Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Video: The Cars, 'Free' — off 'Move Like This'

Video: The Cars, ‘Free’ — off ‘Move Like This’

Reunited New Wave legends The Cars this week debuted a new music video for ‘Free,’ off their comeback album ‘Move Like This.’ Watch it right here.

Video: Jane's Addiction, 'Whores,' 'Mountain Song' — from live New York City webcast

Video: Jane’s Addiction, ‘Whores,’ ‘Mountain Song’ — from live New York City webcast

Earlier this evening, Jane’s Addiction took the stage at New York City’s Terminal 5 for an LG-sponsored concert that was webcast live on YouTube and will be assembled into ‘the world’s first user-generated 3D concert.’

New releases: BoDeans, Wedding Present, Dead Can Dance, Housemartins, Christian Death

New releases: BoDeans, Wedding Present, Dead Can Dance, Housemartins, Christian Death

This week’s new releases include a brand-new album from BoDeans (‘Indigo Dreams’), plus a live DVD from The Wedding Present (‘Drive’), a new Housemartins best-of (‘Happy Hour: The Collection’) and reissues of Dead Can Dance’s ‘Aion’ and Christian Death’s ‘Only Theatre of Pain.’

Playlist: Sirius XM's 'Dark Wave,' 7/24/11

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 7/24/11

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features tracks by Japan, T.S.O.L., The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode and many more.

The Housemartins look back with 'Happy Hour: The Collection,' new 20-track best-of

The Housemartins look back with ‘Happy Hour: The Collection,’ new 20-track best-of

Although they only issued two studio albums during their mid-’80s career, The Housemartins — the UK’s self-proclaimed ‘fourth best band in Hull’ — this week will be anthologized with at least their fourth best-of album, although it’s not quite clear whether the new set features any previously unreleased material.

Video: Cheeky ad for The Smiths' 'Best...' spoofs comp as suicide soundtrack

Video: Cheeky ad for The Smiths’ ‘Best…’ spoofs comp as suicide soundtrack

The folks over at the U.K. arm of Rhino Records recently discovered this little gem: a clever 1992 advertisement for The Smiths’ 14-track Best… compilation that apparently was shown in British movie theaters.

Vintage Video: The Cure plays BBC 'Rock Around the Clock' concert in 1984

Vintage Video: The Cure plays BBC ‘Rock Around the Clock’ concert in 1984

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we check in with The Cure at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 25, 1984, for an hour-long concert that was produced by the BBC as “Rock Around the Clock ’84.” Watch the entire show except for the never-broadcast closer, “Forever.”