For the first time in nearly 26 years, Depeche Mode has a top 10 song on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. “Ghosts Again,” the lead single from the act’s new album, Memento Mori, lifts from No.

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them ...

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 ...