In an interview with the German magazine Sonic Seducer Martin Gore has confirmed that the new Depeche Mode record will be out at the latest in early 2013. (...)
A Depeche Mode tribute video for the song 'Everything counts' has gotten some viral love on YouTube thanks to the special line-up of a certain Dicken featuring Milah and Korben. Milah being a 6 year old girl and Korben a 4 year old toddler. (...)
Out on February 28th is the newest VCMG single 'Blip'. 'Blip' is the second single taken from the band's forthcoming album 'Ssss', out on March 13. (...)
Out on March 13th via Mute is VCMG's 'Ssss' debut album. Here's the track listing. (...)
Out on January 27th is the Depeche Mode live DVD 'Feel you (Live 1982)'. But allas... (...)
Never underestimate the popularity of Depeche Mode in Eastern Europe. Anyway if you've always wanted to get pissed with a bunch of strangers and sing along to 'Enjoy the Silence' then this is the place for you. (...)
Swedish electro/EBM/alternative music act Chaos All Stars are to release of a cover album that is neverending: 'Neverending Coverage'. (...)
Bryan Black and Oly Grasset, who together form the act MOTOR, have shifted gears and recorded a song-based vocal album entitled 'Man Made Machine'. The first single also titled 'Man Made Machine', features the vocals of none other than Depeche Mode's Martin L. Gore. (...)
You can now purchase the first 2 VCMG Eps 'Spock' and 'Spock (remixes)' in different formats. (...)
You can now listen to the complete streaming of the first VCMG track 'Spock'. The track can be streamed right after the jump! (...)
Depeche Mode have arranged to meet in January 2012 to discuss the plans for a new studio album. We hope there will be talks on the musical direction to follow as well, because let's be honest, the 2009 released 'Sounds of the Universe', was basically the worst Depeche Mode album ever released. (...)
Fresh from the Mute headquarters come the first details on the previously announced collaboration between the founding members of Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke and Martin Lee Gore under the VCMG moniker. (...)
The first tracks from the U2 tribute by Q magazine have been leaked. Here's already Depeche Mode's rendition of 'So cruel'. (...)
Early September we announced that Depeche Mode had covered U2's 'So cruel' for a tribute to coincide with the 20th anniversary of 'Achtung Baby'. The full track list for the Q magazine powered tribute album, titled 'AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered', has now been announced by U2. (...)
Her version of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy the silence' has now hit the web! You get it right after the jump! (...)
Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle has been convinced by her management and label that covering electro pop classics would be a good move. (...)
If you follow us on Facebook or on Twitter you might have read last week that we got info that the Depeche Mode's 'Devotional' drum kit would be put back on the market. It has now been confirmed by the Recoil headquarters. (...)
While Depeche Mode gear was fetching record prices in Manchester members of Depeche Mode and Glasvegas announced that they have recorded U2 covers. (...)
The Knight Gretsch guitar, one of the most wanted pieces fetched a massive 10.400 UK Pound today at the Depeche Mode 'Collected' auction in Manchester. (...)
We talked about it already a while ago, but Martin Gore has confirmed it now in a Vanity Fair Q&A; the band will be label-less after the 'Remixes 2: 81-11' CD release. (...)
If you have a famous musician as an uncle, then why not have some of his fame shine on your very own band? That is exactly what happens to Basic, the band formed by Martin Gore's cousins Louis Hyde and Dean Oldfield. Except, we are not impressed. (...)
Out now via iTunes and related download stores, plus via alfa-matrix.com on a 2CD, is the 2CD compilation "Alfa Matrix re:covered vol. 2 - a tribute to Depeche Mode". (...)
As you all know by now, Alan Wilder was invited to make a remix of a more recent Depeche Mode track for the new Depeche Mode remix album 'Remixes 2: 81-11' - out June 6. Here's our verdict! (...)
Twitter and Facebook followers have sensed it since Saturday already that we were up to something nice for today. So here's the deal: in collaboration with EMI Belgium Side-Line Magazine offers every friend of our Side-Line Facebook page the exclusive 'Sister of night' (Ida Engberg's Walking Through The Light Dub) remix for free download. (...)
