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Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/14/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/14/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, New Order, Cocteau Twins, Death in June, The Sugarcubes, Sad Lovers and Giants and much more.

Video: Social Distortion at Coachella — watch full 40-minute set

Video: Social Distortion at Coachella — watch full 40-minute set

Social Distortion epitomize Southern California, so it’s good to see Mike Ness and Co. bring their pure rock to Coachella this weekend. You can now watch the band’s full 40-minute set — which closes, naturally, with run through Johnny Cash’s classic “Ring of Fire” — right here via this ripped-from-the-webcast footage.

Video: Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels at Coachella — watch full hour-long set

Video: Trent Reznor’s How To Destroy Angels at Coachella — watch full hour-long set

Trent Reznor’s reunited Nine Inch Nails will be filling festival bills around the world later this summer, but Coachella snagged what may end up being a rare appearance by his new band, How to Destroy Angels, which brought an impressive visual component to its set late Friday night.

Video: Violent Femmes play debut album at Coachella — watch full hour-long reunion set

Video: Violent Femmes play debut album at Coachella — watch full hour-long reunion set

The reunited Violent Femmes — Gordon Gano, Victor DeLorenzo and Brian Ritchie — played their first show in five years Saturday when the band used its Coachella slot to perform its beloved 1983 debut album front-to-back. You can now watch the full set via this capture of the festival’s webcast.

Video: Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy tear up 'I Fought the Law' and 'How Soon Is Now?'

Video: Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy tear up ‘I Fought the Law’ and ‘How Soon Is Now?’

Johnny Marr surprised fans in San Francisco on Saturday night by pulling an old friend on stage: Billy Duffy of The Cult, who joined Marr and his band to rip through “I Fought the Law,” the 1958 classic by The Crickets’ Sonny Curtis popularized first by the Bobby Fuller Four and then The Clash.

The Week in Rock: April 7-13, 2013

The Week in Rock: April 7-13, 2013

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, The Fall, R.E.M., The Three O’Clock, Ian McCulloch, Skinny Puppy, Visage, The Specials, Mark Mulcahy and more.

Video: The Stone Roses headline Coachella — watch full 23-minute 'highlights' webcast

Video: The Stone Roses headline Coachella — watch full 23-minute ‘highlights’ webcast

The choice of The Stone Roses as a Coachella headliner this year has been one of the festival’s more controversial moves, from the initial “Who is New Order?” barrage to instant postmortems of Friday night’s less-than-packed closing set from Ian Brown and Co.