Martin Gore

Dance New Wave 

Sublime Strangelove

March 27, 2025March 29, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Brent Meyer, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Julian Shah-Tayler, Leo Luganskiy, Martin Gore, Strangelove, Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience

A Depeche Mode tribute band branches out on their own

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Records 

ALBUMS: March 2023 In Review

March 31, 2023July 3, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2023, Andy Fletcher, Colin Blunstone, Cooking Vinyl, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd., Different Game, Interscope Records, Lana del Rey, Martin Gore, Memento Mori, Rod Argent, The Zombies

Digging into fantastic new LPs by The Zombies, Depeche Mode and Lana Del Rey

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Alternative Rock Dance Rock New Wave Pop Rock 

Condemnation: Depeche Mode’s Songs of Faith and Devotion at 30

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1993, 30th Anniversary, Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Condemnation, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Flood, I Feel You, In Your Room, Jane's Addiction, Judas, Martin Gore, Reprise Records, Sire Records, Songs of Faith and Devotion, Walking In My Shoes

Looking back on the group’s darkest album

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New Wave Pop Synth 

The Meaning of Love: Depeche Mode’s A Broken Frame at 40

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, A Broken Frame, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Martin Gore, See You, Vince Clarke, Yaz

How the band sidestepped doom and started a new chapter

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New Wave Pop 

Remembering Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode

June 1, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Martin Gore, RIP, Vince Clarke, Yazoo

The quiet, creative force of the New Wave greats was just 60 years old

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Electronic New Wave Pop 

Reach Out and Touch Faith: Dave Gahan Turns 60

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Jim Sullivan 4 Comments 60th birthday, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Exciter, Martin Gore, Songs of Faith and Devotion, Ultra, Vince Clarke

Looking back on the Depeche Mode singer’s triumphant human spirit

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Electronic New Wave 

Depeche Mode 101 Revisited

January 14, 2022April 3, 2022 Christopher Treacy 0 Comments Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode 101, Martin Gore, Music for the Masses, Rhino Records, Vince Clarke

As a listening experience, the British group’s audio/visual opus is ho-hum; as a film, it’s an indispensable document of pop culture

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Alternative Rock Dance Electronic Pop 

Walking In His Shoes: Martin Gore at 60

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments 1981, 1988, 60th birthday, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Martin Gore, New Order, The Cure, Vince Clarke

The Depeche Mode guitar great defies age by always moving forward

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Indie Rock New Wave Pop 

WATCH: Serious and The Girls Mean Business

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments David Lynch, International Songwriting Competition, Malibu, Martin Gore, Melissa Holt, Music videos, Pete Lombardo, Robert Smith, Serious and the Girls, The Church, The Happy Worker, The Prestige

How two high school friends came together to create a potential finalist for the next International Songwriting Competition

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Dance Electronic Experimental 

ALBUMS: Martin Gore Isn’t Monkeying Around on New EP

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment 2021, Capuchin, Howler, Howler’s End, Mandrill, Martin Gore, Mute Records, The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, The Third Chimpanzee, Vervet

The Third Chimpanzee finds the Depeche Mode guitarist and songwriter diving deeper into his experimental side

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Indie Rock Remembrance Retail 

A Dreamworld of Esoterica

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Robert Baird 0 Comments Amazon Prime, Brian Chase, Depeche Mode, Documentaries, Ezra Koenig, Google Play, iTunes, Martin Gore, New York City, Other Music, Regina Spektor, Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields, Tunde Adebimpe, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Remembering Other Music 25 years after its opening

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 11: September 2020

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Depeche Mode, Famous Quotes, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jim Sullivan, Juliette and the Licks, Juliette Lewis, Les Paul, Martin Gore, Mini-Moog, Moog Synthesizer, Richard Thompson, Sam Phillips

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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adblock Alternative Rock Blues Dance Rock Electronics New Wave Pop 

Vows Are Spoken To Be Broken: 30 Years Of Depeche Mode’s ‘Violator’

April 23, 2020April 27, 2024 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1990, Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Enjoy The Silence, Flood, Martin Gore, Personal Jesus, Violator

Looking back at when the world’s biggest synth band plugged in and played the blues

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