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  • 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

    • 13 April 2017
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 3 comments

    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.

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  • 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

    • 6 April 2017
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 2 comments

    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.

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  • Vintage Video: Midnight Oil lights up Alan Thicke’s ‘Thicke of the Night’ in 1984

    Vintage Video: Midnight Oil lights up Alan Thicke’s ‘Thicke of the Night’ in 1984

    • 30 March 2017
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 1 comment

    For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we turn to the very short-lived late-night talk show “Thicke of the Night,” hosted by the late Alan Thicke, and this 1984 visit by Aussie powerhouse Midnight Oil.
    The band — not exactly a well-known act in America at the time — was allowed to perform three songs.

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  • Vintage Video: Minutemen throw down 37 songs in 73 minutes at this 1985 show

    Vintage Video: Minutemen throw down 37 songs in 73 minutes at this 1985 show

    • 23 March 2017
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    This week’s installment of Vintage Video delivers some real bang for the buck: It’s a 37-song, 73-minute set by the Minutemen filmed at a San Francisco club in May 1985, about seven months before the tragic death of frontman D. Boon in an automobile crash. Watch it in all its glory via uploader KILLTHATCATarchives.

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  • Vintage Video: The House of Love plays an hour-long set at D.C.’s 9:30 Club in 1992

    Vintage Video: The House of Love plays an hour-long set at D.C.’s 9:30 Club in 1992

    • 16 March 2017
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 2 comments

    For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present something we don’t come across too often online: a full set, or at least a good chunk of a full set, by The House of Love. In this case, we’ve got a concert filmed Oct. 27, 1992, at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., while touring Babe Rainbow.

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  • Vintage Video: Talking Heads talk, and perform, on UK’s ‘South Bank Show’ in 1979

    Vintage Video: Talking Heads talk, and perform, on UK’s ‘South Bank Show’ in 1979

    • 2 March 2017
    • TV, Video, Vintage Video
    • 1 comment

    For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we turn to the UK television program “The South Bank Show,” and its 1979 spotlight on Talking Heads. The half-hour episode features the band being interviewed, plus live performances of classics such as “Psycho Killer” and “Life During Wartime.”

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  • Vintage Video: The Smiths preform hour-long set for German TV show ‘Rockpalast’ in 1984

    Vintage Video: The Smiths preform hour-long set for German TV show ‘Rockpalast’ in 1984

    • 23 February 2017
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    For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we dip into the vaults of “Rockpalast” for this performance by The Smiths in 1984. This 15-song set finds the band burning through its early material to the point that it encores with a couple of its best-known songs that already had been performed earlier.

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  • Vintage Video: Galaxie 500 drifts through a 40-minute set at an Atlanta club in 1990

    Vintage Video: Galaxie 500 drifts through a 40-minute set at an Atlanta club in 1990

    • 16 February 2017
    • Video, Vintage Video
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    For our first post-hiatus installment of Vintage Video, we spotlight a band that, at least in its live incarnation, is sadly underrepresented on YouTube: dream-pop icons Galaxie 500. So here’s a 7-song, 40-minute set that finds Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang performing material from 1988’s Today and 1989’s On Fire.

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  • Vintage Audio: Dead Milkmen remake ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ for WXPN radio promo in 1985

    Vintage Audio: Dead Milkmen remake ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ for WXPN radio promo in 1985

    • 26 March 2015
    • Vintage Video
    • 4 comments

    Well, here’s a fun one: The Dead Milkmen today shared a radio promo they recorded in 1985 for the University of Pennsylvania’s WXPN radio station, a re-write of “Bitchin’ Camaro” that announces the show “Yesterday’s Now Music Today” is moving from Sunday nights to weekday afternoon. Check it out here.

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  • Vintage Video: ‘The Cure in Orange’ — watch out-of-print 1987 concert film in full

    Vintage Video: ‘The Cure in Orange’ — watch out-of-print 1987 concert film in full

    • 9 March 2015
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 23 comments

    Time for what’s becoming a regular Vintage Video repeat: While we’ve posted this before, The Cure’s Robert Smith has yet to follow through with his announcement of a DVD release of “The Cure in Orange,” so, as it remains sadly out of print, we once again present the full 1987 concert film.

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  • Vintage Video: Local TV newscasters try to explain ‘Cocteau Twins fever’ in 1985

    Vintage Video: Local TV newscasters try to explain ‘Cocteau Twins fever’ in 1985

    • 19 February 2015
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 11 comments

    For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we resurrect something we first shared way back in 2010: a pair of TV news reports from WBNS in Columbus, Ohio, about the “Cocteau Fever” surrounding the Cocteau Twins’ Sept. 19, 1985, concert there — just one of five stops on its U.S. tour that year.

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