You couldn't script it; Essex band spend years gradually raising, evolving and refining a pioneering sound album after album, tour after tour, all with minimal compromise. Then truly break through ...
Depeche Mode have announced a new album, their first since the death of their keyboardist Andy Fletcher. The band feels it holds an “extra level of meaning” following Fletcher’s death.
Near-death experiences, breakdowns, talking puppets, heart attacks, sleeping in coffins… Just another Depeche Mode album, ...
Since breaking out of England in the early 1980s, Depeche Mode has forged a distinctive and uncompromising legacy. The band has always maintained an outsider’s mentality, even as their group ...
A decade on from the release of their debut, London-based Ibibio Sound Machine have returned with a stunning new effort, ...
Depeche Mode was one of the most dominating and musically-inspiring groups of the 1980s. The group was first considered part of the British New Romantic movement, but they quickly developed into a ...
As Depeche Mode’s principal songwriter looks forward to playing in front of 70,000 people in their biggest ever UK show at the London Stadium, Tim Burrows talks to him about new album Spirit, his ...
Take a trip back to the year that indie began in earnest with huge songs from New Order, The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, The ...
“If everything goes according to plan, I should feel like a shell of a man after this tour,” Ville Valo smiles. The Finnish ...