Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Dress up like Devo for Halloween with official yellow jumpsuits and energy domes

Dress up like Devo for Halloween with official yellow jumpsuits and energy domes

Warner Bros. sent out a press release yesterday rounding up potential gift-guide items for upcoming back-to-school, Halloween and even Christmas coverage — and topping the list was none other than an ‘official Devo yellow suit’ and the band’s signature ‘energy dome’ hats in both blue and red.

Al Jourgensen reforms Ministry for ‘Relapse’ album, 2012 concerts in U.S., Europe

Al Jourgensen has reunited Ministry three years after vowing he was finished with the industrial-metal juggernaut, and says he’ll record and release a new album dubbed ‘Relapse’ before the end of the year and play a limited run of U.S. and European concerts in 2012.

Big Country releasing 'Another Country' — first single in 12 years — with Mike Peters

Big Country releasing ‘Another Country’ — first single in 12 years — with Mike Peters

With Mike Peters of The Alarm filling in for late frontman Stuart Adamson, reunited Scottish rockers Big Country next week will release their first single in 12 years — the Steve Lillywhite-produced ‘Another Country,’ the first step toward a brand-new studio album and a planned 30th anniversary tour next year.

New releases: OMD's 'Live in Berlin,' plus Shriekback, Sonic Youth, Rockpile

New releases: OMD’s ‘Live in Berlin,’ plus Shriekback, Sonic Youth, Rockpile

This week’s new releases include Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s ‘The History of Modern Tour: Live in Berlin’ CD/book combo, plus a 2CD reissue of Shriekback’s ‘Oil and Gold,’ a reissue of Sonic Youth’s 2008 Starbucks exclusive best-of ‘Hits Are For Squares’ and the archival ‘Live at Montreaux 1980’ from Rockpile.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 8/21/11

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features Killing Joke, The Smiths, Shriekback, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Clan of Xymox and much more.

Linkage: Big Audio Dynamite, ‘Urgh! A Music War,’ Exene Cervenka, Martha Davis

Our latest link round-up includes interviews with Big Audio Dynamite’s Mick Jones, Exene Cervenka of X and The Motels’s Martha Davis, plus a look at how the soundtrack to ‘Urgh! A Music War’ spotlighted early ’80s U.K. reggae.

Morrissey to play 10 U.S. shows this fall

Morrissey to play 10 U.S. shows this fall

Morrissey is set to follow up this summer’s headline-grabbing European tour with 10 U.S. dates in November, a trek that will be announced Monday — and will mark the former Smiths singer’s first American concerts since a pair of cancellation-prone visits in 2009.