Tag: YouTube

Video: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe films weird 5-part ‘Tribute to YouTube’ in New Orleans

Apparently taking a break from recording R.E.M.’s next album in New Orleans, Michael Stipe last week uploaded a series of five short, someone nonsensical videos titled ‘Tribute to YouTube 5 Year.’

The Stone Roses at Spike Island: Rare video surfaces of legendary 1990 concert

A trailer for what appears to be a full-length concert film of The Stone Roses’ now-legendary Spike Island concert surfaced on YouTube over the weekend, despite long-held beliefs the May 27, 1990, gig — performed in front of nearly 30,000 fans on a reclaimed toxic-waste site — wasn’t filmed.

Vintage Video: Watch ‘The Cure in Orange’ to celebrate Robert Smith’s 51st birthday

Vintage Video: Watch ‘The Cure in Orange’ to celebrate Robert Smith’s 51st birthday

The Cure’s Robert Smith turns 51 today, and to mark the occasion, we’ve assembled this playlist of the band’s long-out-of-print 1987 concert film ‘The Cure in Orange,’ which is finally due for a belated DVD release later this year.

U2 to release ‘U2360° at the Rose Bowl’ concert on DVD, Blu-ray in June

U2 to release ‘U2360° at the Rose Bowl’ concert on DVD, Blu-ray in June

As promised, U2 is set to release a live DVD and Blu-ray of its massive October concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., which was seen by more than 10 million fans in one week during an unprecedented live stream and subsequent replays on YouTube.

Follow Slicing Up Eyeballs on Google Buzz

Follow Slicing Up Eyeballs on Google Buzz

Anyone out there doing the Google Buzz thing yet? Not sure if this is going to take off, but we figured we’d fling ourselves into the fray. So if you’re, er, buzzing, you can follow Slicing Up Eyeballs, too.

Vintage Video: U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot

Vintage Video: U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot

Tweet For a lot of us, the go-to New Year’s song is, somewhat unimaginatively, U2’s “New Year’s Day.” Yet while I’ve always associated U2 with […]

Video: U2 live at the Rose Bowl via YouTube

Video: U2 live at the Rose Bowl via YouTube

Tweet If you missed U2’s live YouTube webcast from the Rose Bowl on Sunday night, the band has kindly archived the whole 2-hour-and-20-minute concert — […]

U2 tour dates: 360° trek returns to North American stadiums in June and July 2010

U2 tour dates: 360° trek returns to North American stadiums in June and July 2010

As U2 played the final notes of “Moment of Surrender” to close its Rose Bowl webcast tonight, the band’s management unveiled the second North American […]

U2’s Rose Bowl concert to be streamed live on YouTube worldwide Sunday — for free

U2’s Rose Bowl concert to be streamed live on YouTube worldwide Sunday — for free

Sunday, U2’s mammoth 360° Tour pulls into the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., where a sold-out crowd of 96,000 fans is expected to soak up […]

Video: The Cure at NME’s ‘Big Gig’

Video: The Cure at NME’s ‘Big Gig’

Earlier this month, The Cure received NME’s annual “Godlike Geniuses” award and headlined the Brit mag’s annual “Big Gig.” Part of the band’s two-hour set […]

‘Lost and Then I’m Found’: The Godfathers play U.S. for first time in 20 years

‘Lost and Then I’m Found’: The Godfathers play U.S. for first time in 20 years

The Godfathers — one of the best, if not most underrated, U.K. rock bands of the 1980s — triumphantly reformed in 2008, and capped the […]