Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Watch: Violent Femmes make 'American Music' with BBQ grill in KEXP live set

Watch: Violent Femmes make ‘American Music’ with BBQ grill in KEXP live set

This past August, as their co-headlining tour with Echo & The Bunnymen reached its end, the Violent Femmes stopped by Seattle radio station KEXP to perform a 22-minute set for listeners, which now has been posted in full video glory for the rest of us to see. Watch it right here.

Midge Ure to release album of 'reimagined and orchestrated' Ultravox classics, solo tracks

Midge Ure to release album of ‘reimagined and orchestrated’ Ultravox classics, solo tracks

Midge Ure will revisit the music of his band Ultravox, as well as his own solo catalog, with a new album called Orchestrated that will feature a dozen re-recordings of some of his best-known songs, including “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” and “Vienna.” Check out the full tracklist right here.

Watch: Morrissey debuts new songs, covers The Pretenders in 55-minute set for BBC

Watch: Morrissey debuts new songs, covers The Pretenders in 55-minute set for BBC

Last week Morrissey helped the BBC kick off its 6 Music Live week, a series of live-on-the-air performances at the British broadcaster’s Maida Vale studios that also featured Mogwai, alt-J, Loyle Carner and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. Watch Morrissey’s full 55-minute set here.

Watch: The Church conjure 'hallucinogenic poolside scene' for 'Undersea' video

Watch: The Church conjure ‘hallucinogenic poolside scene’ for ‘Undersea’ video

The Church this week released the music video for “Undersea,” the first single off the band’s just-released 26th studio album, Man Woman Life Death Infinity. The video for the 3-minute single, directed by Eden Mulholland, can be seen in its entirety here.

This week's new releases: Squeeze, Nine Inch Nails, The Residents, Bob Marley and the Wailers

This week’s new releases: Squeeze, Nine Inch Nails, The Residents, Bob Marley and the Wailers

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s titles include Squeeze, Nine Inch Nails, The Residents and Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Listen: The Smiths, 'The Queen is Dead' — full live version of classic 1986 album

Listen: The Smiths, ‘The Queen is Dead’ — full live version of classic 1986 album

Now that the promotional campaign for the reissue of The Smiths’ classic 1986 album The Queen is Dead has resulted in the release of previously unreleased live versions of every song off that record, we’ve done the obvious and stitched them together into a full-album playlist.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/8/17)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/8/17)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. EDT every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available via Sirius XM’s On Demand service for online subscribers. Get the full playlist right here.