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 ...

Dave Gahan is no stranger to singing other people’s songs. Although for most of his career, those songs all came from the same source. As the lead singer and frontman for seminal synth-rock outfit ...

Only one vocal from that period, in the song “Sister of Night,” survived the final cut of the just-released “Ultra. ” Yet Gahan’s headline-making problems have overwhelmed media coverage of the new ...

Covering Depeche Mode without a synthesizer can be a bit of a challenge, but Fatigo pulls it off with a piano, a trumpet, and some cool bass effects. "We are going to integrate some of Depeche Mode's ...

The successful British synth-pop band gave a press conference in Berlin revealing details of their new album, "Memento Mori." They also reflected on the death of ...

Few things set The Spin’s electronic music-loving heart at ease like a sustained four-to-the-floor boom-boom programmed on a drum machine. Whatever questions were raised by the recorded excerpt from ...