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 ...

The 1980s were an incredibly polarizing time for music fans, thanks in no small part to the vast differences in popular genres, which ranged from heavy metal to synth-pop to hip-hop. Frankly, in the ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

This week’s column is a deep, winding dive into Orlando music history. Let’s begin with Damage, a local synth-punk group that wasn’t just notable in the 1980s but also notably progressive. Well, ...

How you think about this song might depend on when you first heard it—was it when it first debuted in 1986 on “Brotherhood”?

Dave Smith, an engineer who helped create the Prophet-5 synthesizer, which became a staple of 1980s pop music, as well as the MIDI electronic system that allowed drum machines, keyboards, sequencers — ...

The 1980s was a defining decade for popular culture, but its impact was heavily felt in music. It saw the new romantics, Live Aid, Madonna, the rise of hip-hop, and the birth of MTV. The constant ...

An image from the film “Resynator” shows Alison Tavel with components of the synthesizer her father invented. (Photo courtesy of Select a Shape Pictures) When Alison Tavel asked family members about ...

Tom Oberheim is getting back into the synthesiser business at the age of 85 and is as keen as ever to bring the Oberheim brand to a whole new generation of musicians. Oberheim instruments were created ...