Critics say this is the defining Depeche Mode album.

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 ...

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 ...

The months leading up to Depeche Mode's seventh album were marked by a growing interest from outside the core goth audience that had been loyal to the English synth-pop band since a string of mid-'80s ...

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 ...

Depeche Mode’s Violator is a quintessential benchmark of pop, rock, and electronic music, seamlessly marrying dance, goth-rock, and synth-pop with good ol’ fashioned funk and rock n’ roll. In fact, it ...

Depeche Mode’s 1990 album Violator defined electronic rock with hits like Enjoy the Silence and Personal Jesus and still shapes how synth-driven pop is heard today. Raue Hallenakustik: In der weiten ...

The two Depeche Mode albums leading up to 1990’s ‘Violator’ – ‘Black Celebration’ and ‘Music for the Masses’ – were just oiling the machine. After toying with mainstream success on 1984’s ‘People Are ...

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 ...

All eyes on “World in My Eyes”. Depeche Mode SyndromeSince I triggered my Depeche Mode syndrome in yesterday's article ("A ...