Category: Video

Watch: 2-minute trailer for upcoming 'Manchester North Of England' 7-disc box set

Watch: 2-minute trailer for upcoming ‘Manchester North Of England’ 7-disc box set

With the release of its sprawling new Manchester-centric box set approaching later this month, Cherry Red Records has debuted a 2-minute trailer to the set, soundtracked by the Mancunian acts — Joy Division, Morrissey, Happy Mondays, New Order, The Stone Roses — featured. Watch it right here.

Watch: U2 and Noel Gallagher perform Oasis' 'Don't Look Back in Anger' in London

Watch: U2 and Noel Gallagher perform Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ in London

U2 opened the European leg of its massive Joshua Tree 2017 tour at London’s Twickenham Stadium this evening, and closed the show by bringing the opening act — a certain Noel Gallagher — back out on stage to team up on the Oasis classic “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” See footage here.

R.E.M. tears up pre-'Murmur' set in 1982 -- earliest known pro-shoot footage

R.E.M. tears up pre-‘Murmur’ set in 1982 — earliest known pro-shoot footage

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present what is believed to be the earliest pro-shot video footage of R.E.M. in concert: a 50-minute live set filmed on Oct. 10, 1982, for broadcast on TV by a South Carolina station about six months before the release of the band’s debut, Murmur. Watch it here.

Watch: Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500's 'Fourth of July' on the Fourth of July

Watch: Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500’s ‘Fourth of July’ on the Fourth of July

In a bit of holiday synchronicity, former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham today shared video of himself and some fellow musicians performing his old band’s melancholy 1990 song “Fourth of July” on the Fourth of July itself (“4th of July on 4th of July,” he wrote). Watch the performance, and the original video, here.

Watch: Jack Lowden is Morrissey in first trailer for upcoming 'England is Mine' biopic

Watch: Jack Lowden is Morrissey in first trailer for upcoming ‘England is Mine’ biopic

The world got its first glimpse today of the much-anticipated Morrissey biopic “England Is Mine” after the release of the trailer for the film that stars Jack Lowden as the young Steven Patrick Morrissey in the lead-up to the formation of The Smiths. The film, directed by Mark Gill, is set to be released in the U.K. on Aug. 4.

Watch: New Order digs deep at opening of 5-night Manchester run with synth orchestra

Watch: New Order digs deep at opening of 5-night Manchester run with synth orchestra

New Order had promised that its performances with a 12-member synthesizer ensemble at the Manchester International Festival would not bear much resemblance to the band’s normal live set, and, with tonight’s opening of the 5-concert run, the legendary act delivered on its pledge. See full setlist and video here.