Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Listen to a robot read Morrissey's Wikipedia entry out loud — for a full hour

Listen to a robot read Morrissey’s Wikipedia entry out loud — for a full hour

Because it’s increasingly true that you can indeed find anything on the Internet, here’s a brand-new way for Morrissey fans to kill an hour: by listening to a robot recite the former Smiths frontman’s full Wikipedia entry out loud for a full 59 minutes and 54 seconds.

Free MP3: Peter Hook & The Light play New Order's 'Everything's Gone Green' in Manchester

Free MP3: Peter Hook & The Light play New Order’s ‘Everything’s Gone Green’ in Manchester

To help promote his just-announced North American tour on which he’ll perform New Order’s first two albums — 1981′s Movement and 1983′s Power, Corruptions & Lies — Peter Hook is making available as a free download a live recording of that band’s third single, “Everything’s Gone Green,” recorded in Manchester.

Sad Lovers & Giants recording new music: 'We will have 70% of an album'

Sad Lovers & Giants recording new music: ‘We will have 70% of an album’

Sad Lovers & Giants — who’ve earned a strong cult following despite having broken up and re-formed multiple times since debuting in the early ’80s — are in the studio recording what could be their first album in more than a decade, with enough songs currently in the works to comprise “70 percent of an album.”

Filmmakers seek funds for documentary on Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery

Filmmakers seek funds for documentary on Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery

Filmmakers Michael Santorelli and Laurel Harris recently launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise $50,000 to help fund their documentary “Get Off This: A Film About Music and Perseverance,” which aims to document the life and music of David Lowery, frontman of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker.

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2013)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2013)

Well, this is embarrassing. We’re more than two weeks later with this month’s installment of the Auto Reverse mixtape — two 45-minute sides of music new and vintage from your favorite artists. And, while we’re still using Mixcloud to stream the tape, due to popular demand, it’s downloadable, too — for a limited time.

New releases: Visage, Texas, John Foxx, Section 25, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads

New releases: Visage, Texas, John Foxx, Section 25, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads

This week’s new releases include the first new album in 29 years from Visage (‘Hearts and Knives’), plus a new studio LP from Texas, a live CD/DVD set from John Foxx and The Maths, a Section 25 reissue, a new Iggy Pop best-of, and the U.S. release of a Talking Heads vinyl reissue.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/19/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/19/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” featured music from My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Front 242, The Cure, Public Image Ltd., Play Dead, Coil, KMFDM, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Shriekback, Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor, Soiuxsie and the Banshees, The church, Love and Rockets and much, much more.