The 1980s were an incredibly polarizing time for music fans, thanks in no small part to the vast differences in popular genres, which ranged from heavy metal to synth-pop to hip-hop. Frankly, in the ...

SYNTH WEEK 2026: At the end of the 1970s, synthesisers had started to become more affordable - well, they were less than the price of a car – and with this increased popularity, there was only ever ...

Synth-pop from the 1980s makes for the perfect tool when you want (or need) a heavy dose of nostalgia. There’s something about a keyboard and the relentless rhythm of a drum machine that amplifies the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Future SYNTH WEEK 2024: After the incredible leaps in synthesizer technology that were made in the late '70s, 1980 could ...

British synth-pop, was a sub-genre of New Wave music that first emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Queer bands like The Communards, Pet Shop Boys, and Erasure embraced the sound and helped ...

'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

David Ball, who made up half of innovative English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66 years old. Ball died peacefully in his sleep at his London home on Tuesday night, Oct. 22, his bandmate ...

Musicians in the 1980s had a love-hate relationship with Yamaha's DX7 synthesizer. Its digital sound engine was unlike the analog synths that came before it, and created a unique timbre, but the thing ...