Here’s a favorite piece of choice vintage footage: legendary Ethiopian singer Alemayehu Eshete decked out in his trademark butterfly collars, sporting a sly grin and sultry shoulder shimmy, gesticulating along with the lyrics. Ticking octaves are picked out on blippy guitars, and the majestic melody comes via a pair of saxophones–a classic Ethiopian arrangement. The [...]

Doubt this will be available long, but you can now view everyone’s favorite ‘revenge flick’ and Grindhouse cinema classic, Rolling Thunder, in its entirety via YouTube. “Let’s clean ‘em up!” Watch the film after the jump…

An audacious choice as a single based on running time alone, the title track from Pulp’s 1998 album made an equally brazen choice for video. This is Hardcore, the album, is more than worthy of a post on its own – a dark, seedy exploration of the very things documented and partly celebrated on their [...]

Just like last time, today’s Videodrome is a clip from a German TV show. Specifically, the show Beat! Beat! Beat! No, not the Beat Club… but the show did have a Shindig/Bandstand style “variety” format where mostly U.K. and American rock bands would play a few songs to smiling, bopping teenagers. I caught this video [...]

I came across today’s Videodrome entry last month while digging around in search of an Ike & The Rhythm Kings performance I’d previously stumbled upon (late) one night. I never did find the Ike clip, but this “live performance” did more than suffice. And yes, do note the quotes surrounding the words ‘live’ and ‘performance’. [...]

As mentioned in the inaugural Videodrome post last month, the recurring series is an effort to highlight some of the more exceptional videos and/or performances we stumble upon out there in the ether. This week we’re looking at some footage from 1968 — an intimate live performance of Booker T. & The MG’s doing “Booker-Loo” [...]

(Videodrome (yup, a David Cronenberg homage) is a new recurring feature in which we’ll highlight exceptional videos and/or performances. The series kicks off today with AD contributor (and New Orleans native) M. Garner’s take on Neil Young’s post-Katrina cover of the Bobby Charles penned, Fats Domino hit) As any casual viewer of David Simon’s Treme will tell [...]