Depeche Mode Unveils 'Tour of the Universe' Concert Dates in Support of New Album 'Sounds'

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Depeche Mode will hit the road for their first extensive North American concert tour in several years, the band announced Friday on their official Web site.

The electro rockers will kick off their 22-city “Tour of the Universe” trek on July 24 in Toronto, with concert dates planned for most major cities in the U.S. and Canada. Tickets for select markets are set to go on sale on March 13.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Depeche Mode will hit the road for their first extensive North American concert tour in several years, the band announced Friday on their official Web site.

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Depeche Mode will be touring in support of their new album, “Sounds of the Universe.” The band’s twelth studio release drops in Europe on April 20 and in North America on April 21.

The album is being made available in a deluxe boxed-set edition that will feature a host of exclusive material, featuring:

Three CDs containing the album, bonus songs and remixes, as well as 14 demos.

A DVD that will feature three films: Making The Universe, a behind-the scenes documentary about the recording of the album, Usual Thing, Try And Get The Question In The Answer (a conversation with the band discussing recording techniques, intercut with personal archive footage from previous album sessions) and Sounds Of The Universe (a short film featuring track by track with the band). The DVD will also include the promo video for the album’s first single “Wrong” (directed by Patrick Daughters), plus four songs filmed live in the studio in December 2008 and a version of the album the album mixed in DTS 5.1 surround sound.

Two 84-page hardback books, one featuring the lyrics to all the songs from the Sounds Of The Universe sessions, accompanied by exclusive photography by Anton Corbijn. The second book will contain exclusive and candid studio photography by Daniel Miller, Ben Hillier, Luke Smith and Ferg Peterkin.

Formed in 1980, Depeche Mode has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide since their inception.

Depeche Mode “Tour of the Universe” Concert Dates:

July 24: Toronto
July 25: Montreal
July 28: Washington, D.C.
July 31: Boston
Aug. 1: Atlantic City, N.J.
Aug. 3: New York
Aug. 10: Seattle
Aug. 12: San Francisco
Aug. 14: San Diego
Aug. 16-17: Los Angeles
Aug. 20: Santa Barbara, Calif.
Aug. 22: Las Vegas
Aug. 23: Phoenix
Aug. 25: Salt Lake City
Aug. 27: Denver
Aug. 29: Dallas
Aug. 30: Houston
Sept. 1: Atlanta
Sept. 4: Tampa, Fla.
Sept. 5: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Depeche Mode Unveils ‘Tour of the Universe’ Concert Dates in Support of New Album ‘Sounds’

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