To commemorate Ian McCulloch’s 52nd birthday today, here’s a full, 53-minute Echo & The Bunnymen live performance filmed in Madrid and broadcast on Spanish TV on Sept. 4, 1984.

Back in March, we brought you a stream of ‘I Spit Roses,’ the first new single in more than six years from Peter Murphy.

The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features tracks by Cocteau Twins, The Sisters of Mercy, Boshoi, Kate Bush, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Order and more.

The latest installment of the AV Club’s ‘Undercover’ series finds Rocky Votolato and the members of Matt Pond PA doing a stripped-down take on The Human League’s 1981 synthpop classic ‘Don’t You Want Me.’ Check out the video here.

The Primitives recently released ‘Never Kill a Secret,’ its first new recordings in 20 years, and now the U.K. band’s label is offering up a free track from that four-song EP: ‘Need All that Help I Can Get.’

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Depeche Mode, KMFDM and Peter Hook, plus favorites from Paul Westerberg, Heaven 17, Kraftwerk, Lloyd Cole and The Lucy Show.

R.E.M. continue their reissue series this July with a 25th anniversary edition of ‘Lifes Rich Pageant’ that will feature a newly remastered version of the 1986 album and a bonus CD featuring 19 unreleased demos that include a never-before-released song.