Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Stream: Garbage covers U2's 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses' for 'Achtung' tribute

Stream: Garbage covers U2’s ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’ for ‘Achtung’ tribute

Now we get our third taste of Q magazine’s full-album tribute to U2′s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby’ in the form of Garbage’s slow and simmering cover of the record’s fifth single, ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses,’ which you can stream here.

The Stone Roses add 3rd Manchester reunion gig, sell all 220,000 tickets in 68 minutes

The Stone Roses sold out their two 2012 reunion concerts in Manchester in just 14 minute this morning, prompting the band to add a third show — which also sold out. All told, the band sold 220,000 tickets in 68 minutes, leading it to declare the concerts the ‘fastest selling rock gigs in U.K. history.’

David J to release new solo album, play with Love and Rockets tribute band

David J to release new solo album, play with Love and Rockets tribute band

David J is poised to release a new solo album called ‘Not Long For This World’ — featuring new songs and covers of tracks by Smog, Ed Harcourt, Tom Waits and Dennis Wilson — and he’ll revisit his Love and Rockets tenure by playing two California shows next week with tribute act Luv’n Rockets.

Free MP3: The dB's, 'Revolution of the Mind' — 'Falling Off the Sky' album coming in 2012

Free MP3: The dB’s, ‘Revolution of the Mind’ — ‘Falling Off the Sky’ album coming in 2012

The dB’s this week released a new song as a free MP3 download — the rocker ‘Revolution of the Mind,’ featuring Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan on guitar — and announced plans to issue ‘Falling Off the Sky,’ the band’s first new studio album in 25 years, sometime in the spring of 2012.

X to reissue 'The Unheard Music' concert film on 'Silver Anniversary' DVD, Blu-ray

X to reissue ‘The Unheard Music’ concert film on ‘Silver Anniversary’ DVD, Blu-ray

X are set to re-release their 1986 concert film ‘The Unheard Music’ — which they’ve been screening at shows recently prior to playing their Los Angeles album in full — this December on both DVD and, for the first time, Blu-ray in special “Silver Anniversary” editions stocked with extras.

The Wedding Present, Tanya Donelly, Doug Martsch cover The Smiths for new tribute

The Wedding Present, Tanya Donelly, Doug Martsch cover The Smiths for new tribute

American Laundromat Records has enlisted The Wedding Present, Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, Throwing Muses co-founder Tanya Donelly, Telekinesis and Stars to contribute covers of more than 20 classic songs by The Smiths for a new tribute album to be released this December.

Video: Modern English at The Abbey in Orlando, Fla., 9/21/11 — full concert

Video: Modern English at The Abbey in Orlando, Fla., 9/21/11 — full concert

Modern English last month mounted a short tour of the southeastern U.S. — mostly within Florida, in fact — and now you can watch one of those concerts in full, thanks to Florida’s True Marketing, which made this 56-minute film of the band’s Sept. 21 performance at The Abbey in Orlando.