Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Video: Gang of Four, 'Who Am I'

Video: Gang of Four, ‘Who Am I’

Gang of Four this week dropped the third music video from their new album ‘Content’: a glitchy, revved-up collage of effects and images set to ‘Who Am I,’ the third single off the current record. The new video was filmed in London this summer and directed by bandmember Andy Gill.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 36, first aired 8/23/11

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Erasure, Duran Duran, OMD and Gary Numan, plus old favorites from The Waterboys, Scruffy the Cat and Thurston Moore, not to mention a long-lost Dinosaur Jr track.

Free MP3: Modern English re-records 'I Melt With You' (again), sets short U.S. tour

Free MP3: Modern English re-records ‘I Melt With You’ (again), sets short U.S. tour

Modern English have re-recorded their signature 1982 smash ‘I Melt With You’ for a second time, and are offering the slowed-down, moody version of the track as a free download in advance of a just-announced short tour of the southeastern United States next month.

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.