Depeche Mode Go From Tepid To Boiling As They Close Festival

ShareBy Sorrel Moseley-Williams It’s been the best part of six months that fans have been waiting for Depeche Mode to return to Buenos Aires. Headlining Saturday’s Personal Fest at Club Ciudad in Nuñez, other acts including Banda de Turistas, DJs Justin Robertson and Andy Butler as well as Cafe Tacuba received lukewarm enthusiasm from the [...]

Sounds Of The Universe Shudder The Mexican Capital, Depeche Mode At Foro Sol

ShareText & Photo By Mariel Argüello To write about Depeche Mode may result difficult to me. Mainly because I have to admit I could loose my objectivity between my words and the memories of Depeche Mode’s last night presentation (October 4th 2009) at El Foro Sol, not to talk about the devotion and admiration I [...]

Depeche Mode At The BankAtlantic Center, September 5th

ShareBy Crossfade Better Than: Any other show I’ve been to this year — seriously. The Review: There are reasons why Depeche Mode is so often called “critic-proof.” The group’s performance this past Saturday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise was, in a word, transcendent. That sounds like hyperbole, but ask any of the nearly [...]

Sights, Powerful Sounds Steal Show

ShareBy Jordan Levin | Photography Tom Ervin The moment when Depeche Mode really took hold of the crowd came late in the show Saturday night, on unironically-titled Enjoy the Silence, as singer Dave Gahan went strutting and whirling bare-chested on a platform into the crowd, and some 16,000 people at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise waved [...]

Aftermath: Depeche Mode’s Black And Blue Celebration At The Woodlands

ShareBy Chris Gray | Photography Eric Sauseda Far, far away from the group once known for bubbly synth-pop anthems like ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ and ‘Everything Counts’, Depeche Mode circa 2009 has pressed its small army of keyboards and electronics into the service of primal urges and raw sexuality. Not terribly surprising from a band [...]