The Dead Milkmen are offering fans a look inside the recording of their new song “Prisoner’s Cinema” via Weathervane Music’s “Shaking Through” series of short documentaries, which are designed to illuminate the “vision and process of recording music.” Plus, they’re offering a free download of the finished product.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Cure, John Foxx, Death Cult, Tones on Tail, Front 242, Openheimer Analysis, Virgin Prunes, Front Line Assembly, English Boy on the Loveranch, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry , The Sisters of Mercy, Mission of Burma and more.

To coincide with our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1981 readers poll results, we’ve created this accompanying Spotify playlist. As you can see (and hear), the playlist is bookended by Depeche Mode, with “Just Can’t Get Enough” at No. 1 and “Photographic” at No. 100, and 97 songs in between.

Pardon our (more than) slight delay, but we’re back, after copious number-crunching, with the second installment in our new Best of the ’80s Redux series, the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll that has now determined our collective ranking of the Top 100 songs of 1981.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Cult, Rose of Avalanche, Soft Cell, New Model Army, Front 242, Kissing the Pink, Comsat Angels, The Bolshoi, Chris Connelly, Section 25, Julian Cope, Ministry and more.

We’ve posted a number of memorable clips over the years as part of our “120 Minutes” Rewind feature, but this is a true rarity: some 35 minutes of J.J. Jackson-hosted footage from the earliest-known recording of an episode of MTV’s seminal Sunday night music-video show that took viewers “two hours into the future” every week.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, The Naked and the Dead, Lard, Camouflage, The Lucy Show, Danielle Dax, Death in June, The Essence, Xmal Deutschland, Alien Sex Fiend, Skeletal Family and more.

Morrissey tonight announced that he will return to the U.S. this June and July to continue promoting his withdrawn album World Peace Is None of Your Business with a new 18-date tour of theaters, arenas and amphitheaters, a trek that includes a stop at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

On May 5, Wayne Hussey, frontman of The Mission, will release a 2DVD/1CD set Songs of Candlelight & Razorblades Live that chronicles his tour last year in support of his latest solo effort, and he’s teasing the upcoming project with a live stream of one of its tracks: a live cover of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper.”

Echo & The Bunnymen will return to the U.S. this summer, with the band this week announcing what it termed a “tour of America” that consists of four shows in California this August. It is not clear, via the band’s announcement on Facebook or elsewhere, whether the Bunnymen plan to add more dates to the trek.

This week’s new releases include reissue of The Specials’ three albums — 1979′s The Specials, 1980′s More Specials and 1984′s In the Studio, the latter of which was released under the band’s original name, The Special AKA — as well as a new record from German synthpop outfit Camouflage.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by Joy Division, Lowlife, Tubeway Army, The Birthday Party, This Mortal Coil, Rosetta Stone, Christian Death, Revolting Cocks, Clan of Xymox, Mission of Burma, The Sound, Nitzer Ebb, Echo & The Bunnymen, Pailhead, TSOL and more.

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.