The truth is that synth-pop can be many things. Sure, it must be synth-driven, and the era begins in the late 1970s, but the ...

The COVID pandemic stifled live music and kept most bands from getting together. One positive note: The Static Channel came into being. “We were basically born out of COVID,” notes Stephen Schoenfeld.

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 ...

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After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

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Retrofette, a synth-pop quartet from Denver, is hoping to send ripples through the local music scene with its new monthly dance night at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, called Nightwaves. Retrofette ...

Brooklyn-based indie synth-pop band Nation of Language, returned to the High Noon Saloon in Madison Oct. 16, touring following the release of their latest album “Strange Disciple.” The small venue was ...

Solo albums are normally pretty personal affairs for musicians. That may be an understatement for Laura Fisher’s recent EP releases, the dark, ethereal synth-pop record “Rose-Coloured Dream,” and “In ...

Harry Styles has used his solo career to lean into the music of bygone decades before, with his first two albums heavily drenched in the rock singer-songwriter stylings of the ’70s. His new single, ...