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 ...

The Moog synthesizer on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Save The Life Of My Child” sounds like an alien invasion. A psychedelic intrusion on a 1968 folk tune. Two years later, Keith Emerson recorded his iconic ...

Synth rock was big in the early 1990s. Indeed, these are three synth rock songs from 1990 we can't live without.

This week, we spoke to FEELS, a rising synth pop band from Finland. The group shared their selections from a cabin in the middle of the Finnish countryside, where they are working on new music. Most ...

Here are the best and worst synth-era albums from five classic prog rock bands! For most of the 1970s, progressive rock remained faithful to its roots by prioritizing traditional rock/classical ...

In the late 1970s, Jeff Jacquin and Joseph Cevetello were young musicians in the San Fernando Valley who connected over a shared affinity for groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Human League and Pere ...

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 ...

Explore how AI music tools compare with past innovations like synthesizers and drum machines and why human creativity remains ...

Not even music compilations are immune to the prequel treatment these days. Thus far, Cherry Red’s Musik Music Musique series has documented the rise of synth pop in chronological fashion, with one ...

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...