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Turnstile cover The Stone Roses' ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ for Like A Version YouTube video by triple j

Turnstile + The Stone Roses

Black-and-white promotional photo of the 4AD recording artists The Wolfgang Press

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/22/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/02/22/dark-wave-playlist-feb-22-2026

Black-and-white promotional photo of Wax Trax! Records recording artists Revolting Cocks

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/15/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/02/15/dark-wave-playlist-feb-15-2026

Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant at the Summit Music Hall in Denver on Feb. 11, 2026 Set 1: "Lifes Rich Pageant" 1. Begin the Begin 2. These Days 3. Fall on Me 4. Cuyahoga 5. Hyena 6. Underneath the Bunker 7. The Flowers of Guatemala 8. I Believe 9. What If We Give It Away? 10. Just a Touch 11. Swan Swan H 12. I Am Superman

Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant at the Summit Music Hall in Denver on Feb. 11, 2026 Set 2: 1. Lotus 2. Fretless 3. Me in Honey (With Michael Shannon's sister) 4. E-Bow the Letter (With Michael Shannon's other sister) 5. Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) 6. Crush With Eyeliner 7. The Lifting 8. Burning Down 9. Fireplace 10. How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us 11. You Are the Everything 12. The Great Beyond

Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant at the Summit Music Hall in Denver on Feb. 11, 2026 Encore: 1. Pilgrimage 2. Camera 3. Star 69

Super fun show, esp w/ Michael Shannon’s sisters taking the Kate Pierson and Patti Smith parts. And to choose “Fireplace” as your one song off DOCUMENT? Crazy.

These guys did LIFES RICH PAGEANT right, plus a heap of deep cuts

Black-and-white promotional photo of the musical act Cabaret Voltaire

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/8/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/02/08/dark-wave-playlist-feb-8-2026

Not gonna lie. If there was a 24 hour Dark Wave channel on XM/Sirius, I'd probably listen to nothing else.

cc @mattsebastian.com

Beloved Indie Rock Musician, Inspiration for the Replacements’ Alt-Rock Anthem ‘Left of the Dial,’ Dies Lynn Blakey, who played in the bands Let's Active, Oh-OK and Tres Chicas, has died.

“On one level, ‘Left of the Dial’ celebrated the ’80s American indie scene and paid tribute to the tiny-watt college stations at the far end of the FM dial, where The Replacements got most of their airplay. But it was also a love song, an evocation of Paul Westerberg’s infatuation with Lynn Blakey”

Talk Talk’s Experiment ‘Spirit of Eden’ Was a Flop. And a Cult Favorite.

“It’s like a bunch of accidents put in a row” — Nigel Godrich on Talk Talk's 'Spirit of Eden'

Full-color promotional photo of the band The Fall sitting on rocks near a body of water

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/1/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/02/01/dark-wave-playlist-feb-1-2026

Yes, please

Black-and-white promotional photograph of the musical act Chris & Cosey

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (1/25/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/01/25/dark-wave-playlist-jan-25-2026

Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back | Andrew Stafford Phenomenal drummer and percussionist was an equally accomplished songwriter who embodied the band’s bloody-minded spirit

Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst "was the heartbeat, a force of nature and born showman who led the band from the back. His kick drum was slightly ahead of the beat, while his snare was just a fraction behind, turning the band into a pump-action live juggernaut." RIP

Black-and-white promo photo of the musical act My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult posing with a motorcycle

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (1/18/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/01/18/dark-wave-playlist-jan-18-2026

Photo of tonight’s Double Jeopardy board with three XTC-related categories: “Making Plans for Nigel,” “Census Working Overtime” and “The Ecstasy of ‘X-T-C’”

Well played, “Jeopardy!”

Black-and-white promotional photo of the musical act Depeche Mode

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (1/11/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/01/11/dark-wave-playlist-jan-11-2026

"Wish"-era publicity photo of The Cure

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (1/4/26) slicingupeyeballs.com/2026/01/04/dark-wave-playlist-jan-4-2026

Tonight! NYE! I’m hosting Party 360 on SiriusXM’s 1st Wave! 6 hours of Classic Alternative Gnu Wav & Punk PARTY MUSIC!

DJs like Richard Blade, Swedish Egil, Larry The Duck, Lori Majewski & Matt Sebastian will pop in to say Happy New(d) Year!

BYOB! 9pm eastern on 33!

The Pixies Inventing the Nineties

Bill Janovitz on the Pixies' "trademark stark quiet-loud-quiet dynamic as a backdrop for an animated helix strip of intertwined levity and surrealism, sweet dreams and nightmares, screams of terror and giddy giggles, pitch-black nights that give way to bracing cold morning light"

Black-and-white photograph of the musical act Gene Loves Jezebel

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/28/25) slicingupeyeballs.com/2025/12/28/dark-wave-playlist-dec-28-2025

The Cure - A Letter To Elise (Official Music Video) YouTube video by TheCureVEVO

Sad to hear about Perry Bamonte’s passing. He played on quite a few of The Cure’s greats, including this one

We did the annual tradition of driving around LA looking at Christmas lights while listening to Matt Sebastian’s Dark Wave Christmas Spectacular on Sirius and loved it once again.

Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan in the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” video

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Christmas Spectacular (12/21/25) slicingupeyeballs.com/2025/12/21/dark-wave-playlist-dec-21-2025

It’s there now

Black-and-white Island Records promotional photo of singer Grace Jones

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — Slicing Up Eyeballs' All-Covers Edition (12/14/25) slicingupeyeballs.com/2025/12/14/dark-wave-playlist-dec-14-2025

Black-and-white promotional photo of the band Nitzer Ebb

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/7/25) slicingupeyeballs.com/2025/12/07/dark-wave-playlist-dec-7-2025

Black-and-white promo photo of the band Lush

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/30/25) slicingupeyeballs.com/2025/11/30/dark-wave-playlist-nov-30-2025

Photo of singer Peter Murphy

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/23/25) slicingupeyeballs.com/2025/11/23/dark-wave-playlist-nov-23-2025

Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes | The Quietus There’s a real nostalgic binary when it comes to the present-day view of Mancunian music from the 80s and 90s: it’s easy to see it as an amorphous blob of naive youth culture, macho posturing, retrogr...

"The Roses were built on Mani’s tiptoe-light touch — something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something, borne of an internal rhythm and beauty that burnt a trail from itself outwards."

Black and white image of Gary "Mani" Mounfield playing bass with The Stone Roses

Image of the cover of The Stone Roses' 1989 self-titled album

RIP, Mani. What a tremendous musical loss. Never have I been so completely drawn in by a record's opening notes than the first time I heard his "I Wanna Be Adored" bassline