News
Plus Devo, OMD, Nation of Language, The Go-Go’s, and Others
Oct 21, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Cruel World, the Los Angeles festival centered mainly on artists from the ’80s and ’90s, has announced its 2025 lineup. The event will be headlined by New Order and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. More
Songwriter Collaborates with fun. Bandmate and OMD Singer for "The D Train" Song
Apr 23, 2015
By Austin Trunick
In IFC Films’ The D Train, Jack Black plays a man obsessed with getting a popular, former classmate (James Marsden) to come home for their high school reunion. It’s only appropriate that the soundtrack for this dark comedy—which co-stars Kathryn Hahn and Jeffrey Tambor—should remind listeners of the scores for John Hughes’ classic high school movies. More
Interviews
On Playing Coachella, Breaking America, and Why It's a Good Time to Be OMD Again
Jun 19, 2013
By Kenny S. McGuane
Released this past April, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark‘s second post-reunion and 12th studio album, English Electric, goes above and beyond what anyone could—or should—have expected from two ‘80s synth superheroes both now approaching their mid-50s. More
Reviews
Jan 18, 2023
By Jimi Arundell
Rockaway Beach kicked off the 2023 festival season in style earlier this month. More
Jan 02, 2023
By Jimi Arundell
The 2023 festival season starts next weekend with Rockaway Beach! More
Apr 10, 2013
By Austin Trunick
Some bands run a cosmic treadmill trying to keep pace with current trends; others are content to keep mining the formulas that brought on their biggest successes. This “classic lineup” of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark—on hiatus from 1986-2006—seemed fine to pick up right where they left off. More
