Tag: Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore to join Alan Wilder at Recoil event in Santa Ana, Calif.

A day after Vince Clarke tweeted he is collaborating with former bandmate Martin Gore on a new song, a cryptic video surfaced that appears to announce Gore will join ex-DM member Alan Wilder at the latter’s Recoil event on Oct. 24 in Santa Ana, Calif.

Ex-Depeche Mode bandmates Vince Clarke and Martin Gore working on 'techno-ish track'

Ex-Depeche Mode bandmates Vince Clarke and Martin Gore working on ‘techno-ish track’

Former bandmates Vince Clarke and Martin Gore — who parted ways professionally nearly 30 years ago when Clarke quit Depeche Mode — are working together again on a ‘techno-ish’ track that could be destined for the forthcoming Erasure album.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 8/15/10

The high points of this week’s ‘Dark Wave’ show on Sirius XM’s classic alternative outlet 1st Wave include a dose of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (the always-welcome ‘Heaven’), great album cuts from Depeche Mode and The Cure (‘Clean’ and ‘Torture,’ respectively) and a thumping Nitzer Ebb track (‘Murderous’).

Video: Animotion covers Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy the Silence’ at ‘Lost ’80s Live’

New Wave/synthpop combo Animotion — which reunited in 2008 and have toured sporadically since — played a gig in Atlantic City, N.J., last weekend, and mixed in with its ’80s favorites (‘Obsession,’ ‘Let Him Go,’ ‘I Engineer’) came this surprise cover of Depeche Mode’s monster hit ‘Enjoy the Silence.’

Vintage Video: David Bowie and Trent Reznor perform Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’ in 1995

Superb pro-shot video has emerged for the first time of the 1995 joint David Bowie/Nine Inch Nails tour. Watch Bowie and NIN perform ‘Hurt’ and ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ together, and ‘The Heart’s Filthy Lesson’ and ‘Wish’ apart.

Video: The Cure's 'Inbetween Days' covered by Superchunk for A.V. Club's 'Undercover'

Video: The Cure’s ‘Inbetween Days’ covered by Superchunk for A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

This week’s installment of the A.V. Club’s series ‘Undercover: 25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs, 1 Small Room’ features indie rockers Superchunk tearing through a cover of The Cure’s classic 1985 single ‘Inbetween Days.’

Gary Numan + Tubeway Army '78/79 Box Set' collects first 3 albums on remastered vinyl

Gary Numan + Tubeway Army ’78/79 Box Set’ collects first 3 albums on remastered vinyl

Reissue imprint Vinyl 180 is prepping an ultra-limited four-record box set that collects remastered editions of the first three albums by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army — as well as an LP of demos and rarities called ‘The Plan’ — on high-quality, 180-gram vinyl.