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 Wire, Cocteau Twins, Cult Hero, The Chameleons, Japan, The Mission U.K. and more.

The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave features tracks by The Chameleons, Ministry, Gary Numan, Nick Cave, Iggy and the Stooges, Love and Rockets, Shriekback and more.

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.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features tracks by Gary Numan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Daniel Ash, The House of Love and more.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music by Social Distortion, Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery, Gang of Four and the Human League, plus old favorites by The Cure, Johnny Thunders, Orange Juice and more. Rebroadcast at 2 p.m. EST Friday.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features tracks by The Cure, Killing Joke, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joe Strummer and Love and Rockets.

Highlights of tonight’s “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include not one but two tracks by the pre-Eurythmics group The Tourists (“Blind Among the Flowers,” “Circular Fever”), as well as another double shot of lesser-played Love and Rockets (”Holiday on the Moon,” “Haunted When the Minutes Drag”).

Tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured a number of welcome detours, lesser-played tracks from the program’s regular crop of artists, including The Church’s ‘Tantalized,’ Depeche Mode’s ‘Nothing’ and Concrete Blonde’s ‘Darkening of the Light.’

Highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include a Swans song that’s not their cover of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (good thing, since the original made the playlist tonight), some choice Sinead O’Connor (‘Jerusalem’) and a dash of Fad Gadget (‘Collapsing New People’).

This week’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured less-played selections from The Smiths (‘I Know It’s Over,’ ‘Barbarism Begins at Home’ and ‘Meat is Murder’), as well as a welcome dash of Die Warzau (‘Funkopolis’) and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult (‘And This is What the Devil Does’).

Heavy on The Cure and The Smiths, tonight’s episode of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave also featured lesser-played artists such as Acid Horse and Vicious Pink, plus an excellent one-two punch of Nitzer Ebb’s ‘Lightning Man’ and Martin Gore’s ‘Compulsion.’

As promised, Sirius XM’s classic-alternative hub 1st Wave celebrated Halloween on Sunday by devoting half the day to a hugely expanded 12-hour version of its weekly ‘Dark Wave’ show.

Highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave included a rarely-heard Depeche Mode B-side (‘Breathing in Fumes’), a pair of songs from The Cure’s ‘The Top’ (‘Shake Dog Shake,’ ‘Birdmad Girl’) and Joe Strummer’s great contribution to the ‘Sid and Nancy’ soundtrack (‘Love Kills’).