Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Video: Adam Ant, 'Cool Zombie' — lead single off first new album in 18 years

Video: Adam Ant, ‘Cool Zombie’ — lead single off first new album in 18 years

When the world didn’t end in some kind of Mayan apocalypse last Friday, Adam Ant took the occasion to debut the music video for “Cool Zombie,” the lead single and opening track to his first new album in 18 years: ‘Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter,’ which arrives Jan. 22 on Ant’s own record label.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 102, first aired 12/25/12

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 102, first aired 12/25/12

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured some of the best new and reissued music from 2012, including tracks from Paul Weller, Bob Mould, The House of Love, David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels, Dinosaur Jr, Paul Westerberg, Killing Joke, Pet Shop Boys and more.

My Bloody Valentine: 'We finished mastering the new album'

My Bloody Valentine: ‘We finished mastering the new album’

My Bloody Valentine delivered a Christmas surprise to fans, announcing on Facebook this evening that the band finished mastering its 21-years-in-the-making follow-up to the 1991 classic ‘Loveless’ three days ago. Whether the record still will be released online before year’s end, as Kevin Shields pledged, remains to be seen.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/23/12)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/23/12)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Fad Gadget, Soft Cell, The Cure, New Order, The March Violets, Cocteau Twins, The Essence, Siouxsie and the Banshees and more.

Mike Scaccia, 1965-2012: Ministry, RevCo guitarist dies after on-stage collapse

Mike Scaccia, 1965-2012: Ministry, RevCo guitarist dies after on-stage collapse

Mike Scaccia — who joined Ministry during the Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour and went on to play with various Al Jourgensen-led projects including Revolting Cocks, 1000 Homo DJs and Lard — died early this morning after collapsing on-stage in Fort Worth, Texas, during a performance with metal band Rigor Mortis.

Vintage Video: The Clash rocks Tokyo on Jan. 28, 1982 — watch full hour-long set

Vintage Video: The Clash rocks Tokyo on Jan. 28, 1982 — watch full hour-long set

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Joe Strummer, the legendary frontman of The Clash — an occasion we mark in this installment of Vintage Video by presenting an hour-long concert filmed in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 1982, during the final tour to feature the band’s classic lineup.

Stream: ‘Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements’ — full 2-hour documentary

Stream: ‘Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements’ — full 2-hour documentary

Director Gorman Bechard’s documentary about The Replacements and their rabid fans — a film dubbed, appropriately, “Color Me Obsessed” — finally landed on DVD last month, but if you haven’t had a chance to see the film yet, the full two-hour doc is streaming on YouTube for a limited time courtesy of Noisey.