One of the few moments of unrivaled joy last week was seeing Nazi punching bag/national laughing stock Richard Spencer not only get kicked out of CPAC — America's annual gathering of the cruelest and least empathetic conservatives — but also got quickly shut down and told to fuck off by his favorite band, Depeche Mode, after trying to proclaim them "the official band of the alt-right."

As one might expect from the band who had a Top 15 hit in the U.S. with "People Are People" in 1984, Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy Fletcher went to the media to disassociate themselves and their music from the fascist and racist social movements which would erroneously take a martial, synthetic drum beat as an endorsement of an ideology built on the racism of odious trolls.

Additionally, the band's new single "Where's the Revolution" is defiantly political and forthright in exhorting listeners to reject the authoritarian powers currently wreaking havoc throughout the world. And DM's forthcoming albumpromises to find Basildon, U.K.,'s finest kicking out the jams as only they can.

So when Depeche's Global Spirit Tour lands at Ascend Amphitheater on Sept. 18, it'll be the band's first Music City appearance since a famously under-attended 1988 Tour for the Masses stop at the sorely missed Starwood Amphitheater.

It will be a day of joy for those who have never stopped appreciating the ongoing evolution of what started out as synth-pop, gradually added guitars and drums, and continues growing into something all the more glorious with each new step.

Tickets go on sale next Friday, March 10, at 10 a.m., right here.



