This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured new music from the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid, Manic Street Preachers covering The The, old favorites from Midnight Oil, New Order and Morrissey, plus a special tribute to R.E.M.

Given yesterday’s news, it seemed to appropriate to dust off and post this episode of my Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio from March 8, a show devoted entirely to R.E.M. to mark the release of the band’s 15th — and now, it turns out, final — album ‘Collapse Into Now.’

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from INXS, The Waterboys and Robert Smith of The Cure, old favorites by The House of Love and The Specials, plus listener requests for The Replacements, Wire and The Smiths.

]The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The Smiths, Love and Rockets, Theater of Hate, Ministry and much more.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured an hour of all live recordings, with in-concert cuts from The Smiths, Love and Rockets, New Order, The The, David Bowie, The Cure and more.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Simple Minds, The Fixx and Peter Murphy, plus old favorites from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oingo Boingo, Sebadoh, Skinny Puppy, Joe Strummer and Love and Rockets.

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured tracks new and old from the likes of Modern English, Big Country, The Call, Happy Mondays, Hoodoo Gurus, The Pogues, The Stone Roses and more.