The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the ’80s: 20 – 1
Songs of anxiety, paranoia, freak-outs, chilling verses, feverish desire, harrowing lyrics — they all make for damn good music.
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Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Gets Primal on ‘The Third Chimpanzee’
Depeche Mode's primary songwriter and sonic architect Martin Gore gets primal on his new EP of instrumentals, The Third Chimpanzee.
20 Music Videos of the 1980s That Have Aged Terribly
In this third and final installment of our retrospective of music videos from the 1980s, we focus on 20 promos that the passage of time has been especially unkind to.
20 Unsung Music Videos of the 1980s
From major artists like the Clash, David Bowie, and U2 to less famous brethren such as Haysi Fantayzee and Grandmaster Caz, these are the unsung videos from that decade that might have missed your attention the first time around.
The 11 Greatest Hits From “Greatest Hits” Compilations
It's one of the strangest pop microcosms in history: singles released exclusively from Greatest Hits compilations. We rounded 'em up and ranked 'em to find out what is truly the greatest Greatest Hit of all.
Mad Cool Festival Day 3: Depeche Mode, Queens of the Stone Age, and Nine Inch Nails Provide a Thunderous Close
Another spectacular day with an overabundance of household names proves Madrid's Mad Cool should be considered among world's best music festivals.
‘Depeche Mode: Monument’ Is Everything a Depeche Mode Fan Could Imagine
Dennis Burmeister and Sascha Lange add just the right amount of in-depth material to give even the most devoted fan a complete picture of the band.
A Visual Encyclopedic Look at Mute Records
It's hard to imagine Mute as a label being defined more accurately or succinctly than this.
No Use for a Name: Rarities Vol. 1: The Covers
No Use for a Name's posthumous covers collection is fun but slight. And because the focus is on non-album tracks, it's missing the band's best covers.
Depeche Mode – “Where’s the Revolution” (Singles Going Steady)
Depeche Mode's "Where's the Revolution" has no time for the rabble that won’t be roused.
The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the ’90s – Part 5 (20 – 1)
The fifth and final part of our examination of the 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s, includes Portishead, Blur, Björk, R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and more.