The post How Depeche Mode’s Violator Turned a Joke Into a Prophecy appeared first on Consequence of Sound. When Depeche Mode decided to title their sixth album Music for the Masses, it was meant to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

My first band T-shirt was a Depeche Mode shirt, bought in the summer of 1990, when I was 13 and Violator ruled the world. I was damn proud of that shirt and wore it everywhere: at home, at the mall, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last time Depeche Mode came to the US they caused a riot. A real riot—bottles thrown, windows shaken, lots of pressing, pushing and punching. Some 20,000 fans, many of them teenaged girls, had ...

My Favorite Album: Ben Kaplan of dark synth-pop band NoNight told us about his love for a bonafide classic from some likeminded souls. The title really says it all for me. This is a record that oozes ...

Depeche Mode has always been there when I needed them. When I had a lonely and uncomfortable transition to high school, I sought comfort in the song "Policy of Truth." Five years later, I was ...

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 ...