Guardian Music — Despite the best efforts of Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen, Ticketmaster still rakes in millions in 'service fees' for concert tickets – but where does all the money go?On 3 June, concert promoter Live Nation dropped the service fee on more t... more info

The Culture Of Me — (photo by Candylust) Here's another really rad track from the marriage (not literal marriage, obvs.) of Natalia of Avian X and remixer Kolt13, in which we all get a cover track and remix, all in this concise, banging song. Depeche Mode's 1985 sin... more info

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Rolling Stone — Photo: ZZ Top’s beards struck back, AC/DC’s Angus Young got airborne, Pink was surrounded by smoke, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan returned and up-and-coming hip-hop star Drake took the stage at Hot 97’s annual Summer Jam. Check out the week’s ... more info

Stereogum — Pairing the "Peace will come to me" refrain with opening images of an androgynous beauty in uniform, Depeche Mode's video for "Peace" appears to be headed down a heavy-handed militarily metaphorical road from the start. Which is so not as fun as s... more info

Live Daily — After taking an unexpected hiatus from their international tour last month, Depeche Mode [ tickets ] returned to its Tour of the Universe Monday night (6/8) in Germany. Approximately 50,000 fans packed the stadium in Leipzig, Germany for the new-w... more info

Chorus.fm — The video for *Depeche Mode* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/depechemode)'s new single, "Peace" can be found in the replies. Submitted by Robb more info

Live Daily — Plus: Depeche Mode [ tickets ], Deep Purple [ tickets ], more * * * Neil Young [ tickets ] "Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963-1972)" (Reprise) The first volume of Neil Young's Archives series has hit retailers, and fans are already raving ab... more info

Undercover, Australia — Depeche Mode front man Dave Gahan was out of action for a little while there, but hey, apparently a tumor is no big deal to the tattooed baritone. more info

The Vinyl Villain — Someone recently asked Universal Music (the largest record company in existence) how much of their back catalogue was in print. The answer? 2%. Obviously that figure relates to physical formats and is mitigated somewhat by the proportion of music now... more info