Our colleagues from Slicing Up Eyeballs inform about a video from Scott Weiland (best-known as frontman from grunge act Stone Temple Pilots) covering Depeche Mode's 'But not tonight'. Video after the jump. (...)
During our Short Circuit live Twitter coverage, namely during the 'Fast forward/Pause/Rewind' session with producer Gareth Jones, fellow Twitter users could learn live that Gareth Jones finally dismissed the 'myth' that Depeche Mode would have nicked samples from Einstürzende Neubauten whilst recording 'People are People'. (...)
BBC 6 Radio has aired the Motor and Martin Gore collaboration, called 'Man Made Machine'. You can hear the song on Side-Line ! (...)
'Personal Jesus' (The Stargate Mix) by Depeche Mode is the leading remix of 'Personal Jesus' by the production team Stargate. (...)
Next to sets by Jane's Addiction, Ozomatli and Paramore, also Dave Gahan performed a few songs (8 in total) including cover versions of Joy Division, David Bowie and the Damned. Here's is the live recording of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'... (...)
Out by early June 2011 - but available now in pre-order - is the 2CD compilation 'Alfa Matrix re:covered vol. 2 - a tribute to Depeche Mode'. The first volume of this Depeche Mode cover album received a more than successful echo from both indie and mainstream worlds; nevertheless it was the label's intention to keep it a one-off project. (...)
Depeche Mode fans are amongst the most creative ones around when it comes to recycling their band for the daily good. Remember the Depeche Mode toilet for instance. Now there is also the Depeche Mode plaid, sewed together by Belgian Depeche Mode fan Hilde Peeters. (...)
he people behind Shadows for the Masses are at it again. After the exquisite LipDub for the Masses video featuring Just can't get enough, they now shot an unofficial video for the Depeche Mode track 'Ghost'. (...)
Available now is a two-track version of Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus 2011' single. (...)
Unlike the recently released - and rather weak - 'Personal Jesus' remix effort by Alex Metric, we now get served a way better effort by Eric Prydz. (...)
Listen to the Alex Metric remix of 'Personal Jesus' right after the jump. (...)
From Mute comes the news that Depeche Mode will release 'Remixes 2: 81-11' on Mute Records on 6 June 2011. See the full tracklist after the jump. (...)
The 7th annual MusiCares MAP FundSM benefit concert will honor Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on Friday, May 6, 2011. Order your tickets after the jump! (...)
Since Friday, rumors have been traveling the Depeche Mode fan microcosmos that three vintage demos - 'Photographic', 'Ice Machine' and the previously unreleased 'Radio News' - from the synthpop veterans had surfaced. (...)
We were asked to keep it hush hush for the time being but now that a certain Andy Fletcher gave it away in an interview, we can announce it. (...)
Here's a pearl we found in the YouTube vaults. Upped quite some time ago (in December 2008), it only has had a limited amount of views so far, but there actually is some quite interesting stuff in it. At least for Depeche Mode fans. (...)
Twitter often gives you access to info that one wouldn't stumble upon through the regular news sources, especially because it leaves traces of communications between people. In this case we followed the trail of a conversation between Vince Clarke and a fan, James Elliott... (...)
Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher has revealed how psyched he is about jetting off for forthcoming DJ tour, which starts later this month. (...)
The brand new video from Claudia Brücken (Propaganda, Onetwo, etc.), 'Thank you', is live now. The track was co-written with and produced by Stephen Hague (New Order, Blur, Pet Shop Boys) and will be on the album 'Claudia Brücken - Combined'. (...)
New Order's Bernard Sumner, Alan Wilder and Vince Clarke were already confirmed to remix Depeche Mode for an upcoming remix album, and now Duran Duran states in a post on their Facebook page that Nick Rhodes, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow) remixed 'Personal Jesus'. (...)
Side-Line has received positive confirmation that Alan Wilder (Recoil and ex-Depeche Mode) is indeed to remix a Depeche Mode track for a forthcoming Depeche Mode remix-abum, planned for 2011. (...)
