NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp of the synthpop group Haute & Freddy about the release of their debut album, Big Disgrace.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s get right to it, then. Local lords of darkwave Urban Heat don’t wait to bring the fire, so neither will I. Urban Heat builds from the teasing tiptoes of their first several singles and fully ...

When Austin McKee photographed Lucia Luna performing onstage at a Courtney Love drag night in 2018, he was struck by their voice instantly, but it wasn’t until they kept running into each other at ...

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 ...

Despite adversity, Numan soldiers on — his U.S. tour kicks off in Florida this week after a stint on the ’80s Cruise.

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status When you purchase through links on our ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...