The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Tubeway Army, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Skinny Puppy, Public Image Ltd. and much more.

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.

The playlist from Sunday night’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Killing Joke, Cocteau Twins, Nick Cave, Japan, Love and Rockets and much more. ‘Dark Wave’ airs Sundays from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern/7 to 10 p.m. Pacific.

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.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Birthday Party, Sinead O’Connor, Love and Rockets, Yaz, The Chameleons and much 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.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features The Smiths, Lords of the New Church, The Sugarcubes, Tourists, The Cult and much more.

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.

The playlist from tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features David J, The Sisters of Mercy, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Concrete Blonde and much more.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Erasure, Duran Duran, OMD and Gary Numan, plus old favorites from The Waterboys, Scruffy the Cat and Thurston Moore, not to mention a long-lost Dinosaur Jr track.