L.A. Times - Entertainment — Mark Bell, a seminal figure in the birth of British electronic dance music and beat culture, frequent collaborator with Icelandic innovator Björk and producer of Depeche Mode's "Exciter" album, has died, according to Bell's longtime label, Warp Reco... more info

NME — 'Depeche Mode Live In Berlin' will drop on November 17 more info

KEXP Seattle — Baltimore synthpop trio Future Islands have an undeniable ’80s influence, so who better than Vince Clarke, frontman of Erasure and former member of Depeche Mode, to remix them? Clarke takes the track “Doves” from the band’s most recent releas... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — UK chamber folk outfit SixToes released their debut album, Trick Of The Night, back in 2008. The record's dark, baroque sound drew acclaim and interest from the likes of Depeche Mode and Grinderman, who both asked the band to... more info

Stereogum — Whether we’re talking football or world war, Germany and England traditionally don’t get along all that well, but German bass producer Boys Noize feels like a perfect choice to remix Depeche Mode’s dreary synthpop. That’s exactly what Boys No... more info

Stereogum — To give you a sense of where LA alt-rockers Failure exist in the musical universe, during their seven-year tenure in the ’90s, they recorded with Steve Albini, toured with Tool, and covered Depeche Mode. A Perfect Circle/Queens Of The Stone Age gui... more info

Core News — “All hail the master. Few artists have had as much influence on a genre as Michel Amato, aka The Hacker. He has been creating dark, brooding, atmospheric and unique electronic music since he started producing over 20 years ago. The Frenchman, who�... more info

Stereogum — Next week, Abrams Books will release Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein’s Mad World: An Oral History Of New Wave Artists And Songs That Defined The 1980s. The book features interviews with 35 artists from the era, including Duran Duran, New Order... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers Depeche Mode have scrapped an upcoming Kiev concert following a week of violence in the Ukraine capital.The British trio was billed to... more info

KEXP Seattle — I’m a sucker for a good B-side. As a teenager, one of my favorite cassettes was the 1984 Warner Bros. compilation Revenge of the Killer B’s. My classmates might have recognized some of the featured artists (Talking Heads, the B-52’s, Depeche Mo... more info