New York Synth-Pop/New Wave duo The Heroic Enthusiasts release their latest single 'Tears Run Rings' in collaboration with legendary producer Stephen Hague (Petshop Boys, New Order, Blur) via Meridian ...

Rounding-out our homage to Ministry’s underground 80s days, for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, we’re going all the way back to ...

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 ...

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get ready for a neon-lit afternoon of classic synth-pop and new wave anthems from the Late 70 through the 80s. Whether you lived it the first time round or just love the sound of shimmering synths and ...

If you’re starting to get into electronic music or need a bit of inspiration for your own music, these four synth-pop records are a few of the most memorable in the genre. And they’re still fun to ...

The wonderful thing about the emergence of synthesizer technology in the 70s and early 80s is that it gave rise to many fantastically engaging stories, which have since entered the folklore of the ...

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 ...