Starship’s We Built This City topped ’80s charts but became one of rock’s most polarizing songs, sparking decades of debate and pop culture backlash.

Basically, Discipline — as well as successors Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair — constitute the band’s synth-era, as they ...

Dehumanise, their very own My Name Is Jonas with its tinkling verses and hammering chorus, decries the othering effect of war ...

The post The Story Behind Devo’s Seminal Synth-Rock Single “Whip It” appeared first on Consequence. Released as the second single off Devo’s Freedom of Choice, “Whip It” remains instantly recognizable ...

When you hear a rock song that includes the synthesizer, you can almost always guess the song in question is from a certain era. Probably from the 1980s, give or take, the track is defined by and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X DJ Lazer Cat (left), Brandon Martin (center) and Justice Wolfe-Jones are three of the four members ...

A look at Trent Reznor and how his work goes far beyond fronting and writing for Nine Inch Nails, but producing and engineering too, via his favourite synth.

Roger Waters is used to rock in a classic way, so when things changed, there was one instrument he could never get used to for its cheapening effects.

For the better part of the past decade, singer-songwriter Sarah Shook has made their name as the lead singer of the hardscrabble country-rock outfit Sarah Shook and the Disarmers. But after cutting ...

Billy Corgan tried fan service on the Smashing Pumpkins‘ last album, 2018’s Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 — which saw the reunion of three-quarters of the band’s grunge glory-days lineup — but he ...

The Boise Synth Society hosted "Synths in The Park," a free festival celebrating modern synth music. The event will feature ...