Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Playlist: Sirius XM's 'Dark Wave,' 5/9/10

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 5/9/10

The highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include a couple album cuts off The Cure’s ‘Disintegration,’ a Tones on Tail song that’s not ‘Go!,’ Shriekback’s excellent ‘My Spine Is the Bassline’ and Wax Trax! industrial act Braindead Soundmachine’s cover of Patsy Cline’s ‘Walkin’ After Midnight.’

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode performs ‘Behind the Wheel’/’Route 66’ in 1990

In honor of Dave Gahan’s birthday today — he’s 48 — we present this clip: Depeche Mode performing its combo of ‘Behind the Wheel’ and B-side ‘Route 66’ during a World Violation Tour stop in Frankfurt, Germany, in October 1990.

The Waterboys’ Mike Scott sharing unreleased songs, rarities, new tracks, mash-ups online

The Waterboys’ Mike Scott is opening up his archives online, posting a series of ‘exclusive Waterboys songs plus various mysterious and wonderful tracks and mash-ups’ recorded at his home studio.

Video: Beck covers ‘The Loved One’ off INXS’ ‘Kick’ in latest Record Club installment

Beck’s back with track 6 — ‘The Loved One,’ a cover of an old ’60s tune by Australian band The Loved Ones — in his Record Club’s ongoing full-album cover of INXS’ 1987 hit ‘Kick.’

Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500: Special one-off concert set for Atlanta this fall

Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500: Special one-off concert set for Atlanta this fall

Former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham will commemorate the recent re-release of the seminal dream-pop act’s catalog with a special one-off concert in Atlanta this fall at which he will be ‘performing the Galaxie 500 songbook.’

a-ha's 'Hunting High and Low,' 'Scoundrel Days' reissued with 28 unreleased tracks

a-ha’s ‘Hunting High and Low,’ ‘Scoundrel Days’ reissued with 28 unreleased tracks

As Norwegian pop trio a-ha marks its 25th anniversary with a worldwide farewell tour, Rhino Records on Thursday announced plans to reissue the band’s first two albums — 1985’s ‘Hunting High and Low’ and 1986’s ‘Scoundrel Days’ — in deluxe 2CD sets brimming with B-sides, mixes, live cuts and unreleased material.