Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 29, first aired 6/28/11

This week’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured tracks by The Undertones, Bob Mould, Pixies, The Jam, The The and X-Ray Spex, plus a special tribute to the ‘Until the End of the World’ soundtrack.

Throwing Muses to release 'Anthology' best-of with 22-track bonus disc, go on tour

Throwing Muses to release ‘Anthology’ best-of with 22-track bonus disc, go on tour

4AD will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Throwing Muses’ debut with the band’s first-ever compilation, a 21-song set called ‘Anthology’ that will come with, in its initial limited release, a hard-back book and a bonus disc with 22 additional B-sides and rarities.

Video: Sloan covers Gary Numan's 'Cars'

Video: Sloan covers Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’

The latest installment in the The AV Club’s great Undercover series — in which bands drop in on the site’s Chicago offices and pick a song off a predetermined list to cover live in a very small room — features power-pop kings Sloan doing a number on Gary Numan’s 1979 classic ‘Cars.’

KMFDM announces North American, European tours in support of new album 'WTF?!'

KMFDM announces North American, European tours in support of new album ‘WTF?!’

KMFDM will spend much of the second half of 2011 on the road supporting its recently released album ‘WTF?!’, with a 22-date North American tour set for August and another 22 concerts booked across Europe in October and November.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 6/26/11

The playlist from Sunday’s “Dark Wave” — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features tracks by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tones on Tail, Propaganda, Human League, Chris Connelly and many more.

Dalis Car 'InGladAloneness' EP tracklist, cover art revealed — possibly out next month

Dalis Car ‘InGladAloneness’ EP tracklist, cover art revealed — possibly out next month

The second and final release by Dalis Car — recorded by Peter Murphy and a dying Mick Karn last fall — will be a five-track EP titled ‘InGladAloneness’ and out as early as next month.

Throbbing Gristle to release final album ‘Desertshore,’ reissue early records

The surviving members of Throbbing Gristle have relaunched their Industrial Records imprint in order to reissue the bulk of their late-’70s/early-’80s catalog and release the band’s final studio album: a long-in-the-works re-interpretation of Nico’s 1970 record ‘Desertshore.’