While Depeche Mode’s first album with Martin Gore in charge was not an immediate sensation, it offered a sturdy blueprint for future triumphs with the more brooding and introspective sounds of ...

From left, Martin Gore and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode perform at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) ...

And it isn't just some nostalgia tour where a band plays their greatest hits at a casino near you; no, Depeche Mode's latest album, "Memento Mori," is getting serious radio play.

Depeche Mode supported the newly released studio album “Memento Mori” at SAP Center in San Jose on March 25 and the tour heads to Kia Forum in Inglewood on March 28.

Depeche Mode's previous album, 2017's Spirit, suffered from some ill-fitting turns toward the political. There's little of that in Memento Mori.

Depeche Mode, which was founded in 1980 by Fletcher, singer Gahan and keyboardists Gore and Vince Clarke in Basildon, England, ascended to become one of the most successful rock acts of its time.

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Jim Harrington is a reporter with the Bay Area News Group and caught Depeche Mode at the SAP Center in San Jose on March 25 ahead of the tour stop at Kia Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday, March 28. The ...