Depeche Mode wins the “Best Dance Artist Group” award at the 22nd Annual IDMA Awards. Other nominees in the category included Pet Shop Boys, Gnarls Barkley, DHT, and Black Eyed Peas.

Home reports that Dave Gahan will be performing at the Third Annual MusiCares MAP Fund(SM) Benefit Concert on May 11 to Honor Chris Cornell and Jeff McClusky.
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In preparation for the release of the new Recoil album, Recoil would like to offer you opportunity to send questions to Alan regarding Recoil, the new album, what he’s been up to for the last five years, etc.
Answers to interesting questions will be posted to the Recoil MySpace Blog as part of an exclusive, pre-release [...]

Erasure’s Vince Clarke has re-written the song called “Let’s Get Together” for the Boston MA based preteen pop girl group Girl Authority. The track will be featured on their forthcoming album “Road Trip” (out on 13th March) on Rounder Records. The tune is actually one of the first Vince Clarke ever recorded, pre-dating even Depeche [...]