If you have already viewed it we'd like to know what you think of it! (...)
Feast your eyes on Side-Line over the next four weeks as we will bring you exclusive trailers from the upcoming Depeche Mode DVD 'Tour Of The Universe: Barcelona'. (...)
Feast your eyes on Side-Line over the next four weeks as we will bring you exclusive trailers from the upcoming Depeche Mode DVD 'Tour Of The Universe: Barcelona'. (...)
Feast your eyes on Side-Line over the next four weeks as we will bring you exclusive trailers from the upcoming Depeche Mode DVD 'Tour Of The Universe: Barcelona'. (...)
Whereas Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan already had several biographies gracing the shop shelves, neither Martin Gore or Andy Fletcher have had the 'chance' being selected for this treatment. (...)
Erasure songwriter Vince Clarke has confirmed that he and Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) are collaborating on a dance record and not just one song. (...)
The official trailer for the upcoming Depeche Mode live DVD video 'Tour of the Universe - Live In Barcelona' is available, at least on Side-Line.com. You can see it right after the jump ! (...)
First announced by Side-Line in September 2009, we can now give you the full details on Depeche Mode's upcoming 'Tour of the Universe - Live In Barcelona' DVD/Blue-ray. (...)
We had already heard left and right that the structure at EMI/Mute was due to change, but it has now been made official. Here's the deal: EMI Music and Mute founder Daniel Miller have reached a preliminary agreement that will see EMI support Miller in the establishment of his second record label, and the continuation of the Mute brand as an independent recorded music business. (...)
A video has popped up on YouTube where Depeche Mode fans ask - in a rather funny and cheeky way - a few things to the band. (...)
It's Martin Gore day at Side-Line today so it seems. As some knew already, the Depeche Mode songwriter worked on a track ('Milakia') with Bomb The Bass' Tim Simenon several years ago. (...)
Last year we reported that a new Depeche Mode live DVD to be recorded during their 'Tour of the Universe' was in the making. (...)
Two excellent soundboard recordings made during the 1990 'World Violation Tour' by the English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's seventh studio album, 'Violator', have made their way to the grand public. (...)
A musical featuring Depeche Mode songs is set to open early next year. Called 'Playing The Angel' (taken from the name of their eponymous 2005 album), the 'jukebox musical' will run at the MITP theatre in Valletta, Malta and will feature a storyline which some media have already branded as being 'controversial'. (...)
The Polish Depeche Mode fanclub shot an excellent video to show their devotion to the UK electronic act Depeche Mode. The video, 'LipDub for the Masses', is a voyage through space and time of Depeche Mode's rich videography backed by the band's first big hit, the Vince Clarke penned 'Just can't get enough'. (...)
Ok, this is old Depeche Mode stuff ('old' being relative as it was shot in 2006 during the promo of the band's - excellent- 'Playing the angel' album), but when we got it forwarded last night we could do nothing else but decide to run it - again... (...)
Noone else than Alan Wilder joined Depeche Mode on stage last night for their special charity performance in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. (...)
On Wednesday, February 17th, 2010, Depeche Mode will play a special charity concert for Teenage Cancer Trust at London's Royal Albert Hall. (...)
A video of the question and answer session with Alan Wilder, former member of Depeche Mode, and the makers of the documentary "The Posters Came from the Walls", has been posted on YouTube. (...)
You'd think that only Hollywood could come up with this kind of stories, but it's crazy gamer Erik Estavillo who is behind this. (...)
On December 1st a documentary about the fans of Depeche Mode is set for a special London screening. (...)
Out on December 7th 2009 is the double Depeche Mode A-side single "Fragile Tension / Hole To Feed". (...)
A rather good Depeche Mode / New Order mash-up has appeared on YouTube. (...)
Belgium's DJ collective Discobar Galaxie has secured Depeche Mode's "Personal jesus" for a 'mixtape' on the 3CD "Inside the Soundsystem", their 5th mix album set so far. (...)
Depeche Mode's Martin Gore releases a pre-show mixtape via the online music download shop Beatport. (...)
