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

Every 80s kid knows the hits of the era. But what about these new wave jams from the 1980s that influenced the genre yet ...

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 ...

2 Barbra Streisand Pays Tribute to Robert Redford at 2026 Oscars 3 Barbra Streisand in Talks to Perform at 2026 Oscars 'Tears Run Rings' is a reimagining of Marc Almond's (Soft Cell) 1988 hit.

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever really dug on the sounds of the ’80s — on the curious dalliances between analog and digital, on New Wave and punk playing nice with road-tested songcraft and hooks for days — then you ...

Imagine tearing across the water in a cigarette boat along Miami Beach, or training tirelessly for a climatic dance/fight tournament, or gazing heartbrokenly upon a neon-lit cyberpunk cityscape from a ...

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 ...