Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (6/14/26)

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“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic ’80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial. The show airs at 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave (Channel 33).

The most recent two episodes are available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app.

Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes, but there’s no guarantee they’ll be played. They must fit the show’s format and fall generally within the 1st Wave era. And not be something the host really dislikes. If there’s something you’d like to hear, drop it in the comments below.

HOUR 1

Wire, “Two People in a Room” (154)
Adam and the Ants, “Zerox” (Dirk Wears White Sox)
The Sound, “Jeopardy” (Jeopardy)
X, “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts” (More Fun in the New World)
45 Grave, “Partytime” (Sleep in Safety)
The Scientists, “Set It On Fire” (Blood Red River)
Bauhaus, “Watch That Grandad Go” (5 Albums)
Gang of Four, “We Live As We Dream, Alone” (Songs of the Free)
The Durutti Column, “Never Known Version” (Sunlight to Blue… Blue to Blackness)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Temple of Love” (A Slight Case of Overbombing)
The Cure, “Halo” (Join the Dots)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Almost Gold” (Honey’s Dead)
For Against, “Autocrat” (Echelons)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Death Is Not the End” (Murder Ballads)

HOUR 2

Ministry, “The Land of Rape and Honey” (Land or Rape and Honey)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan” (Acid & Flowers Mix) (Confessions of a Knife)
Skinny Puppy, “Hardest Heat” (The Process)
Revolting Cocks, “Union Carbide” (Live) (Trax! Box)
The Stranglers, “Golden Brown” (La Folie)
Peter Murphy, “Final Solution” (Club Mix) (Should the World Fail to Fall Apart)
Killing Joke, “Tomorrow’s World” (Killing Joke)
Tones on Tail, “Christian Says” (Everything!)
Christian Death, “Will-O-the-Wisp” (Atrocities)
And Also the Trees, “Scarlet Arch” (Virus Meadow)
Dead Can Dance, “Threshold” (Dead Can Dance)
Shoc Corridor, “Iceberg” (Experiments in Incest)

HOUR 3

Joy Division, “Twenty Four Hours” (Closer)
The Dark, “The Masque” (Chemical Warfare)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Red Light” (Kaleidoscope)
Love and Rockets, “Inside the Outside” (Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven)
Depeche Mode, “Sea of Sin” (Tonal Mix) (Violator: Expanded Edition)
Anne Clark, “Poem for a Nuclear Romance” (Changing Places)
Camoflauge, “Being Boiled” (Live) (Live in Dresden)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Thank You America” (C.O.D.E.)
Manufacture, “Slugger” (Terrorvision)
Morrissey, “Spring-Heeled Jim” (World of Morrissey)
Kate Bush, “Waking the Witch” (Hounds of Love)
Gene Loves Jezebel, “Twenty Killer Hurts” (The House of Dolls)
Concrete Blonde, “Tomorrow, Wendy” (Live) (Bloodletting: 20th Anniversary Edition)
Nine Inch Nails, “We’re In This Together” (The Fragile)

PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS

• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (6/7/26)
• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (5/31/26)
• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (5/24/26)

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