Optimus Alive! 2013 is set to take place on the scenic Alges riverside in Oeiras, Portugal, from July 12-14. Featured acts for the highly anticipated music festival include Kings of Leon, Depeche Mode and Two Door Cinema Club, along with the recent additions of Green Day and Biffy Clyro.
Depeche Mode have spoken out against Simon Cowell, the media mogul who judged several seasons of 'American Idol' here in the States and created the similar British competitive singing show 'The X Factor,' for the damage they insist such programs have wrought on the music industry. In fact, Mode guitarist-keyboardist Martin Gore even went so far as to say that he would like to see Cowell shot for h
Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan is lending his vocals to a new Soulsavers song called ‘Longest Day.’ The track is taken from the British eletronica duo’s forthcoming album, ‘The Light The Dead See’, which drops May 22.
To mark the 20th anniversary of U2‘s ‘Achtung Baby,’ The Killers, Depeche Mode, The Fray and other notable artists have contributed to a start-to-finish reinterpretation of the classic album.
‘AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered,’ also featuring a remix of U2′s original version of ‘Even Better Than the Real Thing,’ will be included in Q magazine‘s 25th anniversary issue, which hits newsstands October 26.
Rea