Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Vintage Video: Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor lip syncs 'Down In It' on 'Dance Party USA'

Vintage Video: Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor lip syncs ‘Down In It’ on ‘Dance Party USA’

This is a particularly hilarious bit of footage that’s just surfaced: Check out a pony-tailed Trent Reznor leading Nine Inch Nails (and dancing like a madman) through a lip-synched performance of debut single ‘Down In It’ on the wonderfully dated ‘Dance Party USA.’

The Cure’s ‘Entreat Plus’ live album to receive double-vinyl U.S. release on Record Store Day

The Cure’s ‘Entreat Plus’ live album to receive double-vinyl U.S. release on Record Store Day

More than a year after it was first announced, it appears the double-vinyl release of The Cure’s expanded ‘Entreat Plus’ live album finally will see a U.S. release on Record Store Day — although it’s not an exclusive RSD release, meaning it could be available at non-participating or non-indie stores and will be sold online.

Video: Lee Ranaldo, 'Angles' — second clip from 'Between the Times and the Tides'

Video: Lee Ranaldo, ‘Angles’ — second clip from ‘Between the Times and the Tides’

With his excellent new solo album ‘Between the Times and the Tides’ now out, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo today released a second music video to promote the record, this time for the track ‘Angles.’ The clip, directed by Ranaldo’s wife Leah Singer, premiered today at Vulture and can be seen here.

Video: VCMG's 'Ssss' trailer — mutant toast, but no Vince Clarke or Martin Gore

Video: VCMG’s ‘Ssss’ trailer — mutant toast, but no Vince Clarke or Martin Gore

The debut album from techno duo VCMG — aka former Depeche Mode bandmates Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore, working together again for the first time in 30 years — has been out a couple weeks now, but Mute Records is just now debuting an odd 70-second trailer for the 10-track ‘Ssss.’

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 65, first aired 3/27/12

This week’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Killing Joke, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, The Cult and Mission of Burma, plus old favorites from Love and Rockets, XTC, Wall of Voodoo, Rank and File, Oingo Boingo and Sugar. Oh, and Nancy Sinatra, too.

Dreams So Real — featured in 'Athens, GA: Inside/Out' — reunites, streams demo

Dreams So Real — featured in ‘Athens, GA: Inside/Out’ — reunites, streams demo

Dreams So Real — featured in the landmark rock doc ‘Athens, GA: Inside/Out’ and whose debut single and album were produced by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck — are reuniting for a pair of rare concerts next month, and are whetting fans’ appetites by streaming a previously unreleased early-’90s demo.