Category: Vintage Video

Vintage Video: The Dead Milkmen make a mess of 'Club MTV.' Wubba, wubba, wubba

Vintage Video: The Dead Milkmen make a mess of ‘Club MTV.’ Wubba, wubba, wubba

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we revisit The Dead Milkmen’s notorious 1988 “performance” of their improbable hit “Punk Rock Girl” on “Club MTV” — which was decidedly not the usual cable-television outlet for such unkempt college radio faves. Watch the whole thing here.

Vintage Video: Hoodoo Gurus tear through 'Stoneage Romeos'-era set in Sydney in 1984

Vintage Video: Hoodoo Gurus tear through ‘Stoneage Romeos’-era set in Sydney in 1984

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we head down under for this hour-long performance broadcast by Australian television of the Hoodoo Gurus playing in Sydney in 1984 in the months following the release of their debut, Stoneage Romeos.

Vintage Video: INXS hits early career heights with 90-minute 'Rockpalast' set in 1984

Vintage Video: INXS hits early career heights with 90-minute ‘Rockpalast’ set in 1984

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we again turn to the era-defining West German TV show “Rockpalast” and this 1984 performance by INXS, who, in the course of 90 minutes, run through 20 songs from the band’s early catalog — including future classics “Don’t Change,” “Black and White” and “The Original Sin.”

Vintage Video: Watch Public Image Ltd.'s VHS-only 'Anarchy Movie 85' concert film

Vintage Video: Watch Public Image Ltd.’s VHS-only ‘Anarchy Movie 85’ concert film

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present the out-of-print, oft-bootlegged Public Image Ltd. concert film “Anarchy Movie ’85,” which only ever was released officially on VHS in Japan. This VHS transfer has surprisingly great picture and audio quality.

Vintage Video: Watch 30 minutes of The Cure's rehearsals for The Prayer Tour in 1989

Vintage Video: Watch 30 minutes of The Cure’s rehearsals for The Prayer Tour in 1989

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present a real treasure for fans of The Cure: about a half-hour’s worth of footage of the band rehearsing its Prayer Tour set at Bray Studios in Berkshire, England, in April of 1989, the month before Disintegration was released and the band headed out on tour.

Vintage Video: Watch a 40-minute 'Juju'-era Siouxsie and the Banshees set from 1981

Vintage Video: Watch a 40-minute ‘Juju’-era Siouxsie and the Banshees set from 1981

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present this 40-minute set by Siouxsie and the Banshees, filmed at the U.K.’s Warwick University in 1981, about three months prior to the release Juju, and broadcast as part of the BBC’s “Rock Goes to College” series. Watch the 10-song set here.