Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Gahan. Early Depeche Mode albums were made by a band that looked and sounded like clean-cut choir boys. But by the time they ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...