Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Virgin Prunes, Christian Death, Lycia, The Gruesome Twosome, Skinny Puppy, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, Tubeway Army, NItzer Ebb, The Names and more.

Echo & The Bunnymen today revealed that the band’s upcoming 12th studio album — produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth — is nearing completion and will be formally announced soon, and that frontman Ian McCulloch “feels it’s the band’s best work for a very long time.”

Just hours after announcing a pair of high-profile arena concerts in New York and Los Angeles, Morrissey this morning has unveiled a full 25-date U.S. tour this May and June that will hit many of the cities and venues that saw cancellations during the former Smiths singer’s disastrous late-2012 and early-2013 American tour.

Morrissey has yet to announce his promised U.S. tour this spring, but tonight he did confirm two major concerts: arena shows in Los Angeles and New York in May and June that will find the former Smiths singer sharing the stage with legendary crooners Tom Jones and Cliff Richard, respectively.

Peter Buck is back with his second solo album, another vinyl-only release — ambitiously titled I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again — that he’ll support with a short round of dates later this month in the Midwest and South opening for and then backing roots-rocker Alejandro Escovedo

It’s been a busy few months for David J: The bassist recorded a new version of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and is putting together a new album called An Eclipse of Ships. Add to that a new role as bassist for the band Stellarum, with which he’s just recorded a slow-burning cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.”

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music by Game Theory, Midnight Oil, The Waterboys, XTC, Minutemen, The Smithereens, Bob Mould, Ramones, Oingo Boingo, Violent Femmes, The Replacements and more. Replay 2 p.m. EST Friday.