This week’s new release include a multi-format reissue of Tears For Fears’ smash second album, ‘Songs From the Big Chair,’ including a six-disc Super Deluxe Edition, plus a live album from former Yazoo frontwoman Alison Moyet in which she spotlights her recent solo album ‘The Minutes’ as well as earlier material.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Bauhaus, A Split-Second, Revolting Cocks, Bigod 20, Rose of Avalanche, Throwing Muses, The Mission, The Names, Dalis Car, Camouflage, Japan, Comsat Angels and more.

The Cure today announced a pair of Christmas concerts at London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo next month, promising two-and-a-half-hour shows that will find the band “playing songs drawn from their entire 37 year old catalogue including deep cuts, pop songs, fan favourites and surprises galore.”

This week’s new releases include a brand-new studio album from Simple Minds, plus a collection of BBC recordings by The Chills, a reissue of A Certain Ratio’s second album, a box set collecting studio albums from Ian Dury with and without the Blockheads, and a new Alphaville best-of.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave was a post-Halloween extravaganza featuring music from The Cure, Skinny Puppy, 999, Bauhaus, The Cramps, Christian Death, Xmal Deutschland, The March Violets, Samhain, The Birthday Party and more.

The just-released reissue of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1988 album Peepshow is being repressed following the discovery of a “minor mastering error” at the end of “Rawhead and Bloody Bones,” the band’s bassist, Steven Severin, announced today via the Banshees’ Facebook page.

Keeping with our unfortunate tradition of mixtape lateness, this was supposed to have been finished and posted earlier this past week to serve as a nice pre-Halloween collection of goth, post-punk and darker tunes. Oops. Still, here’s October’s entry in the Auto Reverse mixtape series, featuring two 45-minutes of dark fare.