A T-shirt with (badly drawn) manga like drawings of the 4 Depeche Mode (ex-)members, sold for just 9 US dollar. A clever bargain idea from Mute and the band to access the Japanese market? (...)
For the first time in history, Depeche Mode's that is, there won't be a 12" released for a single. (...)
Life on tour can be somewhat unreal and also make you loose any sense of geolocation. (...)
"Hole To Feed" is the third video from the album "Sounds Of The Universe". (...)
Depeche Mode is to release a brand new live DVD in early 2010. (...)
According to depechemode.de , "Fragile Tension" will be the third single to be taken from the recent Depeche Mode album "Songs of the Universe" after the rather disappointing "Peace" track which did not exactly display the band's full potential to say the least. (...)
Depeche Mode and canceled concerts, they have gone hand in hand for the past few months. (...)
Depeche Mode are having their worst tour so far in their entire career as far as the number of canceled shows is concerned. (...)
The current Depeche Mode world tour seems cursed. (...)
The second single from Depeche Mode's "Sounds Of The Universe", "Peace" is available now for pre-order. (...)
After a long string of canceled shows, Britain's finest electropop act Depeche Mode returned to the spotlights with an amazing show in Leipzig, Germany last night. (...)
Depeche Mode cancels Pinkpop, London, Hamburg and Dusseldorf dates (...)
As expected Depeche Mode have canceled another 3 concerts. The victims this time are Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius who were informed on Wednesday evening. (...)
Dave Gahan has undergone surgery in New York during which a tumor was discovered in his bladder. (...)
Cambridge (UK) based iZotope has been developing a mobile drumbeat for Depeche Mode that is being sold as an iPhone App. (...)
Here's some news that reached us from a Greek correspondent, it is NOT confirmed: While it's seems that Depeche Mode will be sueing Didi Music and Terra Vibe because of their rather poor handling of the Athens concert disaster earlier this week, it also seems that both Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher were willing to play 3-5 songs. (...)
The Greek Depeche Mode fans that had gathered at the Terra Vibe Park near Athens yesterday evening didn't really get the show they had expected. (...)
Depeche Mode are ready to repeat the Live Here Now approach for their upcoming world "Tour of The Universe 2009". (...)
Out now is the massive 3CD Depeche Mode tribute compilation "Alfa Matrix re:covered - a tribute to Depeche Mode". (...)
From April 28 to May 26, 2009, Depeche Mode is inviting all DJs and aspiring producers out there to remix the band's new single "Peace", taken from their new album "Sounds of the Universe". (...)
Out on MVD Visual and Sexy Intellectual is the DVD "Depeche Mode - The Dark Progression". (...)
Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher has told Side-Line that several demos from the band have gone missing. (...)
Sounds of the Universe is the twelfth full-length album by Depeche Mode, released in Europe on 20 April, and on 21 April in the US and Canada. (...)
Out in early may, but already available for ordering now, is the massive 2CD Depeche Mode tribute compilation "Alfa Matrix re:covered - a tribute to Depeche Mode" . (...)
It's a wet dream for every Depeche Mode fan becoming true. The new album from Depeche Mode, "Sounds Of The Universe", gets a super deluxe boxset treatment which every fan has been waiting for since years. (...)
Depeche Mode's twelfth studio album, Sounds Of the Universe (Mute) will be released on April 21st. (...)
The cover art of the upcoming Depeche Mode single "Wrong" is quite... wrong. That is at least what fans have been saying on the well known Depeche fan mailing list Bong. (...)
The upcoming Depeche Mode album "Sound Of the universe" will be released in 3 different formats: a regular audio CD with 13 new tracks; a special edition holding the CD and an extra DVD including the 15 minute EPK, the 5.1 mix of the album and 2 mixes; a boxset including 3 audio CDs, an extra DVD and 2 books in hardcover. (...)
It didn't go as fast as with "Precious", but 2 months before the new Depeche Mode single is officially to hit the shops, "Wrong" is now out on the (illegal) digital streets. (...)
Depeche Mode have announced the track listing for their 12th studio album "Sounds Of The Universe", to be released on April 20th, on Mute. (...)