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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. 'Tears Run Rings' is a reimagining of Marc Almond's (Soft Cell) 1988 hit.

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 ...

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 ...

Last year had seen contemporary pop music being flipped on its head, ushering in a new wave of maximalist style production. Synth pop duo Magdalena Bay, who dropped their second studio album, ...

Human’s Lib topped the UK album charts in 1984. It spawned four singles, three of which entered the top 10, including 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 ...

Up to The End of Everything, her previous brace of albums were jazz-leaning, broadly in line with boundary-free singer-songwriters who initially surfaced in the US folk scene such as Tim Buckley and ...

New Wave is back. Synth Pop is poised for a comeback. All you need is a hardware synth, a control surface, a software plug-in, an audio interface, a MIDI interface and a — wait, what’s that? You’re ...

Long Strange Trip With a running time just shy of four hours, this brand-new, comprehensive Grateful Dead documentary certainly is a long, strange trip. It leaves few stones unturned, covering ...