Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Bonnaroo video: Kings of Leon cover the Pixies, Tori Amos takes on The Cure

Watch the Kings of Leon cover the Pixies’ ‘Where Is My Mind?’ and Tori Amos take on The Cure’s ‘Love Song’ during their Friday night sets at the just-completed Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 6/13/10

Tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave opened with The Cure’s ‘Disintegration,’ and featured such highlights as a rare airing of TSOL (‘Flowers By the Door’); the return of Public Image Ltd.’s ‘Rise,’ which opened the show for weeks on end earlier this year; and both Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ and the Swans’ cover.

Jane’s Addiction’s final U.S. concert with Eric Avery on new ‘Live Voodoo’ DVD, Blu-ray

Bassist Eric Avery’s final U.S. concert with Jane’s Addiction will be preserved on ‘Live Voodoo,’ a new DVD and Blu-ray release arriving this summer that captures the briefly reunited band’s 13-song set at New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience music festival last Halloween.

Poll: The Cure's Top 98 songs of all time, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs' readers

Poll: The Cure’s Top 98 songs of all time, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers

The deeply mournful ‘Same Deep Water As You’ — the centerpiece of the new ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ — is not just Slicing Up Eyeballs readers’ favorite song off that classic 1989 album, it’s their No. 1 all-time song by The Cure, according to our informal poll that wraps up ‘Disintegration’ Week.

Vintage Video: New Order re-writes 'Blue Monday' for Sunkist soda TV commercial

Vintage Video: New Order re-writes ‘Blue Monday’ for Sunkist soda TV commercial

For $200,000, New Order re-recorded ‘Blue Monday’ — allegedly the best-selling 12-inch of all time — for a Sunkist TV commercial (which also uses footage from the band’s Kathryn Bigelow-directed video for ‘Touched By the Hand of God’).

Video + free download: The Shins' James Mercer covers Squeeze's 'Goodbye Girl'

Video + free download: The Shins’ James Mercer covers Squeeze’s ‘Goodbye Girl’

In this clip recorded for Levi’s ‘Pioneer Sessions,’ James Mercer — leader of The Shins and one-half of Broken Bells — throws down a solo-acoustic cover of Squeeze’s classic ‘Goodbye Girl,’ which also is available as a free download.

The Vaselines unveil new album 'Sex With An X,' offer download of 'I Hate the '80s'

The Vaselines unveil new album ‘Sex With An X,’ offer download of ‘I Hate the ’80s’

Reunited Scottish indie-pop faves The Vaselines today announced they’ll release a new album called ‘Sex With An X’ — only their second ever, the follow-up to 1989’s ‘Dum-Dum’ — in September, and are previewing it with a free download of the track ‘I Hate the ’80s.’ Plus, they’ll mount a 10-date tour of the U.K. this fall.