The synthesizer might well have been invented before the 1970s; indeed, early, and frankly ridiculous claims to its origins go back hundreds of years, but more sensible suggestions cite the 1960s as ...

If you’re starting to get into electronic music or need a bit of inspiration for your own music, these four synth-pop records are a few of the most memorable in the genre. And they’re still fun to ...

While Outkast stole this year’s Grammys with its cut-and-paste opus Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, George & Caplin, a much more modest duo, were employing a similar pop-exhuming technique. But instead ...

For some initial moments at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, the mood was understated and calm as the acclaimed synth-pop trio Nation of Language stepped onstage Wednesday night. They were accompanied ...

The 68-year-old singer revealed his condition during a podcast appearance and said the physical toll contributed to ending ...

With TV soundtracks increasingly turning to nostalgic ’80s tracks, hear a playlist of essential hits and deeper cuts.

Howard Jones has always been at the cusp of innovation. Whether it be the new wave sound he brought to the United States in the 1980s, his high-tech set-ups, or his measured interest in the ...

The album cover for Architrave's "Panic Joy" showcases the artwork "Spirale d'or I" by Bassam Geitani. A still from the music video for Architrave’s song, “Parthenogenesis.” Since releasing its first ...

“We’d come out of the end of The Tourists battered and bruised,” Lennox explained. (The Tourists was the group Lennox and Dave Stewart were in before they formed Eurythmics.) “We were massively in ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

There are so many times where OMD could’ve just put it on cruise control and coasted into the golden sunset of history with their laurels. First, their spots in the pantheons of electronic and ...

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to the top of the U.K. singles chart, died Wednesday. He was 66. The producer’s ...