Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Sisters of Mercy, This Mortal Coil, Dif Juz, Revolting Cocks, Shriekback, Nash the Slash, Sex Gang Children, The Sound, Siouxsie and the Banshees, PiL, Coil, The Mission, Flesh for Lulu, Love and Rockets and more.

The Dead Milkmen are offering fans a look inside the recording of their new song “Prisoner’s Cinema” via Weathervane Music’s “Shaking Through” series of short documentaries, which are designed to illuminate the “vision and process of recording music.” Plus, they’re offering a free download of the finished product.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Cure, John Foxx, Death Cult, Tones on Tail, Front 242, Openheimer Analysis, Virgin Prunes, Front Line Assembly, English Boy on the Loveranch, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry , The Sisters of Mercy, Mission of Burma and more.

To coincide with our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1981 readers poll results, we’ve created this accompanying Spotify playlist. As you can see (and hear), the playlist is bookended by Depeche Mode, with “Just Can’t Get Enough” at No. 1 and “Photographic” at No. 100, and 97 songs in between.

Pardon our (more than) slight delay, but we’re back, after copious number-crunching, with the second installment in our new Best of the ’80s Redux series, the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll that has now determined our collective ranking of the Top 100 songs of 1981.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Cult, Rose of Avalanche, Soft Cell, New Model Army, Front 242, Kissing the Pink, Comsat Angels, The Bolshoi, Chris Connelly, Section 25, Julian Cope, Ministry and more.

We’ve posted a number of memorable clips over the years as part of our “120 Minutes” Rewind feature, but this is a true rarity: some 35 minutes of J.J. Jackson-hosted footage from the earliest-known recording of an episode of MTV’s seminal Sunday night music-video show that took viewers “two hours into the future” every week.