When Depeche Mode introduced electric guitars into their music on 1987's Music for the Masses, it opened up the English synth-pop pioneers to a whole new realm of possibilities and a more… By Ron Hart ...

Ben Kaplan of dark synth-pop band NoNight told us about his love for a bonafide classic from some likeminded souls. The title really says it all for me. This is a record that oozes sexuality and ...

Twenty-four years ago this week, on March 19, 1990, British synth-pop titans Depeche Mode released the most successful and acclaimed album of their career: Violator. Depeche Mode had been scoring Top ...

Michael Christopher's upcoming book Depeche Mode: All That's Left to Know About the World's Finest Synth-Pop Band digs into the history of Depeche Mode and their rise from New Wave outliers to kings ...

Each week in The Vinyl Vault, Ozarks First’s Parker Padgett and Tony Nguyen dive into a featured album, highlight standout tracks, and explore what makes it truly unique. The vinyl of the week this ...

My lifelong friend John Price has exposed me to many different musical artists across the decades of our relationship, but among the albums I heard through him first was 1990’s ...

Marilyn Manson and Susan Boyle have something in common. They couldn’t be at more opposing extremes of the artistic spectrum, but they share a connection to the music of Depeche Mode. By 1990, the ...

Depeche Mode has always been there when I needed them. When I had a lonely and uncomfortable transition to high school, I sought comfort in the song "Policy of Truth." Five years later, I was ...

The band rose to the occasion with their best work at a time when the public was most prepared to hear it. For those who think that the electronics-driven British artists of the 80s and 90s were more ...

Which tracks in the British electronica band's extensive back catalogue are the most popular in the digital age? Radio X ...

When Depeche Mode titled their 1990 album Violator, it was supposed to be taken ironically. The previous year had seen smarmy hair-mongers like Bon Jovi, Bad English and Poison scoring Number Ones ...