Recent Dark Wave Playlists

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.

Video: Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley plays 'True,' 'To Cut a Long Story Short' in L.A.

Video: Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley plays ‘True,’ ‘To Cut a Long Story Short’ in L.A.

We missed this when it was announced, but Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley is in the midst of his first-ever run of solo shows in the U.S., a six-date tour that opened Saturday in New York and hit Chicago and Los Angeles earlier this week. Luckily for us, ex-KROQ/current 1st Wave DJ Richard Blade was on hand with his camera.

James releasing career-spanning 'Gathering Sound' box set with 32 unreleased tracks

James releasing career-spanning ‘Gathering Sound’ box set with 32 unreleased tracks

The career-spanning box set from James — ‘The Gathering Sound,’ featuring three CDs, a DVD, a 12-inch record and 8GB of digital music — finally is set for release this fall, and will come with all of the band’s albums plus 32 previously unreleased recordings, 12 of which are completely unreleased songs.

Talking Heads 'Chronology' DVD to feature live performances from 1975-1983, 2002

Talking Heads ‘Chronology’ DVD to feature live performances from 1975-1983, 2002

Eagle Rock Entertainment this fall will release a DVD compiling Talking Heads live performances from across the band’s touring career, an 18-track set called ‘Chronology’ that spans the years 1975 to 1983 — and includes the quartet performing “Life During Wartime” during its brief reunion at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Milestones: Nirvana films 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' music video 20 years ago today

Milestones: Nirvana films ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ music video 20 years ago today

Twenty years ago today, first-time director Samuel Bayer gathered several dozen fans and three young musicians on a Culver City, Calif., soundstage to film the video for Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ a soon-to-be iconic clip — the infamous high school pep rally from hell — that ultimately would be as era-defining as the song itself.