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 ...

The singular genius of Depeche Mode's music might be the way their songs inspire a gut-wrenching personal response. The best music is, of course, meant to do this, but when Depeche Mode started their ...

The 1980s never went anywhere, not with our nostalgia-obsessed culture, but the decade really never went away on television. Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” topped charts around the world after ...

Andy Fletcher, a founding member of multi-platinum new wave band Depeche Mode, has died. He was 60. The keyboard player helped define the sound of 1980s and ’90s synth-pop and alternative rock through ...

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