SYNTH WEEK 2024: The invention of the synthesizer turned out to be the gateway drug for countless new music makers. Bored by guitars and rock conventions, annoyed by the necessity to learn and play, ...

Minimalism met rock in 1972 when Pete Townshend wrote “Baba O’Riley.” The song’s cyclic, arpeggiating riff was inspired by ...

Singer-songwriter Bonafide Fabian’s debut EP, “New and Improved Old Fashioned Folkadelic,” lives up to its lengthy title. The seven-song record is full of swelling piano riffs, languid harmonica notes ...

Miami, why the hell don’t we own this whole nu-rave genre? Big bass beats, ghetto synth riffs, liberal use of neons, and a perpetual sense of being stuck in the Eighties — we realize it’s not the ...

Argue if you must about which Van Halen era was the finest. Whether you’re in the David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar lead singer camp, you can’t deny that the band, in both incarnations, did quite well ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

An intro needs to hook a listener. While some songs opt for a slow build, others get right to the point. The three songs from the 1980s below fall into the latter category. These songs waste no time ...

The 1980s gave us some of the catchiest, most danceable tunes in music history. But underneath those infectious beats and synthesizer melodies, many of these upbeat anthems carried surprisingly heavy ...

Some might call this "festival trap" but we're not going to get into all that right now, and we're just going to say that this is one boss track. Taking the new release from sisterly duo NERVO, ...