Depeche Mode has never shied away from dealing with tough topics. While the band might be primarily known for its dance hit “Just Can’t Get Enough,” Depeche Mode has managed to keep up a pop beat ...

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, ...

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 ...

Eighties music means something different to everyone. There were one-hit wonders like Kajagoogoo; career bands emerged like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Bon Jovi, and The Cure; and Bob Dylan, the ...