Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Free MP3s: Dead Can Dance, ‘Live Happenings — Part IV’ 4-track EP

Free MP3s: Dead Can Dance, ‘Live Happenings — Part IV’ 4-track EP

The reunited Dead Can Dance this week released the fourth installment in its series of free, four-track digital EPs collecting live material recorded on the band’s 2005 tour. ‘Live Happenings — Part IV,’ which can be downloaded here, features in-concert recordings of ”I Can See Now,” “American Dreaming” “Sanvean” and “Rakim.”

Stream: Nick Cave's 'Grinderman 2 RMX'

Stream: Nick Cave’s ‘Grinderman 2 RMX’

Nick Cave will say goodbye to his garage-blues side project Grinderman with the release next week, in the U.K., of the 12-track remix album called ‘Grinderman 2 RMX,’ collecting new and previously released mixes of cuts from the band’s sophomore album by members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, UNKLE and Queens of the Stone Age.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 64, first aired 3/20/12

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs featured new music from The Wedding Present and Dexys, plus old favorites by the likes of Billy Bragg, Lightning Seeds, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Go Betweens, Howard Jones, Close Lobsters, Iggy Pop and Frank Black.

Video: Ministry, ‘99 Percenters' — pro-Occupy single off upcoming 'Relapse'

Video: Ministry, ‘99 Percenters’ — pro-Occupy single off upcoming ‘Relapse’

Al Jourgensen’s newly reformed Ministry next week will release ‘Relapse,’ the band’s first new album in five years, and they’re promoting it with a new music video for pro-Occupy Wall Street single ’99 Percenters’ (‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 99 percent!’), which you can see here via Revolver.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode's 1990 'riot' outside the Wherehouse in Los Angeles

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode’s 1990 ‘riot’ outside the Wherehouse in Los Angeles

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the release of Depeche Mode’s classic, and still best-selling, ‘Violator,’ and to mark the occasion we thought we’d dredge up this vintage news footage about the band’s infamous near-riot outside a Wherehouse record store in Los Angeles.

The Cult, The Mission, Killing Joke team up for 5-date U.K. arena tour this September

The Cult, The Mission, Killing Joke team up for 5-date U.K. arena tour this September

With their first new album in five years, ‘Choice of Weapon,’ coming out in May, The Cult this morning announced a five-date arena tour of the U.K. this September that’ll see the rockers enlisting a pair of freshly reunited contemporaries — The Mission and Killing Joke — to fill out the bill.

Video: Public Image Ltd.'s full set at 6 Music anniversary concert — featuring 2 new songs

Video: Public Image Ltd.’s full set at 6 Music anniversary concert — featuring 2 new songs

On Friday night, John Lydon’s reconstituted Public Image Ltd. performed at the 10th anniversary concert in London for BBC’s 6 Music, and, in the process, debuted two tracks — “Deeper Water” and the single “One Drop,” which has been aired on U.K. radio — off the group’s forthcoming album ‘This Is PiL.’