Early Depeche Mode albums were made by a band that looked and sounded like clean-cut choir boys. But by the time they rolled around to album number eight, they'd become snarling electronic grungers ...

Exactly 30 years after Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan nearly died in New Orleans, he returned very much alive — arguably moreso than ever — to sing about death. On Oct. 8, 1993, the British synth-pop ...