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Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/10/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/10/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured new and recent music from Morrissey and Gary Numan, plus selections from Joy Division, Dalis Car, Bigod 20, Coil, The Sisterhood, Lowlife, Alien Sex Fiend, This Mortal Coil, KMFDM, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Bauhaus and more.

Let's Active reuniting for first performance in 24 years tonight at N.C. cancer benefit

Let’s Active reuniting for first performance in 24 years tonight at N.C. cancer benefit

Let’s Active will reunite on stage in Carrboro, N.C., for the first time in 24 years tonight at a teenage cancer benefit, with bandleader and R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter joined by founding drummer Sara Romweber and Game Theory bassist Suzi Ziegler filling in for the late Faye Hunter,

Echo & The Bunnymen livestream Wednesday night's show at Seattle's Showbox

Echo & The Bunnymen livestream Wednesday night’s show at Seattle’s Showbox

Echo & The Bunnymen currently are about midway through their North American tour in support of their latest album Meteorites, and tonight’s show in Seattle offers a special treat: It’s being broadcast live across the Internet as part of Yahoo! Screen’s live concert series. Check out the broadcast here.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 162, aired 8/5/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 162, aired 8/5/14

Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave requests for future shows.

Love and Rockets debut 'Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven' to be reissued on vinyl

Love and Rockets debut ‘Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven’ to be reissued on vinyl

The debut album from Love and Rockets — 1985’s Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven — will receive a vinyl reissue later this month via the Drastic Plastic label, which will press the seven-song album on both opaque blue vinyl and 200-gram black vinyl.

Scruffy the Cat to release catalog digitally, issue new collection of unreleased tracks

Scruffy the Cat to release catalog digitally, issue new collection of unreleased tracks

Scruffy the Cat — part of the late-’80s cowpunk scene that helped spawn the alt-country movement — get their due in the coming months with both the full digital release of the band’s catalog and, on CD, the arrival of a new collection of previously unreleased live and studio material.

Watch Johnny Marr and Robyn Hitchcock play 'Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want'

Watch Johnny Marr and Robyn Hitchcock play ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’

Saturday night, Johnny Marr brought a special guest on stage for the encore of his concert in Portsmouth, England: Robyn Hitchcock, who helped Marr perform the Smiths classic “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” and Hitchcock’s own “Tell Me About Your Drugs.”