Category: Radio

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 55, first aired 1/3/12

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Ministry, Martin Gore and The Ocean Blue, plus older favorites from The Chills, Tones on Tail, The The, The Cult, Robyn Hitchcock and The Cure, plus Destroyer’s new cover of New Order’s ‘Leave Me Alone.’

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 53, first aired 12/27/11

This week’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured some of the best new music of 2011, with selections from Paul Weller, Wire, The Godfathers, R.E.M., The Feelies, Peter Murphy, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Duran Duran, The Primitives and more.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 12/25/11

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Xymox, The Church, Japan, The The, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, The Cure, Cabaret Voltaire and much more.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 52, first aired 12/20/11

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured wall-to-wall Christmas songs from the likes of Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth, Throwing Muses, Pet Shop Boys, R.E.M., Al Jourgensen, Ramones, Miracle Legion, Book of Love, Cocteau Twins and more. Hear a replay at 2 p.m. EST Friday.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 12/18/11

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The Chameleons, Propaganda, Cocteau Twins, Clan of Xymox, The Teardrop Explodes and some of the interview with The Smiths’ Andy Rourke that has been running all weekend.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 51, first aired 12/13/11

This week’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Sinead O’Connor, new Smiths covers by The Wedding Present and Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, and selections from The Ocean Blue, Julian Cope, Green on Red, Pixies, The Replacements, Peter Gabriel and Coil.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 12/11/11

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The March Violets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Human League, Fad Gadget, Concrete Blonde, Love and Rockets and much more. “

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 50, first aired 12/6/11

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Depeche Mode co-founders Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore, The Dead Milkmen and Gary Numan, plus old faves by Adam Ant, Mojo Nixon, Prefab Sprout and The Sisters of Mercy — and a couple tracks off the new Cure live album.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 12/4/11

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Danzig, Stan Ridgway, Duran Duran, The Teardrop Explodes, Giorgio Moroder, Cabaret Voltaire, Ciccone Youth and much more.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 49, first aired 11/29/11

This week’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new and previously unreleased music from Paul Weller, the Mighty Lemon Drops’ David Newton and Dead Can Dance, plus favorites new and old from Simple Minds, King Missile, The Dukes of Stratopshear, Love and Rockets, Robyn Hitchcock and more.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 11/27/11

The playlist from Sunday night’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Killing Joke, Japan, TSOL, Cocteau Twins, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Public Image Ltd. and much more.

Video: The Drums cover The Sugarcubes’ ‘Birthday’ live on Sirius XM Satellite Radio

Video: The Drums cover The Sugarcubes’ ‘Birthday’ live on Sirius XM Satellite Radio

While it’s not uncommon to hear musicians name-checking Bjork, you don’t see The Sugarcubes bandied about much — which is why it’s nice to see this clip of indie-pop outfit The Drums performing that band’s 1987 single ‘Birthday’ during a recent on-air performance taped for Sirius XM Satellite Radio.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 48, first aired 11/22/11

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new and previously unreleased music from The Fall, Heaven 17, The Lucy Show, Erasure and Magazine, plus old favorites from The Cure, Virgin Prunes, The Beloved and Half Man Half Biscuit. The show ill be replayed at 2 p.m. EST Friday.