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“Fragile Tension/Hole To Feed” tracklist and artwork

On December 7th (in Europe), Depeche Mode will be releasing a special "double A side" single - "Fragile Tension" and "Hole To Feed". Below are the full track listings for all formats. Further details for US digital release dates are pending. Stay tuned! CD (CDBong42): 01. Fragile Tension (Radio Mix) - 3.36 02. Hole To Feed (Radio Mix) - 3.27 03. Perfect (Roger Sanchez Club Mix) 7.24 04. Come Back (SixToes Remix) 4.56 05. Fragile Tension (Laidback Luke Remix) 7.52 06. Hole To Feed (Popof Vocal Mix) 8.42 07. Fragile Tension (Peter Bjorn And John Remix) 3.45 08. Hole To Feed (Joebot...

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Recording The Universe… so far so good! Volume 2

As we all know by know LiveHereNow and Depeche Mode set out to record and release a lot of shows this tour, and the fruits of that later is now being put under substantial scrutiny by yours truly, to guide you through the 'musts' and the 'donts'. These recordings were originally reviewed more extensively in our forums, but here are a somewhat condensed summary. All these recordings are available from www.depechemodelive.com. Hit the jump for the second batch of reviews, which are NOT spoiler free. June 23: Budapest Budapest offers good sound and energy. The recording is especially noteworthy...

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Next single gets release date

Germany music site, MusikWoche (www.mediabiz.de), revealed yesterday that the new double-a-side single from "Sounds Of The Universe" will be released in Germany on December 5th December 11th. "Fragile Tension/Hole To Feed" will feature a selection of mixes of both of these tracks, as well as "Perfect" and "Peace", and will be released as an extended CD Maxi, digital download and 12".

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Found online: Report from Madison Square Garden with video & pics

While browsing the website of ProMotion (the peeps behind all those new "Perfect" remixes we posted about earlier) I stumbled across a blog entry the people over there did from the first show at Madison Square Garden. It includes some photos and a couple of excellent videos, so well worth checking that out. You can jump straight to the Mode entry here, or go to the frontpage of their blog here.

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New video to premiere on the eve of Latin American tour start

A mexican newspaper today revealed that the new Depeche Mode video, directed by Eric Wareheim, will premiere today (Friday Sept. 25th) on the band's official MySpace profile (link). The video is for the track "Hole To Feed", and it was shot in LA back in August. It's another band-less video, which has been described as everything from "brilliant" to "horrifying". Whether or not the video will be followed up by a physical single release remains to be seen. Hit the jump for a truly horrifying video helmed by Eric Wareheim... WARNING - This video cannot be unseen once you've seen it - consider...

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