Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Stream: Pet Shop Boys, ‘Together’ (Pepptalk Mix), off new U.S. single digital release

The Pet Shop Boys last week released their latest single ‘Together’ — the lone new song on last year’s U.K. best-of ‘Ultimate’ — in the U.S. for the first time digitally in a number of different configurations.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 4/17/11

The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave features tracks by The Chameleons, Ministry, Gary Numan, Nick Cave, Iggy and the Stooges, Love and Rockets, Shriekback and more.

Video: Watch Big Audio Dynamite’s complete, hour-long Coachella festival performance

Couldn’t make it to Coachella last weekend to see the reunited Big Audio Dynamite play one of just three U.S. shows this spring? No worries, you can watch the hour-long set right here.

Video + MP3: INXS's 'Never Tear Us Apart' covered by The Great Book of John

Video + MP3: INXS’s ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ covered by The Great Book of John

Can’t say we know a lot about Birmingham, Ala.-based indie-folk outfit The Great Book of John, but we were knocked out by their raw, bluesy cover of the classic INXS ballad ‘Never Tear Us Apart.’ Watch the video and download a free MP3.

Video: Bad Religion, ‘Wrong Way Kids’

Southern California punk icons Bad Religion recently unveiled a brand-new music video for ‘Wrong Way Kids,’ a track off their latest album, ‘The Dissent of Man.’

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 20, first aired 4/19/11

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured favorites by the Pixies, Talking Heads, The Blue Aeroplanes, Soft Cell, The Sisters of Mercy, Paul Weller and more — including a previously unreleased ‘Viva Hate’-era outtake form Morrissey.

INXS releases 'Rocking the Royals: Live 1985' digital album; watch the full concert

INXS releases ‘Rocking the Royals: Live 1985’ digital album; watch the full concert

With England’s royal wedding less than two weeks away, INXS today released its 1985 ‘Rocking the Royals’ performance — a concert staged for Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana — as a digital album in Australia, New Zealand and Mexico, with the rest of the world to follow ‘soon.’