After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

Concerts paused during the height of the pandemic, and returned at full power in 2023. Our pop music editor saw a lot of them. A playlist celebrating a staggeringly great year in music: Pixies, Janet ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Gahan. Early Depeche Mode albums were made by a band that looked and sounded like clean-cut choir boys. But by the time they ...

Fans hoping for new Depeche Mode music may need to temper expectations. During a recent conversation with NME, frontman Dave Gahan noted the band was in no hurry to follow up 2023’s Memento Mori.

Strange (A Black and White Mode by Anton Corbijn) was initially released in 1988 and shot completely in black and white on Super 8. The videos included were for the singles “Strangelove,” “Never Let ...

Since announcing their latest album just over a year ago, Depeche Mode first played then-new single “Ghosts Again” on The Late Show in February, and then played that song again on Jimmy Kimmel Live in ...

Depeche Mode was part of the Second British Invasion in the early 1980s, while becoming something like The Beatles of electronic music. With a heavy use of synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines, ...

NEW YORK – The connection between death and music is real. At least in the vision of Fernando Frías. The director behind the new documentary "Depeche Mode: M" links the cultural significance of the ...

SYNTH WEEK 2026: Just Can't Get Enough is very possibly Depeche Mode's poppiest hit, and arguably their most recognisable song. But it is also the cash-spinning, golden albatross that sticks around ...