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 ...

Tron: Ares is one of the most anticipated movies of the year and it recently got released. It brought back the electric blue glow and high speed chases from the Grid that we remember so fondly.

Tuesday, Oct. 10: Depeche Mode A reconvened Depeche Mode, now sadly down to a duo of Martin Gore and Dave Gahan after the passing of founding member Andrew Fletcher, are touring the U.S., hitting the ...

Back in the early ’80s, four lanky Brits calling themselves Depeche Mode, armed only with primitive synthesizers, started churning out pop hits. Nearly 40 years later they’ve sold over 100 million ...

With Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album, Memento Mori, out now, we’ve decided to look back at the band’s synth history and have a go at recreating some Mode-like beats, riffs and sequences. We’ll not ...

Judging by the charts alone, Depeche Mode could be rated one of the most successful bands in history. Along with 45 U.K. singles, top-ranked records in countries around the globe and sales well into ...

English synth-pop duo Depeche Mode is coming to Orlando this fall on their “Momento Mori World Tour,” bringing crowds decades of electronic hits. The band, which comprises Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, ...

An old New Wave rock band that’s never released a No. 1 song in the U.S. is selling more concert tickets than the biggest pop stars in the world. Depeche Mode, the British synth-pop group formed in ...

Who are the next 1980’s icons that need to be rediscovered like Kate Bush, Metallica, and The Cramps via a meme-generating series music synch? My vote’s for Depeche Mode, though, like Metallica, they ...

A person close to the band said Fletcher died Thursday from natural causes at his home in the United Kingdom. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak ...

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