Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Audio: Hear U2 perform new songs at 360° Tour rehearsals in Turin, Italy

With their injury-delayed 360° Tour finally set to resume Friday in Turin, Italy, the members of U2 rehearsed Sunday onstage at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino — and treated fans assembled outside the stadium’s gates to what is believed to be a brand-new song.

Audio: Hear Ben Harper join INXS for new recording of 1987's 'Never Tear Us Apart'

Audio: Hear Ben Harper join INXS for new recording of 1987’s ‘Never Tear Us Apart’

INXS tonight debuted the first track off their upcoming album of re-imagined hits, a new arrangement of ‘Kick’ smash ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ with Ben Harper filling in on lead vocals for the late Michael Hutchence.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 8/1/10

Highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include Peter Murphy’s cover of the Magazine track ‘The Light Pours Out of Me,’ the all-too-infrequently played ‘Love is Stronger Than Death’ by The The, and a dash of Ciccone

Kirsty MacColl tribute concert to feature Shane MacGowan, Alison Moyet, Johnny Marr

The life and musical legacy of Kirsty MacColl will be celebrated this fall at an all-star concert in London featuring the likes of Alison Moyet, Billy Bragg, Johnny Marr and Shane MacGowan, who famously duetted with the late singer on the Pogues’ classic ‘Fairytale of New York.’

The Cult releases ‘Everyman and Woman Is a Star,’ single off upcoming 4-song ‘capsule’

British hard-rockers The Cult this weekend are releasing their first new song in three years — a three-and-a-half minute track called ‘Everyman and Woman Is a Star’ — via iTunes as a taste of a new four-song ‘capsule’ due out this fall.

Milestones: Daniel Ash is 53 today; watch Love and Rockets’ ‘Mirror People’ live in 1987

In honor of Daniel Ash — he of the ’80s trifecta of Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets — who turns 53 today, we dug up one of the only vintage Love and Rockets live clips we could find on YouTube, this admittedly grainy, but certainly rare, footage of the band performing ‘Mirror People’ at London’s Town & Country Club in 1987.

Milestones: Kate Bush is 52 today; watch 'Running Up That Hill' with David Gilmour

Milestones: Kate Bush is 52 today; watch ‘Running Up That Hill’ with David Gilmour

Today we commemorate the 52nd birthday of the incomparable Kate Bush with what’s arguably her most indelible song: ‘Running Up That Hill,’ performed with David Gilmour at 1987’s ‘Secret Policeman’s Third Ball.’