Category: Festivals

Video: The Cure at Germany’s Southside Festival —  watch full 70-minute webcast

Video: The Cure at Germany’s Southside Festival — watch full 70-minute webcast

The Cure played a pair of German festivals this weekend, and, lucky for us, one of them — tonight’s set at the Southside Festival — was webcast in part, and you can now watch a capture of that full 70-minute stream, via Chain of Flowers. The video above features the first 14 songs of the 28-song set.

The House of Love to make first live appearance in 4 years at Poland’s Off Festival

The House of Love to make first live appearance in 4 years at Poland’s Off Festival

The House of Love — largely dormant following a couple years’ worth of activity surrounding ‘Days Run Away,’ the band’s 2005 reunion album — will make what appears to be its first live appearance in more than four years later this summer when the beloved indie act appears at the Off Festival in Katowice, Poland.

Video: Icehouse performs 1980 debut ‘Flowers’ at Australia’s Homebake festival

Video: Icehouse performs 1980 debut ‘Flowers’ at Australia’s Homebake festival

On Dec. 3 last year, Iva Davies led the current incarnation of Icehouse through selections from the group’s 1980 debut ‘Flowers’ at the Homebake 2011 festival in the band’s native Australia. Six months later, superb-quality video has emerged of the hour-long set.

Video: The Cure plays ‘The Top’ for first time in 28 years at Sweden’s Hultsfred Festival

Video: The Cure plays ‘The Top’ for first time in 28 years at Sweden’s Hultsfred Festival

The Cure’s run of summer festival appearances continues to delight the band’s longtime fans, as Robert Smith and Co. mix up their sets and trot out songs not played in decades, if ever. The latest uber-rarity to creep into The Cure’s set: the title track of 1984’s ‘The Top,’ a song not played live since that year’s tour.

Video: New Order at Barcelona’s Sónar 2012 — watch full 70-minute webcast

Video: New Order at Barcelona’s Sónar 2012 — watch full 70-minute webcast

The now Hooky-less incarnation of New Order performed at 12-song set at Barcelona’s Sónar 2012 music festival on Saturday, and if you missed the live webcast, here’s a capture — thanks to YouTuber i7yci7cyi — of the full 70-minute show. As you’ll see, the band is sticking to roughly the same setlist since first reuniting last fall.

Peter Murphy playing L.A. this August as part of Doors-themed Sunset Strip Music Festival

Peter Murphy playing L.A. this August as part of Doors-themed Sunset Strip Music Festival

Peter Murphy this week announced a late-summer concert at Hollywood’s famed Roxy Theatre, part of a 50-band Sunset Strip Music Festival that will be headlined by Marilyn Manson and celebrate the music of The Doors. Other acts on the bill include Bad Religion, The Offspring and De La Soul.

Video: ChameleonsVox plays 50-minute set at Primavera Sound — full webcast

Video: ChameleonsVox plays 50-minute set at Primavera Sound — full webcast

Last weekend’s Cure-headlined Primavera Sound 2012 festival in Barcelona also saw an appearance by ChameleonsVox — the band featuring frontman Mark Burgess and drummer John Lever of post-punk favorites The Chameleons — and we can now bring you a capture of the full webcast of the band’s 50-minute set.

Video: The Cure at Primavera Sound — full webcast, plus rarities (‘Just One Kiss,’ ‘Fight’)

Video: The Cure at Primavera Sound — full webcast, plus rarities (‘Just One Kiss,’ ‘Fight’)

The Cure played a 36-song set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound 2012 peppered with surprises, including the first performance of ‘Fight’ since the ‘Kiss Me’ tour, only the third-ever performance of ‘The Caterpillar,’ a rare airing of ‘Dressing Up’ and the first-ever performance of B-side ‘Just One Kiss.’

Video: The Cure debuts guitarist Reeves Gabrels, digs out rarities at Pinkpop Festival

Video: The Cure debuts guitarist Reeves Gabrels, digs out rarities at Pinkpop Festival

The Cure tonight played the first of at least 19 European festival dates on the books this summer, and Robert Smith had a little secret to reveal at Holland’s famed Pinkpop Festival: new guitarist Reeves Gabrels, a former David Bowie collaborator who previously recorded with Smith in the late ’90s.

The Psychedelic Furs announce U.K. tour this summer between spring, fall U.S. runs

The Psychedelic Furs announce U.K. tour this summer between spring, fall U.S. runs

Between The Psychedelic Furs’ late-spring and early-fall runs of shows in the northeastern and southwestern portions of the U.S., the band will return to its native U.K. for a seven-date tour this summer that includes the band’s previously announced slot at the Hop Farm Festival.

‘The US Generation’ documentary to mark 30th anniversary of US Festival this Labor Day

‘The US Generation’ documentary to mark 30th anniversary of US Festival this Labor Day

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is helping make a feature-length documentary about the so-called ‘Woodstock of the ’80s’ — the 1982 US Festival, which featured Talking Heads, Oingo Boingo, The B-52s, The Cars, Ramones, Gang of Four and more — to be released this Labor Day weekend on the event’s 30th anniversary.

The Jesus and Mary Chain to join The Stooges, Elvis Costello at Chicago’s Riot Fest

The Jesus and Mary Chain to join The Stooges, Elvis Costello at Chicago’s Riot Fest

The Jesus and Mary Chain will join headliners Iggy and the Stooges and Elvis Costello at this September’s punk-heavy Riot Fest 2012 in Chicago, promoters announced this week, marking the latest U.S. date to be added to the slow-roll out of the Mary Chain’s still-evolving summer North American tour.

The Vaselines to play Seattle’s Bumbershoot — plus New York, San Francisco gigs

The Vaselines to play Seattle’s Bumbershoot — plus New York, San Francisco gigs

The Vaselines will return to the U.S. for the first time in two years late this summer when the band — featuring founders Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee — performs club dates in New York City and San Francisco before playing a slot at Seattle’s Bumbershoot 2012.