Following a buzzed-about appearance at South By Southwest, the seminal 80s synth pop group delights an adoring Hollywood crowd. By Shirley Halperin There are two kinds of so-called “eighties” artists: ...

Having recently completed a European tour together, DiS got OMD and Mirrors to sit down and have a chat bout how electronic music has changed over the last thirty years, filesharing, and the doubters.

To understand what a joyful revelation OMD was Friday night at the Music Box in Hollywood — the English synth-pop outfit’s first full-blown L.A. performance in nearly 23 years, since opening for ...

To understand what a joyful revelation OMD was Friday night at the Music Box in Hollywood — the English synth-pop outfit’s first full-blown L.A. performance in nearly 23 years, since opening for ...

Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978. Within a couple of years, the duo had grown into a quartet and released “Messages,” the first of several hit singles ...

The song is taken from their latest album, ‘Bauhaus Staircase‘ and is described in a press release as “OMD’s greatest straight-up protest song.” The band’s Andy McCluskey says of the track: “This is ...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 22 (UPI) -- The British pop band OMD says they expected their concert at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas to be shortened after a stage mishap. OMD played three ...

'We started making music because it was an art hobby, a project. Nobody was more surprised than us when, a few years later, our backroom hobby turned out to be a multimillion selling pop group!" OMD's ...

As electronic music has grown Stateside, though, so has OMD’s following. “It is strange, for us, 35 years after we started the band, there’s several generations that are more into us now than there ...

On Tuesday, British synth-pop legends Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are releasing English Electric, their 12th studio album. “It’s not bad going for a band that was only going to do one gig,” ...

For an electronic pop duo who started out wanting to be both Karl Stockhausen and Abba, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark haven’t done too badly. For starters, after 45 years as a (mostly) functioning ...