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 ...

Billy Squier (1980): For a moment in time, Billy Squier was everywhere, as songs like "My Kinda Lover" and "The Stroke" ruled ...

Japan found its regional answer to synth pop and disco in the form of city pop. This once mostly unknown genre is currently ...

Influence defines Lady Gaga ’s latest album, Mayhem, a carefully curated sonic exhibition showcasing her inspirations and ...

Of course, electronic music existed long before that decade. Yet the synthesizer-as-primary-instrument score came to ...

Born out of '90s EDM, '80s synth and pop music, electroclash had its roots in the early 2000s as a genre dominating the indie ...

Here, Olly Alexander invites us to the making of his debut album. Eighties synth-pop pioneers and “gay heroes” like Erasure, ...