Category: Radio

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 6/24/12

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Kraftwerk, The Cure, Love and Rockets, Death Cult, The Chameleons, Siouxsie and the Banshees and much more.

Stream: ‘Spellbound: The John McGeoch Story’ — hour-long BBC radio documentary

Back in 2008, the BBC first aired an hour-long radio documentary on the life and work of post-punk guitar legend John McGeoch, who played with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd. and Magazine, among others. If you’ve never heard the program, or don’t know much about McGeoch, you can stream it here.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 75, first aired 6/19/12

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Pet Shop Boys, Mission of Burma, David Byrne and Paul Weller, plus older favorites from Propaganda, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, The Seahorses, The Cult, Ramones, INXS and more.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 6/17/12

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Die Warzu, Love and Rockets, Kate Bush, The Church, The Birthday Party and much more

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 74, first aired 6/12/12

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs featured brand-new and previously unreleased music from The dB’s, Ian McCulloch and The Beat, plus old favorites from The Go-Betweens, The Stone Roses, Hoodoo Gurus, A Certain Ratio, The Mission, Rain Parade, Billy Bragg and more.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 6/10/12

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Dead Can Dance, The Damned, The Stranglers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yazoo, The Sugarcubes, Modern English, The Teardrop Explodes and much more.

Video: Meat Puppets play tracks off 'Sewn Together,' plus 'one of those Nirvana songs'

Video: Meat Puppets play tracks off ‘Sewn Together,’ plus ‘one of those Nirvana songs’

Seattle radio station KEXP has been uploading video of some of its past in-studio sessions to YouTube, and here’s another: A Sept. 23, 2009, visit during which the brothers Kirkwood performed four tracks off their then-new album ‘Sewn Together,’ plus ‘one of those Nirvana songs,’ aka ‘Plateau.’