SYNTH WEEK 2024: The invention of the synthesizer turned out to be the gateway drug for countless new music makers. Bored by guitars and rock conventions, annoyed by the necessity to learn and play, ...

Minimalism met rock in 1972 when Pete Townshend wrote “Baba O’Riley.” The song’s cyclic, arpeggiating riff was inspired by the work of avant-garde composer Terry Riley and became the driving rhythmic ...

Singer-songwriter Bonafide Fabian’s debut EP, “New and Improved Old Fashioned Folkadelic,” lives up to its lengthy title. The seven-song record is full of swelling piano riffs, languid harmonica notes ...

Justin Pierre is required to puff his hair up like he did in the early 2000s. Whether itâÄôs a necessary part of maintaining band recognition or a strange attempt at staying relevant is an open debate ...

Argue if you must about which Van Halen era was the finest. Whether you’re in the David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar lead singer camp, you can’t deny that the band, in both incarnations, did quite well ...

Miami, why the hell don’t we own this whole nu-rave genre? Big bass beats, ghetto synth riffs, liberal use of neons, and a perpetual sense of being stuck in the Eighties — we realize it’s not the ...

It was almost exactly three years ago that we were celebrating the relatively quick arrival of Ableton Live 11. Today, the company is unveiling Live 12, the next version of its popular digital audio ...

An intro needs to hook a listener. While some songs opt for a slow build, others get right to the point. The three songs from the 1980s below fall into the latter category. These songs waste no time ...

The '80s were a decade of radical reinvention, and many of its predominant musical trends began to solidify in 1983. It was a year that saw new wave and glam metal vying for public attention; that saw ...

The 1980s gave us some of the catchiest, most danceable tunes in music history. But underneath those infectious beats and synthesizer melodies, many of these upbeat anthems carried surprisingly heavy ...

Some might call this "festival trap" but we're not going to get into all that right now, and we're just going to say that this is one boss track. Taking the new release from sisterly duo NERVO, ...