Category: Video

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray’ segment on Miracle Legion — March 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray’ segment on Miracle Legion — March 1989

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’ve landed on a just-uploaded “120 X Ray” segment chronically under-appreciated college-rock heroes Miracle Legion, a band that host Dave Kendall refers to as “one of the hardest working but still unrecognized bands in alternative music.”

Video: Depeche Mode, 'Heaven' — second clip for 'Delta Machine' lead single

Video: Depeche Mode, ‘Heaven’ — second clip for ‘Delta Machine’ lead single

Depeche Mode today premiered a second music video for its new single “Heaven,” a stripped-down, black-and-white, in-the-studio clip that debuted on NPR Music. Check it out here (and watch the original video again, too). The track is the first single released from the upcoming Delta Machine, which is due out March 26.

Vintage Video: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions in Munich, 1985 — watch full 40-minute set

Vintage Video: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions in Munich, 1985 — watch full 40-minute set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we flash back to 1985 for this great German TV broadcast of a 40-minute performance in Munich by Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, filmed about five months after the band’s classic debut ‘Rattlesnakes’ was released (footage via Manu Guinarte).

Video: Johnny Marr on writing The Smiths' 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now'

Video: Johnny Marr on writing The Smiths’ ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’

The NME later this month will bestow its “Godlike Genius” award to Johnny Marr, and in conjunction with the issue celebrating that honor the guitarist recorded a couple videos for the publication’s “Song Stories” series in which he offers insight into the writing of the Smiths’ “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.”

Video: Beck performs David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' with 160-piece orchestra

Video: Beck performs David Bowie’s ‘Sound and Vision’ with 160-piece orchestra

The Lincoln car company this afternoon released its heavily promoted video of Beck performing David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” with a gigantic, 160-piece orchestra in a 360-degree setting, part of the automaker’s new “Hello, Again” series that finds artists reinterpreting old works. Check it out.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray' on Mark E. Smith and The Fall with Kevin Seal — 1987

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray’ on Mark E. Smith and The Fall with Kevin Seal — 1987

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’ve selected a “120 X Ray” segment The Fall that aired on a 1987 episode around the time of the release of The “Domesday Pay-Off” Triad-Plus!, aka the U.S. version of Bend Sinister. The clip doesn’t feature any interviews, but does feature the video for “There’s a Ghost in My House.”

Video: The House of Love, 'A Baby Got Back On Its Feet' — off 'She Paints Words in Red'

Video: The House of Love, ‘A Baby Got Back On Its Feet’ — off ‘She Paints Words in Red’

It’s still more than six weeks until the arrival of The House of Love’s sixth album She Paints Words in Red, but the wait for new music is finally over with the premiere of the band’s video for “A Baby Got Back On Its Feet,” which is both the record’s opening track and its lead-off single. Check it out right here.

Vintage Video: XTC's Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding get in bed with cable-access TV

Vintage Video: XTC’s Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding get in bed with cable-access TV

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present a delightfully odd clip of XTC members Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding tucked away in bed (a sleeper sofa, to be precise), where they are being interviewed by onetime Utopia keyboardist Moogy Klingman and Lisa Yapp for New York a cable-access TV show.

Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 'Jubilee Street' — NSFW clip from new album

Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, ‘Jubilee Street’ — NSFW clip from new album

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds had already debuted a lyric video for the second track off their upcoming 15th studio album, a nearly 7-minute slow burn called “Jubilee Street,” but now comes the prostitution-themed video for the song — a NSFW clip that was actually blocked by YouTube on content grounds for a period of time this morning.

Video: OMD, 'Atomic Ranch' — 2nd of 3 animated clips from 'English Electric'

Video: OMD, ‘Atomic Ranch’ — 2nd of 3 animated clips from ‘English Electric’

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark this morning debuted a second teaser video from its upcoming album English Electric. the second of three animated clips from Henning M. Lederer. The video for “Atomic Ranch” premiered today via Pitchfork TV, and comes in advance of the April 9 release of OMD’s new album.

Video: 'Upside Down: The Creation Records Story' — watch full 2010 documentary

Video: ‘Upside Down: The Creation Records Story’ — watch full 2010 documentary

It’s bordering on criminal that the 2010 documentary “Upside Down: The Creation Records Story” still has not been released on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S., but, for fans not willing to jump through hoops to watch an import Region 2 DVD, the entire film is available on YouTube for your viewing and/or rocking pleasure.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray' on Kate Bush circa 'Sensual World'  — Jan. 21, 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray’ on Kate Bush circa ‘Sensual World’ — Jan. 21, 1990

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’ve rustled up a “120 X Ray” segment on the incomparable Kate Bush that aired as part of the Jan. 21, 1990, show, about three months after the release of her sixth album The Sensual World. The interview is spliced up with some weird, conversational voice-over.

Peter Murphy debuts 'Velocity Bird' video, will post rare footage to new YouTube channel

Peter Murphy debuts ‘Velocity Bird’ video, will post rare footage to new YouTube channel

Turns out Peter Murphy is not quite done promoting his 2011 album Ninth: The former Bauhaus frontman this week debuted the third video culled from the record, a live performance clip filmed last June in Buenos Aires for the song “Velocity Bird.” The Gaby Smiths-filmed video can be seen here.