Many synth pop songs were cold and robotic. On "A Little Respect", Erasure proved just how soulful synths could be.

Vince Clarke had already been a founding member of two pivotal new wave bands by the time he joined forces with powerhouse vocalist Andy Bell in 1985 to form Erasure. Clarke started with Depeche Mode ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before forming Erasure, Vince Clarke was already an established synthpop legend, having founded Depeche Mode in 1980 before ...

Legacy acts serve multiple functions at festivals. They round out the programming by offering alternatives to circuit staples and flavor-of-the-month acts, the short set times often mean an ...

From the start of their career in the mid-’80s, the songs that Andy Bell sang as half of Erasure were largely written to obfuscate the gender of their subjects. (Bell, a gay man, understood the ...

%22Snow Globe%22 has new Erasure songs and holiday favorites like %22White Christmas%22 and Silent Night%22 The duo is best-known in the U.S. for %2780s synth-pop hits %22A Little Respect%22 and ...

Erasure--Hits: The Videos plays in Dolby stereo, with some of the later videos being 16:9 format. Disc 2 includes exclusive performance footage, rare videos and tracks performed live on all of Erasure ...

Erasure is one of those groups that always seems to have outlived their lifespan until you hear their latest work. Vanishingly few dancepop groups of the late ’80s can claim the same kind of continued ...

Erasure, after almost three decades of synthpop anthems, still wants to make people dance. The British duo of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke released 16th studio album "The Violet Flame" in September. It ...

How do you make a really, really, extremely bad album? Take a handful of songs that aren’t any good, remix them in a way that doesn’t increase their appeal in the slightest and then add a few songs ...