We explore three iconic 1980s bands that either broke up or seemingly disappeared within a decade of releasing their biggest ...

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 ...

Photo: The Trojans finds a group of warehouse workers reliving their high school glory days. Photo courtesy of Loading Dock ...

It’s like your dream late-1980s synthesizer workstation, but running on a dev board that you can get for a song. The most interesting part of Tulip for us, as programmer-musicians, is that it ...

This week on Liner Notes, we discuss “Songs from the Big Chair,” the 1985 masterpiece that captured the complexities of human ...

By taking modern synth tech that was itself spun off from 80s originals - the T-8 is based on Roland's legendary TR-808 drum machine from 1980 and the S-1 was inspired by the 1982 SH-101 synthesizer - ...

These underrated pop stars from the 1980s made it big and then promptly disappeared. Let's find out what happened to them.