This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new and previously unreleased music from Depeche Mode, Peter Murphy, U2, Thomas Dolby and Sonic Youth, plus favorites from Paul Weller, Close Lobsters, The Creatures and New Order. Replay at 2 p.m. EDT Friday.

The playlist from tonight’s expanded Halloween edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Christian Death, Fields of the Nephilim, The Birthday Party, Dead Can Dance, Laiback, Front 242, Xymox and much more.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from R.E.M., Skinny Puppy, The dB’s and Jane’s Addiction, plus old favorites by The Cure, Violent Femmes, Pop Will Eat Itself and the reunited Stone Roses. Replay at 2 p.m. Eastern on Friday.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Siouxsie and the Banshees, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Peter Murphy, KMFDM, The Church, Modern English and much more.

The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Skinny Puppy, The Smiths, Joe Strummer, Kate Bush, The March Violets, Death Cult, Kraftwerk and much more.

Mike Joyce, former drummer of The Smiths, will dedicate his weekly Coalition Chart Show on New York City’s East Village Radio entirely to his old band this morning, playing two hours of hand-picked cuts from the new Rhino Records-released ‘Complete’ box set.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music form Peter Murphy, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, plus old favorites from Robyn Hitchcock, John Foxx, Wall of Voodoo, Midnight Oil, The Communards and more. Replay at 2 p.m EDT Friday.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Camouflage, The Cult, Peter Murphy, Vicious Pink, The Chameleons and much more.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Erasure, the Bangles and Duran Duran, plus old favorites by the Gun Club, Red Flag, Let’s Active, The Art of Noise, David Byrne, Lou Barlow, Real Life and more.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Tubeway Army, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Skinny Puppy, Public Image Ltd. and much more.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured new music from the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid, Manic Street Preachers covering The The, old favorites from Midnight Oil, New Order and Morrissey, plus a special tribute to R.E.M.

The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Killing Joke, Cocteau Twins, Nick Cave, Japan, Love and Rockets and much more. ‘Dark Wave’ airs Sundays from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern/7 to 10 p.m. Pacific.

Given yesterday’s news, it seemed to appropriate to dust off and post this episode of my Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio from March 8, a show devoted entirely to R.E.M. to mark the release of the band’s 15th — and now, it turns out, final — album ‘Collapse Into Now.’