Category: Video

Watch: Morrissey debuts new songs, covers The Pretenders in 55-minute set for BBC

Watch: Morrissey debuts new songs, covers The Pretenders in 55-minute set for BBC

Last week Morrissey helped the BBC kick off its 6 Music Live week, a series of live-on-the-air performances at the British broadcaster’s Maida Vale studios that also featured Mogwai, alt-J, Loyle Carner and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. Watch Morrissey’s full 55-minute set here.

Watch: The Church conjure 'hallucinogenic poolside scene' for 'Undersea' video

Watch: The Church conjure ‘hallucinogenic poolside scene’ for ‘Undersea’ video

The Church this week released the music video for “Undersea,” the first single off the band’s just-released 26th studio album, Man Woman Life Death Infinity. The video for the 3-minute single, directed by Eden Mulholland, can be seen in its entirety here.

Watch: Nick Cave finds Bobby Gillespie in London audience for show-closing duet

Watch: Nick Cave finds Bobby Gillespie in London audience for show-closing duet

Nick Cave has been ending the shows on his current tour with the Bad Seeds by filling the stage with fans during blistering performances of “Stagger Lee,” then bringing things way down with a trance-like “Push the Sky Away” in which he often climbs out into the audience. Saturday night in London, he found a friend in the crowd.

Watch: Heaven 17 dishes out hits, covers David Bowie (twice!) in first-ever U.S. concert

Watch: Heaven 17 dishes out hits, covers David Bowie (twice!) in first-ever U.S. concert

This past week saw pioneering British synthpop group Heaven 17 do something it never had done before: perform a live concert in the United States. Specifically, Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory brought their live show to New York City’s Highline Ballroom on Wednesday night. Check out the setlist and video.

Depeche Mode shares cover of David Bowie’s 'Heroes' for iconic song's 40th anniversary

Depeche Mode shares cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ for iconic song’s 40th anniversary

Depeche Mode has been performing a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” on its Global Spirit Tour for the past several months, and today the group released a music video for a studio version of the cut in honor of the iconic song’s 40th anniversary. Watch the full video here.

Watch: The Dream Syndicate debuts music video for 'Filter Me Through You'

Watch: The Dream Syndicate debuts music video for ‘Filter Me Through You’

The Dream Syndicate  this Friday will release its first new album in near 30 years, the eight-song How Did I Find Myself Here? And as the big release date approaches, the band this week debuted a new music video for the album’s opener, “Filter Me Through You.” Watch it right here.

Watch: The Sisters of Mercy play 'Walk Away' for first time in 32 years, cover Mission of Burma

Watch: The Sisters of Mercy play ‘Walk Away’ for first time in 32 years, cover Mission of Burma

The Sisters of Mercy opened their month-long European tour with a two-night stand at London’s Roundhouse on Friday and Saturday nights, offering setlists that traded in the band’s most well-known material and some rarities, including covers of Mission of Burma and Link Wray, and rare performances of two 1984 singles.

XTC documentary 'This Is Pop' to air on UK's Sky Arts in October — watch 6-minute trailer

XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’ to air on UK’s Sky Arts in October — watch 6-minute trailer

The highly anticipated XTC  documentary “This Is Pop” — the subject of a petition earlier this year to convince the BBC to air it after the network allegedly passed on the program — will, in fact, be seen on TV in the UK this fall: Sky Arts is set to broadcast the film in October. Watch the full trailer here.

Watch: Midnight Oil covers The Clash's 'London Calling' on Joe Strummer's birthday

Watch: Midnight Oil covers The Clash’s ‘London Calling’ on Joe Strummer’s birthday

The reunited Midnight Oil is back in the U.S. for a short second round of dates on its Great Circle 2017 world tour, a run of shows that brought the band to New York City’s Terminal 5 on Aug. 21 — a date that would have been the late Joe Strummer’s 65th birthday. Watch the Oils’ cover of “London Calling” here.

Watch: Meat Puppets' original lineup reunites to play live for first time in nearly 22 years

Watch: Meat Puppets’ original lineup reunites to play live for first time in nearly 22 years

The Meat Puppets recently were inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame, and, to mark the honor bestowed by their home state, original drummer Derrick Bostrom joined brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood on stage for the first time in nearly 22 years. See video of their reunion here.

Watch: The Jesus and Mary Chain reunites with Bobby Gillespie on 'Psychocandy' songs

Watch: The Jesus and Mary Chain reunites with Bobby Gillespie on ‘Psychocandy’ songs

Last night, The Jesus and Mary Chain played the EDP Vilar de Mouros festival in Portugal, a bill that included The Mission and Primal Scream — presenting an ideal opportunity for the Reid brothers to reunite with their original drummer, Primals frontman Bobby Gillepsie. Watch that onstage reunion here.

Watch: Rose McGowan stars in video for Luna's cover of The Cure's 'Fire in Cairo'

Watch: Rose McGowan stars in video for Luna’s cover of The Cure’s ‘Fire in Cairo’

Luna — Dean Wareham’s reunited post-Galaxie 500 dreampop act — today debuted a Rose McGowan-starring video for its new cover of The Cure’s “Fire in Cairo,” which will appear on its new covers album A Sentimental Education, due out next month. Watch it here.

Watch: OMD covers David Bowie's classic anthem 'Heroes' live on BBC Radio 2

Watch: OMD covers David Bowie’s classic anthem ‘Heroes’ live on BBC Radio 2

As they build up to the release of their new album in a few weeks, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark stopped by BBC Radio 2’s “Chris Evans Breakfast Show” on Friday to perform four songs — including a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes.” Watch it here.