Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Video: Trailers for Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Stoned & Dethroned,’ ‘Munki’ reissues

Video: Trailers for Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Stoned & Dethroned,’ ‘Munki’ reissues

With the first two titles of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s 2CD/1DVD reissue series — 1985′s ‘Psychocandy’ and 1987′s ‘Darklands’ — now out, Demon Music Group today released the final two trailers for the project, previews of 1994′s ‘Stoned & Dethroned’ and 1998′s ‘Munki,’ which will be released Oct. 3.

Scruffy the Cat cancels reunion concerts

Scruffy the Cat cancels reunion concerts

Boston college-radio favorites Scruffy the Cat — part of the late-’80s cowpunk scene that helped spawn the alt-country movement — have canceled a pair of reunion shows that had been scheduled for Oct. 21 and 22 at the band’s old haunt T.T. the Bear’s Place in Cambridge, Mass.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 40, first aired 9/20/11

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from INXS, The Waterboys and Robert Smith of The Cure, old favorites by The House of Love and The Specials, plus listener requests for The Replacements, Wire and The Smiths.

Stream: 'Black and Blues,' brand-new song from Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain

Stream: ‘Black and Blues,’ brand-new song from Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid this morning unveiled a brand-new song via the group’s Twitter, a track called ‘Black and Blues’ that may or may not be earmarked for a new Mary Chain record. The song is posted to Reid’s Soundcloud page with the note, ‘What I’ve been wasting my time with lately.’

Milestones: Siouxsie and the Banshees play 1st concert 35 years ago today (audio)

Milestones: Siouxsie and the Banshees play 1st concert 35 years ago today (audio)

Thirty-five years ago today, a nascent Siouxsie and the Banshees — with co-founders Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin joined by Sid Vicious on drums — played their first concert at the famed 100 Club Punk Special, opening for The Clash and the Sex Pistols. Hear it here.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 9/18/11

]The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The Smiths, Love and Rockets, Theater of Hate, Ministry and much more.

This Mortal Coil box set due in November, 'Tears in the Dropbox' Blu-ray in the works

This Mortal Coil box set due in November, ‘Tears in the Dropbox’ Blu-ray in the works

The long-awaited This Mortal Coil anthology first announced a year ago — a 4CD box set featuring the 4AD collective’s three albums and a fourth disc of singles and rarities — finally will be released this November, while a Blu-ray disc called Tears in the Dropbox that includes all three albums in HD audio remains in the works.