80’s icons Missing Persons have released a new album called Dreaming that contains mostly cover songs with a few new originals. The covers include versions of songs from Rolling Stones, The The, Joy Division, The Cars and The The.
Gary Numan has released an in-home performance of Everyday I Die. This is worth watching for many reasons. For starters, he was very reluctant to do this. He has stated that people have enough to worry about and that it would be presumptuous to think that listening to him would be helpful
On this day in history (March 22, 2013), Depeche Mode released their 13th studio album Delta Machine featuring the singles Heaven, Soothe My Soul and Should Be Higher. In our opinion, this album was vastly underrated. In additional to the singles, Welcome To My World and Soft Touch/Raw Nerve were standout tracks for us.
It’s been an active day on the Cold Cave front as bands are finding ways to stay busy and creative in these times of COVID. Yesterday, Cold Cave released a cover of Absolute Body Control’s track Waving Hands on Bandcamp.
On this day in history (March 19, 1990), Depeche Mode released their 7th studio album Violator featuring the singles Personal Jesus, Enjoy The Silence, Policy Of Truth and World In My Eyes. While Depeche Mode was already becoming a household name prior to this, Violator catapulted the band into international stardom
Watch a message from REM’s Michael Stipe about dealing with the Corona virus. He compliments his message with a few versus of It’s The End Of The World As We Know It, which has re-entered the charts due to it’s newfound relevance.
On this St Patrick’s Day, U2 frontman Bono has performed a song via Livestream .The song is believed to be called Let Your Love Be Known. We hope this starts a trend of artists contributing personal and intimate performances during this time of social distancing.
On May 1, The Pretenders will release a new studio album titled Hate For Sale. Today, they have released the first single off the album titled The Buzz, featuring the always wonderful vocals of Chrissie Hynde sounding as amazing as ever. The Pretenders have a summer tour planned with Journey. There has been no word…
In celebration of the anniversary of Black Celebration, this weeks playlist features our favorite songs from the rich catalog of Depeche Mode. This playlist contains over 150 songs of listening from the iconic band who is still very active today. Additionally, you can vote for your favorite Depeche Mode album!
This artist compilation focuses on the right synthpop catalog of The New Division. When I make these playlists, I review every song from an artist and generally pick the songs I want to hear. For some artists, I choose a few songs per album. For others, I choose an entire album. For The New Division, 63 songs made the playlist.
IAMX have released a new acoustic album titled Echo Echo. A video for the track surrender accompanies the release and it’s everything that you might expect from IAMX. It’s dark, sexy, creepy and wonderful! To quote Chris Corner: “So much blood sweat and sexual chocolate icing went into this”. Intrigued? Watch the video!
The Psychedelic Furs have released the second single off their forthcoming album, Made Of Rain. The single is called You”ll Be Mine and if you pre-order the album, you will receive an instant download of this track plus the first single Don’t Believe