’s new album ‘Collapse Into Now’ is still more than two months away, but the band is in full pre-Christmas promotional mode, not just offering up free tracks but now releasing a 2-minute trailer for the record that features the band performing many of the new tracks live in the studio.

Video: Duran Duran’s ‘All You Need Is Now’

With Duran Duran’s first album in three years — ‘All You Need Is Now’ — now available via iTunes, it should come as no surprise that the original music-video band has, in fact, released a new music video to promote lead-off single ‘All You Need Is Now.’ The clip, seen above, premiered Monday night on Yahoo Music.

Video: Duran Duran performs ‘All You Need Is Now’ on U.K.’s ‘Loose Women’ TV show

With Duran Duran’s long-awaited new album ‘All You Need Is Now’ due out digitally on Tuesday, the band’s been doing loads of press here in the U.S. and back in Europe — including this live debut of lead-off single ‘All You Need Is Now’ on the U.K. television show ‘Loose Women’ this past Friday.