"I saw the classical music as my way to get good at playing the pop and rock stuff, because Keith Emerson was my hero, and he was a brilliant concert-level classical pianist and also the best rocker ...

Catherine Anne Davies, aka The Anchoress, shares how she immersed herself in Pete Townshend’s vintage synth collection to make her latest album, As We Once Were When you purchase through links on our ...

Portland-based musician Erica von Trapp shares one more vital puzzle piece before her enthralling debut album, spun, arrives ...

Many synth pop songs were cold and robotic. On "A Little Respect", Erasure proved just how soulful synths could be.

Roland is about to plug straight into Manhattan's Meatpacking District, signing a lease for the ground-floor and lower-level ...

The English synth-pop pioneer Howard Jones is still going strong, 41 years after he appeared solo at Live Aid and performed ...

Creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Gal visit the MusicRadar studio to show us what Nopia can do and reveal its price ahead of the instrument's release later this year When you purchase through links on ...

By Gary Graff Repairing one of his vintage analog synthesizers provided the impetus for Howard Jones’ new single, “Stand Up,” ...

It looked more like the cockpit of a spaceship than a musical instrument, but T.O.N.T.O. would become one of the most ...

The big initial revelation upon a first listen to “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love” is that Rodrigo and Nigro have done a clever trade. The pop-punk ...

We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s third birthday in spite of having no prior hardware knowledge. It became the ...

The building’s walls sometimes shake with a sonic rumble. Other times, it’s like a spaceship is flying overhead or as if the electronic duo Daft Punk has reunited in this pleasant industrial park in ...