Time to dance away the sadness to the beat of a whole lot of drum machines: Darker Waves is bringing a bunch of ’80s new wave and post punk legends to Huntington Beach. New Order and Tears for Fears top the lineup, with additional sets from the B-52s, Echo & the Bunnymen, Devo, Soft Cell, the Psychedelic Furs, the Human League, OMD, Violent Femmes, the Cardigans, X and more, including some more contemporary picks like She Wants Revenge and Cold Cave. If you’ve been to the past two iterations of Cruel World, the lineup should look pretty similar—albeit stuffed into a single day (November 18) and staged in Orange County.
