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Here's a phrase that tends to bug me when it comes up in music criticism: "style over substance." It's usually thrown around when a writer wants to talk about how a band's flashy but doesn't have much to say, or how they've got some high concepts but no real complexity to them, or even just…
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Depeche Mode: Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith Covering U2
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U2 are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 1991 gem Achtung Baby with five different remastered re-releases
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Depeche Mode: Jack White, Depeche Mode To Appear On U2′s Achtung Baby Tribute Album
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Achtung Baby, the album on which U2 discovered dance beats and self-awareness and essentially cemented their all-timer credentials, turns 20 in November. The band is already celebrating that big anniversary with the release of a titanic box set, which includes the documentary film From The Sky Down. And at a Toronto Film Festival press conferenc...
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Depeche Mode: Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith cover U2 on 'Achtung Baby' tribute album
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Bono also admits band's new doc 'From The Sky Down' is 'excruciating' to watch
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Depeche Mode: Martin Gore teams up with founding member Vince Clarke
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Keyboardist buries the hatchet after 20 years to work on new side project
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Bat For Lashes: Hear Bat For Lashes Play A New Tune At Vivid Fest
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Kate Bush is back in the news and so is one of her offspring: Over the weekend Natasha Khan and a string quartet performed a new Bat For Lashes song at the Sydney Opera House during a two-night stand as part of Australia’s Vivid Festival. She also did her studio version of Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove” [...]
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