Johnny Marr - I Feel You

This is a fairly faithful cover of Depeche Mode's 1993 smash and will be released as a 7" single for next month's Record Store Day.  The B-side of the single will be a live version of The Smiths' 1984 hit, Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want.

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

From the coming concert film, Live In Berlin, due for release on November 17th. Enjoy The Silence is their highest-charting US pop hit to date, peaking at #8 in 1990.  Depeche Mode's chart span in the US stands at 32 years, starting with the 1981 pop hit Dreaming Of Me (#47) and most recently with last year's dance hits Heaven, (#1) and Sooth My Soul (#7).

Special Swag Friday

Because I totally screwed up during the SCOTUS furor on Tuesday, this week's swag giveaway is today. And courtesy of the Karpel Group, we've got the new Depeche Mode album, Delta Machine, which is now on sale nationwide and online. Via Billboard:

Fans can count on Depeche Mode -- they've released a new album and embarked on a coinciding tour every four years since 1993. It's that time again, as the long-reigning synth-rock kings are back with a new LP, "Delta Machine," their 13th to date. Keeping with tradition, they'll head out on a 34-date European stadium tour, starting May 7 in Tel Aviv. Out Tuesday (Mar. 26) on Columbia, the new album finds vocalist Dave Gahan and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Martin Gore refining some familiar sounds and trying out some new wrinkles.  .

We've got three physical copies of Delta Machine to give away. Enter to win by commenting on this post and please remember to leave an email address. Entries close at midnight on Monday, west coast time. Publicists: If you'd like to take part in giveaways on JMG, please email me.

VIDEO: Here's the second clip from Delta Machine.

Depeche Mode On Letterman

Depeche Mode - Heaven

The first single from their coming album, Delta Machine.

First Listen: Vince Clark + Martin Gore

Instrumental electronica from two titans of the genre. More here. Purchase. (Via - Allure Of Sound)

Erasure + Depeche Mode = VCMG

Two of my favorite musicians have collaborated for a new release.

After 30 years working on their respective ongoing music projects, Vince Clarke (Erasure/Yazoo/Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) come together for the first time since 1981 as VCMG to release a brand new album preceded by a series of EPs. VCMG is the fruit of initially tentative discussion and subsequent enthused collaboration where Vince and Martin, both influential as pioneers in electronic music, get to exercise their lifelong love of the genre as the techno-inspired VCMG.

First to be released will be an EP titled Spock, which will be available through Beatport beginning November 30th.

RELATED: Erasure's latest single, Be With You, is out today. Check out the entries in the contest for the best fan-created video to support the single.

Susan Boyle - Enjoy The Silence

Seriously?

The Great British Synth Documentary

It took me half the day to watch this fantastic 2009 documentary because it kept sending me spinning off into Wikipedia and YouTube holes. It's a bit strange that so many of the records that I thought was randomly picking out of the import 45s bin turned out to be such groundbreaking and influential tracks. And most of them I purchased unheard, usually basing my decision on the label, the producer, and most often - the hairstyle. I missed my calling.

Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Fly Life Inc, today's swag boo-tay is the new album from Depeche Mode, Sounds Of The Universe, which becomes available nationwide today.

As one of the most influential bands of the post-punk era with global sales in excess of 100 million, Depeche Mode belongs to a select premiere league of super groups who have survived from the early 1980s with their ideals, creative vision and core members intact. Depeche Mode - Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher - continue to win critical and commercial acclaim across the world both in the studio and on the road. All of the band’s 11 studio albums have reached the Top Ten in not only the UK and USA but 20 plus countries around the world including Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Belgium. The band are set to release their long-anticipated new studio album, Sounds Of The Universe on April 21, 2009 (Mute/Capitol/Virgin), which features the new single “Wrong.” A true global touring powerhouse, Depeche Mode’s live shows continue to be a must-see attraction, with the group playing to 2.8 million people across 31 countries on their last tour alone. Depeche Mode will be play 33 stadium shows in Europe before the North American leg of their “Tour of the Universe” kicks off on July 24th in Toronto at the Molson Amphitheater.

We have five copies of Sounds Of The Universe to give away. Enter to win your copy by commenting on this post. Only enter once and please remember to leave your email address in the text of your comment. Entries close at midnight on Wednesday, west coast time. Publicists: If you'd like to take part in Swag Tuesday on JMG, please email me.

RELATED: Check out the limited edition collectors' deluxe box set of Sounds Of The Universe which contains "5 additional new songs & 6 new remixes of album tracks and 14 demos."

Depeche Mode - Wrong

I really like this. From the upcoming album Sounds Of The Universe, due out April 21st.

TRIVIA: Depeche Mode's first single, Dreaming Of Me, was released 28 years ago this week, eventually peaking at #57 on the UK pop chart. Performance clip from that year below.