This week’s “Dark Wave” featured music by The Sisters of Mercy, Gang of Four, The Mission, 1919, Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, The Cure, Tones on Tail and more.

Today we unveil the results of Round 3 of our latest Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll series, a 1-to-282 ranking of R.E.M.’s entire catalog of songs recorded between 1981 — the original Hib-Tone ...

The envelope, please: Today we reveal the results of Round 4 of our new Slicing Up Eyeballs readers' poll series, a ranking of all 209 songs recorded and released by synth-rock legends Depeche Mode ...

A very special thanks to everybody who took the time to vote.

We’re not quite into October yet, but we’re going to ahead and unveil the results of Part 8 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine ...

Today we unveil the results of Part 2 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, an ambitious, year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine just what were the best albums of each ...

We resurrected the polls in 2018, and completed balloting on the 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985 surveys. Now comes the results for 1986. For the ’86 poll, readers were asked to vote for up to 25 of their ...

Today we unveil the results of Round 6 of our Slicing Up Eyeballs artist poll series, a ranking of all 176 songs officially released by goth/post-punk icons Siouxsie and the Banshees over the band's ...

SPOT, the in-house producer and engineer who helped make albums by Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Descendents, Meat Puppets and more for the hugely influential SST Records in the early 1980s, died ...

Rick Astley followed up his officially announced Glastonbury festival performance Saturday with a “secret” second set, teaming up with the U.K. band Blossoms to perform 16 of The Smiths’ best-loved ...

We resurrected the polls in 2018, and have since completed balloting on the 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988 surveys. Now comes the results for 1989. For ...

David Byrne slipped back into the Big Suit in a fun promo released today for film studio A24’s upcoming rerelease of Jonathan Demme’s classic Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense,” which has ...