Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Killing Joke sets 13-date North American tour

Killing Joke — featuring its reunited original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker, Martin ‘Youth’ Glover and Paul Ferguson — will embark on its second North American tour in a year this spring, hitting 13 cities down the West Coast, across Texas and into Florida.

Primal Scream to release 'Screamadelica Live' — filmed in London — on DVD, Blu-ray in May

Primal Scream to release ‘Screamadelica Live’ — filmed in London — on DVD, Blu-ray in May

Primal Scream this May will release a live DVD and Blu-ray capturing its first full-album performance of its classic 1991 record ‘Screamadelica’ — a concert staged last Nov. 26 in London, which has now kicked off months of touring behind the reissue.

Stream: Depeche Mode, ‘Personal Jesus (Alex Metric Remix),’ off ‘Remixes 2: 81-11’

Check out Depeche Mode’s new ‘Personal Jesus (Alec Metric Remix),’ which will appear on the ‘Remixes 2: 81-11’ compilation that’s due out June 7.

Video: Michael Stipe performs Alex Chilton hit ‘The Letter’ at Big Star ‘Third’ tribute

New York City’s Baruch College played host Saturday night to a star-studded tribute to Big Star’s beloved ‘Third/Sister Lovers’ album, performed by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills, plus Matthew Sweet, members of Teenage Fanclub and Yo La Tengo, and surviving Big Star member Jody Stephens.

Duncan Sheik plays The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, The Smiths on 'Covers 80s'

Duncan Sheik plays The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, The Smiths on ‘Covers 80s’

Duncan Sheik will reinterpret a dozen ’80s alternative and synthpop classics this June with the release of ‘Covers 80s,’ which will include new takes on old favorites by The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Love and Rockets, The Smiths and more.

New releases: Nick Cave, The Charlatans, Wendy James, Colin Hay, The Icicle Works

New releases: Nick Cave, The Charlatans, Wendy James, Colin Hay, The Icicle Works

This week’s new releases include reissues of four late-’90s, early-’00s Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds titles, The Charlatans’ ‘Us and Us Only’ and The Icicle Works’ ‘The Small Price of a Bicycle’; plus new albums by Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James and Men at Work’s Colin Hay.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 3/27/11

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 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Sisters of Mercy, Japan, Nitzer Ebb and more.