Depeche Mode today announced that it will follow up next week’s “Live at Letterman” album-launch concert with its first-ever appearance at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, where the band’s three members will participate in a Q&A session about their forthcoming album Delta Machine and plans to tour the world this year.

The session, to be moderated by KCRW music director Jason Bentley, is slated for 5 p.m. March 13 at the Austin Convention Center and is open to conference attendees.

No Depeche Mode performances at SXSW have been announced.

The band’s new album is due out March 26, and will be followed by a world tour. Details of DM’s planned North American leg are to be announced “in the coming weeks,” according to the group’s publicist.

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