Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Shriekback, Ministry, Alien Sex Fiend, Meat Beat Manifesto, 23 Skidoo, Skeletal Family, The Cure, Kate Bush, Cranes, Sad Lovers and Giants, Love and Rockets and more.

After several years of bemoaning that no label would have him, Morrissey has signed a “worldwide recording agreement” with Harvest Records, which announced the former Smiths frontman will release a yet-to-be-recorded new album in the second of 2014 and plans to resume tour this year.

Omnivore Recordings next month will reissue seminal college-rock act Camper Van Beethoven’s two major-label albums — 1988’s Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and 1989’s Key Lime Pie, with its hit cover of Status Quo’s “Pictures of Matchstick Men” — in expanded CD versions and on 180-gram vinyl.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured brand-new music from Dean Wareham and the Pixies, plus old faves from The Gun Club, Max Q, Husker Du, The Wlid Sweans, The Cure, Hoodoo Gurus, The Mission, Ramones, Miracle Legion and more.

The Buzzcocks late last week launched a PledgeMusic crowdsourcing campaign to help fund the recording and release of their first new studio album in eight years, saying the fundraising effort — which is already halfway to its goal — will allow the legendary punk act to release its new music much faster than before.

Clan of Xymox — the onetime 4AD act is still centered around founding member Ronny Moorings — return next month with a brand-new studio album entitled Matters of Mind, Body and Soul and are set to precede the record’s release with what’s being billed as the group’s first concert in Los Angeles in more than a decade.

New Order returns to American soil this March to perform at the 24th annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert, joining Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Joe Walsh and more at New York City’s Carnegie Hall to raise money for the nonprofit educational institution that’s dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture.