Category: Video

Watch: Poptone plays Tones on Tail's 'Go!' live — plus 20-minute interview with group

Watch: Poptone plays Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’ live — plus 20-minute interview with group

If you haven’t gotten a chance to see Poptone yet, here’s a great live video of the group performing the Tones on Tail classic “Go!” The clip was put together by Eli Kampero using footage shot at three Los Angeles-area shows in April and May. Plus, see a 20-minute interview with the whole group.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Johnny Marr gets his post-Smiths spotlight in 1987

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Johnny Marr gets his post-Smiths spotlight in 1987

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we turn to this Kevin Seal-intro’d segment on Johnny Marr — “1987’s most controversial and most sought-after guitarist,” Seal proclaims — that aired in the months following the dissolution of The Smiths.

Vintage Video: Bob Mould plays scorching 100-minute set on 'Black Sheets of Rain' tour

Vintage Video: Bob Mould plays scorching 100-minute set on ‘Black Sheets of Rain’ tour

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present this red-hot Bob Mould set from Athens, Ga., on 1990’s Black Sheets of Rain tour. Mould’s playing with his solo band and gets an assist on guitar from R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on a cover of Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl.”

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Watch a Downtown Julie Brown-hosted episode from 1987

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Watch a Downtown Julie Brown-hosted episode from 1987

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present (most of) the episode that aired March 15, 1987 — almost exactly a year after the show debuted, and when it was still hosted by rotating VJs. In this case, Downtown Julie Brown, better known as the host of “Club MTV,” handled those duties.

Vintage Video: Dinosaur Jr previews 'You're Living All Over Me' at UMass in 1986

Vintage Video: Dinosaur Jr previews ‘You’re Living All Over Me’ at UMass in 1986

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we spotlight this very early footage of a young Dinosaur Jr performing at the University of Massachusetts in 1986. The four songs featured in this 19-minute video include one off 1985’s Dinosaur and three from You’re Living All Over Me, released in 1987.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Checking in with Nine Inch Nails at Lollapalooza 1991

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Checking in with Nine Inch Nails at Lollapalooza 1991

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we flash back to 1991 for this segment from a stop on the first Lollapalooza tour, which finds host Dave Kendall chatting up Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Richard Patrick (who’d go on to front Filter).

Vintage Video: Einstürzende Neubauten pounds through 70-minute set on 'Rockpalast'

Vintage Video: Einstürzende Neubauten pounds through 70-minute set on ‘Rockpalast’

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we once again trawl the archives of the East German TV show “Rockpalast” for this 70-minute performance by famed West German industrial act Einstürzende Neubauten that was filmed in 1990, just a few months after German reunification.