The highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include The Swans’ cover of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart,’ a dash of German synthpop from Cetu Javu, The March Violets’ classic ‘Snake Dance’ and a nice Bauhaus/David J/Love and Rockets run toward the end of the show.

Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry today unveiled a 20-date solo tour of Europe this spring in support of his forthcoming album Ark — his release first in 11 years — and said his previously announced co-headlining tour with Peter Murphy will open in mid-April in South America.

The canonization of the Pixies’ beloved Doolittle continues with Beggars Archives’ just-announced plans to release an “Omnibus Edition” of the 1989 album, with a new surround mix, the record’s demos and possibly a Blu-ray included in the expanded box set.

[tweetmeme]Peter Murphy has announced plans to produce and direct a new series of live webcasts — dubbed the “Secret Bee Series” — that will feature the singer and rotating bandmembers performing stripped-down versions of “solo classics alongside rarely, if ever, performed Bauhaus album songs.”
Episode 1, according to Murphy’s website, “is planned to be set in [...]

[tweetmeme]Daniel Ash — key player in ’80s darkwave acts Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail — this month quietly released the four-track It’s a Burn Out EP on iTunes, marking the singer’s first original solo recordings in eight years.
The collection, released Dec. 8 with little fanfare, features four of the tracks that Ash [...]

[tweetmeme]Three rare Bauhaus and Gary Numan + Tubeway Army compilation CDs that were previously available only as bonus discs included in recent reissue packages will be available for individual purchase through Beggars Archive beginning in January for a limited time.
Starting Jan. 4, the archival arm of Beggars Banquet will sell Bauhaus’ Live in the Studio [...]

[tweetmeme]For music fans of a certain stripe, Christmas — and its Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping splurges — is a great time of year: It’s when you get the people you love to buy you those pricey multi-disc box sets you couldn’t quite cough up for yourself during the year. Here at Slicing Up [...]

[tweetmeme]Beggars Archive this week offered the first details of its forthcoming “Omnibus Edition” reissue of The Fall’s beloved 1985 album This Nation’s Saving Grace, which will be re-released next year as a 3CD set filled out with mixes, outtakes and Peel Sessions tracks.
The imprint — a new series of back-catalog and archival releases from the [...]

[tweetmeme]Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry has completed work on Ark, his first solo album in a decade, and plans to support the record with a 100-date world tour early next year with co-headliner Peter Murphy.
According to a post on Perry’s website, the recording and mastering of Ark — the follow-up to 1999’s Eye of the [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Bauhaus
RELEASES: In the Flat Field: Omnibus Edition, Mask: Omnibus Edition
BACKSTORY: The new Beggars Archive series issues multidisc Omnibus Editions of Bauhaus’ first two LPs. The In the Flat Field set features the 1980 debut, plus a second disc featuring [...]