In the mood for some synth-based pop songs? In the late 1970s and 1980s, the synth hook was incredibly common among hits.

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 ...

The post Ministry Play Early Synth-Pop Songs for First Time in 40 Years at Cruel World Fest: Photos + Video appeared first on Consequence. Ministry went back to their synth-pop roots at the Cruel ...

Billie Eilish knows how to orchestrate an audience. Her energetic synth-pop hits had the audience collectively jumping as if they were in a dance club. Minutes later, her intimate ballads drew them in ...

Skies and sewers are uniting for a double record release party that will encourage matching track suits, '80s dance moves, and perhaps a Cure T-shirt or two. The Rochester-based electropop group Enemy ...

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 ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

“Imaginal Disk” is Magdalena Bay’s newest album, and the duo of Matt Lewin and Mica Tenenbaum performed the album in its entirety alongside older fan-favorite tracks like “Killshot.” (Jason Pham / ...

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 ...

Conan Gray has successfully traversed most terrain in the indie-pop landscape of what he so appropriately deems “Crush Culture” in a track on his debut EP Sunset Season. Having mastered the alluring ...